Hi All (So, just Jon)

I've decided that my blogs are too diffuse.  Anybody who's looked at my profile is probably going "No... really?  You think so?".  I've decided to repurpose my "progress" blog into a sort of personal hub.  My current plan is to abandon most of my blogs.  Either they've served their purpose (the whole vampire thing doesn't really need updates), or I think I can realistically aggregate them here.  (First Circle was a failed experiment, with its spiritual successor at the GDL forums—go there, by the way—and well, politics is personal.  The way things work out, I really love that "almost genocide" crack, but it only works on a political blog, and I don't do enough politics posts to justify making Le Blog Pour Le Blog my main blog.  So, writing goes over at Pepto-Bismol, everything else goes here, more or less.)

I'd better update the other blogs with this information.

This is my most 'me'-y blog, so this post goes here

I am extremely honest. This has gotten me in trouble in the past. I wish I meant that I exposed some wrongdoing and got unjustly punished for it, or something heroic like that. No. I have a psychological aversion to lying. It screwed me up on a writing assignment in elementary school, and it's screwing me up now.

Then, I had to pretend that I saw some meaning in a novella about the Iditarod, or something. I didn't see the meaning, so I talked to the teacher about it. She told me what meaning I was supposed to see. Knowing that, I could write up the one-page-or-so assignment on the novella. I could not, however, refrain from pointing out that I still didn't see the alleged meaning. I don't actually know if it wasn't there, in retrospect. Point is, blunt honesty. Not endearing.

Now, I have to write a cover letter for a professional seminar. This requires a level of interest that I reserve for [REDACTED]. A level of interest that I feel totally unqualified to fake. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Random Things

Weight is around 180 now. I laugh at people who talk about diets! Laugh! Over and over, until their spirits are crushed!

Got another project, slow going. Trying to work on Hyatt and game.

25 Days Later: Like 28 Days Later, but on a leaner budget

So, my weight is hovering around 185 now, which is great progress, overall.

I checked in with Ramla. Will have to check in once more, to see if I should tweak my schedule any.

Been rewriting Hyatt in a form of Hungarian Notation of MY OWN DEVISING *THUNDERCLAP*.

Game project has a better name now, I think. However, I need to get to coding the scaffold that it rests on.

After about a week...

Weight is eh, somewhat to be expected. Should go walk tomorrow first thing after breakfast.

Been coding up improvements to Hyatt that separate disk I/O from orthogonal operations. Need to work out the right way to break up data to avoid latency in large tables.

Thinking about porting Meritous to Python, more as a way to check my understanding than because of any special properties of either.

Today

Frantic bike-ride... No progress on serious code, but coded up a ludicrous multiplication module just for the heck of it. Plan to upload it to Launchpad once it comes back online. (Here)

Should get back to Hyatt... have giant list of functions to implement.

Not much has happened

Been tweaking Hyatt's code a bit. Walked for a while today, weight is a bit iffy.

The Man Who Was Thursday is an amazing book and you should read it, by the way.

Next big step in Hyatt is to make string handle 'exceptional values'. Setting up handlers properly will enable me to implement the 'pointer' internal type, which will make setting up a variety of things much more sane.