Entries this day: Good_morning Oh_shit Work_wow perl_continues_to_rule x yurika_lesson zzzz_m.robnugen.com

Good morning

9:27am JST Thursday 27 September 2007 (day 13700)

I discovered I can save 33 yen by buying orange juice at the Circle K near my house, as opposed to the Lawson's near my work. Lawson's gives 4 "points", worth almost 4 yen, and if Akami were at this particular Lawson's, I would probably pay the 33 yen just to see her. But Circle K wins.

Wow. I'm 13700 today.

Oh shit

11:22am JST Thursday 27 September 2007 (day 13700)

emacs vs vi

g

If, hypothetically, you found yourself s'posed to work on a bash
shell, but you found no screen, nor emacs, what would you do?

I don't have full reign over the machine, so I don't *think* I can
just install a bunch of stuff.

But,

ah fuckit; it won't hurt to learn vi.

G

12:09pm JST Thursday 27 September 2007 (day 13700)

That didn't last long. Given that ssh wasn't even working properly, I decided to edit the files locally using Cyberduck.

"Thanks, Cyberduck!"

"Quack! Quack!"

Work wow

4:19pm JST Thursday 27 September 2007 (day 13700)

I'm not sure, but the stuff I put together today *might* just be enough to say I've completed this task here at work. It was to add a popup window that displayed a dialog to search through a DB and display the results in a sortable table, and then click a button to get details for a certain record.

I had a slight advantage: the code had already been written before; I just had to copy from a different page and actually trim it down some. The only things I *added* were the link and code to pop up the window. The only thing I *wrote* was <a href="....">THIS PART</a>, which I asked Yumiko next to me what the Japanese should be.

5:50pm JST Thursday 27 September 2007 (day 13700)

中谷さん likes it. There's some DB stuff to be done behind the scenes, but my job is done.

perl continues to rule

6:27pm JST Thursday 27 September 2007 (day 13700)

More specifically, the people who wrote the perl modules that make Perl rule rule.

x

12:33am JST Friday 28 September 2007 (day 13701)

Oh, I found out something that would be "super amazing," but since it doesn't work reliably is just "sorta cool."

From X11 in OS X, I can do

ssh -X robnugen.com

And it will set up a terminal with the $server variable set to the $DISPLAY variable to display apps on my local machine!

But, emacs loaded up quite slowly, and broke after only a couple clicks and such. I'm not sure that I'll try much to get it working, but it sure would be neat.

Only other bad thing is it doesn't seem to work if I'm running screen on robnugen.com.

yurika lesson

8:29pm JST Thursday 27 September 2007 (day 13700)

Just had my first lesson with ゆりか since I went to the US. I was happy to see her again, so I suggested just 2000 yen for the hour. I've requested 3000 yen for subsequent hours.

We met in the bookstore / coffee shop where I got the popsicle sticks for Maggie's Marble Track. It would be interesting to make a marble track with those sticks and display it in the coffee shop. Hmmm.

She practiced using the language "looking forward to," and had done homework in future tense for that phrase. I encouraged her to do some past tense versions; she had told me about getting a new iPod, but having it not work with her OS X 10.3. She had been looking forward to listening to music during her commute, but it looks like she'll just have to deal with those 7 minutes in another way.

She told me she was looking forward to performing with Greenhorn, but it won't likely be before Spring 2008. I encouraged her to find another bass player, or form a new band altogether, but she said no way.

At the end of the lesson, I told her a little story that Kevin told us this weekend regarding the Roman alphabet. It was imported for use in English, German, French, etc, but for those languages in particular, it's insufficient to properly describe all the sounds in those languages. He said something like English has 9 vowel sounds, German has 11, and French has 15... Or some numbers close to those.

I was like, "oh shit!" because I've been pretty grouchy at Japanese using their alphabet to approximate English words, but they simply don't have all the sounds available. Now I see that English is just as guilty of using a syllabary insufficient for expressing its spokenness.

Holy shit, are these words?

zzzz m.robnugen.com

12:23am JST Friday 28 September 2007 (day 13701)

Getting closer on m.robnugen.com. Basically I'm carefully going through the code that Fred wrote for me some 6 or 7 years ago. It's been working well since then, and I'm glad to have its functionality. Perhaps I should send *him* $20 next month for his coding expertise.

I was hoping I'd be able to simplify it, but there are so many tricky points (boundaries of years / months with sparse entries on various days) that it would basically take putting all the data into a DB to simplify the code very much.

Definitely not doing *that* anytime soon.

But I am getting a better version of his code written. Now it will compile with use strict and perl -wT.