Archive for July, 2010

Television

July 25th, 2010

So last week Comcast moved Cartoon Network (and, more importantly, Adult Swim) to digital-only. I discovered this when CN started showing football games. This is one of three channels I watch, and it’s been replaced by “Sports South.” I contacted their tech support in a vain attempt to get some sort of satisfaction, and was [...]

Dark and Stormy

July 16th, 2010

For the last week, I’ve thought there was a party tonight. It’s two weeks from now. Whoops. I blew my four-day caffeine-free spree today; lots of tea, lots of Coke. Canada Dry and Sailor Jerry, now. I’m blogging on the PC because the Mac is playing The Fourth Kind, borrowed from cute-and-way-too-young waitress at Sal’s. [...]

Well, That’s Something, Anyway

July 4th, 2010

While eating dinner at Sal’s, with a bare minimum of Googling (forgot how to assign to arrays during initialization, and minor inspiration for non-blocking getchar() — oh, yeah, use curses!) I wrote my first C program in years. Life! I think I’ve coded Life in every programming language I’ve ever learned. Feels good, but I [...]