new toy from ebay… a Parker Nightfly M

mmmm, pretty…

The warren Cuccurullo album I picked up on a whim is actually pretty good.
And a pretty good line up… Vinnie Colaiuta , Pino Pallidino, Nick Beggs and
Talvin Singh. Not bad.

anyone know of good websites for local classic car dealers or local classified
for that matter?

Been thinking a nice 65-67 mustang might be nice…

misc bug fixes, whee bit more refactoring

an internal post made me noticed that up2date has had 524 bug
reports file against it. About 50 open at the moment, about half
RFE’s.

Still no working computer at home.

I want to live in an abandoned mall.

and of course, the last bit of the merge/refactor took two days…But it’s
done now, and somewhat nice. Nice I wont be embarrassed to have someone
else look at the code ;->

Couple of days of testing to catch the regressions, and should be about
ready to start adding some of the billion feature requests.

I suppose at some point I’m going to have to go and fix my home
machine.

Bought another book about mazes over the weekend. Not a book of mazes, but
about large scale mazes (hedge and earth work mazes and the like…)

Now ignoring the fact that I haven’t actually tried to solve a maze
in years, I’ve started thinking about ways to create large scale
mazes.

Some ideas:

1. organize several groups to acquire permits to shutdown streets
in an urban area on the same weekend. With a careful selection of
streets, it should be possible to turn downtown into a huge maze. Not
that it isn’t very close already.

2. Acquire a large skyscraper with lots of floors and elevators. Reprogram
the elevators so that there is only one combo of taking elevators from floor
to floor that can get you from the bottom to top. A 3d maze.

3. Rearrange a cube farm. Kind of boring, and not very large scale.

4. Giant earthworks. Perhaps a more destructive version of
gps drawing.
Reminds me of this weeks favorite quote from a meeting: “Assume
a giant crane…”.

Any other ideas?

80% of the remaining 5% of the merge was done yesterday. Now
just that last 20%… mostly error handling. ugh.

On a vaguely related note, It’s occurred to me recently that
I’m not a remotely creative person anymore. Not that
I was ever all that creative, but I’ve kind of realized that
in the last several years, I’ve become very non-creative.

Both in the sense of “cant find solutions to problems” and
the more general “clever, funny, humorous, painting/writing/etc”
sense.

Need to see about changing that. Not exactly sure
how though.

Some friends of my attribute this to my supposedly intense
cynicism. I do not believe that.

How big of a geek am I? I stopped by Borders on the way to work
to buy the new Rush cd.

Japan Air on cdbaby.com
Go buy some cd’s. You know you want to. All the cool kids are doing it.

Too bad the machine their site (japanairband.com)
is hosted on lost a hard drive, so I cant really update the content until new drive is in.

Finished 95% of the big code reorg/merge friday. A couple more bits here
and there, and then whatever occurs to me as still ugly and broken after
that. Now for some extensive testing.

Not so patiently awaiting the arrival of the latest ebay acquisitions.

the power supply on my home computer died Thursday (hmm, whats that ozone smell coming
from..?) and apparently took the motherboard with it.

So I managed to stay away from computers for the weekend. Even found
myself at one point using *gasp* the phonebook.

Went to the Shadow of a Great Name/The Real Killers/ Polydactyl show
Saturday. Talked with Badger
a bit.

Spent most of the rest of the weekend buying books and cds. Never walk into
a cd store intending not to buy anything. Walked out with half a dozen used
cd’s (zappa/freak out, steve tibbets/the fall of us all, curve/cukoo, warren
cuccuillo/for frank, sterolab/something or another, and the old nc compilation
pyloric waves). And had to grab the new Trans Am while I was at it.

didn’t get to the big dep solver merge/refactor yesterday, spent almost all day
closing old bug reports in bugzilla.

Seem to have gotten a good chunk of it merged today. It at least seems
to be telling me I have the right outdated packages and resolves deps
on the packages I’ve tried. Need to do a more though test tomorow
though.

gah, it’s midnight. must go home….