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Yosemite Videos

Some videos from the trip:

 

 

 

Yosemite Trip

The Yosemite trip was great! Phots and videos to follow.

 

Half Dome:

 

Let's play find the trail!

 

The Schutts on the first day:

 

Pimpn' Hat:

 

The whole trip was like porn for photographers:

 

Uphill sucks:

 

You dare approach!

 

 

Dinner!

 

On top of old smoooooookeeyyyyy

 

Smiles are harder to come by at the end:

Mother Nature is funny

Happy Spring!! Ohwait, it's April 1st and it's SNOWING!! No really, it is snowing. 

Hockey and Sheep Herding

Ok yes, two completely separate topics.

First. Hockey.  A co-worker convinced me to learn to play hockey, so in about a week and a half, i'm going to start taking classes.  Should either be a lot of fun or a big pain. Actually, probably both!! Anyways, i'll get a picture of my gear up later.

Second Sheep Herding Win:

Extreme Sheep LED Art

More Seattle Snow

Even the roads that look clear are really coated in ice.

Seattle Snow

It's baaaaaaaaack!!!

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Dirty Computer

Found this funny message when I ran dmesg on my work desktop. My computer is cheating on me!

dmesg | tail

device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device eth0 left promiscuous mode
Unexpected dirty buffer encountered at do_get_write_access:616 (03:02 blocknr 0)

Can has iPod Touch?

The iPod touch is getting a software update this week, and that tickles the nerd inside of me.  It will be able to access secure wireless networks (yay finally).

What are you thoughts on the iPod touch? My favorite parts are being able to get gmail, google maps/directions, and to write reminder notes to myself. 

Craigslist Apts

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/apa/747940602.html

 

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/apa/747748170.html

 

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/apa/747310119.html

 

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/apa/747103034.html

 

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/apa/746987042.html

 

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/apa/746602931.html

 

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/apa/746350638.html

Rubies of Wisdom

I know I haven't posted in a while, but i'll try and do so more often, if you all don't mind a slight my nerdy slant.

Anyways. Today's post is short and sweet. I LOVE RUBY.  I REALLY HATE PERL. Ruby is what programming should be like.  A program should focus on the algorithm of a program rather than syntax.  A programmer should not spend two perl banging his or her head who their Perl program is working, only to find out later than you are just missing a "\" e.g.

hash(hateperl => @array) DOES BAD THINGS.
hash(hateperl => \@array) IS WHAT YOU WANT. WTF PERL. DIE.

So here to a toast to Ruby!

Also. I had to write a Ruby program that hits a SOAP Webservice.  This is how easy it is:

require 'soap/wsdlDriver'

factory = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new("some .wsdl field")
service = vendorRegDriver.create_rpc_driver
result = service.call_some_method

WAHBAM! AND YOU'RE DONE.  I'm never going to by a future wife a perl necklace. I'm going for a ruby one all the way.