<Thursday, November 20th, 2008> [Vincent]
corba begot soap begot rest?
I'm at QCON this week. The hip new tech this year is custom xml stuffed in AtomPub with custom extensions, but still relying on existing schemas, oh my! This is a response to the horribly complicated and incompatible soap that was hip a couple of years ago. I was hopeful that rest would remain simple and easy to deal with, but alas...
It is the geek's instinct to make things more complicated, more robust, more self referential, more tooled, more... AtomPub and caching and lots of HTTP methods is interesting, but I'm really afraid they're going to make this all too complicated, with wildly different capabilities between vendors. Much like soap. Sigh.
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<Wednesday, November 5th, 2008> [Amy]
The power of Democracy
Yesterday I woke up proud to be a Democrat. Today I woke up proud to be an American.
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<Tuesday, November 4th, 2008> [Amy]
True blue
It all comes down to this. I'm nervous. I haven't picked a winner in a presidential race since 1992 when, at 18, I cast my first-ever vote for Bill Clinton (how we miss you, Bill). My entire adult life has been marked by Republican, um, "leadership". I hope to break my losing streak tonight.
This election marks the first time we've donated to a political campaign. The first time we've put a sign in our yard. The first time I've put a bumper sticker on my car. You could say I'm invested in the outcome.
At 8:30 this morning, I voted for Barack Obama. Vincent voted for him, too. Even Nev voted for "Maraca Bana" in her class' mock election. All day I've worn blue from head to toe. I've never been prouder to call myself a Democrat.
My home state will likely go red (*sigh*), but I'll be glued to the election results. And if Barack Obama wins (pleaseohpleaseohplease), I will dance in the street.
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<Tuesday, November 4th, 2008> [Vincent]
Efficiency is not their strong suit
"A-M to the left N-Z to the right". A-M was twice as long, though. So after standing in line for 45 minutes, I was third in line. Suddenly a man wandered to the front. It became clear that he wasn't all there. It took a few minutes to get him sorted out. The little old lady thumbing through the book took a fair amount of time per person, just to find their name. I wouldn't have really cared except I was late for an appointment.
This is all in stark contrast to Amy's enrollment process. I'm sure that we could come up with some way to vote online, at least as an option. Hell, if they'll take ballots by mail, they should be able to come up with some way to handle it online.
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<Monday, November 3rd, 2008> [Vincent]
Driving it home
I don't watch a lot of TV, so I've been missing most of the political ads. Oh, darn.
I'm watching the SNL bash thingy, and assuming the ads are representative of what's been going on, the Obama campaign has completely written off this state. They aren't advertising at all.
To drive the point home, there are ridiculous attack ads against Obama, paid for by ominous sounding PACs of some sort.
I guess if you don't have anything positive to say about your own guy, you can just drive the hate up.
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<Monday, November 3rd, 2008> [Amy]
Less than a minute
to enroll for spring semester at OU. The enrollment window for graduate students and seniors (of which, due to my number of credit hours, I am one) opened at 7:10 this evening. I logged in at 7:10, clicked twice, and logged back out before the clock rolled forward. Now, I'd spent 15 minutes building tentative schedules online before advising, and an hour waiting in line in the computer lab for five minutes of face-to-face advising with a faculty member. Still, that's a total of 1:21 minutes to enroll. It used to take half a day or more. Technology is a wondrous thing. I'll be taking Foundation Studio 3D with Sohail Shehada, Intro to Art Theory II with Bob Dohrmann, and Beginning Ceramics with V'lou Oliveira. I'm excited.
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<Wednesday, October 29th, 2008> [Vincent]
Henry's up for a Grammy!
Well done, sir!
If you like clever dance music with a rock bent, go buy his album.
[iTunes]
[Amazon mp3]
[Amazon CD]
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<Wednesday, October 29th, 2008> [Vincent]
Anatomy lesson
I finally got into see an orthopedist last week, after seeing the urgent care doc, who simply threw some steroids at me.
This doc didn't seem terribly concerned, told me to keep doing what I'm doing, and gave me some nice elbow pads, which seem to help. I'll go see him again later to make sure things aren't getting worse.
The most useful thing to me was studying the anatomy charts of the wrist and arm. I didn't realize just how close to the surface some of the important bits of your arm really are. The nerve for the outer half of your hand, the main artery for your hand, and a big tendon, all run right under your skin, right where you set your wrist down when you type. That same nerve runs on the back or side of your elbow, more or less.
Slouching and resting your arms on the edge of a desk are bad, it seems.
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<Saturday, October 25th, 2008> [Vincent]
yoga newbie
We tried a yoga class last night, and I have to say, it's really hard. I didn't expect it to be easy, but I didn't expect it to be that hard.
I have a distinct lack of limberness in my legs. The instructor was of course a contortionist that made us all look bad. Inspiration, not intimidation, right?
I don't have a lot of use for the spiritual side of it, but the kind of goofy relaxation exercises at the end really do work. Your body, or at least mine, is seriously susceptible to suggestion.
Afterward we went to Monique's, a Carribean restaurant. It was in an off the beaten path location for four years and survived. Hopefully their new location, which has seemed doomed by a string of previous failures, will serve them well.
Anyway, that should be our new Friday routine, except next Friday, of course, when we take the girls out to beg for candy. ;)
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<Saturday, October 18th, 2008> [Vincent]
one armed
I'm living with only my left arm at the moment, which is fairly annoying. I'm typing this with my left thumb on the iPod, which works surprisingly well. If our design was intelligent, I'd like to take issue with the design of the nervous system in our arms. It's a bit fragile.
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