Sunday: My brain on ADHD.
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elfsThings I learned today:
There is an excellent reverse-proxy HTTP server called Pound. It can do round robin access for server farms, does redirects based upon PCRE, and can be used successfully to farm out requests between application servers and filesystem servers.
Mongrel is a perfectly adequate solution for deploying Rails.
There is an excellent "ruby-based application server without the database requirement" server called Merb that has a rails-like API but is built for better performance.
Unfortunately, I didn't get a whole lot of coding done. I've been too busy with family duties. I feel like a... a dad. Sigh. We did to the monthly Costco run, so we have important things again. Kouryou-chan and I went out to try and find copies of The Nutcracker; the cheapest CD we could find was $26 bucks. Yikes!
I tried to get into a groove, either writing or coding, but Kouryou-chan wanted and needed too much attention (must have something to do with Omaha and I banning the TV today; we let her overdo it yesterday, the weather's been crappy and she can't go outside) so we played games: Spongebob Squarepants trivia, *ugh*. Fortunately, she's watched the show as often as I have, so she didn't have an advantage. We also ended up doing a lot of origami; her class is doing the "1000 cranes" thing.
Omaha and I watched the Nicholas Cage / John Travolta / John Woo action masterpiece Face/Off, which, once you get past the premise of it, is a damn fine movie. Cage has to play Travolta playing Cage, and Travolta has to play Cage playing Travolta. Both are pretty good but Cage is clearly the better actor despite giving the absolutely best line, "What a predicament!", to Travolta. (Second best line goes to an alarmingly young Dominique Swain: "Will someone please tell me what planet I'm on?") There are some very nice bits of foreshadowing I hadn't noticed before, as well as some glorious existential imagery during the second major gun battle.
I'm having a life. It's a good life. Kouryou-chan is next to me, trying to figure out the game 15 Squares on my Palm Pilot. She'd better not break it.
There is an excellent reverse-proxy HTTP server called Pound. It can do round robin access for server farms, does redirects based upon PCRE, and can be used successfully to farm out requests between application servers and filesystem servers.
Mongrel is a perfectly adequate solution for deploying Rails.
There is an excellent "ruby-based application server without the database requirement" server called Merb that has a rails-like API but is built for better performance.
Unfortunately, I didn't get a whole lot of coding done. I've been too busy with family duties. I feel like a... a dad. Sigh. We did to the monthly Costco run, so we have important things again. Kouryou-chan and I went out to try and find copies of The Nutcracker; the cheapest CD we could find was $26 bucks. Yikes!
I tried to get into a groove, either writing or coding, but Kouryou-chan wanted and needed too much attention (must have something to do with Omaha and I banning the TV today; we let her overdo it yesterday, the weather's been crappy and she can't go outside) so we played games: Spongebob Squarepants trivia, *ugh*. Fortunately, she's watched the show as often as I have, so she didn't have an advantage. We also ended up doing a lot of origami; her class is doing the "1000 cranes" thing.
Omaha and I watched the Nicholas Cage / John Travolta / John Woo action masterpiece Face/Off, which, once you get past the premise of it, is a damn fine movie. Cage has to play Travolta playing Cage, and Travolta has to play Cage playing Travolta. Both are pretty good but Cage is clearly the better actor despite giving the absolutely best line, "What a predicament!", to Travolta. (Second best line goes to an alarmingly young Dominique Swain: "Will someone please tell me what planet I'm on?") There are some very nice bits of foreshadowing I hadn't noticed before, as well as some glorious existential imagery during the second major gun battle.
I'm having a life. It's a good life. Kouryou-chan is next to me, trying to figure out the game 15 Squares on my Palm Pilot. She'd better not break it.
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If you just want something to listen to...
Date: 2007-12-03 04:39 am (UTC)http://hector.ucdavis.edu/UCDSO/04Always/AudioIndex.html
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Date: 2007-12-03 10:28 am (UTC)Break the Palm Pilot, or break the game? :)
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Date: 2007-12-03 05:48 pm (UTC)