Jim's Journal

12/14/2008 18:17 #47061

Holiday Dinner

Hey Everyone -

I've been out sick the last week and before that on vacation. I guess I totally screwed up my chance to plan an (e:strip) holiday dinner.

Sorry!

jim - 12/14/08 21:06
Sure thing, we're in.

paul - 12/14/08 20:45
That could work for me, what about 8PM, does that work for anyone else?

matthew - 12/14/08 20:02
There is still time, we can do a casual pizza and wings type dinner at our place. What about this thursday evening? Anyone interested? Let me know what you guys think!

mrmike - 12/14/08 18:42
There is always January. Feel Better

tinypliny - 12/14/08 18:28
Of course not. I have dinner with the ENTIRE (e:strip) EVERYday. :D

Get well, feel better and have an awesome holiday season ahead!!

12/12/2008 21:58 #47048

Always true.

jason - 12/13/08 10:23
Haha!

carolinian - 12/13/08 03:39
I, too, thought it worked on my machine. Until one day I read the "Six Stages of Debugging"

1. That can't happen.
2. That doesn't happen on my machine.
3. That shouldn't happen.
4. Why does that happen?
5. Oh, I see.
6. How did that ever work?

heidi - 12/12/08 23:09
make one for (e:paul) that says "it works on my iphone!" :-)

jim - 12/12/08 22:04
Just a general troubleshooting start point...

tinypliny - 12/12/08 22:00
Is that a Mac gloat? ;-)

12/12/2008 09:28 #47038

Black Ice!
Category: buffalo

I counted 13 multi-car accidents on the way to work, including 4 accidents just at the on-ramps to the 198 at Elmwood (one at each on-ramp!). Plus a few spin-outs. It usually takes me 15 or 20 minutes to get to work via the 198, 190 and 290 but it took more than an hour.

Black ice, freezing rain, it's a giant mess. I hear the skyway is closed, too.

I was tempted to take pictures but that's stupid while driving :)

heidi - 12/12/08 23:12
(e:enknot) The Organizer!!! I love it!

jim - 12/12/08 12:07
Probably OK now that everything's been salted...

drew - 12/12/08 11:52
Between estrip, facebook, and twitter, you scared me out of driving today.

james - 12/12/08 10:44
Be careful on your way home pumpkin guts.

jim - 12/12/08 10:07
I think the freezing rain was West and North of the city. 290 got much better the further East I went.

enknot - 12/12/08 10:03
I was zippin down the 33 like a speed deamon today. No accdients witnessed or participated in thank The Organizer. Although I don't have my winter tirs on right now and spun out last sunday on the S curves with mya in the car.

jason - 12/12/08 09:31
I gotta admit, I'm still kinda spooked. I take the 198W to 190N route usually and it was a car graveyard. I really hope that is made more safe by 5PM. I was going 30 on the 190N just past the split.

12/11/2008 23:08 #47035

Cold Day In Hell

Still sick as a dog, but... enjoying exploring a new programming language. XML literals, unrestricted operator and syntax overloading, optional explicit immutability and finally a non-verbose type system.

Scala:

I think maybe I've found my post-Ruby future (not any time soon, though).

jim - 12/11/08 23:45
Still use it, but it's not a good general purpose language & is quite hideous to behold with it's four different line terminators and lack of any mutability. Erlang is awesome for comet and message queues but not a happy place to be every day.

paul - 12/11/08 23:32
What happend to erlang?

12/11/2008 13:22 #47025

Ninja Cat
Category: video

theli - 12/11/08 17:30
Har! Creepy and cute at the same time. Amazing...