This is a photo of Tim Hudson’s changeup grip, courtesy of FoxSports and MLB.
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 63)
Yep, it can get windy in Alaska in the winter, especially in the interior. I ate at Evangelos several times, and it was good. (Image from this Twitter page.)
I had the movie Michael on last night while I was preparing dinner, and when it came to this “Battle!” scene it reminded me of my friend, Jim Kimmel. We used to say “Battle!” at work from time to time, sometimes as we were about to do something, and other times for no reason at all.
“When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.”
~ Carlos Castaneda
Last night I went up on the roof of the garage at sunset time and ended up with this nice photo. I didn’t have batteries charged for my good camera, so I shot this one with my iPhone.
November 9, 2016: When a candidate I can’t stand wins an election, I feel like Al Gore in 2000: I want to sit on the couch, drink beer, eat pizza, grow my beard, and wonder what the hell happened.
While it feels horrible now, Al Gore turned his lemon into lemonade. He works with Apple and Google, is pursuing his passion in environmental activism, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
All of which makes me think of this old Taoist story.
A few nights ago it looked like pilots were playing a game of tic-tac-toe in the sky over Boulder, Colorado.
I haven’t seen the movie Smoke Signals in many years, but I remember liking it. I was just reminded of it when I saw Irene Bedard’s name go by on a Facebook news story. Adam Beach is a good actor, and most people will know him for movies like Windtalkers, but I’ll always remember him for an excellent Dead Zone episode named “Shaman”.
adn.com has this nice Iditarod story: Martin Buser is an Iditarod double-winner, collecting awards for sportsmanship and inspiration. I forgot about the Elim 11 in the 2020 Iditarod, “a group of 11 mushers who got stuck at the Elim checkpoint when a sea storm obliterated the trail.”
June 20, 2020: I’ve finished writing 600 pages of the second edition of the Scala Cookbook. The book is projected to be about 720 pages long, so that makes it 83% complete.
And now, I get 24 hours off before I have to ramp up to meet my next deadline.
While starting my own walk today I came across a dog who was starting on his own walk. That dog was so happy to be going for a walk, his tail was wagging like crazy, and he was looking around and smelling everything. It didn’t matter that he only had three legs, he was going for a walk and he was excited!
I aim to be that way. Alive and happy, no matter how many parts the doctors remove.
In this article, Jon Gruber shares some benchmarks that show that a 2020 iPhone SE ($400) is faster than a 2019 MacBook Pro ($3,000) in single-threaded performance.
Nothing like a hug from a wolf, that’s what I always say. I came across a wolf that looked a lot like this in Canada one time. This photo is from the Lakota Wolf Preserve page on Facebook.
I know “Fred Meyer” as the chain of grocery stores in Alaska that are now owned by Kroger. It turns out that the real Fred Meyer was born Fritz Grubmeyer in Germany, and was a “relentless” business person (putting it nicely). The adn.com website reports that there is a new book out about him, and offers this summary.
This photo is of the Fred Meyer grocery store in Palmer, Alaska, where I used to shop. If you walked straight forward towards those mountains about four blocks and then took a right turn, that’s where I lived.
The apartment complex where I currently live in Colorado has a basketball goal on the roof of the garage. That doesn’t sound too bad, but the roof is six stories up. That’s just a wee bit intimidating, so for now I’m shooting from inside twenty feet. :)
I don’t know if this is true, but I saw this story on someone’s Facebook timeline. (I can’t link to the story because they re-posted an image, and said it comes from a private group named In The Company of Wolves, who I don’t follow. There are also multiple Facebook accounts with that name.)
“Do not try to experience satori. Do not try to drive away illusion. Do not hate the thoughts that arise, and do not love them, either. Above all, do not entertain them. Just practice the great sitting, here and now. If you do not continue a thought, it will not come back of its own accord.”
From the book, The Way of True Zen,
by Taisen Deshimaru
The following quote from Eckhart Tolle is from this video with Eckhart Tolle and Ram Dass:
These are just temporary forms. (Pointing to Ram Dass) This form will be gone soon. (Pointing to himself) This form will be gone soon. (Pointing to the audience) And sooner or later, all these forms will have dissolved. Poof. Like soap bubbles. Poof. And all that remains is The One that expressed itself through The Many.
And if you know yourself as The One, which happens when the stream of thinking stops, and there’s just an aware presence, the spacious, aware, formless presence, that’s who YOU are beyond the form. (Ram Dass nods “yes.”) And from there you can enjoy the play of forms.
I was just reminded while reading The Beginner’s Guide to Android Game Development that the Java Component repaint() method may called paintComponent(), but it can also skip it as events coalesce.
Personally, I like helpful comments in code (such as to explain a complex algorithm in a function), but I understand that they get as out of date as this “Missing” sign. Image from this Twitter page.
