Below are the most recent 6 friends' journal entries.

Monday, November 9th, 2009
maradydd	3:24p	Well, shit. By way of ernunnos, the dollar is now the currency of choice for carry trades. Poll #1482906 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 41 Do you know why this matters? View Answers Yes 18 (45.0%) No 22 (55.0%) Do you care? View Answers Yes 20 (50.0%) No 3 (7.5%) Tickybox 17 (42.5%) (33 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
maradydd	10:49p	Waking up is hard (SCENE: our bedroom, this morning) maradydd: Sweetie, it's time to get up. You've got a doctor's appointment this morning. enochsmiles, not opening eyes: Can't the doctor come here? maradydd, suppressing giggles: No, sweetie, he doesn't do that. It's time to drink a Red Bull. enochsmiles, still not opening eyes: Can't the doctor drink a Red Bull? maradydd: No, baby. C'mon, open your eyes... enochsmiles: Will we play chess? maradydd: While wearing cheese pants? enochsmiles: You have cheese? (at this point I picked him up bodily, and he woke up) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
maradydd	10:36p	C'mon, guys, it isn't 1989 anymore Those screams of rage you heard over the last few hours were me relocating several hundred inline-declared variables to the top of their scope in order to convince a library to compile under Visual Studio. And that was after I spent half an hour finding out that "error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'type'" means that a variable was declared inline. Thanks a whole fucking lot, Microsoft. Some day I will find the person whose decision it was to make VS2005's C compiler enforce the C89 standard and refuse C99. When he's discovered lying in a dark alley with a dozen copies of Kernighan and Ritchie's The C Programming Language forced down his throat, well, y'all will know who to send the cops after. Current Mood: angry (17 Comments |Comment on this)
maradydd	4:30p	Experimental cooking awesome Sometimes when I'm hungry but don't feel like making anything complicated, I'll whip up a batch of fry bread. It's one of the simplest things I know how to make, consisting of a 16:2:1 ratio by volume of flour, shortening (or other non-dairy hard fat, e.g. lard or coconut oil) and baking powder, with a dash of salt for every tablespoon of baking powder. (Blend dry ingredients well, work in shortening, knead in some water until dough sticks together, knead till smooth, make into fist-sized balls, squish balls flat, fry in oil till golden brown on both sides, drain and serve.) As it's such a simple recipe, it lends itself well to being a carrier for other flavours; you can add shredded cheese, herbs, crumbled bacon, or pretty much anything savoury and not too wet to the dough, or you can serve the plain breads with jam, molasses, maple syrup, chocolate sauce, or just about anything sweet. Also they keep for days and you can warm them in the oven or, if you've just woken up and are too bleary to work the oven, on the radiator. Today's experiment was a simple one: while frying, add a couple of dashes of Worcestershire sauce to the hot oil. I was frying in a blend of olive and coconut oil (ran out of olive oil -- I know, I know, inexcusable), and did not expect the Worcestershire sauce to cause the oil to foam, which was a little startling. However, it did not foam over, and I am pleased to report that the sauce adds a very pleasant tamarind-and-anchovy tang to the crust which goes very well with the ginger tea I am drinking right now. Next time I find a ridiculously sharp Cheddar, I'm going to try grating it extremely fine, adding it to the dough with some rosemary, and doing the Worcestershire trick again. Current Mood: full (9 Comments |Comment on this)
maradydd	2:27p	Busted! The obvious text-mining homework I posted about yesterday is in fact an assignment for the Pattern Processing course at the University of Sheffield, as confirmed by one of the professors for the course. Somebody's going down. Current Mood: satisfied (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
maradydd	1:36a	How can you tell that the end of the semester is coming up? Because the rent-a-coder websites become clogged with bullshit requests like this and this. Protip: if you're so incompetent that you have to outsource your homework assignments to an Indian codemonkey for $50 a pop, maybe CS is not the major for you. Current Mood: disgusted (21 Comments |Comment on this)