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OK, so I’m envious; I used to be able to write like this a long time ago. I’m glad Rageboy sounds happy anyway.
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Chuck Jones died yesterday of congestive heart failure. He was 89. I had been feeling kind of out of sorts all day today but just now realized why.
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Modern Humorist: “Occasionally you may choose to throw your hands in the air…” I also like “Passengers with 80s hair will be cast into the ocean immediately.”
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Brits Storm Spanish Beach by Mistake. So where did they think they were?
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I’d love to know what happened to the 2-4 inches of snow we were promised for today. I have the day off for Presidents Day, and was looking forward to having the snow to wake up to.

I also note that the longer I stay in school, the more my personality regresses to something like middle school. Definitely time to get back out there into the workforce…

I’ve been dragging for a few days, my energy level is still down, and I have a devastating cough, but I’m back at school and feeling about 200% better than I was. Now I just have to catch up. 🙂 First priority is email correspondence; second is classwork; third is Manila Envelope. I’ve let the app languish too long while I stumble around with figuring out how to call Cocoa methods, and it’s time to make some steps.

This is pretty funny: Passenger lands plane in dark after pilot passes out. My question: They couldn’t have told her how to lower the landing gear?
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A funny little judo response to all the fundamentalists who burn Harry Potter books because they promote witchcraft: “Harry Potter fans warn against dangerous effects of Bible.” One excerpt:

“Reading the Bible teaches children to believe in the supernatural,” said one English Literature academic from Oxford University, Lewis Williams. “The tales of Jesus turning water into wine are fairly harmless, but there is a serious risk of children drowning if they try to walk on water,” he said. “And the chance of serious bodily harm isn’t exactly minimised by that whole ‘resurrection-from-the-dead’ story either.”

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Urrgh. I feel like I’ve been hit with a sledgehammer. Yep, folks, it’s that nasty cold/sinus infection that I’ve been avoiding all season. Aside from the pretty colors when I stand up too fast, it’s a very unpleasant experience. Expect minimal, and highly grumpy blogging today.

Thanks to “Doc” for pointing this one out: the Greater Salt Lake Area Chapter of the Red Cross is running a Manila blog about its activity during the Olympic Games. I wonder if they know about my software? 🙂
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From Fortune Magazine: “Are You Management Material? Large South American country looking for dynamic leader… No previous experience required. Understanding of Spanish, global credit system a plus.”

My favorite: “Do you have any experiences that might prepare you for the turmoil, upheaval, subterfuge, and stress of being president of Argentina? A: (a) I was briefly a member of Destiny’s Child. (b) No.”
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I’ve been quiet the last few days. Partly it was company (my inlaws came into town Friday and left yesterday); partly a class I took last week. Partly it’s gearing up for my last semester. And partly it’s making sure I’m focusing on the right things.

I’ve spent most of the last month visiting friends and getting my first solo application out to the public. I was getting ready to jump in and add a bunch of new features but I hit some roadblocks. There’s a lot of other things I need to do as well–for instance, the Sloan E-52s need some new arrangements and some new members… I will get work done on Manila Envelope when I can. One thing I’ve found for sure, putting a new API in behind the scenes as a choice is not a transparent thing. There are some serious UI decisions to make.

But at the same time, I have a wife who I’m getting ready to uproot and move across the country for my new job; a father who’s been very ill in the hospital (he’s getting better); a grandfather who just got out of the hospital himself, now on a new regimen of medicine to help him overcome the effects of an undetected stroke; and a bunch of other family who I just made contact with again. There are certain things that take priority hour to hour.

Today’s silly link from the Museum of Depressionist Art: David with the Head of Godzilla. Since Seanbaby doesn’t update regularly any more, these guys are the funniest stuff I see regularly on the web.
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Tomorrow morning the Galileo probe will take its last photos in a low-altitude flyby of Io. It’s due to crash into Jupiter in early 2003 so it doesn’t accidentally land on Europa, which has the best chance of any of the Jovian moons to contain life, and contaminate it with bacteria. I’m looking forward to seeing the photos; as I’m married to an Italian-American woman, there’s always been something amusing to me about a planet that looks like a pizza from hell.

I’m home. I have a cold. I’ve looked at Radio 8 and I’m not sure what’s going on yet. It looks really cool, and the UI is much better than in 7, but there’s a little bit of a learning curve. Now I’ll have to figure out how to blog all over again.