Lightning trip to Prince George and back today.
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In my mind, it seems that waiting for snow and ice to melt off the highway, or hoping it will go away by driving over it with snow-plows with their blades up are not the most effective approaches.
Though in most cases, I did prefer the 6 and a half-some centimetres of snow over the 20km of polished ice sheet-come-washboard.
Naturally, there were retards everywhere, paying no heed to the travel advisory. I suppose I should be one to talk... I was out there among them, though I refrained from passing someone on a 2-lane bridge, in a construction zone, in said road conditions.
I've also learned that the Tilden National bumper-sticker is not actually an advertisement for some rent-a-car service. Oh, heavens no.
It's actually a warning to others that implies:
"Holy crap! Lookout! The occupants of this vehicle are morons! They will pull out in front of you and proceed to do 30km in a 100km zone in the middle of both lanes!"
Oh-well. I'm not annoyed. And I certainly wasn't hoping the person that passed me on that bridge would crash horribly through the barrier between him and the Fraser River below.
Grrrrrr.....
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So, for some reason I haven't quite worked I'm re-taking Math 10, 11, and probably after, 12. It's strangely comforting to spend a few hours doing maths. I figure it must have something to do with the fact that the numbers don't lie. A flawless logic that can't be argued with.
I must say, It has taught me that my mind has immense difficulty comprehending the frigging mertic system of all things. It seems I think in Kilometers, meters, inches, and feet, and there's no real in-between.
I managed to track down some revision of my assorted programs of old. On one of the many old hard-drives I jammed into a box, in a box, under some boxes long ago.
Funny, I seem to recall the programs were larger than 200-ish lines, though they may have been before I got frustrated with passing a couple-hundred variables and pointers between functions, and re-wrote everything from scratch using a data:class.
Heheh.... rioting ascii peasants. Awesome.
Rambling aside, this find sent me on the search for a somewhat decent C/C++ IDE. It seems the one I used to use from bloodshed doesn't have a port for OSX, so naturally - that was out.
For some reason, I nabbed Coda, which is actually not in any way shape or form, an IDE for C or C++.
It seems to be nothing short of amazing for web authoring though. It's the first thing I've seen with all the nifty element inspection, timeline, profiling, resource information, et al; that you get with google chrome, except - you can edit it, turn on/off chunks of CSS to view differences in real-time pre-edit... the list does go on.
I fixed up the main page templates, and Image Gallery in very short order while taking it for a test drive.
All a fixed width now, and there's 3 columns for the images on the gallery now - which are also more evenly centred.
I must say, I am suitably impressed... though strangely, I still prefer Espresso for what little Java I have to deal with. I guess that's what you get for specializing at something.
Incidentally, I figure this song would be friggin' awesome to play in Rock Band.
