Oh.
April 19th, 2002
Oh. My. God. I watched so many more of these
shows than I ever imagined, or care to admit! [from yesterdayland.com]
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Archive for April, 2002
[11:07] <dsandler> Man, where is everyone today?
April 19th, 2002
[11:07]
<dsandler> Man, where is everyone today? It’s 11AM!
[11:07]
<Trey> dsandler: Friday! Friday!
[11:07]
<dsandler> I thought friday was for leaving early?
[11:08]
<Trey> dsandler: Why leave early when you can optimize it away?
<dsandler> Man, where is everyone today? It’s 11AM!
[11:07]
<Trey> dsandler: Friday! Friday!
[11:07]
<dsandler> I thought friday was for leaving early?
[11:08]
<Trey> dsandler: Why leave early when you can optimize it away?
Yow, a two-thousand-line bugfix.
April 19th, 2002
Yow, a two-thousand-line bugfix. (Okay, I had to move some code around so that
the linker would be able to keep all the internal code references under
65535 instructions, and moved code contributes prodigiously to the size
of the bugfix differences. Whatever.)
Other tidbits I’m grumpy that OS X 10.1.4 doesn’t actually
improve PPP reliability the way it claims to (my iMac still has a modem that’s
grossly incompatible with 3Com ISPs) … Erin will probably get a
promotion pretty soon (not a new title, but an upgrade in the pay scale of her
current role) … it’s pretty solid now that the company will be moving
to a new building in late summer … Erin and I have ballet tickets
(Giselle) for our anniversary in a few weeks.
Wow.
April 18th, 2002
Wow. I just saw an actual, tangible copy of Mike‘s book, Skip Intro. It’s
really an accomplishment — the man is a published author
now! (The book contains a really nice head-shot of Mike, taken by
this guy, who does some really
awesome work too.)
A couple of recent Microsoft patents:
April 17th, 2002
The thermostat is at 70° and the thermometer reads 63°.
April 17th, 2002
The thermostat is at 70° and the thermometer reads 63°. Why
doesn’t our heater stay on? “Hey! You in there! I don’t hear you
running, bitch! Do you see what temperature it is in
here? Huh? I think you should be god damned heating this
apartment right about now!”