Kevin S.'s Journal

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Time:

12:03 am.

10:45 in that frustrating phase of optimization where it's just a bunch of 2%s that add up to a lot. #
10:47 Also, Ruby/Rails call graphs get quite hard to interpret because so much runs through each, send, etc. Considering hacking ruby-prof. #
12:40 found & fixed a bug in ruby-prof reporting of recursive call depths. #
13:24 submitted second patch to ruby-prof: sensibly order child & parent methods in call-graph output #
13:24 in other news, Rails: still like an onion. #
17:47 Operation Room Swap is over halfway done. Still gotta mull over a number of furniture placement possibilities. #
21:58 Russian River Consecration @pdxgreendragon #ontappdx (maybe I should have kept that a secret ;-)) #

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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Time:

12:04 am.

14:49 the cat let me know she missed me while I was out this morning by depositing an extra thick layer of hair on my all black outfit #
15:35 @dukeleto Facebook = Twitter + stupid quizzes, right? #
18:27 from time to time I want the opposite of Qwitter: what tweet caused this person to _start_ following me? #
18:30 @duckyd I'm glad someone gave up and asked. #
19:16 @xcbsmith indeed, I have no interest in the question Qwitter attempts to answer. #

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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Time:

12:03 am.

09:02 @selenamarie meh, such a strawman article. RDMBSs and MapReduce-type systems solve different problems. #
09:31 I haven't been reading the memos... are we allowed to buy stuff from Amazon again? #
10:00 yay, smoothie! #
11:17 @kchrist made my own. #
14:33 too hot to ride... try again later. #
17:53 shorter rides this week, experimenting with bike setup & higher cadence. 13.1mi, 40min #
18:23 increasingly unhappy with my MBP's inability to actually sleep and recover from sleep. Rebooting sucks. Aging hardware or OS bugs? #
19:03 thinking about wandering over to the Horse Brass or Belmont Station in a bit. Anyone game to join me? #
20:43 Gulden Draak Dark Triple @ Horse Brass, very tasty #ontappdx #

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Monday, April 20th, 2009

Time:

12:02 am.

09:41 this year's spring cleaning is going to be deep and broad and intense. And will involve rearranging furniture.. #
15:05 today is not working out according to plan. Frustrated that in retrospect I could have gone to the twitnic. #
15:10 Still looking forward to Vermillion Lies tonight, though. #
18:46 so, as far as I can tell, picking a bike saddle consists of repeatedly spending $100 until it stops hurting. #
21:37 oh, goodness. The band that practices across the street has discovered feedback. #

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Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Time:

12:03 am.

07:52 having hard time getting psyched up for today's ride. Fortunately I have a partner, so I can't back out. #
15:00 Today's ride: Tigard-Newberg-Yamhill-Forest Grove-Beaverton-Tigard. 62.25mi, 3h47m ride time, 4h45m total time. #RtB #
15:08 bought bagels, thinking they would be good quick snacks, then discovered they are take-and-bake. Sigh. #
16:22 this Laughing Planet smoothie is not the smoothie I was looking for. Too much sugar, not enough yogurt. I need a blender. #

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Saturday, April 18th, 2009

Time:

12:03 am.

07:40 I wish my body would sleep more than 8 hours when I go to bed early trying to get caught up. #
08:50 not liking this morning. Considering going back to bed. #
12:27 @gorthx and I agree, athletes in training need personal chefs. Any volunteers? #

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Friday, April 17th, 2009

Time:

12:03 am.

08:51 important fact of life: it's much more likely you're an idiot than that there's a bug in OS/compiler/framework #
08:52 @rabbidavid having gone paintballing as a "team building" activity, my advice is: don't #
13:44 @Taplister I'll probably stop by @baileystaproom, but skip the movie. See you there. #
16:14 Waiting at the DMV then off to baileys then #pdxpug #

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Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Time:

12:04 am.

11:53 having a real hard time with motivation today #
12:32 @kchrist must be #dmvfail day. I discovered (contrary to instructions the DMV gave me) that I can't get my stickers at the DEQ test site :-( #
12:54 ooh... Vermillion Lies is in town on Sunday #
17:27 hump day is hill day: Mt Tabor & Rocky Butte. 17.75mi, 1h16m #RtB #

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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Time:

12:03 am.

06:58 got up early for 7AM conference call, which was then rescheduled. Serious grumbles. #
21:08 @spinnerin that's easy, buy a house :-) #

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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Time:

12:03 am.

11:03 @pdxgreendragon just #ontappdx, not #ontappdx.com (PS, what's HotD Greg? never heard of that one before) #
11:05 @xcbsmith Yes, I've several times said "what idiot wrote this code?"... svn blame... "oh... oops" #
11:09 @SamuraiArtist that sounds... kinda awful... #
11:10 it's becoming clear to me that FastCGI and scheduled jobs / threads inside Rails have a very uneasy co-existence. #
12:27 @igalko would prefer not to be using FastCGI, but I didn't pick this hosting company :-( #
12:33 @igalko @xcbsmith I'll probably end up doing that, but I've been trying not to write my own twitbot, and they all want to run continuously #
13:14 sunny sky, hailing. wtf. #pdxtst #
14:55 @kchrist oh, all my recent griping is about $SIDEPROJECT, not $WORK. We definitely don't use FastCGI at $WORK #
16:49 @PortlandSun you're such a tease #
16:50 short ride today: to Sellwood Bridge and back. 11.4mi, 42min #RtB #
16:53 RT @belmontstation Bend Outback X, Dogfish Head Aprihop, Oskar Blues Gordon, Lang Creek Cherry Porter #ontappdx #
17:47 RT @belmontstation Also on tap now: De Ranke Pere Noel and Cascade Brewing Mouton Rouge #ontappdx (work with us people!) #
17:47 @igalko wha? #
17:53 starting to think I should have submitted OSBridge proposal after all: "Herding Cats to Beer: Lessons from Taplister" #
18:09 realizing I may have to pick between #pdxfunc and dinner. Dangit, must be a solution to this. #
20:47 wow, we managed to get 40 minutes through a presentation on Coq before anyone made a joke on the name #pdxfunc #

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Saturday, April 11th, 2009

Time:

12:02 am.

14:54 finlly stopped procrastinating and registered for Open Source Bridge #
14:58 IMAP access to my email down a week now. Dreamhost no longer even replies to my support tickets. At least forwarding to gmail works. #
18:24 debating the evening's activity. Want to go have fun, but I'm riding 50 miles tomorrow morning, so not too much fun. #
18:44 @xcbsmith actually, this evening is beautiful and tomorrow is supposed to be rainy, so there's something to be said for that idea. #
19:11 is this seriously the best way to run Rails in a subdirectory? bit.ly/FFAqs #
19:35 @ontappdx where Laughing Dog Dogfather #
19:39 @duckyd Dang... I'd come see you guys but 11PM is bedtime for me. #
19:40 @ontappdx where Full Sail Slipknot #

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Friday, April 10th, 2009

Time:

12:02 am.

21:27 @ontappdx where Ninkasi Spring Reign #
21:43 @ontappdx where Racer X #

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Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Time:

12:02 am.

11:44 trying to tear myself away from this bug and head out to Lunch 2.0 #
16:31 Rails 2.3 seemed to have blown up our functional tests using Shoulda :-( #
18:23 I wonder if I'll ever be one of those people who files their taxes in January. #
19:36 how many geeks does it take to resize an X window session? #pdxpm #
22:27 learned about gmap-pedometer at post-#pdxpm pub time. Looks very useful for training. #

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Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Time:

12:02 am.

18:11 today's ride: Mt Tabor/ 41st / Woodstock / Springwater. 16mi. 1h05m. #RtB #
18:13 it's pretty fun (and a little terrifying) to outrun cars riding down Woodstock from 39th. Top speed 36.4mph #
21:51 Sour Brown @ Roots #ontappdx #
23:48 Dreamhost broke my email on Sat. Nothing since has gotten to me since. Msg me on Twitter or Facebook if it's important. #

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Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Time:

12:03 am.

11:10 Time Machine just backed up several GB, 800K files, virtually none of which changed in the last hour. Very suspicious. #

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Monday, April 6th, 2009

Time:

12:02 am.

12:18 realizing how many calories I'm burning cycling. Currently 4-5000/wk. Going to rise to twice that by the time of the century ride. #RtB #
12:19 making a second sandwich for lunch. With bacon. #
17:46 today's ride: Around & about Sauvie Island. 42.7mi, 2h26mi. #RtB #
18:29 eat or sleep? such a difficult question. #

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Sunday, April 5th, 2009

Time:

12:02 am.

13:36 wondering if my neighbor plans to use the power saw on his back porch all afternoon. #
15:16 does not have enough time for a nap :-( #
15:17 not that I could if I did have the time. (See: neighbor, power saw) #

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Saturday, April 4th, 2009

Time:

12:02 am.

07:52 slept 8 solid hours thanks to an Ambien. But I'm still tired. #
12:19 If your website is going to ask "how did you hear about us?", it seems like it would be good in include "on the internet" in the options. #
12:29 I'm riding the Reach the Beach century. Would you sponsor me and support lung disease research? Even $5 or 10 helps. bit.ly/O4Gy2 #
17:29 starting to get the idea that it might be more important to optimize for ActiveRecord performance than for the underlying database. #
20:45 @ericsbrain seems distraction management is just a cron job every 10 minutes that says "get back to work!" #
20:46 @sirhc Thanks for the support! #
22:27 @ericsbrain Seriously, I find LeechBlock very useful. Only deals with browser distractions, but that's 90% of the problem for me. #

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Friday, April 3rd, 2009

Time:

12:02 am.

13:35 Every time I think it's clearing up and I'll get to go for a ride today, the sky opens up. Might just have to resign myself to getting wet. #
13:37 @kchrist Definitely. It took me years to figure out the mess of roads on the west end of the Ross Island. #
14:43 I think my net output for the day was 2 emails. But they were substantial emails! #
17:05 Today's ride: 41st, moreland, springwater, espandade into NE, Alameda to 71st, and back home via Davis. 22.75mi, 1h35m #RtB #
17:09 Life has it's ways of reminding you that as crappy as your day might be, it could be worse. Rode by a motorcycle fatality on Woodstock. #
17:35 these blood oranges aren't very bloody. #

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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Time:

12:02 am.

11:39 'render :partial => "foo"' creates 10 stack frames before getting around to actually doing anything. Scary. #
17:36 @chromatic_x you mean they *say* they use Scrum. Just doing the easy bits doesn't count. #

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