Category archives: Vindaloo
Discussions of the spice of life, spices, and/or life.
Off to do some Hiking (Could use a break from system failures...)
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Seems like the last two days have been nothing but system failures. Spent a very long day (12+ hours) yesterday battling Qt and/or Asterisk silliness of one type or another in order to get a tiny little project done. Burned hours trying to get Eric3 running on the workstation (with another half hour this morning, ...
A weekend of little tasks (Bits and pieces but no great accomplishments)
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I took a 4 day weekend intending to spend the entire time on OpenGL-ctypes and related projects, trying to get the whole enchilada moved to an alpha release. Somehow out of the entire weekend I only seemed to get about 1 day of hacking in.
During that short period I ported SimpleParse and TTFQuery to ...
On puppy love and training (First session with the trainer)
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We had our first session with the puppy trainer this evening. Biggest revelation for me is that you can demand far more from the puppy than I'd expected. I'd somehow understood that you had to wait until they are 4 or 5 months before you start demanding close-leash walking and the like. She demonstrated that ...
Architecture
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Piling stones one atop another
Is not my gift
Nor training dull machines
To count
What I offer is my sight
Peering within
Showing patterns hidden in problems
As paths
Of stones piled one atop another
Chipmunks Wonder
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Sometimes little chipmunks
Wonder if they should probe
Random nuts lying abandoned
On industry's busy sidewalks
Croikeys it's warm here (35+ degrees in my room)
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The heat got turned on in the building a few days ago. This is one of those old buildings that doesn't have individual apartment control of the (steam) heat so they have to turn the temperature up so that the coldest apartment in the building has a reasonable temperature. Unfortunately that means that many of ...
Daily Drudgery
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I want to be with you
Because when you are gone
Bitter tears will streak my face
And I will curse not being there
Yet somehow this cold world
Does not allow excuses
As trivial as life and death
To interfere with daily drudgery
Heart Shards
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Sands trickle
From glass
Heart shards
Marking stolen
Time lost
That wasn't the most productive of days (Good nap though...)
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I thought Rose had asked me to stay home today to meet the new dog-walker. They didn't show up (I probably got the wrong day). Anyway, was really tired in the morning, so didn't get up until the puppy asked me to go out. Took him out, read news and email in preparation for starting ...
Face-planting hurts (And other trivia from last night...)
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Went to the ROM with Soni, her niece and nephew last night. To get there I tried to ride Soni's bike over. Of course, I hadn't thought about riding a bike when I chose (well, I really only have one) my coat for the evening. Long story short I wound up "tied" to the bike ...
Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.