Program will Continue

Hunting for example code to fix my UIPickerView drawing bug, I instead found a forum signature worth keeping: if (!exit(-1)) fprintf(stderr, "exit call failed. Program will continue\n");

My Favorite "Fruit Company"

My favorite "fruit company" emailed me about a job that was the stuff of dreams years ago. The HR phone screen reminded me how out of practice I am: ideal job, ideal release cycle, rate your familiarity on a scale of 1-to-10. At least there were no ink blot tests. Yet.

Scarves

One of the women in the office wore a scarf today. Indoors. All day. If your clothes can't keep you warm without insulating the arteries in your neck, see a doctor. If you're doing it for fashion, also see a doctor. That is all.

Icelandair

A new subway ad for Icelandair touts the short flight and cheap fare, with a background of what looks like a desolate beach of smoldering lava rock. If I wanted to attract visitors to my country, I don't think I'd lead with a sweeping depiction of destruction.

SIGEV_THREAD

My async IO proof-of-concept met me with EINVAL: Invalid argument, and the docs were no help. Later I downloaded xnu, started grep'ing, and found the comment in kern_aio.c that said it all: no SIGEV_THREAD support. Bummer. Blocking IO it is, then.

I'm back....

The Grand Canyon "Death March" was a success. And I am back. At work. Again. A decreasingly enthusiastic set of sentences. Pictures later; I actually need to work now.

Good Day at Work

I was having a really good day at work for no obvious reason. No harsh overhead lights, no loud nearby conversations. Then it hit me: my co-workers were all stuck in an all-day meeting in another office. Moral of the story: even subconsciously, I don't like other people.

Wedding

My friend Joel got married in Destin, and his overseas sister attended via Skype. I spent the reception wandering the crowd holding the laptop while strangers cooed at her face and admired my MacBook Air. Mostly it made me realize I'd rather just be married than get married.

Just call me...

Just call me Mountain Man.

Lime Wire

My former employer is in the news again: EFF to court on the Lime Wire case. Exciting stuff. I'm just glad my current employer lets me empty the Trash on my computer whenever I want. It's the little perks that make the difference.