tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-169663502011-11-27T17:46:06.984-08:00Trying to make stuff square up.codecarpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13386793568228648651noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16966350.post-91329850906325389182010-03-19T18:16:00.000-07:002010-03-19T18:27:39.262-07:00

Turns out there are some pretty nice tools for learning Chinese. One is a Firefox addon that translates from Japanese, Chinese or Korean to English just by holding the cursor over the word. I'm trying to learn Mandarin and this is pretty much the most handy thing ever. You can find more about it at Perapera-kun and you can find the addon itself here.The other is an excellent podcast called Popup

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I've been branded by the Federal Government. No, not the kind of branding that might make you think of Revelation and end times and all that. Just a moniker. "Rightwing Extremist". Yup. Just look at the following passage out of the most recent Department of Homeland Security memo“Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are

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So, apparently, jambalaya primarily consists of three ingredients, with other ingredients as a bit of an aside. As part of Mardi Gras I figured that this was as good a time as any to make some. Here are the 'big three':OnionCeleryGreen Bell PepperBrown a meat, in my case cubes of SPAM, fry the veggies up together with a little oil, I added some salt, pepper, Louisiana hot sauce (peppers, vinegar

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The final day of the '07 Nebraska State Fair was a blast! We went there in the early afternoon and ended up watching a polka band which the boys loved. I haven't heard a live polka band in a long time and it was a lot of fun. We picked up our winnings from the SPAM contest and the cookies my wife baked, then we went and saw the Charlie Daniels Band perform. He was spectacular and we had a lot of

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Ever since the summer before we started dating, my wife and I have gone to at least one concert at the Nebraska State Fair. This year we went to see Jars of Clay and I must say that it was one of the best concerts I've been to in a while. It was a bunch of guys, who were quite popular some time ago, on stage with just instruments playing and singing because they love it. They aren't quite as

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I made 寿司スパム and, with it, won the title of2007 Nebraska State Fair SPAM Cookoff Chapmion I'm rather proud of my little concoction, which is simply vinigared rice, nori, some fresh vegitables and, of course, SPAM. It was great to win this year because I really liked my entry last year (SPAM pot pie) but it didn't place. A friend also recently introduced me to 30 Days of SPAM which, in turn, let

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I loved Calvin and Hobbes as a kid... now I see them again, and am constantly reminded of my son, who's almost four now, and his awe inspiring imagination. I feel bad sometimes because, as a dinosaur, sometimes he bites and I get after him... then I think, he's just being a kid, I shouldn't be so hard on him. After all, I remember being just like that...

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It's been nearly a decade since I bought a comic book, and for some reason the format is really appealing to me once again. At first I bought the, excellent, Bone One Volume Edition and I really loved it. Somehow, in the last week or so, I saw that there is a new volume of Thor starting, and that it's apperantly very good. I went out and picked up the first two issues and, lo and behold, the are

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For my birthday, I got up before dawn and drug my family downtown so I could run just over 13 miles at just shy of an 11 minute pace. No, I'm not fast, but I ran it, and it was great. There was a light rain, off and on, and it kept me nice and cool. This was the 30th annual race, and I don't expect them to stop having it any time soon, so I'm going to run in this race every year that I'm able.

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I have a Sun Ultra 5, that I got from a member of my local LUG for $50... Not a bad price, considering that if I bought one on eBay I'd probably pay that in shipping. The problem was that it had 64 megs of ram, and a 270 MHz processor. It wasn't a bad machine, but they are the lowest specs that the 5 comes in. So I turned to eBay, found a gig of ram and a 440 MHz CPU and now I have the most

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Running is getting harder. I don't know if I'm just running out of steam, or if it's the weather warming up or what's going on, but it seems like running is a lot harder now than it was two weeks ago. I ran 8 miles on Saturday (It's now Friday night, I'm looking forward to tomorrow's 9) and it was probably the most interesting run I've had to date. It started out hard, like all of my runs do, and

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I was running this afternoon when it occurred to me that my running is a lot like my attempts at using emacs. Both start, go for a while, then stop. I think I’m over the hump with running though. I ran five miles today and didn’t feel like I had to quit at any point during the run. It took me three weeks and a lot of pushing through the little pains to get there though. First I had side splits,

codecarpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13386793568228648651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16966350.post-89149500737806992342007-02-16T19:49:00.000-08:002007-02-18T15:59:01.973-08:00

I've been following the development of computing hardware and programming languages for a while now. Not as long as, say, Paul Graham, but long enough to have some opinions. Mr. Yegge recently posted about the Next Big Language. I think he's right on with it. The next bandwagon language that makes it big will, indeed, follow all of the guidelines he put in for it. One thing I think he's missing

codecarpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13386793568228648651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16966350.post-1136611812461185322006-01-06T20:24:00.000-08:002007-03-03T09:07:02.884-08:00

03/03/07 - Note: I wrote this post over a year ago and a few things have changed. For one, the morning hosts got moved around, and the new ones just aren't quite as good. I don't mind much, though, because now I take the bus to work. The premise remains though, and I'm reposting this to remind myself to get the foxhole radio back out of the closet and get some pictures, write up a post on how I

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I think it's important to know where we've come from... most people I know have never read the documents that form the basis for our civilization. So my task is to re-read the founding documents of America... The Declaration of IndependenceThe United States ConstitutionThe Bill of RightsOnce finished there are countless more items to be read including the Federalist Papers, the Anti-Federalist

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