Tired
Courtesy of AOL and someone Hubby used to work with, we saw LOTR "The Two Towers" last night for free. It started at 10pm, we were queuing from 7:30 pm and the hold out line had already filled one and a half rows. Loved what they did
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A collection of 513 issues
The Poetry of Programming
Read an interview with Richard Gabriel, a Sun engineer, linked from IdeaJoy. ThinkGeek has the perfect t-shirt for this guy: Code Poet.
Writing code certainly feels very similar to writing poetry. When I'm writing poetry, it feels like the center of my thinking is in a particular place,
Things that make you go "Hmm"
I don't know who it was that landed on this site via a Google search for Intellij and chainsaw, but they sound like my kind of person. My blog comes up top on that search.
Where the Brits are
We're not too hard to find. I can vouch for the Britishness of Hubby, Paul B, Jess, and my big sister Fiona. Other Brits on my bloglist are Simon Warren, Gary Turner, Burnt Toast, and Lionel Mandrake.
But if you wanted to play Hunt the BritBlog, this is
Weather
STLToday.com says "Cloudy with a bit of snow," weather.telegraph.co.uk says "Heavy snow." The British site puts it better. Every so often when it snows in England, British Rail (or RailTrack, or whatever) claims it's the wrong sort of snow on
Thankfulness
Bene Diction's back, with a shiny new site. And there was much rejoicing.
Ensemble's brought out a new game, Age of Mythology. It wants nearly a full gig to install into.
Cats have an uncanny way of sensing which CD you need to use next, and
Thanksgiving
It's a wee bit ironic that every Thanksgiving we've been in America, we end up being the ones cooking the turkey. Nashville TN with a whole pile of Southern Baptists, the Rydberg's last year, and this year's last minute meal with Emily,
And So It Begins
Today was the first snowfall. It's come early in revenge for last year's easy winter. Normally there are piles of frozen grey stuff at the edge of the road, every car goes grey from salt, you can't see the road markings under the ice,
Snapshot - November 2002
Currently:
Reading The Hundred Years War by Desmond Seward
Listening to Let Go by Avril Lavigne
Watching Babylon 5 season one DVDs
Programming test code for the CalendarPanel on Chronicle
Looking for a hassle-free flute pre-amp that works
(NOT Barcus Berry, theirs was nothing but trouble and is now
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Grey
First ice on the car on Saturday morning. Today has been grey and rainy all day. Anyone would think it was autumn or something.