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October 30, 2005
There's No Song About White Halloween (Recent Photos)
I've had some really good weekends recently. Thought I'd share some highlights and photos with you. quarashi download ftp
Last Saturday, I rode the bus into Boston to meet Tony and check out The Brattle Book Shop. We chose this one largely because of the blurb it got when voted the best used book store in Boston by the readers of Dig Magazine. quarashi download ftp
The book store turned out to be awesome, and we both left a bag full. This picture is from just before the book store, when I was trying to find Tony on the Park Street side of Boston Common. The man in the middle of the picture was holding a bucket to his head, screaming, "We love Jesus, it's religion we hate," over and over again. quarashi download ftp
Yesterday, Ruth and I drove to Salem, Massachussetts for some of their Halloween festivities. Because the weather here is completely retarded, it snowed.
There is no Elvis song about White Halloween.
Salem was really cool. The witch trials are apparently their biggest tourist attraction, so they have a street fair the weekend of Halloween. We had fried dough, walked through a neat bookstore, and saw a significant portion of town. We would have seen the whole thing, but we were slowed by sogginess. The snow was better than rain, and it added a neat atmosphere to things. But we probably would have gotten more out of a dry Salem. quarashi download ftp
We had a lot of neat looking things to choose from, and we ended up going on a Witch Trial Trail tour of Salem. The coolest looking thing that we didn't get to do was the Haunted City performances.quarashi download ftp
The tour was led by a neat historian guy named Jim.
Right over here is this guy's tomb. He's not there anymore; his family sold the tomb.
One neat thing about the tour was that it was candle lit.
If your styrofoam cup catches fire, just drop it. Waving it will only make it worse.
Also, here are some pictures of us:
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October 20, 2005
Todd is a Geek (Number 14,973 of an Infinite Series)
Today at work I enjoyed possibly the most entertaining twenty minutes of my professional career. quarashi download ftp
I had been given an outline for some code that needed to be written, and I was diligently filling in the gaps, when two people higher up the design chain began discussing my assignment. quarashi download ftp
The point of contention was this: One person believed that a particular section of code should be an "interface" and the other thought it should be a "class". I eventually chimed in, voting for "abstract class", as a compromise. quarashi download ftp
Soon the conversation moved into my cube, and a forth developer jumped in. quarashi download ftp
The difference between an interface and a class is pretty big, but in this instance the point was pretty subtle. Almost academic. But the point was argued fervently nonetheless. Personal biases were exposed, windows were opened into each person's coding habits and priorities.quarashi download ftp
Particularly from my position -- an office newb -- it's relatively easy to get into the habit of keeping your head down, pounding out functional code without even knowing where in the 200,000 lines of code your neighbors are working. It was nice to have an opinion about something work related, and to have that opinion challenged. quarashi download ftp
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Add that to it being Thai day, and the fact that I got to write my first generic class, and it was a good day.quarashi download ftp
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