chili

i'm in the process of making my favorite fall food...a batch of ridiculously hot chili. however, this has not been a smooth process. I get to the store yesterday to purloin the necessary acoutrements only to find that my brain no longer functions. i could only remember about half of the necessary ingredients. thanks to the wonderful world of cell phones and tim's healthy obsession with food, i soon had my grocery cart filled with goodies.

as i unloaded the car, i promptly shattered a quart bottle of louisiana hot sauce on the garage floor and all over my brand new white puma's. they are now my brand new orange tinted pumas. the part that really sucks is that i had thought to ask her to double bag that one but then decided against it as i didn't want to be a pain in the ass (for once).

after my experience taking a leak after having chopped jalepenos, you'd think that i would remember to not touch anything sensitive prior to washing hands. it hurt so bad i damn near went blind.

this morning, i awake to chili all over my counter, stove, and floor. it had boiled over in the middle of the night (it cooks for 18 hours or so).

this shit better taste DAMN good.

in the buff

i left my cell phone at home today. i feel naked. and it's cold outside.

ahoy nerd-o!!

if you are not a super-nerd, stop reading.




i'm serious.



stop now.




ok, you've been warned.




on monday, i went to a talk hosted by the research side of labs on predictive bug detection in software. in short, it was an algorithm that analyzes api calls and looks what you are doing before and after api/function calls. it then categorizes what you're doing and sees if there is a pattern. if a large percentage fall into a pattern and a function call doesn't match the pattern, it is flagged for manual inspection. say for example, you always check for null on a return call but suddenly, in some random slice of code, you don't perform the check, the 'bug detector' flags the code for manual inspection.

this work is still in its infancy and doesn't do anything crazy but it's an interesting concept that, once fully mature, will probably be a very useful tool in industry. i only fear that, just like Microsoft Word makes for poor spellers, dependency on a tool such as this will make for sloppy developers.

see, i tried to warn you and you just wouldn't listen. in order to make amends, i shall propose a new topic: if a turtle loses his shell, is he homeless or naked? discuss.

oh deer!

i think i saw the funniest thing ever on sunday afternoon. driving through rural long grove, i was coming up on the town when out of nowhere a deer comes flying across the road. and by flying, i mean, on it's butt...backwards...with front paws scrambling trying to stop himself/stand up. The deer finally skids to a stop on my side of the road, gets up, gives me a look like 'what are you starin' at buddy?' and bounds off into the woods. i was laughing so hard that the townfolk in long grove thought i had finally lost all my marbles (my windows were down).