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.
15 Jun 2003
I’ve been looking for sample pictures taken with the phone I want, the Sanyo 8100. I found a few here. I downloaded them and looked for EXIF tags: nothing. More silliness. There is a radio clock and and GPSone (a tech to get gps coordinates from radio towers). Why isn’t this stuff embedded in the image?
15 Jun 2003
I tried sending them more email thru their “email” form and realized I wasn’t getting any confirmation page when I submitted the email. My guess is some silly javascript thing is not working on mozilla and messing things up. Tried it on my wife’s w32-98 box with IE and lo and behold, I got a confirmation screen and tracking #. Sent them 2 emails about that and my real questions. Why are they so stupid?