2009.02.17
I discovered the other day that I could see my tongues' shadow if I stick it out far enough and look. I don't think I had ever seen my tongue's shadow before. It's quite the development. I'm not sure how I functioned before I knew I could see my tongue's shadow. This is even more exciting when a few months ago I discovered I could see my tongue if I stuck it out far enough. That was quite the day. My tongue got really tired.
2009.02.16
The other day I rescued a squirrel that was trapped in the trash. It was that kind of trash can with the dome thing on the top with the door that you push in to open, but doesn't swing out. The squirrel was flailing around and trying to push itself up against the door, and falling down sometimes into the trash. That's probably the most exciting thing. I let it out and then it ran away. So sad.
This weekend I spent my time accomplishing very little of what I planned. One thing I was working on for a while was for my next OpSys homework. The professor said we can use "any" language for our next project, so obviously it should be done in JavaScript with Seed. But the RPI CS machines running FreeBSD 6.3 obviously don't have Seed installed, so I would need to submit Seed along with the actual assignment, probably as a huge, statically linked binary. So I spent some time trying to get Seed built in a FreeBSD install in a virtual machine. Ports is really weird. I spent a long time trying to get all the dependencies for WebKit installed. Eventually I got an old WebKit from ports installed, but for some reason couldn't get one from git built, because somehow the dependencies that clearly had been installed for the ports WebKit were there. I don't understand ports. It seems to make no sense at all. I tried building gobject-introspection anyway, but the build scripts were looking for Glib headers in the wrong place, so then I forgot about that project for the rest of the weekend because autotools hates me.
I have a list of random projects I'm trying to start working on. One of them is GHamlet. A Clutter+Seed thing that plays Hamlet. The actors are Clutter actors naturally, so GHamlet will consist of colored rectangles moving around with text appearing around them for the dialogue. So far, I've found a text file copy of the Hamlet script. A major difficulty in creating GHamlet is the stage directions. I tried inventing a system of describing actions in a way that is hopefully easily parsed, but I think I failed. There are a small number of repeatable actions, such as move on and off stage, and death. Other than that, most of the actions are unique. After spending several hours going through Hamlet and translating the stage directions, not much has changed. I probably could have simplified the directions much more for the few that are easily repeated. Oh well. It will be slightly easier to regexp a new system now at least.
Anyway it took a long time to go through editing the file. Then today on Reddit there was a video about effective vim usage that was over an hour long. I watched it, and now my life has been revolutionized. I now know so much more about vim. My life has been revolutionized. Now I can do all kinds of magic that would have made processing Hamlet much easier. Oh well.
While my blog may have a cornify feature, and that's fine but there's a problem: the rest of the internet is lacking unicorns. Well I plan to fix this. With the new Seed Epiphany extensions, it's on my todo list to write a cornify extension for Epiphany which will bring unicorns to everywhere you look!
2009.02.08
Well if you noticed the cornify button has been integrated into the wordpress theme, so now you can always get unicorns on this blog. It's really exciting. Unicorns are wonderful and make happy things happen, even though Amy is really mean and says unicorns are for pansies with lots of feelings. Amy hates unicorns. Why is Amy so mean to me? Why is she so mean to unicorns?
The internet really needs more unicorns, so a good idea for an Epiphany extension written with Seed would be for cornification. This should be done.
Anyway, this blog can now be found at http://whatmannerofburgeristhis.com too for some reason.
2009.02.08
Muffins are serious business.
So after the last muffin post there has been more muffin related action. First of all, Amy was very angry about the whole issue. She called me stupid among other things, saying cupcakes and muffin are not the same thing 'at all'. The differences she cited were cupcakes being moister, fattier, more sugar, and also have frosting. Well first of all, not all cupcakes are frosted. She also said that muffins do not have butter. Second, I still think that differences in relative amounts are somewhat arbitrary and unimportant, and they still could be considered fundamentally the same thing. There could still be an heirarchy of baked products where cupcake is a subclass of muffin. Second, after searching for muffin recipes, muffins do in fact have butter so Amy is wrong again.
Also twice since then I have had brown muffins. At least one of them was probably chocolate. It had oreos on it, which I really think blurred the line between cupcakes and muffins. The second muffin was very similiar, although lacking the oreos was probably still chocolate.
Somebody should ask the muffin man. He follows muffins very carefully, however I do not know the muffin man.
2009.02.01
Today at lunch a new word was invented: banantics- (banana antics) having antics similar to those of a banana. Examples of banantics include rocking around end to end like something with a banana shape, e.g. a banana. This is a new, nice word. It may not be as nice a word as 'pelican' but it's still a very nice word. I don't really like bananas all that much, although I talk about them a lot.
2009.02.01
So today I was in commons eating breakfast and they had brown muffins. These brown muffins surprised me. I don't associate muffins with being brown, and more whiteish with speckles, like blueberry or chocolate chip. I didn't know what kind of muffin it was. So I was eating this brown muffin and I still didn't know what it was. I thought it might be chocolate. It might have tasted like chocolate but I wasn't really sure. So then I was wondering, is it a cupcake? Are muffins and cupcakes really the same thing? I have wondered this before but never found a good answer. Are cupcakes a subclass of muffin? Is there a fundamental difference between cupcakes and muffins I'm missing? How is muffin defined? The words aren't quite interchangable. It would be odd to have a corn cupcake and not a muffin. Could the set of associated flavors / varieties be the difference? Now with cupcakes, you have your chocolate and vanilla flavors and potentially others, but I don't see why muffins could not be those.
What other attributes could differentiate them? Size or shape? They basically have the same shape, with the narrower area with the little paper squiggly thing on the bottom with a wider part at the top, although there is a wide range on how large the top of the muffin/cupcake is. I do think the muffin/cupcakes that have large, impressive tops that expand far beyond the paper entrapped bottom that I have ever seen have been muffins, while cupcakes I have seen tend to remain almost confined to the bottom region, although this is also true of many muffins I have seen.
Now that I think of it, last week there were muffins that were chocolatey and had oreos or something on them. Although it might have been a cupcake. What's the difference between cupcakes and muffins? After I ate the mystery brown muffin-cupcake I thought it had a weird almost nutty aftertaste, although I'm not sure of the bearing on this food item's muffin-hood.
Obligatory cornify button
2009.02.01
So unicorns and rainbows are pretty cool. So here's this button. It makes unicorns. Ideally it would be part of the wordpress theme, but really I'm too lazy to figure out how to do that now, so here's a unicorn button.
You might get unicorns in your unicorns, and unicorns may end up covering the unicorn button, which ends up being quite the shame because then it's more difficult to make more unicorns appear. When more unicorns appear it is a wonderful thing. Especially if they sparkle.
Michael Javascript asked for me to "give me credit, man" so here is a credit. It is a unicode butterfly Ӝ. I'll throw in some unicode hearts, an airplane and a euro too. ♥♥✈ ♥€
2009.01.31
So I have a blog now. Isn't that something. Look at all these words I have. I'm so creative.
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