Category archives: Vindaloo
Discussions of the spice of life, spices, and/or life.
Just in case she tries to claim she was entirely bored (Tim provides photographic evidence...)
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Tim, as many of you know, is quite a good photographer. Unfortunately the lighting last night was pretty bad, still, he managed to snap this shot of Marjan so we can use it against her, should she ever sue us to get those 3.5 hours of her life back again.
Convincing them to show up is 90% of the battle (Marjan saves me from being the lonely bachelor...)
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Tonight was the Cain Gang/Vextech Christmas party. As you loyal readers will no doubt remember, I invited Marjan (Shiva's cousin). Wonder of wonders, she showed up! (Loyal readers will know that I have an abysmal record with having women cancel on me, often at the last moment).
1055 (name of the restaurant) was about what ...
On the massaging of the foot... (Was it Shiatsu our friend taught us?)
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Back in university we had a friend whose mom was a massage therapist of some sort. She (the friend) was into massage as well, so for a month or so while she was in town we'd get together and she'd try to teach us something of the technique she'd learned from her mom (and various ...
Apparently picked up something at the party (Hit me this afternoon...)
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Got home from grams place (score: 2 all) and realised I had a bit of a fever, proceeded to develop all the classic flu symptoms (including the oh-so-lovely aches and pains in joints and a nice sweaty (and high) fever).
Luckily the fever broke around 10 or so, but then Rosey wanted me to review ...
Slow day's party into night... (Not a lick of work done)
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Woke up late, did the week's grocery shopping, then took a nap (planning for just half an hour). Instead I woke up at 6pm, just two hours before the party. Decided to start working on my proposal for PyCon... got the summary and the like done and had just started working on the outline when ...
A blowout for grams (I rather sucked at pool this afternoon...)
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Aunt Lil' dropped grams off and had lunch with us. After she and Rosey had left grams and I played 4 games of pool. She won three of them, with my sinking the black mid-game, scratching on the black, and sewering on the black.
Ah well, guess that's what happens when she doesn't go about ...
I believe this bug is driving me nutty (But at least I have a date for the staff Christmas party...)
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Okay, so I have the bug isolated... sort-of. I have two test cases which differ solely by 1 call. In the one case, there's a memory leak (beyond the garbage created by the bisect oid store). In the other, there's none.
The problem is, I can't see any way for the leak to fall out ...
Enlightened self interest (Why even bother trying to sleep... well... other than to let my hands rest... which isn't happening with all this blogging)
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The tension between left and right can be thought of as a pull between collective idealism and individualism.
However, the philosophers of the right, in explaining how a society without left-wing thinkers would work (i.e. without anyone willing to do anything they don't want to do) tend to eventually come up with the idea of ...
Maybe I should just report when I *can* sleep (Reduce the blog-traffic considerably...)
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A few new poems on the texts page. Nothing really interesting, just can't-get-to-sleep ramblings that could use some editing.
Is stress the prod that gets evolution going (Do chemical alterations in the cell affect the accuracy of DNA replication, producing more mutations?)
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A few coffees ago with Lara and Shane, we were discussing the age-old design versus evolution "problem". In my daily reading, I've just stumbled upon this article.
In the article they are just noting that stress is accellerating the reduction of the "protective" tails of the DNA strands (telomeres). Telomeres appear to act (speculation) ...
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.