Category archives: Vindaloo
Discussions of the spice of life, spices, and/or life.
Back from the party (Now to sleep)
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Party was fun. Jenny (Irish lass I know) discovered that Roger (one of Simon's friends) went to the same schools (grade and high) in a tiny little town in BC as had she and her sisters. Conversations were wide-ranging, though not so exhaustive or deep as to fire me up for the evening... I seem ...
Simon's party tomorrow (After rebuilding JoAnne's machine...)
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Simon is a neat chap I met at PyGTA and UU, rather fun to talk to all-in-all. He runs a little company, has a couple of neat technologies he's trying to market, and is rather active politically. He shares my love of throwing parties, so tomorrow I get to go out of the house ...
And one of D'Arcy (CEO of our happy little crew...)
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Look! It's a picture of Tim! (The work Tim, not the roommate Tim or Python-dev Tim...)
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Proper capitalisation of uncle and aunt (A question I couldn't answer on Twisted channel)
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I belive that you only capitalise these things when you are using them as a title, that is "Uncle Jack said something", but "my uncle, Jack, said something".
However, what about when it's used as an adjective? That is "my uncle Jack said" which reads very differently than "my Uncle Jack said". The first has ...
Rosey visit yesterday (Noah too!)
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Rosey dropped in yesterday to feed all of my addictions (coffee, pudding, iced tea mix and puppies) and be fed some leftover curry. Turns out she hasn't started the new job yet, it's something like a week and a couple of days away still. She's working weekends with a friend's mother to help set up ...
More truth in comics (Hope this is considered fair use...)
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Arlo and Janis tends to have a high proportion of "truth in comics" entries, which I guess is one of the major reasons I really like the comic. Today's strip:
is one of those where you just have to think that the whole purpose of the strip is these little moments of truth. It's a ...
Poem running through my mind (Darn it I'm trying to sleep!)
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Fortune favours the bold they say
but where does Love grant her favour?
The shallow, the callow, the young
and, or so it seems to me, the dumb.
Reminds me of this thought that has been troubling me over the last few years (on and off)...
Are pickles, cookies and yogurt a balanced diet? (Maybe I'm pregnant... oh, wait, I guess that would be a prerequisite... oh, and that too...)
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Slow going on the Twisted tutorial. Mostly because there's far too much to say. There's over 25 pages already and I've only just started with the actual Twisted material (the earlier part being discussion of comparable approaches). I've got 15 minutes, so should have approximately 30 pages total... going to be a lot of editing ...
Technology makes hunter successful (But doesn't actually result in leaving cave...)
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Canada 411 is basically our telephone listings search service as a web-site (done by the Yellow Pages people). Quite useful. One of the most useful services being the automatic link to maps of where a business is located. You can browse a yellow-pages category and when you find some shop you want to visit a ...
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.