- #python IRC users are bitch-asses to activepython users. Who knew. Stupid p4python fails to build under 2.6 and mingw is no help with the p4api libs. Fail.
- Curtains incomplete. And to think I thought all 5 would be done by thanksgiving. Fail.
- Left pins in the arm of the armchair. Fail.
- Still have incomplete blog post re: Erick Wujick's death, all this time. The combo of China, game development, and the slavish devotion I have to ADRPG makes this epic and impossible to complete. Fail.
- Door trim for Cpu incomplete until day of birthday party. Fail.
- Kids addicted to TV. Fail.
- No video game console purchase for the holidays. Fail.
- Home answering machine still full of messages. F is for full, and also Fail.
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Today was the day of getting things done, which was actually the theme of the entire week. For example, I finally used my Christmas gift certificate for curtain-making lessons.
Continue reading Busy busy..
I skipped womens' gymnastics tonight, instead engaging in one of my dork activities, compiling and fiddling with software. I think I took home a bronze.
You can instead take home my windows installer for the gccxml compiler.
gccxml-0.9.0-win32-x86.exe [sig] [my gpg public key]
Work has been kicking me in the ass. Specifically, I want to use some libraries that work with the game and tools from python. Since I had an awesome (by which I mean fast as hell) time binding the Xbox 360 development libraries with ctypes via gccxml, I thought it would be just that easy this time around.
Enter boost.
You can instead take home my windows installer for the gccxml compiler.
gccxml-0.9.0-win32-x86.exe [sig] [my gpg public key]
Work has been kicking me in the ass. Specifically, I want to use some libraries that work with the game and tools from python. Since I had an awesome (by which I mean fast as hell) time binding the Xbox 360 development libraries with ctypes via gccxml, I thought it would be just that easy this time around.
Enter boost.
Continue reading Dork Olympics.
In other news, people on the street tend to stare at you when you carry a sledgehammer. It does not help if it is in a backpack. If you wear said backpack, you look like you might have an axe or worse.
Continue reading Sledge!.
Skil saw wins. The basketball hoop we have at sweet home Chicago is no more.
As part of my Fathers' Day wishes, I let Cpu and Bpu know that I really wanted a reciprocating saw, aka Milwaukee Sawzall. When it didn't materialize, I figured I would see it for my birthday. I was right.
There are as many reasons to want to own a Sawzall as there are things to cut with one. And you can cut anything. Drywall, sewage pipes, lathe, conduit. Personally, I was going to cut down my hoop.
As part of my Fathers' Day wishes, I let Cpu and Bpu know that I really wanted a reciprocating saw, aka Milwaukee Sawzall. When it didn't materialize, I figured I would see it for my birthday. I was right.
There are as many reasons to want to own a Sawzall as there are things to cut with one. And you can cut anything. Drywall, sewage pipes, lathe, conduit. Personally, I was going to cut down my hoop.
Continue reading Skil Saw vs. Basketball Hoop.
Ah, the project that never dies.
- CAT5e wall jacks are run to the living room and kitchen desk areas.
- Makes it easy to hook up the laser printer and the computers.
- Good throughput and file sharing.
- Reliable internet connection.
- All hubs, routers, modems, and a shit-ton of cables are in the walls and basement, not in my living room and kitchen and so-on.
- Homerun to attic needs to be completed.
- Self-augering bit still stuck in the 4x4 between 1st and 2nd floors.
- Finally bought a 12-inch Irwin quick-release drillbit extension to finish this, when I should have bought a 3 or 4 foot flex bit to begin with.
- Have huge holes in my bedroom and the basement stairs wall where the wire needs to be pulled to attic.
- Drops to upstairs rooms need to be completed.
- 16 port switch needs to be bought and installed.
The sellers removed a
junky carpet from the basement stairs, only to reveal additional
asbestos tile. Just like the basement tile they had already removed.
The terms of the Deal
specified that no asbestos could be present in the house, so the
asbestos guys came back and finished the job, getting paid out of
escrow at the title company. Such is home improvement hell in sweet home Chicago!
Upon signing the Deal and moving into sweet homeChicago, Cpu and I embarked on wholesale improvements to address the many shortcomings of our property.
Continue reading Home Improvement Hell.
Our HOA
agreement included noise-consideration clauses. Owners were to carpet
or cover 85% of their floor to prevent noise from traveling downstairs.
The upstairs neighbor from hell had his carpeting and the underlying European fire-and-noise-proof padding torn out in the front 1/2 of his unit, and never replaced either. Instead, his subfloor was refinished to provide an ever-creaking, ever-noise-transmitting series of pine planks. It remained uncovered by the required carpeting, although we never addressed it with him through the HOA.
Cpu and I believe in the alternatives to an uncarpeted subfloor: the hardwood floor and the do-it-yourself tile floor.
The upstairs neighbor from hell had his carpeting and the underlying European fire-and-noise-proof padding torn out in the front 1/2 of his unit, and never replaced either. Instead, his subfloor was refinished to provide an ever-creaking, ever-noise-transmitting series of pine planks. It remained uncovered by the required carpeting, although we never addressed it with him through the HOA.
Cpu and I believe in the alternatives to an uncarpeted subfloor: the hardwood floor and the do-it-yourself tile floor.
Continue reading Uncarpeted Subfloor.
Continue reading Do it yourself - Take your own slides.
