Bocce at Leon's

Nothing works up a thirst like house hunting, and what a better way to slake a thirst than a pint of Victory Hop Devil at Leon's Full Service?



Leon's has a bocce court, which puts it in a special place in my heart. This is from a match I was having with my friend Beth.



I won't say who was green...

Bind and my memory of it are not in sync

The PostScript bind didn't work the way I remember it working. It only works on operators, not procedures. bind replaces the name by the operator, which saves a look-up at execution. There are times when I want to replace things late, but there are times when I would like to replace things early. PostScript with macros, anyone?

transition

Right now, a coffee maker is obeying a timer, grinding beans in a kitchen in a house that used to be my home. It's still a home, just not mine. Presently, a woman, once the love of my life, will glide blearily into the kitchen and grope for a cup. She'll smile, thinking of a man that is not me.

And, you know, that's OK.

Naughty, naughty, naughty!

It's not really naughty, but I just caved into something that I wish I had caved into *years* ago; getting a fountain pen that not only works, but kicks ass. I am so doomed, because I now need -- yes need! -- more pens to sling the ink that needs slinging. The pen: Lamy AL-Star, medium nib. AL is periodic table, not American gazetteer, BTW... The colors: r, g, b, c, m, y, k -- I have k -- and all of the glorious combinations their mingling might produce!

Windows Rules to Live by: The Registry

Never deploy code that writes to the Windows registry without having tested sister code that removes what was written from the registry.

Thought for the Day: Unit Tests

Keep your documentation close, but your unit tests closer.

Ah! Post unit test build complete!

Back at it...

GeoPDF Now OGC Best Practice

After many long years, GeoPDF is open and an OGC best practice. I would have like to have seen this go down in 2003 when I first wrote the specification. It would have been very different, since it would have been designed for external consumption (too many naught bits hang out in the LGIDict specification, but it had to get done in about a day and a half...), but it should have been open from the get-go, IMO. A little gruntle for the ranting set, too...