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Typo on an in-app ad in Finger Physics.

Today at work I fixed a bug, thankfully found a worse bug before putting the
fix online, and did some semi-new development regarding building fine grained user permissions on their website.

The new system allows unlimited permission groups which the code can check before displaying a given page. With a bit more coding (and another table), I can allow them to actually specify exactly which directories a user is allowed to access. But for now I’m going to leave that out of the system unless they ask for its equivalent or until the permission requirement changes get too frequent for me to happily change them each time.

My text is green; hers is white. Yesterday I said, “I wonder how many of these people who are rushing onto the train don’t notice that it’s not a local train!”

Nice to have my stack of redmine tickets only increase by 4 after our meeting today, instead of 18 or so after last two meetings.

Two were easy to fix bugs, and one is a quick request; the other is a bit more involved, and steps into a realm I hadn’t considered: reporting on internal user activity.

I look forward to whittling the list down to nothing.

Speaking of nothing, I have eight versions of Wish, though I think some are identical.

Hope to see you soon Trent.

Kevin and Lyle each performed for the last (and first) time in the jazz quartet Shcool, pronounced like school, but spelled like it’s cool.

We sat in the back with Demi and her housemate Kiyo.

I might love this job…

hey g

I dreamt you were riding your bicycle back to the park and an obscured log stopped your front tire, but not the rest of you nor your bike.   You scraped your right forearm pretty well, but otherwise were fine-oh-fine.

In other news, I’m on Reading Deprivation Week of Soness’s The Artist’s Way course with Lin, so I can write, but not read your answer until Wednesday.  Gimme a skype call ifn you’d like.

I just tried to Skype dad who’s online, but probably in class.

I just tried to Skype you and ma who are each offline.  Didn’t work.

Lin’s cooking breakfast and I’ve decided to stop playing minecraft *quite* so much.. hahah during reading deprivation week, I’m not playing Minecraft at all.  In the longer term, i’m going to get back in touch with my personal coach Kim Sawyer in Houston and be like “wazzaaaah” and tell him wazzap and get a more balanced lifestyle going on.  When I tell him “I work, I play minecraft, I sleep” he’ll be like, “ummm, let’s adjust that a bit”   So I’m adjusting it ahead of time.

Anyway blah blah how’s your progress?  How’s your summer plans?  Free associate with the words “Narita” and “arrive.”

G

I just installed the beta Firefox 11.0, and, on first blush, it appears to be faster than 10.1 at loading the javascript heavy page I’m developing.

 

Since I’ve ignored my email for the better part of a week, Reading Deprivation Week should be no problem.

But ignoring Minecraft for a week will certainly be a change for me.

I plan to log on for one moment tomorrow morning when everyone is on to say BYE for a WEEK!

Today we came home a bit early and met Mama at the new bicycle parking place to scope it out.  I had a bad feeling about it because it’s basically a machine that takes one bicycle at a time.  I don’t want to queue up for even a minute to put my bicycle in the machine.  Plus it’s further away than where we can park now, so I was like, ermmmmm.

BUT, they have five elevators, each of which seems pretty fast at its job.  We just bring the bicycle to the entrance and the RFID reader registers which bike it is and zooms the bike up to a spot.

On the way home, we go back to the same elevator, put our card into the slot (what?  no RFID???) and the bike associated with that card is returned in about 20 seconds, or, for me, about the time it takes to unlock TJ Bike now, which I won’t have to do with this system…

It’s more expensive, but may be faster; we’ll find out when service starts in April.

Oh, but that’s not why I’m writing.  Right now the guys are hanging out at the place to register new bikes for the April start.  They measure various dimensions and say “yep, it will fit,” or, in the case of TJ Bike, “ummmmm, nah.”

Damn.

So we went to another place and I was like, “ummmm, nah,” because it would require waiting for three (3) long traffic lights, plus going past Kawasaki station to park the bikes.

Went back and said “aight fine,” and took off the luggage rack from the front of TJ Bike.  It looks like he got a hair cut, but perhaps we’ll be just a bit faster with the reduced weight and streamlined airflow.

I’ll have to put it back on to go on a cross country tour, but I haven’t had many of those recently..  sigh.