The end of year quiz is once again with us, courtesy of King William's College on the Isle of Man.
Off you go.
The end of year quiz is once again with us, courtesy of King William's College on the Isle of Man.
Off you go.
# of remote family members spoken to: 11
# of video games received: 2.5
# of books received: 3
# of hours spent opening Mini-Elbeno's gifts: 4
# of minor injuries caused by toy defence systems packaging: 1
# of marzipan fruits received (eaten): 15 (0)
# of pictures (movies) taken: 71 (4)
# of partygoers turned away because they were at the wrong house: 2
I make no apologies for taste. But at least it doesn't include Slade.
And of course: Chiron Beta Prime
What are your top tunes this Yule?
Good stuff that is specific to me:
Good stuff that anyone can enjoy:
I'm sure there is more good stuff I'm not thinking of right now…
It will occur at 4.22pm PST this afternoon. Waes hael!
This year I did the whole job while Mrs. Elbeno tended to mini-Elbeno. It's looking good this year, in the dining room rather than the living room where little hands run amok. We have finally retired some of the original cheapo filler ornaments we bought when we first got the tree. This year we toyed with the idea of buying a new artificial, ready-lit tree, but they are quite expensive and they are mostly white lights only – I like coloured lights. And it's not that hard to string lights, just time-consuming. This year we have 700 lights on the tree which gives me some left over to decorate my cube at work.
Two ornaments have made their debut this year: the obligatory “Baby's First Christmas” (thanks Grandad & GJ) and the pickle!
And my Mii Parade has 5 miis in it now! My new bowling high score is 279. I missed the strike on frame 10!
I see Google has a new patent search feature. This is one of the more useless Google features to those of us in the software industry. The first rule of software patents is “never read software patents”. The broad nature of many software patents makes it almost certain that my code infringes multiple patents out there (patents that one could argue should never have been granted, but the USPTO isn't really in the business of preventing patents). But I am a programmer, not a lawyer. I am not able to ascertain with any degree of legal certainty whether the code I am working on infringes a given patent. However, if I read a patent and subsequently get successfully sued for infringement by the patent holder, it's automatic triple damages for my knowing about it. I can only harm myself and the company I work for by reading patents.
It's supposed to be the best meteor shower of the year, but I live in about the worst light-polluted area of the planet, and I'm not about to drive out to the desert in the middle of the night. I've been disappointed before when I tried to watch meteor showers.