The reason it’s called a Kindle, is they wanted to burn all the books… #amazon #kindle

For a, supposedly, simple progamming language, Swift is extremely difficult to learn and master. It’s a moving target and rarely stable. Still, it’s cool. #swift #programming #apple

Who should never run a government: Old people. Young people. Religious people. Scientists. The rich The poor can’t afford to. Kids can’t be trusted. Cats don’t want to. Yet, most humans want to be told what to do. That’s how governments and dictatorships work.

“House margaritas are probably made with timber, stone, and sheetrock. That’s why I never order them. ANd If I did, they wouldn’t listen.’ #writing #throwawayline

The Gathering: An update. Everyone is fine, apart from Spot. She hasn’t been around for almost a week now. I’m going on the assumption that something happened. #feral

Yesterday, I found the sunglasses I thought I’d lost in my biking accident. They were in the pair of shorts I washed and had put away, They were intact. I guess one of my friends put them there,

Anyone remember Gallagher? The watermelon hammer guy? Nowadays, he’d probaly be a watermelon shooter. Attempt at humor: i don’t condone shooting anything,

Some days you look back and wonder what CORBA was all about.

“We welcome you into the fold. Remember not to crease or mutilate.” You have to be of a certain age to get it. #writibng #throwawayline

What exactly is a “Country Music Sensation”? Isn’t most music sensational? #marketing #failure

Summertime is for reading. What are you reading? I’m rereading Robert Lynn Aspirin stuff, and some Jules Verne. If you don’t have anyting to read, may I suggest one of my books? I have lots of genres. #books #summer #readging

“No one wants a tool. They want something fun. You’re a tool no one wants to use.” #writing

I hate autocorrect. I hate tiny keyboards. I hate making mistakes caused by them.

Who has big plans for the weekend? I surelye don’t. Although, I’m going on vacation for a couple of days next week.

You cant learn if you know all the answers. #life

Time for lunch and then writing.

Ok. I got a clean compile on Swift6, but the app still crashes on launch with a partial cloure error in concurrency. Back trace is all assembler and breakpoints dont help since it never seems to get to my code. Comenting code out doesnt work either. Not sure what to try next. #swft #concurrency

I hate XCode. I’m supposed to learn assembler in order to debug my code? Yes, I know it’s probably a concurrency thing. I don’t know where though. Time to switch gears. Yes, I know it’s beta, but still… #xcode #failure

Hello. It’s Friday. You can goof off. Time for the ceremonial coffee.

today was fairly productive even though I drove half the day.

Photo up. photosaday.visualnewt.com #photography

I still hate XCode. I’ve already wasted an hour waiting for it to copy shared cache from my iPhone, and it’s still working on it… #xcode #failure

The Goodreads barcode scanner is useless. Bookly’s always works. #amazon #failure #books #reading

My bromeliad is in the process of blooming #plant

Happy Decide to be Married Day Don’t ask.