Sautee one half onion, one half green pepper, an eighth of a red cabbage and one half pound of tempeh together. Add a teaspoon of fresh black pepper, a tablespoon of dried basil, and a dash of salt.

Serve on hot tortillas with a splash of lime.

My new shoes make me very happy. They’re stompy, good for running, and they have heels that make me feel unusually tall.

Ugh. I had forgotten how overwhelming shopping is. I always forget how bad it is.

First, leaving town at 6am to be in Grand Junction before it’s insanely hot. Eugh.

Second, Target is now the most insane store ever, and no fun to be in. So much red, completely overwhelming. Worse, a customer deletes the log files and crashes the web server on their site, so I have to clean that up remotely, with my father on the line who will not read things verbatim, and omits errors from what he reads.

Third, it’s effing hot in Junction.

On the upside, I did find underwear, even if it took three stores to find. Socks, too. I found shoes at the first place I looked — I’m glad I gave in and got hiking boots instead of trying to find something femme in size 11.

There are no pants my size in the mall. Zero. I checked. I cannot understand how this makes any sense in a retail environment.

Talks with elliotpp rock.

I’ve started using Drivel to post to Livejournal, after ironing out some sticky bugs with IPv6, proxies, and the difficulty of parsing IPv6 addresses with port numbers badly specified. Thanks to Todd for the help.

I now have a version of Instiki that doesn’t use Madeleine for its storage. It’s using Og instead, and it works really well. It’s faster than the other version so far, by feel — don’t take that as an objective measurement — and won’t have the memory issues[1] that a large Instiki does with Madeleine.

If I get a chance, I’ll clean up my modifications and make a patch against Instiki-latest.

4279 aredride 16 0 220m 198m 3664 S 0.0 19.7 31:40.65 ruby

From Why Does Haskell Matter?:

Removing side-effects from the equation allows expressions to be evaluated in any order (although not all functional languages use this). A function will always return the same result if passed the same input. This determinism removes a whole class of bugs found in imperative programs. In fact, I would even go as far as to say that most bugs in large systems can be traced back to side-effects - if not directly caused by it, then caused by a flawed design made possible only by using side-effects. Functional programs will most often have less bugs!

This is dead on.

So much for taking the day off. I ended up working for my favorite customers, though, so it went really well, and they bought me dinner at the chinese restaurant. Their office has been re-arranged, the computer restored to more than its former glory, Mary loves the theme.dll hack, their printers work, and their billing software got moved over without a hitch. All in all worth a hundred bucks, and a good time was had.

I need to write more letters, on real paper again. My letters used to look much like this one, all the time. Unfortunately, I’m also one who writes letters, then decides not to send them. I have a small collection of these — they’re beautiful, but they’ll remain unsent.

I realized tonight that I’ve never broken up with someone — not started it. I’ve been through the process of break-ups, sometimes it’s quick and relatively painless, sometimes it feels rather like being thrown off a building must.

I just learned how to play A minor scales, and my hand just cramped up unbelievably. Here’s to learning. Ow.

This morning I managed to down five cups of coffee and four shots of espresso without feeling too much jitter. However, this evening, I’m suffering mild panic attacks. It’s not fun.

I get immense satisfaction from filing good quality bug reports. Doubly so with attached patches.

Ruby’s binding to Redland is maddeningly hopeless, but I did get this out of it with a SPARQL query…

`aredridel@mizar:~$ ruby rdfq.rb file://$(pwd)/dc.rdf

Function rasqal_query_get_source_sequence is deprecated - use rasqal_query_get_data_graph_sequenceCalling deprecated rasqal_triples_source factory method new_triples_match (will go in rasqal 0.9.10+) {“title”=>#<SWIG::TYPE_p_librdf_node:0x40078cb4>, “x”=>#<SWIG::TYPE_p_librdf_node:0x40078d04>} `

Let’s just leave it that I have major issues with SWIG.

Mango Salsa

• One slightly underripe mango, chopped,
• one quarter cup red onion, chopped,
• one teaspoon fennel seed, ground,
• juice of one lemon,
• a half teaspoon of habanero sauce, or one habanero, roasted and chopped up super super fine. Add more if you like you like your food thermonuclear.

This goes really well with Polenta Chips.