| It is with amusement |
[Apr. 10th, 2009|04:07 pm] |
that I work with jUnit 4 at my new job....
Annotations to mark public void tests, you say?
Hmm, this looks just like writing the equivalent tests in C# for consumption by nUnit or its relations, I say.
(Hmm.... I guess Java Annotations and .Net Attributes are both features that really do correspond to the ability of Lisp to equivalate a method and a list, treating it as data... curses, yet another case of all languages slowly evolving in the direction of being syntactic variations on Lisp) |
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| Random Memesheepery... |
[Mar. 17th, 2008|08:40 pm] |
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So, I figured I needed SOMETHING posted here. Meme is: put your mp3 player on random, post the first line of the first 30 songs that come up, no matter how embarassing.
'course, that assumes there's lyrics in it. And that the lyrics are in a language!
( 30 songs on random meme ) |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 23rd, 2007|01:58 pm] |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) collwen requests assistance unloading what I hope to be the last load of stuff coming up from Poughkeepsie tonight.
I expect that it may not be a conflict with fight practice due to the weather. |
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| John Ringo Signing at Flights |
[Nov. 30th, 2006|11:48 am] |
Okay, so this has been up for a couple weeks at Baen's Bar, and Maria called me when the schedule was set.
John Ringo, the Baen author who converted me into a Webscription fiend all by his lonesome self, with A Hymn Before Battle will be at Flights of Fantasy on Wednesday, 24 January 2007. Reading / signing / etc is slated for 7.
Nix (I'm not ljing your username. silly keyboard thumping username.), I know you're going to want to be there. This guy went from lurking-on-the-publisher's-forums to published in a virtual eye-blink. If you can swing it, talk to Maria about the pre-appearance dinner run (though that might be tight, he's got an appearance in NYC earlier that day). |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 8th, 2006|10:02 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | pro tour | ] |
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So, after barning a decklist from John Friggin' Rizzo of Friggorid infamy, setting Steve and Paul up with the best two decks in Standard, and a last minute tweak of two of the decks to be compatible, Steve, Paul, and I settled in at Table 4 for round one of the last convenient Pro Tour Qualifier of the Team Constructed season. We dithered a bit during registration about which way to line up the players... and made the Good Play of the Day and put me center seat, with Steve and Heartbeat on the A seat and Paul running Ghost Husk in the C seat. Full report here
We've been loving the format for the huge difference it makes to be working as a team where your teammates input is important in how the games feel; and the ability of your team to carry your deck against random bad matchups.
There were some amazingly amusing events, including stting down across from friggin' Rizzo with a deck that differed by 6 cards in 75 from his.
And at the end of the day, I look down at the cards as I am picking up my deck and say.... "Holy cr@9, we're going to Charleston!"
My itinerary has me leaving Albany on 15 June at 1840, returning 19 June at 1600.
Hotel not yet selected. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 20th, 2005|05:06 pm] |
collwen should update in a bit about hopelrailmantic.
Quest Diagnostics patient invoicing system is absolutely atrociously bad.
"If I submitted work of this quality to my boss, I'd never hear the end of how bad it was" kind of bad.
"If I submitted this quality of work product to my boss, he'd wonder what kind of alcohol I was hiding in my desk" kind of bad...
I mean really, if you can identify me to log me in and take my money for a payment, why can't you show me any / all invoices that are outstanding for me, and their status with submission to my insurance carrier?
Why can't you get through your heads that I am the responsible party on the insurance that is carried in my name?
How is it that the insurance that was right in February is wrong in May?
What kind of bad data integrity practices do you run there? |
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| Apple iTunes |
[Jun. 12th, 2005|06:16 pm] |
( Apple has offended me for the last goram time )
If you open a window on my desktop to do something, and I begin an operation on another desktop surface, do not ever CANCEL MY OPERATION. Don't automatically maximize on my default monitor.
At least with the WMP versions of the assets they'll let me get the media stream to play with locally, rather than being net stream dependant.
Oh, and the encode on the Fullscreen quicktime stream? looks like a bad MPEG1 for image quality. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jun. 6th, 2005|04:32 pm] |
Hmm. permanent accounts for the price of 6 years of paid account.
Right, none of that for this fuzzbrain.
On a completely different topic, I just realized that whilst I've got a boatload of Tori live stuff in my mp3s, what I am missing, and really annoyed about, is all of the B-side studio recordings from the Silent all these years-era singles... Which original media is SomeWhereInStorage and possibly damaged CDs beyond rippability.
Help? |
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| VNV Nation |
[Jun. 1st, 2005|11:45 am] |
Clicky Clicky to see the event info.
Synopsis: VNV Nation, Wednesday 23 Jun 2005 @ Winners, 8pm.
Oh, and Ticketmaster online is such a damn ripoff. |
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| Fear, or, How Frank Herbert Wants You To Be A Coward and Think You're Not |
[May. 27th, 2005|05:05 pm] |
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pre-rough draft of an essay on why George Lucas and Frank Herbert are both good visionaries but maybe not so well wired with regard to fear.
Fear is my ally.
Fear tells me that I need to notice what is going on, because if I am not afraid, it means I am not paying enough attention.
One type of fear can be seen as a sort of anticipatory pain - "If I do *this*, the chance that I will be harmed like *that* is great / small / worth the risk in light of *this other*."
The universe is a cold and dangerous place, and a well developed sense of fear reminds me of the things which must be accounted for, that all to whom I am responsible and all for which I am responsible may receive of me what I owe them.
But when my fear has reminded me of these things, it must be harnessed to action... and the action of letting the fear pass seems all too likely to allow the time when action would help to pass with the fear. "It is better to do something incorrect but active in time to make a difference if it works, than to do the perfect thing hours too late for it to matter at all".
(in this context 'well-developed' means "fear is a tool to measure danger"... the mind-killing fear means that "i am fear's tool for stupidity")
The Bene Gesserit litany against fear has just started to ring hollow for some reason.... Fear! But temper it with courage.
Temper, not replace. Courage doesn't replace fear. It moves past it.
The fear does not move past me. I move past it.
And to take another philosophy on...
Fear leads to anger only if one believes one should not fear. Not being afraid when there is risk implies either ignorance or foolhardiness. Choosing the risk consciously is courage, which is not the absence of fear, but action despite fear.
One should fear, fear is a voice of experience telling you of risk. One should not allow the fear use of one's abilities, but should instead use their abilities to address the situation which caused the fear. |
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| History and Moral Objectivism? |
[May. 26th, 2005|12:58 am] |
it's been too long since I read Starship Troopers. I hadn't realized the extent to which my attitudes had adopted pieces of the HMP Heinlein based that (arguably semi-fascist, definitely kinda scary) society on...
nor how closely ST-HMP echoes Objectivism.
Interesting. Very interesting. |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 6th, 2005|04:59 pm] |
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth full sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around for the coolest book you can find. Use what's actually nearest to you.
"Conceptually, the simplest way is the innerHTML property."
- Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
the hazards of book memes and Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference and me being at work.
yep, that's me, the boring engineering type.
heathens. |
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| With the Amused |
[Mar. 1st, 2005|09:22 am] |
( brain gender meme )
Dad in hospital, again. Not taking care of himself, again. Roof leaking again. Rotten week...
strike that. Much more of the following:
Excuse me, this year seems to be defective. Do you know to whom I would speak about returning it, I believe it is still in its warranty period... Oh, that expired YESTERDAY? I see.
I shall surely have to remember that when choosing my next lifetime provider. |
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| Insomnia... |
[Jan. 14th, 2005|07:32 am] |
I've had the stupidest case of insomnia this week. I just can't seem to get my sleep schedule to do anything intelligent, like let me sleep at midnight after I've been up for a full day already on only a couple hours.
Hell, I'm already at work, in my extremes-clothes for the work holiday party, already.
having not slept since yesterday.
whatthefu?
and now that I'm at work, my eyes are FINALLY doing the "we're tired now" thing. at 24+ hours, you're ready to sleep NOW???? why not 8 hours ago, fucker! argh.
my acquaintance with the caffeeeeeen man will be intimate and sensual today, i'm sure.
if by sensual you mean "feeling like you were cavity searched by a telephone pole". it's going to be a long day. |
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