26 Jun 2003
Drove 18 hours this weekend. Took both Friday and Monday off. Now 3 days of the work week just went ZOOM, when I really don’t want them to go ZOOM. Things are complex at work.
Quote of the day: Donna, wife of Mike Trainum, my friend and boss, said this in response to him saying he might not be able to go on vacation: “I used to be married to a hippy”.
I did get the Sanyo 8100, two of them in fact. One for Laura and one for me. Mine still is not connecting to the net but I have yet to have a moment to call SprintPCS again.
19 Jun 2003
Saving Private Jessica by Nicholas D. Kristof
The Iraqis misused our prisoners for their propaganda purposes, and it hurts to find out that some American officials were misusing Private Lynch the same way.
19 Jun 2003
We visited Leanne today, and Laura has been thinking of having kids after seeing 1 year old Elias. Names we’ve come up for kids (you can’t steal these names, or we’ll hurt you):
Boy’s Names:
- Arthur Kirkland
- William Galbrath
- Merlin Latimer
Girl’s Names:
- Lillian Lane
- Mikayla Faye
- Madison Graham
I remember driving between Pauling and Cold Spring with Laura talking about this in the Summer before our wedding.
19 Jun 2003
Back from the library. Both Laura and I feel like we spent money, because we got such cool books. I got one of the Foundation books on tape (13 hours!), for tomorrows 8 hour trip and Sunday’s 8 hour return trip. Also got two book by Vernor Vinge. zooko has told that I will greatly enjoy Vinge, and I can’t wait to dig into them.
16 Jun 2003
So lately I’ve been a code consumer while at home (at work I’m still attempting to stay sane while cleaning up a poorly written web store that on top of that is in a poorly designed (or in this case evolved) language: VBScript), playing GTA: Vice City. Last night I realized I while I was flying down the west island on a PCJ crotch rocket that thinking of how exactly the data structures that made up VC might work.
So far I’ve only come up with 1 bug in VC that annoys me: persistance. I cannot figure out all the rules there are to if a car is going to stay in existance if I walk 100m away from it or not.