Author: the owner

in order to avoid code-tweaks to say “this jacket” but “these pants” i am now reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trousers.

(spoiler alert, i can’t avoid it:

Various people in the fashion industry use the words trouser or pant instead of trousers or pants. This is nonstandard usage. The words “trousers” and “pants” are pluralia tantum, nouns that generally only appear in plural form—much like the words “scissors” and “tongs”. However, the singular form is used in some compound words, such astrouser-leg, trouser-press and trouser-bottoms.[3]

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redressr

Screen Shot 2014-11-07 at 10.38.14 AM In order to make that (a locally running web app) in the last 3 days I learned/remembered:

  • how to set-up a local virtual env
  • django
  • python (loops and and lists and all these other things i haven’t touched or looked in literally 10 years)
  • bootstrap and css funsies
  • how to install libraries in django
  • git, and github
  • shoutout to Tracy whose book kicked me off. and it’s not even done yet. that’s how good that book is.

it doesn’t feel like a long list but holy cow i haven’t coded in a long time. this is fabulously fun. in other news no specific start date so i’m treating this as a vacation during which i have the chance to build this webapp, finally.

What you got?
Smart money bettin’
I’ll be better off without you
In no time
I’ll be forgettin’ all about you
You saying that you know
But I really really doubt you
Understand my life is easy
When I ain’t around you
Iggy Iggy
To biggie to be here stressin’
I’m thinkin’ I love the thought of you
More than I love your presence
And the best thing now
Is probably for you to exit
I let you go
Let you back
I finally learned my lesson!
No half-stepping
Either you want it or you just playin’
I’m listening to you knowin’
I can’t believe what you’re sayin’
There’s a million you’s baby boo
So don’t be dumb
I got 99 problems
But you won’t be one
Like what!

 

Gareth emailed me again, 8 days ago, with another “I miss you”. The emails slowed down but it’s been, like, over a year now. (Way over a year… I left in July-ish?). Those emails are akin to my smoking nightmares, a nice and regular reminder of how close of a call with crazy I missed.

 

it’s so really, really AWESOME to have an evening by myself once in a while. got home from will’s at 4pm, and got LCBO, got tonic, got groceries, roasted a chicken and a whole head of cauliflower (mental cheers to scarf’s awesome birthday dinner). spread out ALL THE LAUNDRY like an explosion all over the floor, and ALL THE FOODs, and ALL THE SALADS, and then cleaned up ALL THE WIRES and it’s just so perfectly combining messy and neat, delicious and practical, fun and work – and i can’t imagine doing this “not alone” because in a large way the joy is that i know that i can just drop the big pile of towels and go back to internet.

of course, i don’t, at least not too much, so most chores are done, and lunch is thisclose to being packed, and bed is thisclose to being made, and i’m just so happy.

new camera

a quick email search showed me that i got the d90 around may 2010, so more than 4 years ago. (hesi’s birthday was the test for it).

today i am switching off nikon into the brave new world of micro cameras. (gasp). just ordered same camera as scarf’s, olympus omd5, with the same f2.8 fixed 12-40 zoom and the cheap-well reviewed 40-150 zoom as well. prime lens still under consideration (do i need it? which one?)

so exciting.