Monthly Archives: November 2007

maybe a light dustup?

Posted on November 30, 2007 by Joe

Really, the day is well past closed – I’ve been watching some video’s online this evening, and it’s getting close to being Saturday rather than Friday at this point. Seattle’s gotten quite chilly this evening, and the weather folks have … Continue reading →

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Eventlet – more python concurrent programming

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Joe

Doing that RSS read-up for the evening, and I spotted a bit about Eventlet on Wes Felter’s blog. Just looking at the summary… well – by god, it seems a like to Kamaelia’s Axon.Component thingy. Here’s the snippet that caught … Continue reading →

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generator based concurrent programming – redux

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Joe

A little earlier in November, I wrote up a little concurrent programming exercise using Kamaelia. Michael Sparks commented a bit on it, and suggested some improvements – which was really cool. He’s the guy that make Kamaelia, and helped me … Continue reading →

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Cook’s Illustrated Pie Crust, Redux

Posted on November 24, 2007 by Joe

Back by popular demand! The resulting mess before you is a cherry pie with a joe-made-it-way-to-freakin-think lattice top. If I was better, the lattice would have been woven and much thinner. Obviously I’ll just have to practice. You can get … Continue reading →

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cookin’ day

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Joe

I don’t really have enough time between things to play Mass Effect, but I figure I have a few minutes to scribble up a blog post. I played the game until about midnight last night, working through a bottle of … Continue reading →

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Cooks Illustrated

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Joe

Nathan has been a “subscriber” of Cooks Illustrated for years. These are the incredibly effective cooking nutcases that do things like scientifically analyze everything in involved with making the perfect cookie. And I’ve got to tell you – they do … Continue reading →

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Mass Effect

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Joe

I picked up Mass Effect today after work… Yeah, of course I got it. I’m a science fiction fan, Bioware product fan, and I’ve been looking forward to seeing what these guys have created for months now. I spent a … Continue reading →

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Redcode returns!

Posted on November 20, 2007 by Joe

I didn’t even try and make an entry for the IronCoder competition, but I always watch what comes out. Shoot – just reading some of that code is a hell of an interesting perspective on how folks are getting things … Continue reading →

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spending the weekend with Assassin’s Creed

Posted on November 17, 2007 by Joe

Friday I got home from work a little early – a doctor’s appointment to get a couple of moles removed, yecch. Since I was out early, I stopped by Blockbuster and rented Assassin’s Creed for the XBox 360. Seeing as … Continue reading →

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great quote

Posted on November 17, 2007 by Joe

Scanning through postings in NetNewsWire and I ran across a post by BBum talking about Acorn. I saw this quote and laughed: “… get done exactly what I wanted with very little spastic monkey style interaction with the user interface. … Continue reading →

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