thane March 28th, 2008
*ring*
“Hello?”
“Mr. Thane?”
“Yes.”
“This is Kathy.”
“Oh. OK. How are you?”
“I’m doing great.”
“Cool…. Which Kathy?”
“How many Kathy’s do you send cute pictures of dogs to?”
“What? Ah, none.”
“Is this Frank Bane from Match?”
“No. This is Thane Norton.”
“Why did you say you were Mr. Bane?”
“I thought you said Mr. Thane.”
“Oh. Sorry. I guess I have the wrong number.”
*laughter*
“Well, I guess you will have a story to tell. Talk to you later. No, I guess not. have a nice day.”
“You too. Goodbye.”
*click*
thane March 15th, 2008
Stuart pooped on the potty! Twice in two days! Today he announced ‘poop’. Johanna said ‘Stuart, do you want to poop on the potty?’ He got all excited, jumped out of bed and came downstairs. To the bathroom where dad got him up there and, low and behold, he pooped! And there was much rejoicing.
thane March 10th, 2008
We arrive at the Relativelies, and Stuart catches sight of Clio
Stuart: cl-LOO-LOO! cl-LOO-LOO!
Me: That’s right! There is Clio.
Stuart: cl-LOO! cl-LOO!
We get inside and Clio shares some news with me.
Clio: Uncle Thane! You want to know something sad?
Me: Sure.
Clio: Our cat died.
It died a while ago, but she tells me about it every time I see her.
Me: That is sad.
Clio: That means we can’t kill it, and that’s a problem.
Cue laughter.
thane February 7th, 2008
Apologies to everyone about not posting. I have had some stuff going on that I don’t want to blog about which is pretty much occupying my entire brain.
thane February 2nd, 2008
Much like apenwarr, I had heard about git and effectively ignored it. As he, I watched Linus’ video and was skeptical. He, however, took the time to analyze it and came to an interesting conclusion.
Git was originally not a version control system; it was designed to be the infrastructure so that someone else could build one on top. And they did; nowadays there are more than 100 git-* commands installed along with git. It’s scary and confusing and weird, but what that means is git is a platform. It’s a new set of nouns and verbs that we never had before. Having new nouns and verbs means we can invent entirely new things that we previously couldn’t do.
He then produces a litany of difficult projects that he has worked on which git makes trivial. He points out that git moves files faster than cp, and does it checksummed. That git can be used for backups, or for a distributed file system, or for package distribution, or installers, or or or. If it had been written by anyone but Linus Torvald, I would continue to be skeptical. However, he has a track record of writing quickly things that change the face of software. I am going to have to take a closer look at git.
thane January 9th, 2008
from Noodlesoft
It can be annoying to get an alert about a new version when you are working. A new version is not a “drop everything and deal with this now” type of alert. With this patch, when a new update is found, it will check the user’s idle time and hold off showing the panel until a certain amount of time has elapsed. This minimizes the chance of the user being in the middle of something when the alert comes up.
This is someone who gets it. What a wonderful idea for notifying the user. Nod to Daring Fireball for the link.
thane December 30th, 2007
My daughter is training to be Attorney General of the U.S. of A. When asked where a particular member of a nondescript class of objects might be, she responded thusly:
I don’t know what you are talking about, and whatever you are talking about, I don’t know where it is.
thane December 29th, 2007
How awesome is this:
http://www.utilikilts.com/?page_id=10
thane December 29th, 2007
We have a GF (Gluten Free) bread recipe that is so good that no one in the house eats glutenous bread anymore. Additionally, it is really simple. This all started by finding a recipe over at the GF Guru. We had some problems with consistency, so we started playing with the instructions almost immediately.
Mix well
- 1 2/3 c Milk: This changes based on the type of milk and the type of flour. Offhand I would say use 1/6 c less if you use brown rice flour, and 1/3 c less if you use rice milk. YMMV.
- 1 egg
Place mixed liquid into bread machine pan. Add, in this order
- 1 T Oil (We use olive)
- 4 t Caster Sugar (aka. superfine sugar)
- 3/4 t Sea Salt
- 2 c Rice Flour: Best flavor and texture seems to be half white rice flour and half brown rice flour
- 1 T Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose Gluten Free Flour: It makes the loaf brown better and rise better. Feel free to leave it out.
- 2 t Xanthan Gum
- 1 t Bread Machine Yeast
We cook it on the longest setting our machine has. The stuff has some trouble browning.
