Category archives: Vindaloo
Discussions of the spice of life, spices, and/or life.
Last minute invite (But not that *kind* of bed party, darn it...)
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Was just sitting down to start work on PyOpenGL when Shane and Simon called from Lua's party asking me to bring along my Cranium game. So, toddled down to her place (she lives about 4 blocks away) and spent the evening playing Cranium (well, we didn't even finish a single game) then sitting around discussing ...
New hierarchy types are fun! (Though we got our collective arses whipped in Cranium...)
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Spent the bulk of the day finishing and then debugging the new hierarchy type, and then figuring out why an old hierarchy type seemed to have been messed up (it wasn't, it's always worked like that, I just never noticed it).
After that, went to our cousin's husband's sister's house for dinner and a game ...
Not much done this evening (Began working on "inexactitude" section...)
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Finally saw "The Incredibles", it was definitely worth the money. Anyway, got home and didn't really feel up to doing any work, so spent a few hours vegging on the couch.
Eventually pulled my lazy bones out of bed and started work on the next section of the Play in Design document. This one is ...
Pause admidst the orgy of consumerism... (Last minute shopping often turns ugly)
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Rosey did most of our gift-shopping for the year, but I still have a couple of gifts to pick up, and I just got back from doing the grocery shopping.
Nice thing: as I was leaving, the bus driver pulled to the stop and waited for a break in traffic so I could catch the ...
Dang spammers to the deepest, coldest regions of heck! (Another social casualty on the information super-highway...)
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As my avid readers will remember, Natasha didn't come to the Solstice party, thus missing out on the opportunity to meet Lia. Now, that's hardly news, former girlfriends aren't, after all, required to show up to parties celebrating celestial events. There is, however, slightly more of a story.
You see, not having received ...
Day disappears in EFT pair-programming (As the cold (or whatever) takes over my poor lil' body...)
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Colds suck. Not so much because they're inherently bad, but because they aren't bad enough to stop work, but they're bad enough to make working strikingly unpleasant. Talking all day when you have a cold doesn't really help make it more pleasant. Luckily, colds are bad enough that you're allowed to whine in your blog ...
Is God a criminal? (Since I can't sleep...)
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At the party on Saturday night we had a short debate about whether there is a life after death and/or a God. As I was trying to get Simon to listen to my argument (instead of giving me an "Environmental and Resource Studies 101" lecture on the need to avoid coming to conclusions based on ...
Poor guy, who could ever make ends meet on that salary... (Sometimes you just want to smack people upside the head)
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So, turns out that the head of NASA (a Bush government appointee) is resigning because he needs more money to put his three children through University. He was brought in to institute financial restraint and reasonable bugetting to the institution, btw.
Um, when did it become impossible to put three children through school (for a ...
Primary purpose of a blog... (Social awkwardness or feelings of guilt?)
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Rosey got a brief call from Golnar (trying to buy Rosey's car), so I got to talk to her (on a cell phone, of all devices (I seldom use them, not having one)). Turns out that she was feeling guilty for having read parts of my blog (I assume not the whole 9 months of ...
Solstice dinner goes fairly well (Mole and curry and doughnuts! Oh my!)
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Had 6 people over for the annual Solstice dinner. Much of the evening was spent answering questions from "The Question Book", so I'm sure everyone learned far more about one another than they really wanted to know :) .
Simon brought his former gf, Lia. Too bad Natasha didn't come, the two of them would, ...
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.