Really just re-joined twitter because my new smartphone supports it. Contemplating whether to tweet or not. Oops. Just did.
@jonvon Buffalo Tofu!
JSON objects do not like being JSON.Parsed(). But really, who would?
Totally woke up from a dream where Drunk Hulk was our new housemate.
I is programmer. I haz data.
@Cymonsgames Hm. That may be the vaguest trailer I have ever seen. Disney == evil.
@jonvon I still say guns are fine, it is bullets we need to outlaw.
If I've always thought Lance Armstrong was a stupid jerk, but now he is admitting it... is he no longer a stupid jerk?
Read The Comments. http://t.co/9IuTP98A
@jonvon Oh, no! Don't follow me down the xpages trail of dismay! xpages makes me sad. Even HTML is funnier than xpages!
And now apple is making me sad. I have to have a credit card on file with itunes to download a FREE app?
@jonvon Irrelevant. Yes, that is exactly the perfect, appropriate, and correct word.
8 AM store run. In PJs. Buy 44oz Mountain Dew. I was expecting them to ask me, "So, what kind of coding do you do?"
Just coded a web page that will upload a large video file via chunking it into multiple AJAX POSTs. As in, code done, but afraid to test.
@jonvon Don't cross the streams.
It is a good day when I can write a fancy jQuery plugin and have an epic game of hide-and-seek with children.
I think I can cancel Netflix now: http://t.co/20L2lZ98
I now prefer Firefox for JS Debugging, and Chrome for CSS work. This useless statement brought to you by the HTML5 File API.
So 1000 XPages questions on Stack Overflow is a good thing? I thought the ratio of developers to questions shows confusion, not adoption
@jonvon, I should change my twitter id to @userheadexplode
@jonvon Re: Admins. Pick 2.
Time to escape the city. Heading to UT to look at farms... that are close enough to the city to have broadband access.
After escaping Denver, I now cannot return to it as planned. 2 more days in Utah due to snow!
DeviantArt talking about the rise of the artist is like mcdonalds talking about the rise of the hamburger. Quantity != Quality.
As a programmer, I fulfilled my stereotypical duty of trying the new Cool Ranch tacos from Taco Bell. Fortunately for my health... Meh.
Working from home == need to train your wife to listen to your incomprehensible accomplishments, then smile, nod, and say, "Good job!"
@sweethavenarts Exactly! Your training is complete!
@jonvon Luddite though I may have become, THAT is worth buying.
@CymonsGames Cannot decide if this is cool or creepy - http://t.co/vpOxYiWSUi
Life of a developer: think, think, think, CODE, test, debug, test, debug, test, deploy, announce, listen, contemplate, rinse, repeat.
@jonvon jQuery. I TOLD YOU SO! HA!
How can I have an error on line 183, if the script only has 28 lines?
I feel like I should say something here.
My laptop. Scroll down. Hear the hard drive churning. Every time I scroll a browser window. This does not bode well.
At Easter, our daughter could not identify a twinkie. Apparently she has never seen one before. So I think that is a good thing.
@jonvon My biggest regret from those days is that we did not hang on to the Quotes database.
@jonvon http://t.co/U2t2InK3Vh
I've only ever heard of 18 out of 100 of Time's "Most Influential People". I'm undecided if this is good or bad.
@jonvon Like this? http://t.co/70X6oxeI09
RT @DalaiLama: Placing all our hope on material development is clearly mistaken; the ultimate source of happiness is within us.
Best statement of the morning: "Maybe we should just be sensible and eat a bowl of Meatballs"
My favorite technique to inspire others to share good ideas is still very simple - throw out a boneheaded idea. People will react.
@jonvon Do not delete. Save designs somewhere. You never know...
@jonvon I hope you also have some that have caused enough pain to allow you to revel in maniacal laughter as you delete it into oblivion!
New Home. New Internet connection. http://t.co/Min6ui0Jwm
@jonvon Rejoice, trash the alleged TV, and revel in the outdoors for the remainder of your days. Or something like that.
How high is my fever when my own forehead feels hot?
My kids say anything is wrong on their computers, I say, "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" Works every time.
5 yr old son says to me: "I like you. When I grow up I want to be like you. Except I don't want to get in a bike accident."
@jonvon ... and whether they know it or not.
I'm finding the largest challenge in doing Windows and Mac Dev at the same time is keeping the muscle memory straight when hitting Ctrl-C.
Not impressive to iOS devs, but it is a thrill to succeed with a new tech, so my Domino data being imported into my iOS app? WOO!
@jonvon SQL or SQL not. There is no try{ }.
http://t.co/KMR5t97Cvq
Working from home: mostly quiet, effective coding, with sporadic 3 yr old appearances at my desk to say, "Hi!" and show me random things
Harvested about 15 gallons of grapes before the wasps started to wake up for the day. Must be time to head in and start coding.
So XML performs as well as JSON. I don't care. I like JSON better. I can turn it directly into a JS object. No Code.
Quote of the evening: "If I go out back, will you meet me there with a truck and a sledgehammer?" #alwayswantedtosaythattomywife
Google Maps tells me: "We could not find jalapeno poppers in utah". Yeah, exactly!
@jonvon Happy Birthday! This year, I finally remembered that you and my son share the same day! Woo!
@jonvon "Sharepoint is weird" moment? Yeah, that is less of a "moment" and more of a lifestyle choice that is not really at all by choice.
I really want to complain about iOS deployment, but cannot really get up to full-rant-speed in 140 characters.
The older I get, the less I enjoy Heinlein
@jonvon I'm worried about you. 8 hours later, no tweets of hallucinations.
Sign #238 that I am getting older: Seeing this picture, I no longer say "I gotta climb that." Looking is good enough: http://t.co/NtYizRmgPN
@sweethavenarts Maybe I just collect rocks from the bottom instead.
Not being a huge twitterer, gaining a 4th follower is a big increase. Or in other words, Hi @tech_is_hard / Grant!
@jonvon Sometimes, It IS just too hard.
Coded all day, fairly complex piece of code. Test it all. Works on first try. Hmm.... no, no, no. I don't trust that. MOAR TESTING!.
@jonvon Client? Yes. Designer? No. I was able to get Designer running via WINE, but it has a lot of problems in that environment.
@jonvon Are you converting Notes stuff into mongo? I'd love to see the details of that...
@jonvon Everything must be an object. Scripting is for the weak. Strongly typed is mandatory. Instantiate the base class. Conform! Conform!
@jonvon RE: Lightning bolt: Open a doc. Lightning bolt! grr. Ctrl-Break. Operation stopped at your request. STILL Lightning bolt! ARGH.
@jonvon ooh, I need to update my Mac partition to the new OS, and see what wonders THAT does to DDE!
@jonvon Forum2000 was an AI ahead of its time. It should have been / show now be implemented as set of twitter "bots".
3yr old son looks at me through binoculars, but has them backwards. Tells me I am small, then asks, "So... am I Big?" #toddlerlogic
Experimented with node.js / express / mongodb today. I like this, as a web dev stack.
Dear Online Retailers - if your store fails, due to broken JavaScript, due to my running AdBlock and Ghostery, I will just shop elsewhere.
Note to self - stop using alert()
@jonvon Our communication is significantly more prolific during mutual bouts of coding malaise. But productivity is gratifying, so WOO!
Solar panels received and assembled! Battery forthcoming! Electricity production commencing... well, soonish.
I already wrote this function once this year... now what app what that in??
@jonvon What about Celtic action movies? Of course, those are 95% headbutts.
2560x1440 monitor. 27", set up vertical. I can view 137 lines of code on-screen at once! 137! I was used to 48 before! 137! srsly!
Our farm now has bunnies. Our daughter is now baptized. These things are not related... just how we spend our time.
Our bathroom has been taken over by a bunny recovering from minor surgery.#lifeonafarm
80% of the family feeling down with the flu. But we work from home and homeschool, so it actually doesn't slow us down all that much.
We are now heading into Day 6 of the epic flu/virus/ear infection calamity that has knocked our family out.
Quote from the 3 year old: "Daddy just give me a placebo, then I'll do to bed."
After a 2-week long battle involving myself, Firefox, JavaScript, CKEDITOR, and the flu, I have come out victorious. Tired, but victorious.
and I lost my voice in the process.
Old-school evening last night - Family around our handmade kitchen table in a old farmhouse, playing gin rummy, drinking hot chocolate.
@jonvon Found old emails from 2001. "Don't forget to say "cheeukun" to yourself in the mirror before you go to bed. It does a body good!"
Can't code - every time I reach for my keyboard, my hands are attacked by the kitten.
Bad HTML is literally giving me a headache.
Tehanu just asked, "Daddy, why do you have all the Dr. Who posters in your office?"
More questions from Tehanu, "Dad, why do you have 5 monitors?", "Dad, why is your radio in your lamp?", "Dad, why do you have a whiteboard?"
Wifey sez her day is ruined.She can accomplish nothing. Because a kitten fell asleep on her and is purring.
Recliner. Plaid Pants, made of fleece. Blankets. Caffeinated beverage. 80s Music. #workathome
it made sense in my head, but once i see it on the screen, "!link" is not very readable, at least in my fonts.
I am turning into my grandpa: "You kids need to turn off lights when you aren't in a room!"
Android emulator takes so long to load... had time to give up, google for the problem, find people saying, "Yeah, it take FOREVER to boot."
I had a bag of candy on my desk when I left for my MRI. I came home and it was mostly gone. My 3 yr old denies everything.
Just because I write software does not mean I know how to operate a smartphone. Or a camera. Or any device smaller than a laptop.
Pain-inducing HTML snippet #6234 --> "<font style='...'>...</font>"
The problem with flying at night - get home so late that caffeine is required to drive home from airport. Now try to sleep.
When I explained to my kids that they were awake before 5:30 AM, my daughter cheerfully replied, "Its a NEW RECORD!!!"
$.contents().unwrap() has been my friend this week.
Pandora just rickrolled me.
The goal is very simple - my beard should be more out of control than my blackberry bushes.
Huh. mailto links trigger the onbeforeunload event. Now I know.
Daughter says clearing blackberry bushes will be a pain in the arm: "Because, you know... thorns? In our arms? Get it?"
Downwind vs. Upwind. The difference is vitally important when the wife is shoveling manure.
@jonvon Yes. Automated deployment through TFS makes it way nicer, but that is more effort to get it rolling in the first place.
My foot has now been asleep for 2 days. How long does it take for nerve blocks to wear off again?
Oops. Somehow removed one of my personal email accounts from my 'Daily' bookmarks folders. I've piled up quite the backlog in there.
I'm still learning to get down stairs on crutches, but my 3 year old is very helpful when he yells, "Daddy, move faster!"
My Chrome setup can handle 12328 recursive calls before erroring out. #thingsididnotwanttoknow
"Daddy, why is Internet Explorer bad?" "Because they do not play well with others." Yet 39.4% of our traffic is still there.
Just gave a 10 min lesson, to a 6 and 8 year old, about programming and memory to try to explain to them why browsers crash. Yea homeschool.
Going to let our rabbits breed today. Just trying to decide what music they'll want.
@jonvon We bought fencing, too. 400 feet of sheep fencing. Although we'll be keeping goats and chickens in it.
Dangers of being a coder named Dave - frequent typos when I try to type the word Date.
@jonvon No, man, I'm Dave, man
@jonvon It's Dave, man, will you open up? I got the stuff
So loud, it sounds like someone is jackhammering outside my office door. Wait, someone IS jackhammering outside my office door.
Is it just me, or is Google's annual April fool's joke just a bit on the lame side this year?
Wow. Irrigation ditch flooded land. CO1 alarms sent me out of home office for the day. Restaurant where i met my wife closed down.
@jonvon No, they sent more water into the ditches today than could be handled. Our ditch overflowed and flooded about an acre, 6 inches deep
My wife is smokin'. She's a keeper. #bees
It doesn't matter if nobody gets the joke - as long as @sweethavenarts, @jonvon, and I think it is hilarious.
केक! Saturday night. Party night. केक केक केक!
@jonvon Does it have more than 3 cylinders?
@jonvon I haven't thought about a car with only 3 cylinders in a long long time. Nor a car taken on a nationwide crime spree and abandoned.
neighbor's goats are out in the fields yelling meeeeeAAAHHH!!
I like simple things - Loretta bought me 25 pounds of grits. Add backyard-fresh eggs each morning, and my breakfasts are set for a long time
I feel old, yet efficiently so, whenever I create a text file by typing it out via "copy con".
@bock_rachel Hello Rachel!
@jonvon Dang.
Huh. My MSDN license was finally revoked. Took them long enough. I left the job that paid for it almost 3 years ago.
Does anyone else want to go do my physical therapy for me this morning?
My 6 yr old is reading a Dr. Seuss book to my 4 year old... while they both unload the dishwasher.
Breakfast this morning includes fresh eggs (from our chickens) and grits with fresh butter (from our goats).
Bad night's sleep == wait for caffeine to take effect so code can start to flow.
Shai-Hulud Web Development - The Code must flow.
We generate buzz the old-fashioned way. With bees.
Just did a google image search for "code slinging minotaur". No relevant results. Hm.
@jonvon @sweethavenarts The other one is named Wensleydale!
@sweethavenarts @jonvon Both are preggers with twins - we have four more cheesy names to assign in a couple months...
I know I've written this code before. Where was that?? #programmerproblems
@Jonvon the Shaman and Dave the Minotaur. Taking the world by storm. But peacefully, because we are both chill dudes.
@jonvon Man, I did the same thing. At the same time.
@jonvon and i'm typing an email now on the faulty computer. for the reals.
tweets and email collisions that only @jonvon will get. happy escapes from code labyrinths.
And the Ramones are playing in my office. Well, their music is.
I sometimes worry that 90% of my twitter usage is for talking to 2 people. And 9% is for talking to myself.
@jonvon ([])
Something doesn't feel right about writing recursive XSLT parsing functions on a Friday afternoon...
Something feels even worse about debugging those same functions.
Into the labyrinth once more...
I knew it must have been the weekend because I worked for a full day without any tweets or emails from @jonvon
I've written software for 20 years. Mostly in "NoSQL" environments. For the first time in those 20, years, I need to use a LEFT JOIN.
@sweethavenarts That is all us basement-sequestered programmers need - the occasional human to pat on the head to say we are doing well.
Just heard a rockslide in my basement. I suspect a cat was involved.
I would like to say that the rockslide woke me up at 5 AM. Because it sounds more exciting than awaking due to obsessing over data imports.
Today I'm playing my least favorite game - how many different ways can you crash your system?
@jonvon email me one, eh?
@jonvon Or I will laugh like an escaped mental patient...
Hours of yard work + a really solid sleep + tasty breakfast == coding comes together more quickly this morning.
If it was possible to summarize the conversation I just had with @sweethavenarts in 140 characters, i would totally tweet it to @jonvon
Sorted my music library by song length, ascending. Somehow the Ramones ended up heavily loaded at the front of the list.
Just saw the mail truck stop to pet the neighbor's goat and throw grain at them. Yup, this ain't a big city.
Leavin' on a jet plane...but I'll be back Thurs night. Until then, 3 days of coding, old-school style: On-site.
If dropbox keeps giving me popups telling me how to save my screenshots, I'm dropping it.
@jonvon MEEP
I think I left a mouse in Pennsylvania.
My daughter, fighting bedtime, says my clock is faster than the actual time. I politely inform her that my clock DEFINES the actual time.
Me to kids: "Guys! Sleep time". Kids back to me: "We ARE! Sort of... we're done."
I need a recipe for a gluten-free, organic, homemade Totino's Party Pizza.
SQL proc to detach files from the DB + Opening view that has never been indexed + running JS calcs in my browser = Mac Pro CPU is in pain.
So ready for this weekend to be over. I have work to do. (What is wrong with me??)
95 degrees. In May. No. I don't like it.
Just to summarize the last year of tweets: Kids are funny. I write code. We homestead. And I like @jonvon.
Neighbor's first alfalfa harvest for the year = lots of field mice looking for homes = our cats are feasting.
That moment when you realize that you already coded the function you intended to code this afternoon.
My 4 yr old is standing behind our home, screaming, "I am a farmer! And farmers never give up!"
Had something funny to share. Cannot type it in under 140 characters. But trust me, hilarity.
Either shoveling and moving wheelbarrows of dirt is getting easier, or this daily exercise thing actually works.
10 PM. What to do... work? sleep? Clearly, I am not working because I have been staring at this to do list for 20 minutes and... not working
Something tells me my code isn't readable if it includes this: &{&}&
Oh, it is going to be one of THOSE days - IDE crashing constantly. Already tried turning it off and on again. Lets reboot again!
Advantage of having a large home office - flying RC helicopters when taking a coding break.
I know our cats love us... but they don't have to bring mice into our office and eat them in front of us. Really. Not necessary.
@jonvon *blink*
My wife must love me a lot - she is willing to plug my ears with her fingers while I pound T-posts for an expanded goat fence. #CodingBreak
@jonvon I mustache you a question.
@jonvon nevermind, I'll shave it for later.
Can't let kids watch Secret of NIMH. Ever. It would totally destroy the (already weird) experience of watching our cats eat the field mice.
Practicing kung fu: On a scale of 1-10, with 1 = "You move like a pregnant yak", and 10 = "I am ninja." ...I think I am up to about 1.3.
Lack of sleep effect #37: Tried to say "No" to my son, but actually said, "Neyeehhh.... uh....bluh."
Dave 3.0 - Back to kicking people in the head like a ninja, but old man style -- aches, pains, and icing my hips after each workout.
@jonvon woo! whee! yea! ya! Is this the appropriate time so say meep?
@jonvon YAWP
This has got to be the only house where you can be a ninja by wearing tie-dye.
Need to ice my hip, my shoulder, and my ankle, but only have one ice pack. #OldNinjaProblems
Kids ask to watch a movie. I say no. They disappear for 20 mins, then come back, say, "We're creating!", steal my pillow, and run away again
@jonvon "Dim number As String" -- The irony of web development.
Slept outside in hammock last night. Got up, ate bacon cooked over campfire with kids. Parsed text. Fixed some bugs. Good start to the day.
Fireworks safety tip. Don't shoot them right outside my house at 10:30 on a school night.
Son asks Daughter: "What is Common Core?" She replies, "It is a school that isn't teaching things the way they are supposed to be taught."
@jonvon Dude, if Bear Claws could be returned from a function... just imagine...
K says, "Everyone is OK"... I ask, "Then why is your brother crying", he replies: "I wasn't talking about people!"
@jonvon Well that is fascinating on multiple levels. I'm sorry and congrats!
@jonvon You need just one more major event to make it the most memorable work week ever.
the comments in my code - they look so serious when I accidentally hit caps lock.
K Quote: "Porcupines are like, based on armadillos. They both have shells, but the porcupine's is spiky."
Open Letter to my Cats: Dead mice left in my office are not appreciated. Live mice left in my office are VERY MUCH NOT.
Is is just me, or is Ycombinator's business model freakishly similar to that of a casino?
@jonvon So your lunch was full of tasty chickpea-ness and green pea.... No, nevermind, I cannot finish this tweet.
3 hours... 3 hours? I thought it was 3 minutes. I totally have lost track of time today.
Coding session interrupted by 4 year old asking, "Daddy, want to play Battleship with me?"
Normal towns: Get to the parade 30 minutes early to grab a good spot. This town: People are setting up chairs and camping out overnight???
Seriously - Utah County has its own oddball culture, but this is another whole standard deviation off of normal.
Don't do a $(this).find(...) unless you are really sure $(this) is a DOM element. If it is a function, browsers get really upset.
Which is more frustrating? Spending 24 hours debugging one issue, or having it magically start working when you sit back down after a break?
Wind here is measured by whether it topples our b-ball hoop. 150 pounds of weight has kept it upright all summer... but just got defeated.
2 rainstorms in the same day? After a really good one last night? I'm not complaining, this is just highly unusual.
Is "I don't have one that color" a valid reason to get another goat?
First came autotune. Then artists singing ability become nil. Then we mocked autotune. So some turned it off... But still cannot sing. OW.
Carrying metal posts across an open field during a thunderstorm. Maybe not such a good idea.
@jonvon In other words, Microsoft devs?
@jonvon No idea, but tis true. A trying former coworker named everything as "myVar", because "that is how the tutorials did it." #sigh
I have a beard. I cannot and will not log in to pinterest. @sweethavenarts
Just told @sweethavenarts if she can learn to play Punk Rock Girl on the ukelele by lunch, I'll buy her Indian food.
"Dad, alligators have camouflage. They can turn themselves green. Like a grasshopper" "
I sometimes wonder if it is a good parenting choice when my kids and I spend 30 minutes throwing apples at each others heads.
@jonvon What do you know about tweetle beetles?
I ask T, "What is your brother doing?" She says, "I don't know, the last time I saw him he went KABOOM"
Java coding this afternoon. Prepared for that trauma by having uber-spicy chicken wings and caffeine for lunch.
i don't WANT to like my new iPhone. I have had opposition to smartphones for years. But... it is really nice... #movingtothedarkside
Been a couple months since I re-ordered my coding music. Time to switch things up - new order: Alphabetical by Song title.
@jonvon Here, John! Have some virtual lovins. *jonvonlove* My son says happy birthday, too. As it is his, too. 56 years total. And stuff.
@jonvon reason #342 that work-from-home environments are better. Sorry that your morning sucked, though.
@jonvon For me, that moment is more of an hour of fear-driven procrastination.
@jonvon Sorry it took two hours to reply to this. I was kinda scared.
@jonvon I misspelled LocalDomainServers yesterday. 2 hours sounds about right.
Whenever I think I've found the best way to debug jQuery events, a new bug arises to challenge that notion. Time to try FF's new tools...
Just wanted to let everyone know that @sweethavenarts is smarter than me. She guessed what was wrong in 10 seconds.
My children are standing in a rainstorm, but also spraying themselves with the hose, to test out their umbrellas.
@jonvon And steal all the candy you want. Not that I would do that.
RT @sweethavenarts: THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS: DH just 'repaired' the laptop that flew off the top of his car while going 60 wi…
@sweethavenarts Yeah. I rule. Woo!
Data imports take too long. Maybe I need to go get shrimp tacos while I wait.
THARS SHRIMP IN THEM THAR TACOS
@sweethavenarts thars shrimp in that thar beef?
E gave me 3 lego things, told to guess what they were. My guess: puppy, alligator, and butterfly. Nope: Peregrine Falcons and tailless cats.
I was a friend of JavaScript. @jonvon
Vital question after installing new water treatment system on our well -- Will the software, cleaner water make a difference on the beard?
Started checking to see if our picnic spot was on public lands, got caught up browsing online GIS maps for 3 hours. I may have a problem.
My wife gets very excited about kicking on the woodburning stove in our office for the first time this winter. @sweethavenarts
@jonvon this is the appropriate time to say MEEP!
We remembered to shut off the water to our fields this year. Hooray for no exploding spigots in January!
There are days when I really dislike Java. But only, like, 365 each year.
Back to cold weather. Cat adjusts his sleeping location back to my lap. TK-421 is at his post.
Homemade dal for lunch. @sweethavenarts made it. @jonvon would enjoy.
I was just ordered out of a room in my own house by a child wielding a nerf gun. Not my child. A neighbor child. But it was my nerf gun.
It is that time of year again... when holiday crowds drive us introverts to stay holed up in our homes until January.
Only 12 hours left until that magical season of the year - when @sweethavenarts will let me play the Jingle Cats CD.
At MSP airport. 100s of ipads here. Cool, but...100s of travelers visibly sharing passwords via on-screen keyboard. Like, 4asdfghj. Really??
Quote from my 8 yr old daughter: "I was chasing boys with lipstick on and I accidentally kissed a boy."
iPhones need a button that just texts "Stupid Autocorrect" to whomever you last texted.
@jonvon Are you the Flying Pistachio Monster??
@jonvon Dude, I totally saw that earlier today. It just looks so clean and crisp. I really like it.
@jonvon hm! I am trying to figure out how to use that in our plans to lay out the irrigation and garden boxes for next year.
@jonvon You will defy the graph. It will create a 3D climbing tower above the magic quadrant, and you will be a celery stick man on top!
My children found a cookbook. Asked me to pick something from it. Now they are cooking it for me. I'm not going to argue...
60+ degree days in Feb..Fruit trees are starting to bud too early, and our fields are turning green already. This could be ugly in summer.
My kids are learning to code. They are getting it, but L said, "They started with a lot of yelling." Yeah, that is how coding usually works.
... and somehow fitting that story into 140 characters feels like as much of an accomplishment as anything else I did this weekend.
This meshes well with my own philosophy on life, of using tech where it makes sense, but only where it makes sense. http://t.co/WuhMikErWW
My town is updating our municipal network. Speed increasing to 120MB in the near future, with gigabit fiber coming in the next year-ish
@COhikingdave Best of both worlds.... gigabit fiber to the homestead.
@jonvon hi. meep. and all that.
@jonvon Dave's not here, man...
@jonvon wow. meep. time to go say hi to goats.
@jonvon goooats....jooooohhhnnn....cooooode.
Code new feature, whiteboard how old features will need to be coded to work with new data, go check code. Already coded it that way! OH YEAH
Sometimes it takes creating something wrong before you realize how to do it right.
@RevJCMitchell I still have Black 47 in my music rotation that I listen to while working...
31 chickens, 33 rabbits, 4 goats, 3 cats, 5 humans = population at our home.
Oh, and countless bees. We harvested some honey. Is tasty.
Cancelled Netflix. Paid for ad-free Pandora.
Trimmed the beard - we do it every six months, whether it needs it or not.
15 hours later, this data import script is still running. And I will need to actually upload it all later. #toomuchdata
Dirty, dusty, tired, hot, and dehydrated. Or, in other words, it is spring, there is a desert an hour away, and I got an Outback! #subaru
Back on the melatonin/caffeine roller coaster. Which may not be healthy, but at least makes my brain go: CODECODECODECODE!!!
@jonvon well, unless the purpose of this code is to write the ending lyrics to Hey Jude...
@jonvon Dude.
@jonvon I am wondering if I have any of my old code and analysis scripts for helping with those kinds of efforts. Want me to look around?
Seriously, no more rain! We're past, "This will help things grow" and into, "This is drowning plants and preventing deep root systems."
@jonvon Congratulations and I'm sorry.
@jonvon ok then! is all good! .... Is your way waiting for it to come around the corner, then hitting it on a head with a rock?
@jonvon Ha. Yes. I forgot about that.
My data import script says to my tablet's battery, "Yeah right, 6-9 hours, I can drain you in two hours flat."
Email client is tied up, running a script. Phone buzzes to let me know an email came in, so I open it via a web browser. #Really??
@jonvon No, I'm dave! Let me in, man. I got the stuff.
103 degrees outside. 76 degrees inside. No A/C. Good windows and reinforced brick walls FTW.
Kids staying up past midnight, reading books, is probably a good thing. But it is 9:30. Time to boot them awake.
Of course, the days when I get up and start working at 5 AM makes me think the rest of the world sleeps too late.
@jonvon You mean it isn't spelled "Von"... and the client stlil was correct? Right Aughan!
Call me crazy, but I think that self-driving cars need to actively avoid accidents, not just say, "It wasn't our fault, they hit us."
9 yr old daughter asked how computers understand the letters I am typing...
So we went into ASCII tables, then converting decimal numbers to binary numbers, then how those binary numbers relate to computer memory...
And then I explained that is why programmers tend to have the powers of two embedded deeply into our psyche.
Because to us, 512 is far more of a "round number" than 500.
Once she gets binary, we'll switch to HEX!!
Parenting milestone - when your children are all old enough to gang up on you during card games and you start losing every game.
Going to start going to local tech meetups. First one is today. According to http://t.co/vFbOCDoEB0, 40 people going... all guys. #kindascary
@RevJCMitchell ooh, I didn't know the pound thing either, and I am normally fairly clever.
@jonvon That is such a good feeling... also kinda weird.
My kids and I created our own sport/game - http://t.co/DS4wOq8Cqw
Fiddy. @jonvon #happybirthday
replicating a DB via hotspot at 80mph on a train through rural iowa is not efficient
My son just told me "Truer words have never been spoken by a chicken."
My child worries me -- "Do you know why this is dangerous?", "No, why?", "I don't want to tell you. It is a secret only I should know."
3 Laparoscopic surgeries in 5 years = a dozen holes/scars down my side. Looks like I survived something terrible. #ChicksDigScars?
@jonvon MEEP
Does "The bigger beard has right of way." apply only when walking? Or does it also apply at 4-way stops?
We just figured out that the difference between Jamaican spices and Pumpkin Pie spices is simply -- add cayenne pepper.
We have decided that our new definition of being old is having both the desire and the cash to buy an adjustable bed.
@jonvon Maybe it always was, but we realized it when we actually bought an adjustable bed!
Chickens are actually clever devices that turns kitchen scraps into fresh eggs.
Almost any time I see an article on "How To...", I find that I really would rather know, "Why Would I Want To..."
Wearing your Halloween costume to work... not quite the same when you work from home.
Microsoft tries to annoy us into upgrading to Windows 10. Getting popups that need a reboot to go away. Bug? Or intentional annoyance?
K had a girl over. She declared she was a tomboy. K showed off his dolls.
K: "Dad, watch what I can do! I've been training for this for centuries! Or maybe just today..."
2 baby goats who have never seen snow before. One jumps in and frolics. The other is scared.
yea! do the thing! with that object! for the points! #sports
Anyone know how to tell Pandora, "Yes, I want folk singers, but not twangy, nor anyone that sounds like a yowling cat."
Wife just walks in, measures the air behind my computer with a laser, then asks, "Can I put my henna next to your computer overnight?"
Step 1 in preparing a 100% locally grown, made from scratch Thanksgiving meal: https://t.co/QEF4i6ryvi
Just woke up from a dream where a restaurant refused to show me the menu, insisting they were only serving plates of red snapper all day.
Some days I think about deleting twitter. Other days I think I should throw every idle thought from my working day here.
Quote from son: "The longest word in kitty language is MMMMEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW"
Let this be a formal, permanent declaration to my daughter: No, I do not want to play DuckLife.
I strive to be a loving parent to my kids. But when they throw roundhouse kicks at me before breakfast, takedowns become moral imperatives.
Snow so bright my monitors look dim.
Note to drivers: In snow, just pretend you are on a motorcycle - decelerate before the curve, not while turning, and you'll be fine.
Stop messing with me pandora... I thought we were finally on the same page most of the time, but now you are giving me twangy vocals.
Music is white noise for coding, not supposed to actually catch my attention. #iamavisualartistnotamusician
But while I am tweet-ranting, has anyone else noticed that upgrading to Windows 10 tripled the volume of their speakers?
Maybe due to multiple years of doctor who cannot diagnose my problems, but I am literally in pain with laughter at: https://t.co/aVIjQNtklp