This is my canned pre-written gripe to send to website’s who don’t allow all valid email addresses to be entered into their registration forms…. Dear web developer, Your website does not accept all valid email addresses in one or more forms where you allow a user to enter their email address. Importantly it does not […]
Continue readingKeyboard customization for Emacs
In order to use Emacs effectively you have to customize your keyboard bindings. You really do have to do this one way or another. For a long time I tried to use the “standard” emacs bindings but eventually I realized you really can’t be productive that way. I’ve been using Macbooks for several years now […]
Continue readingMark Winslow’s “partial list of my favorite things”
Dabney Coleman was great in Modern Problems: Mark Winslow’s “Partial list of my favorite things: Sunset from my office window. Strindberg’s women, all of them, my interview in Playboy, Mozart’s Brandenburg Concertos, collecting my $200 for passing go, Roots (said Ruts), the book, not that television horseshit”, inspired my Partial list of my grievances Other […]
Continue readingA little astronomical trivia
I was curious about a couple things and did a little surfing… Diameter of our solar system. First know that they use Astronomical Units (AU). One AU is equal the mean distance from the center of the earth to the center of the sun or 150 million kilometers, or about 92 million miles. The diameter […]
Continue readingC array subscript weirdness
$ cat test.c #include <stdio.h> int main() { int a[2]; a[0]=0;a[1]=0; 1[a] = 1; // weirdness printf(“%d %d\n”,a[0], a[1]); } $ gcc -o test test.c $ ./test 0 1 The subscript operator is commutative for what ever reason. *(a + 1) < => a[1] < => 1[a]
Continue readingGeneric makefile for easily building 1 file programs
I’ve always found myself writing short little programs to test out an idea or learn how a language feature/bug works. Often they’re throw away programs, once finished they’re no longer needed. So often it ends up being test.c/test.cpp/test.java etc. But sometimes I like to keep it around so they’ll end up with a meaningful name […]
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Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and little minds discuss people. Widely credited to Eleanor Roosevelt but if you keep digging that’s not clear.
Continue readingAdvanced Certification
Advanced Scuba Certification Got it done this weekend. Also took the Nitrox test this week. 4 dives in Travis, 2 Sat 2 Sun. 3/17 & 3/18, 2012 Water temp about 57. Outside low 70s. Had complete thick (6 mil?) suit on actually it was a wader type bottom which covered ankles to chest then a […]
Continue readingGarage Cabinet build
I’ve been getting my workshop area going in the garage. Getting organized etc. I considered just putting up some shelves over the workbench, but decided on cabinets. I felt like doing some woodwork. What I wanted to store was a lot boxes of fasteners and small items, parts etc., etc. So I decided on shallow […]
Continue readingCS371P #14
Oops, one more blog. *this is the last one. Today was the last day of the semester. Took the final test today. I found it to be shorter than exam 2, which helped. I was able to finish the test and go back over and check for mistakes. I’m sure I did well enough. I’ve […]
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