.comment-link {margin-left:.6em;}
Timmerov's Blog
Thursday, June 30, 2005
  i miss my family
they're visiting relatives in pennsylvania and chicago. i have nothing to do but work work work. and feed the cat.
 
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
  flying tanks
the marine layer made the coast unflyable. so i did aerobatics over the cement plant. wee! fun! i haven't been there in a while. on the way home i buzzed my house. it was easy to find this time. it's the orange roof next to the two big white water tanks. you can't see the tanks from the ground because of the strategic flora. i didn't know they were there until i looked at the google satellite maps of my house. i tried to find my house before. but it's pretty busy in the cockpit just then. i'd bet i saw the tanks before and looked away. there's nothing like that near my house after all.
 
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
  diet coke
i don't drink the stuff any more. quit cold turkey. no more. the stuff's addictive. i kept drinking more and more. i was up to about 4 cans on a typical day. i know folks who drink more. it seems the stuff was affecting my body's ability to regulate its blood pressure. like i'd stand up from the couch and grey out. this cannot be a good thing. now i leap up from a nap as fast as i can just to see if my head can take it. so far so good.
 
Monday, June 27, 2005
  rove
the white house seems a bit confused why the democrats would be upset that rove said they're soft on terrorism. i think they missed the point. they're upset by the implication that being softer on terrorism is a bad thing. as we've demonstrated time and time again, being hard on terrorism creates more terrorists.
 
Sunday, June 26, 2005
  army recruits
the religious right has given us war in iraq. i think it's appropriate that the religious right provide the soldiers. recruiting for the army and marines is way down. it would be way up if the robertson's and falwell's of the world encouraged people to sign up for military service as vigorously as they encourage them to sign up for that ineffective 'no sex before marriage' silliness.
 
Saturday, June 25, 2005
  nation of fear
we're afraid to: ride a bike without a helmet. fly in airplanes. ride in a car without a seat belt. put a kid in a car without a car seat. play with fire crackers. copy a cd. crack the computer case. fish toast out of the toaster. run a hair dryer near the sink. eat sugar/meat/fat/carbohydrates/peanuts. turn off the tv. challenge the irs. work hard. go out after dark. hug a fag. leave the doors unlocked. exercise. leave the keys in the car. drink the water. step on a crack. feed the hungry. take a risk. face reality. pet the baby alligator. jaywalk. say sorry, we were wrong.
 
Friday, June 24, 2005
  bowling for columbine
i don't understand the title. michael moore is an asstard. he's very good at making bigger asstards look stupid. i loved the scene where he asked charleton heston to apologize for inconsiderately holding an nra rally two days after a first grader shot and killed another first grader in the first grade classroom. the only other redeeming feature of the movie was calling us a nation of fear. made me think, hmmm... mr moore seems to have pulled out a plum.
 
Thursday, June 23, 2005
  offer refused
i recently offered a nice young kid a good paying job. he turned me down. said he wanted to build weapons to make his friends safer in iraq. wouldn't they be safest if we brought them home?
 
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
  welfare babies
when i was a kid my mother pointed out that society is paying people to make babies and not work and live on welfare. i figured it would be a problem. poor people making more poor people. bad idea. unfortunately, it's even worse. those welfare babies grew up and now vote conservative.
 
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
  doping the cat
the poor old cat went to the vets to have her teeth cleaned. one was rotten. it needed to come out. so now she's on antibiotics. the first day alisa and i carefully wrapped her up in a towel, gently pried her jaws open, and dripped the medicine onto her tongue. i'm home alone now. i just grab her and squirt the stuff down her throat before her claws can come out.
 
Monday, June 20, 2005
  best father's day ever
having grown up sans dad, i don't have much experience with father's days. the boys made me pancakes, took me climbing at castle rock, and fed me sushi for dinner. as for alisa's contribution... i'm not sayin'.
 
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
  hall pass
when i was kid i got hall passes to wander up and down the hallways of my school to visit the little boy's room. apparently, bennett gets hall passes too. but here in california the schools don't have hallways.
 
Monday, June 13, 2005
  shotgun
garrett often loses his underpants and runs around shotgun under his overpants. one day he asked mom if she was shotgun. mom said, of course! i had happy thoughts the rest of the day.
 
Sunday, June 12, 2005
  casey & andy
andy of casey & andy is moving to boston. he asked his fans to contribute strips while he's too busy moving. the boys and i made one. it's a fart joke. i bet he posts it.
 
Saturday, June 11, 2005
  free stuff!
1) call your favorite online store. 2) listen to their special. it'll be something like: order $200 worth of stuff, get $20 off. 3) order the $20 item you actually want. 4) find something on backorder. 5) order $180 worth of it. 6) they send your item and charge you for $20 plus tax title and shipping minus the $20 rebate. 7) cancel the back ordered item. 8) profit.
 
Friday, June 10, 2005
  finches
the baby finches poked their heads out of the nest one day. the next day they were gone. we told the boys they grew up and flew away. though the parents keep searching the nest as if they expect the babies to be there. i suspect we lied to the children.
 
Thursday, June 09, 2005
  80's oop
a friend of mine pointed out that oop has been around since 1980 or so. i countered with 1980 is in the 20th century.
 
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
  oop++
so in the process of converting all my flat c code to a more object oriented paradigm, i created a class that automatically converts endian-ness. it's kinda neat. but it does illustrate many of the things i don't like about oop. old way: short y = 0x1234; short x = NativeToLittleEndian(y); new way: short y = 0x1234; EndianWidget< short> x = y; the class should really only be used as fields in classes that are read from and written to files. but you can easily make all of your variables little endian and cripple your big endian machine.
 
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
  oop
at work i noticed that the majority of the code that i view is object oriented. i've been coding flat c style for 20 years. but i think it's about time to leave the 20th century behind and join the 21st.
 
Monday, June 06, 2005
  finches
we have some nice little finches that made a nest in the eaves right above my window. katz likes them too. she goes out and sits on the patio and the little finches sing to her. it's great. not like those mockingbirds a few years ago. they were mean. they'd dive bomb her head and pull her tail. she didn't like them at all.
 
Sunday, June 05, 2005
  pen bee
i was sitting in the run up area at reid-hillview airport ready to take off when i became aware of a bee flying around in the cabin. it flew to the windshield and got stuck between that and the dash. it had to go. so i opened the window and grabbed a pen. my hand wouldn't fit in the narrow crack. and bees have stingers. so i tried to shoo him towards the window. instead the bee grabbed onto the end of the pen and hung on. and hung on. i looked at this small creature that was very happy exactly where it was. i have a bee on my pen. then i stuck him out the window into the prop wash. he hung on briefly before flying away. then i flew away too.
 
Saturday, June 04, 2005
  midway
63 years ago today we got really lucky. the battle of midway was the turning point in world war two. granted we made our own luck by tricking the japanese into thinking our fleet was somewhere else. but if their spotter planes had spotted our fleet or if our dive bombers had arrived two minutes before our torpedo bombers instead of two minutes after... history would be have run a very different course. (happy birthday mom.)
 
Friday, June 03, 2005
  meeting
grandpa and annie were here this week. we were discussing the day's activities. i chipped in that i had a meeting 12:30 to 1:30. no response. at netscape. still no response. i have to take my hockey gear. finally i get a response. hey! you're going to go play hockey. yup. it's a hockey meeting.
 
Thursday, June 02, 2005
  indecision
bennett's and garrett's little school had a party. there was stuff everywhere. there was a firetruck in the parking lot. there were cookies outside the classrooms. the boys got stuck between them running in circles. cookies, firetruck, cookies, firetruck, cookies, firetruck. can't decide! poor kids.
 
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
  date night
alisa and i went to kan zeman for a date. it was quite good. next to us were two college girls. one was obviously your typical poor starving college student and was eating, not buying. the other equally obviously had a wealthy background and was buying, not eating.
 
most every day i wander the corridors of my mind and open a door at random.

blogs of friends
bad astronomy
freedom to tinker
joe's

web comics
casey&andy (complete)
cheshire crossing (complete)
indexed
middle age
order of the stick
smbc
wildelife
xkcd

comics
dilbert
doonesbury (sunday only)
foxtrot (sunday only)
frazz
wizard of id

defunct
azriel's
bob's
byron's
caitlan's
cool science facts (idle)
exploding unicorn
flyingvan
phil's
ratface's
rob's
some ex-intern's
tina's
hyperbole and a half

archives
July 2003 / August 2003 / September 2003 / October 2003 / November 2003 / December 2003 / January 2004 / February 2004 / March 2004 / April 2004 / May 2004 / June 2004 / July 2004 / August 2004 / September 2004 / October 2004 / November 2004 / December 2004 / January 2005 / February 2005 / March 2005 / April 2005 / May 2005 / June 2005 / July 2005 / August 2005 / September 2005 / October 2005 / November 2005 / December 2005 / January 2006 / February 2006 / March 2006 / April 2006 / May 2006 / June 2006 / July 2006 / August 2006 / September 2006 / October 2006 / November 2006 / December 2006 / January 2007 / February 2007 / March 2007 / April 2007 / May 2007 / June 2007 / July 2007 / August 2007 / September 2007 / October 2007 / November 2007 / December 2007 / January 2008 / February 2008 / March 2008 / April 2008 / May 2008 / June 2008 / July 2008 / August 2008 / September 2008 / October 2008 / November 2008 / December 2008 / January 2009 / February 2009 / March 2009 / April 2009 / May 2009 / June 2009 / July 2009 / August 2009 / September 2009 / October 2009 / November 2009 / December 2009 / January 2010 / February 2010 / March 2010 / April 2010 / May 2010 / June 2010 / July 2010 / August 2010 / September 2010 / October 2010 / November 2010 / December 2010 / January 2011 / February 2011 / March 2011 / April 2011 / May 2011 / June 2011 / July 2011 / August 2011 / September 2011 / October 2011 / November 2011 / December 2011 / January 2012 / February 2012 / March 2012 / April 2012 / May 2012 / June 2012 / July 2012 / August 2012 / September 2012 / October 2012 / November 2012 / December 2012 / January 2013 / February 2013 / March 2013 / April 2013 / May 2013 / June 2013 / July 2013 / August 2013 / September 2013 / October 2013 / November 2013 / December 2013 / January 2014 / February 2014 / March 2014 / April 2014 / May 2014 / June 2014 / July 2014 / August 2014 / September 2014 / October 2014 / November 2014 / December 2014 / January 2015 / February 2015 / March 2015 / April 2015 / May 2015 / June 2015 / July 2015 / August 2015 / September 2015 / October 2015 / November 2015 / December 2015 / January 2016 / February 2016 / March 2016 / April 2016 / May 2016 / June 2016 / July 2016 / August 2016 / September 2016 / October 2016 / November 2016 / December 2016 / January 2017 / February 2017 / March 2017 / May 2017 / September 2017 / March 2018 / February 2019 / July 2019 /


Powered by Blogger