Bartending

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I bought the book Bartending last night, to read before bed. I figured it’d be full of amusing and/or interesting anecdotes, and it would restore my will to live after watching The Hunger Games. The problem is not so much what’s there – it is well enough written, and the stories are interesting, even tending… Read more

The Hunger Games

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There’s a difference between releasing three films in a series and releasing a film in three parts.  Unfortunately, it appears “The Hunger Games” is in the latter category. A surprisingly depressing movie.  It was well produced; it could have had a great ending.  Instead it had… basically nothing.  It’s worse than a “bad” ending because… Read more

ToT Clang / LLVM in Xcode

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It should be a trivial task.  It’s certainly an obvious goal, and I was quite perturbed to find no clear instructions, very little discussion of it at all, and a few awkward speed-bumps on the way.  But I did figure it out.  So here it is, for those lucky enough to find this before they… Read more

Easter

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Easter was spent with Marisa’s parents, and her brother whom flew in from Hawaii for the weekend.  Though he wasn’t around much, being very busy catching up with friends and running errands and whooshing off to South Lake Tahoe to go snowboarding.  It’s a hard life. :P I realised this Easter – why only after… Read more

Express Car Delivery

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It’s like driving a beach-ball that fights back. So says Marisa on driving a (2003) Prius.  Apparently the 2010 ones are “better” insofar as they’ve had the will to fight back beaten out of them.