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There is someone who I hold very dear. A woman who looks after me and my child without a thought. Who makes dinner for me, and puts up with my failings. She gives me love, and helps me be a better person.
There is nothing in this world that I could have that would replace her.
Without her I would be a lonely starving shell. She is deserving of every piece of my heart and I give it without a moments hesitation. And for this St. Valentines day (1 day late I know) I ask, would you be mine?
There is nothing in this world that I could have that would replace her.
Without her I would be a lonely starving shell. She is deserving of every piece of my heart and I give it without a moments hesitation. And for this St. Valentines day (1 day late I know) I ask, would you be mine?
In the years since I have moved to San Francisco I have not owned a new pair of tennis shoes. These shoes were falling apart every which way. Holes in the heel of the shoes meant that if I ever accidentally stepped into a puddle I would have a foot full of water. So yesterday I waited all day long for my new shoes to come in the mail. NEW SHOES.
They look just like the old shoes except that they are black.
I bought an oil filled radiator thingy to keep our environmental temperature in our apartment nice and tropical. Also it looks less ghetto than using the oven to heat the apartment.
After using it for about three hours we blew the circuit for most of the apartment. I really have never taken a real good look at the power situation in the apartment. It appears that we have one 15amp circuit and one 20amp circuit. And it just so happens that everything is running on the 15amp circuit. After a couple more power incidents with the radiator I found an outlet that is on the 20amp circuit. It runs in our dining area and the only things plugged into it are two laptops. And now the radiator is too. I really haven't been able to figure out why the power would be set up this way.
Shannon recently wrote about the 30 year plan. Just to clarify we actually store the plan in our heads, nothing is actually committed to paper. Although she said I should write a program that prompts us to where we should be in the progress of the plan. Maybe I'll do that later in Factor or something.
We're going to the Baby Doctor Today. Stay tuned!
Xmas came yesterday for the Phillips household. Shannon got me the most excellent gift, a Canon Digital Rebel XT. This proves that she is the most beautiful and best wife in the world. So now I'm taking cat pictures.
IN MUCH MORE IMPORTANT ALL CAPS NEWS. If you don't read Shannon's Blog (and why don't you?!?), you may not be aware that we are planning on having a miniture human in our home. Sometime around August.
Ok, it's ten o'clock. Time to go and get toliet paper so that me and the woman I love can live in the quality household that we deserve.
I was going to start a post saying "Man, it has been a long time since I've posted, here's what I've been up to...", then I realized that I rarely post anything anyway. I guess I'm feeling even more off the net (read "out of touch") because besides not posting entries I haven't been on IRC much, read any of my personal email, or read anything else online. Really none of it is Shannon's fault. I think I'm just getting too lazy or bored with stuff. Who knows.
But anyway here's what I've been entertaining myself with recently besides getting married and spending time with my wife (which is still a weird word for me to use.)
Working.
I'm working in the bottom-most dungeon of $EMPLOYER just above the Customer Service and Janitorial staff. As this is my first real "Silicon Valley" job I have an observation to make, this industry is insane. I am getting paid $nn000 a year. People that I work with are getting paid similarly. Some of the people that I work with don't know what tcpdump and ICMP are. I'm doing four times less work than I did in Reno and am making two times as much money.
In meetings and on customer tours I hear how pro-opensource the company is and then on other occasions I hear the age old anti-opensource arguments. The reason we use Commercial SSH over OpenSSH: "OpenSSH is insecure." The reason for using Solaris over Linux: "Solaris is more reliable." (hidden message: "we paid a lot for a Solaris contract.")
Another thing I see is that many people (at least where I work) are completely unaware of what goes on on the Internet. The concept of having a Wiki was a fresh new idea.
And there are probably a ton of other things that I could go on about except that I'm sure someday one of my coworkers might read this. Once they find out about these "blog" things.
On a more interesting note I've been looking into various text/data mining methods for going through a lot of data. Which is a bit more stimulating.
Programming
I still really like the Scheme. The R6RS Draft is out, I've been peeking at it every once in a while. I've picked up copies of The Reasoned Schemer, The Seasoned Schemer, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and Essentials of Computer Languages.
I've been playing with a lot of dialects of Scheme mostly Gambit, Chicken, Bigloo, MzScheme, and Scheme48. Scheme48 and MzScheme are currently my more favorite implementations. Most of my Gambit hacking is due to Termite, the Erlang like distributed computing package for it.
Speaking of Erlang I spent a few days picking it up and coding a few prototypes for some fanciful ideas in it. It's ok. Kinda like what if Scheme, Prolog, and ML had a big orgy and the result was Erlang.
And I've actually started to sit down and work on a couple projects I've been meaning to work on for a while now. A Scheme compiler and Megatropolis, which are going to be intertwined eventually.
My Scheme compiler is nothing new or earth shattering. I've put together a couple of prototype versions and have been compiling to Python code. I'm using Python right now because it is close enough to Scheme so that some things aren't really hard (Garbage Collection, Typing), but far enough that some things have to be coded specially for (Tail Recursion.) I hope to link to some reasonable code soonish.
Megatropolis is a project that I've taken fleeting stabs at many times over the past years. And I will probably write about more in the future.
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I've been reading comics and playing some vidiot games. But now I'm too lazy to write so I'll have to blab about it all later.
It's almost 4am. I think it's well past time to rock.
