Weekly Tweets – 2012-05-13

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  • Looking at the #Amazon DVD trade-in program. They're willing to pay me $0.05 for The Grudge… I think I come out ahead. #
  • It's okay, RAD. I don't expect you to keep up when I'm typing "private static int". A lag of thirty seconds is perfectly acceptable. ಠ_ಠ #
  • Just combined all of mine and Jon's toothpastes. Let the culling begin! http://t.co/W3Uq3OG1 #
  • Did you hear about the guy that chilled himself to absolute zero? Don't worry, he's 0K now. #

Weekly Tweets – 2012-04-29

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  • Which came first, the kitten or the egg? http://t.co/FLaaYE5j #
  • Word of advice: don't stutter when you place your Starbucks order, they will hear "triple latte" and you will get lots of espresso. #
  • "Back, back foul demon!" = me throwing another two grand at my student loans. #
  • Boot work laptop this morning, suddenly it has no idea about wireless connections. The iPad and other devices connect fine. #stupidwindows #

Weekly Tweets – 2012-04-22

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  • My credit union gypped me! Found a Canadian quarter in my quarter roll. #
  • My plant needs to cool it. I can't contain all these vines! http://t.co/cTH7RLeu #
  • The lady in the car behind me on my drive home today was eating a bowl of potato salad while grooving to the radio. #lovinglife #
  • When choosing hot cocoa: "mini marshmallows, rich chocolate…" — you had me at "mini marshmallows", just stop. No need to oversell, guys. #
  • Amazon must've known it was my birthday: they sent me someone else's order! http://t.co/C1MlgDkZ #
  • Holy crap, my parents got a cell phone. #

fun with GTK#

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Recently I've resumed work on a GTK# project I started three years ago: SnazzyCalculator, hosted on Github. I originally started the project out of curiosity about GTK#, and it's been fun to develop -- I know no one needs another calculator tool. I do intend to develop it into what I've been calling a wordulator: type in something like "one plus one equals" and it'll respond "two". Feel free to laugh, Jon keeps teasing me about it certainly. :P Anyway, what's been really fun since I've resumed development is getting the parser and equation solver to work. I found this awesome tutorial by Eric White on writing a recursive descent parser in C#, and that gave me the bulk of my parser code. I did discover two bugs in his code that I fixed; I'll share my fixes with you.
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