Scully the Great needs one a these things.

Nature UPDATE

I found out the white ones are called "Dutchman's Breeches". Love the name.

Nature, Nature Everywhere

These are a couple of flowers we saw when we were out hiking in Bicentennial woods. The first ones caught my eye because they look sort of like hearts, and sort of like some sort of odd angel. No clue what they are, but they sure are neat.





These are pretty purple ones I took pictures of to try to figure out what they are. Right now I know that...they sure are purple.




And this is the view from outside my window at work. Nice dogwood trees! And later on, after the berries come in, the birds just FILL these trees, going after the berries. I love that.

Them buggers really DO eat everything...

Saw the weirdest thing today on my way into work. Saw a Canada Goose, perched on a Dumpster, honking for all he was worth. Apparently he was telling his buddy, still on the ground, what a great find he made, because suddenly his buddy flew up to join him in Dumpster-diving.

I took some pix with my PDA, but since it's an old PDA and it was cloudy, the pix aren't that great. But still, here they are.

Ah, the joys of living with a dog...

Doctor Who, Guinea Pig Style

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If you like Steampunk

You'll love this video.

Steampunk SPAM!

Software Review - "Reggy"

GEEK ALERT.
If you've never heard of regex, (regular expression), don't want to know, couldn't care less, then just skip this one. If you've never heard of it and are interested, here's the wiki article on regex, so you have a starting point and aren't totally lost.
It's basically a way to match text to a particular set of criteria, like "find all the vowels" or something like that.

I was looking for a simple Regex evaluator so I could test them and make sure that my expressions actually worked before I used them in automated testing. I didn't want my tests to fail just because I programmed the tester wrong!

And I swear, "reggy", the Regular Expression evaluator is the best thing EVER for this. http://reggyapp.com

Can't recommend it enough. You key in your expression in the top box, enter your text /whatever you want to match on the bottom, and it immediately shows you what (if anything) of your text matches your regex. Fabulous.

Dear Googles

Dear Googles,
When I specifically request some sort of software and include the search terms "for Mac" or "for iMac" I'm not kidding. Please stop returning pages and pages of links for software that is Windows-specific. Thanks.

Robert A Hall is Tired, and I am too

He's tired of people telling us how horrible and mean and terrible the United States is, tired of being told how mean and stingy he is and in general, tired of people running us down.

Check it out at his blog entry here.

It's long, but it's worth the read. Amen, sir.