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With how often people have solicited my advice/opinions of programming matters and CS ed, I’ve been thinking about exposing the craft behind a project, and posting it as a journal entry. Well, the way my mother monkey wrenches things, I rarely have both the time, brain, and inclination to focus on detailing that much.

So instead, it’s probably best that I either decide never to go into the details of creating a program, or just stream it through more haphazardly across my journal. I’ll take a crack at the former, since I would like to work on the program.

One of the things on my “To roll own someday” list, is replacing my remember the milk with a local solution. The perks being that I can make custom changes without having to get hired by RTM o/, as well as integrate it with my work flow more naturally. It’s also a good series of mental exercises.

Since I’m not good at naming things, I’ll just call it STAMAN—Spidey01’s TAsk MANger. Which uniquely isn’t far off from Stamina, exactly the rate limiting factor for getting shit done. Especially under my living conditions.

Legally licensed maniac^H^H^H^H^H^HGeorgia driver

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At long freaking last…. !!!! I have my license. Murphy’s presence also managed to remain fairly minimal. As per local SOP, I’m stuck with a piece of paper for the moment until the plastic arrives. I’m intending to scan the blasted thing for posterity. In 22 years on earth, I’ve never wanted something so damn bad.

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I’ve just managed to import my journal entries from October 2009, that should just leave the majority of September, than my transition from Live Journal to Blogger, should ‘technically’ be complete once and for all!

Give or take 10-20some entries, I would say I’m approaching 1800 posts since I started keeping a journal back in ’06. Planning to celebrate my 2000th entry, if I ever notice it’s passing :-o.

Also took some time to move one of my older projects to github. Really, it’s kind of cool: I sat down and read about 1500 out of 2300+ lines of perl code and could still understand it nearly a year later. Paged through the remaining ~800LOC, which was mostly trivial elements. Someday I need to get the ‘uncommitted’ test suite committed and work on some cleanup, but it reads easily enough. I don’t claim to be a genius, but hell, most of peoples maintainability comments about Perl are either due to Perl 4 experiences or shotty programmers if you ask me. Sure, I enjoy an occasional game of golf, but I like writing code that tends to explain itself.

Perl, the worst thing I can say about it is autovivification isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and you quickly learn how to skip reading error messages and just go proof read your syntax. That’s kind of a downside of perl, to track down errors in Perl code, you kind of need to learn proof reading ;).

I like using my brain more than a debugger, but kind of like compilers that report useful info. I ain’t met many that actually do.

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I could swear this dog is smarter than me… she’s already got most of the bed, the best of the covers, and sprawled out with a “I know you’re not going to move me stupid” look on her face >_>.

At least I got the laptop ;).

Meaning of “Pressured” in my world

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Being nagged insessently whilst trying to concentrate, by some selfish, manipulative, royal bitch that’s been operating on a certified “If I can’t X, no one can Y…Z until” pattern for years — until you would like nothing better in the whole wide universe except to scrunch something in hand and rip it into a hunderttausend fragments.

–> 20+ years of exposure and still legally sane.

A mind blowing thought

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Among the numerous things ma has dumped my way in the “No where else to put but it’s *not* allowed to be thrown out” pile, containing all sorts of stuff, was the owners manual to my fathers CB kit.

The shocker? The freaking thing goes as far as including schematics for the radios internal Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs).

I’m used to the typical modern electrical device manual: ya know, the kind that’s written in 6 languages and tells you next to nothing interesting, other than silly warning labels.

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I can’t believe that I’ve spent most of the last 5-6 hours thinking about ML dialects (SML / F# / OCaml), Haskell, and Lisp :-/

The Band Perry – If I Die Young

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This song is really growing on me.

If I die young bury me in satin
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Sink me in the river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song
oh oh oh oh

Lord make me a rainbow, I’ll shine down on my mother
She’ll know I’m safe with you when she stands under my colors, oh and
Life ain’t always what you think it ought to be, no
ain’t even grey, but she buries her baby

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I’ve had just enough time

If I die young bury me in satin
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Sink me in the river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I’ve had just enough time

And I’ll be wearing white when I come into your kingdom
I’m as green as the ring on my little cold finger
I’ve never known the lovin’ of a man
But it sure felt nice when he was holding my hand
There’s a boy here in town says he’ll love me forever
Who would have thought forever could be severed by

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I’ve had just enough time

So put on your best boys and I’ll wear my pearls
What I never did is done

A penny for my thoughts, oh no I’ll sell them for a dollar
They’re worth so much more after I’m a goner
And maybe then you’ll hear the words I been singin’
Funny when you’re dead how people start listenin’

If I die young bury me in satin
Lay me down on a bed of roses
Sink me in the river at dawn
Send me away with the words of a love song
oh oh

The ballad of a dove
Go with peace and love
Gather up your tears, keep ‘em in your pocket
Save them for a time when your really gonna need ’em oh

The sharp knife of a short life, well
I’ve had just enough time

So put on your best boys and I’ll wear my pearls

If I Die Young—The Band Perry