Benson's Blag

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Aug 1st

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Jul 31st

ClassBud ftl.

Jul 31st

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Jul 31st

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Jul 30th

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Jul 30th

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Jul 30th

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Jul 30th

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Jul 30th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

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Jul 25th

Went for a hike today. Good times. Blisters ftl. :-/

Jul 25th

I am not even remotely impressed with the state of wireless in linux right now. My crazy ndiswrapper...

Jul 24th

Well, that was a success. I’m tired, sweaty, and very very happy.

Jul 24th

072308_12561.jpg: The trail is a little wet in places.

Jul 23rd

Gonna go ride a trail. Hooray!

Jul 23rd

Interview went well. Sounds like an awesome place to work. Hung out with Uncle Peter and then with...

Jul 23rd

The interview went well, I think. I won’t hear back for at least two weeks, because an...

Jul 23rd

072208_16141.jpg: Home again, home again.

Jul 23rd

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Jul 23rd

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Jul 22nd

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Jul 22nd

Only used about three minutes of my “half an hour to set up.”

Jul 22nd

072108_09101.jpg: The view from the conference room.

Jul 21st

Heading off to find PNNL and interview.

Jul 21st

IAlertU works. :-) That’s pretty fun.

Jul 21st

The bomb dogs in the ferry line are kinda cool. For our safety!

Jul 21st

Almost to the other side. Then It’s apple store time (iWork and a remote). Then to T.J. and...

Jul 21st

Keynote kicks ass, and the remote with it is really slick. Anybody who’s going to do...

Jul 21st

At T.J. and Lisa’s.

Jul 21st

In the ferry line. I love the salty air.

Jul 21st

Packing my stuff and heading to Seattle for the interview. Staying with T.J. and Lisa tonight.

Jul 21st

071908_20071.jpg: Disassembled.

Jul 20th

071908_20061.jpg: Assembled.

Jul 20th

071908_20131.jpg: Ready to fire.

Jul 20th

071908_19121.jpg: Need stronger pvc. This irrigation shit...

Jul 20th

071908_13381.jpg: Brora chillin in the cat house.

Jul 20th

071908_10331.jpg: Poor kitty needs a stool.

Jul 19th

071908_06281.jpg: Beautiful morning light.

Jul 19th

Going to go sailboat racing this evening. :-D

Jul 19th

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Jul 19th

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Jul 19th

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Jul 18th

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Jul 18th

Gonna go for a bike ride. Hooray for getting back in shape.

Jul 18th

gotta start working on my presentation. :-)

Jul 18th

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Jul 17th

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Jul 16th

Got kismac working with an old USB Prism2 chipset device. Might try playing with it as relates to an...

Jul 16th

Finally got hunter up and working with internets last night. Going to have to live without balrog...

Jul 15th

I loves me a good single malt.

Jul 15th

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Jul 15th

Scratch that, interview is on the 21st (Monday). I get to do a half an hour long presentation, I...

Jul 14th

PNL Interview scheduled for the 23rd (tentatively). Pretty exciting stuff. :-)

Jul 14th

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Jul 14th

071308_18361.jpg: And I’m back.

Jul 14th

071308_18271.jpg: My (very) brief time with a moustache.

Jul 14th

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Jul 14th

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Jul 14th

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Jul 14th

Had a great talk with my incredible parents. Bedtime. :-)

Jul 13th

071208_20571.jpg: Ferry!

Jul 13th

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Jul 13th

071208_20541.jpg: All my worldly possessions. Almost.

Jul 13th

All packed and have been moving for b bit. Almost to the ferry. Had food in oak hbr.

Jul 13th

071208_10051.jpg: Checker thought I was crazy to carry this...

Jul 12th

Well, that’s done.

Jul 12th

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Jul 12th

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Jul 12th

Announcements work. That just leaves three more items to do tonight!

Jul 12th

Hooray for rails. Just sayin.

Jul 12th

There’s a big nasty BIND vulnerability I need to fix on winterfell at some point soon. :-(

Jul 12th

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Jul 12th

071108_17521.jpg: To do.

Jul 12th

Hacking away at classbud.

Jul 11th

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Jul 11th

070608_15481: Happy Rose!

Jul 11th

070608_15482: Us. Wow, my beard is big.

Jul 11th

070608_15491: Rose packing up post-lunch.

Jul 11th

070608_15501: Rose!

Jul 11th

070608_15511: Packing my sit pad and getting ready to go....

Jul 11th

070608_15512: Wow, that’s a blury shot of me. It...

Jul 11th

Just got a voicemail asking when would be a good time for me to interview with PNNL.

Jul 10th

I’m already using the commandline twitter program that comes with the ruby twitter library....

Jul 10th

I’m at 90% coverage of my code being tested in functional tests alone. (That’s good.)

Jul 10th

Starting work and it’s only 10:30!

Jul 9th

070808_23191.jpg: Mexitrain!

Jul 9th

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Jul 9th

I’ve been noticing much higher latency today than I’m used to.

Jul 9th

Exaustive testing FTMFW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jul 8th

Code to Test Ratio up to 1:1.4

Jul 8th

Hacking away at rails and spending very little time in the browser. Hooray for testing frameworks!...

Jul 7th

Showered, dressed, and ready to start hacking some mad 1337 railz!

Jul 7th

We kicked some computer ass, and then the 4 of us got humbled by 3 “normals”.

Jul 7th

Bed! Helluva good weekend.

Jul 7th

Finished with a lot of clean up and hot tubbing, time for some warcraft III.

Jul 7th

Not dead. Had a great time. Time for a shower and hot tubbing.

Jul 7th

Heading out to a hike around Goat Lake with Rose. Should be back tomorrow afternoon.

Jul 5th

Fireworks, explosions, good drinks, and good people. Nothin’ better.

Jul 5th

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Jul 5th

070408_20491.jpg: Oh, my smoking fuselage!

Jul 5th

Added a feature and wrote tests to go with it. This whole unit testing thing makes for a brave new...

Jul 5th

Code to Test Ratio: 1:1.1

Jul 4th

Code to Test Ratio: 1:1.2 — DRY FTW!

Jul 4th

Rails meetup rocked. There are some cool people in this town hackin’ on rails.

Jul 4th

Woo Hoo! Finished writing tests. Off to the rails users group.

Jul 4th

070208_20581.jpg: Whee!

Jul 3rd

Code LOC: 368; Test LOC: 311; Code to Test Ratio: 1:0.8 and climbing.

Jul 3rd

Finished unit tests a bit ago and had some lunch. Diving in to functional tests. They’re a bit...

Jul 3rd

WALL E

So, the movie was fantastic. It is the most politically outspoken animated film I’ve ever...

Jul 2nd

Today is test-writing day. Whatever tests I manage to write today are going to be the only tests we...

Jul 2nd

Apparently the stack dump from the commandline twitter program meant it worked?

Jul 2nd

Just got back from seeing WallE (sp?). Fantastic movie.

Jul 2nd

And I’m done with classbud for the day. Yay writing tests!

Jul 2nd

Pop Its FTW!!! Thanks @rosewoof!

Jul 2nd

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Jul 2nd

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Jul 2nd

I’m really enjoying the ruby community’s tendency to have amusing documentation.

Jul 2nd

Reading up on rails testing for strategic “testing the app” purposes.

Jul 2nd

070108_14501.jpg: Lunch.

Jul 2nd

Starting to actually grok rails, and loving it.

Jul 2nd