This is Mouse, the newest member of our family. He's a twelve-week-old Yorkshire Terrier. My wife says I've been beaming with a smile ever since I first held him.
My wife and I have been talking about getting a dog for a while. We were …
The Grand Re-Passwording
I have a dirty little secret: I have used the same password for my web site accounts for a very long time. Yahoo!, Google, Hotmail, Amazon, all of them — same password, unchanged for years. I've always known this was a bad idea, but I didn't want the trouble of creating …
This American Life
This American Life has become my favorite podcast. Each week, they choose a theme and have three little stories about that theme. The "stories" are usually interviews or monologues. Occasionally they will do a single long story.
The host's voice annoyed me at first. After a few shows, though, I …
Old Man
We got an Xbox 360 this weekend. I went to the store to buy Guitar Hero III for it.
I came home with Guitar Hero III for the Playstation 3! We don't have a Playstation 3.
It's true: eventually, we all turn into our parents.
Killbots Want Peace Too
The Wedding and Honeymoon
As indicated in previous posts, I got married on April 5. Although it was obviously one of the most important events in my life, I haven't written much about it, due to lack of free time. So, here's all the stuff I should have written during the past few weeks …
Booleans Shouldn't Be Complicated
Warning: Geeky programmer content below.
While learning a new codebase, I was a little disturbed when I saw this:
enum IsVerifying { IsVerifyingFalse, IsVerifyingTrue }; enum IsVerified { IsVerifiedFalse, IsVerifiedTrue }; enum IsEnabled { IsEnabledFalse, IsEnabledTrue }; enum IsActive { IsActiveFalse, IsActiveTrue }; enum IsOnline { IsOnlineFalse, IsOnlineTrue }; /* etc. (There are about a dozen more of these.) */And there …
Pebble and Kris Got Married
April 5, 2008
It was beautiful, thanks to my lovely wife. Thank you to everyone who helped make this a special day.
She Switched!
When I first started dating my fiancee, she made fun of my Macs. I told her I'd convince her to buy one herself someday. Her response: NEVER!!!
She kept that stance until she bought an iPhone. Then she started looking more closely at the Mac, saying stuff like "I really …
Shrine of the Mall Ninja
I was crying with laughter while reading this: http://lonelymachines.org/mall-ninjas/
