Vista Seeker

Sorrento Valley and Mission Valley socked in with an ashy cloud. Low-lying valleys are pretty bad for the most part.
The temperature has dropped and the humidity has increased slightly- just enough to make things tolerable.
Thankfully the major fires have retreated to more remote areas of the county and out fo the City.
The office stinks […]

Fires still burnin’. They told us to stay home. No problem there. You think I’m gonna travel TOWARDS the blazing inferno?

Hacked on a CGI web app circa 1995 written entirely in shell scripts.
Actually was pretty clean for being so old and clunky.

To imbue or impregnate thoroughly: The recollection was saturated with sunshine (Vladimir Nabokov).
To soak, fill, or load to capacity.
Chemistry. To cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance.

Trying to get my head around Dot Net. Not Sure I like what I’m seeing. Bought a book, but it was crappy. It told you how to do things, not why to to do them.
The question is thus:Writing a Program to write the Program You Want to Write, ** OR **Writing […]

The Pit has been knobbed. Viciously knobbed. Even unskateable sections of the ledges are done.
Some secondary stuff remains, but the pit is over. Back to being a decripit shit-pile like it was before, I guess.
You know who I blame? Firstly, The people at the AA meetings. They needed […]

Today was the dopey election. As with any election, I was amazed by two things:
1. How 90% of the people I know didn’t vote.
2. How the 10% who did gloated about it.
So in the end, no one cares if you voted or not. Arnold is the new governor. I’ll leave it to […]

It’s been a long time since I’ve plugged the homiez, so here we go:
* 2 Plugs this week on Artlung’s blog. Reciprocation is the inspiration for my constipation.
* FTS Sufferer and E-Promulgate Felix Tibs has gone to the dark side and taken on a blog format over at Eyunta.com. Tri-weekly updates are promised.
* I ran […]

Last couple weeks have been Microsoft™ weeks.
Microsoft™ software is very strange stuff. It’s good stuff, though, definitely good. But strange.
My whole mindset shifts when I’m in Microsoft™ mode. You don’t even think about how you’re gonna do it, you just do it, as long as you remember one thing:
* one handful of […]