Archive for the ‘happy’ Category
Friday, January 20th, 2012
Finally figured out all my Selenium issues. Well, not all of them, in that I still don’t get the Grid system, but I at least know enough about it to know I don’t need it, so that problem is solved in its own way too.
As of now, I’ve got three remote drones, one for IE, one for Firefox, and one for Chrome. I can execute JUnit tests against all three targets, for the webservice running elsewhere.
Finally, I can start thinking about what I actually want to test, without worrying about if I can make it happen.
Tags: chrome, firefox, ie, java, selenium
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Less than 10, out of hundreds potential, are here at work today, but of course, the guy with an office directly across the hall from me is one of those 10, so I can’t just leave my door open and really crank up the tunes.
Oh well.
At least I finally got ChromeDriver to work, when everything is local. Still can’t figure out what’s wrong with my remote system. One day at a time.
Tags: coincidence, playingwellwithothers, work
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
I’ve always had a non-sexual thing for Kristy McNichol (loved her in Empty Nest), and now I’m wondering if it wasn’t awareness of shared circumstances. Of course, of the two stars in The Pirate Movie, she’s not my first choice for coming out announcement hopes. Because when a star you have a crush on announces they are coming out, it’s obviously implied that they are looking to date a fan =p
Tags: comingout, thepiratemovie
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
I’m thinking about trying to replicate one of my favorite GHP mashups, Bus Stop Runner, as a karaoke song tonight. It won’t be an exact replica, since the mashup cut’s and jumps around, but I think I can make it work as a straight sing-along; the tempo of Bus Stop will have to be adjusted in parts, and there’s at least one part where Shoot The Runner is in a chorus, while Bus Stop is in a verse, but it’s all fixable.
Tags: karaoke, mashup, seattle
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
I’d like to think threads on how to justify racism or sexism wouldn’t have been posted, and if they had, would have been free of ‘helpful’ advice, with people rightfully concerned about having their names associated with comments that could be taken out of context to hurt someone. But not only was it OK to post, far too many people thought it was OK to participate in, for me to feel like I was in a place I should be, so goodbye to that.
Life is better lived off-line anyways.
Tags: disappointment, goodbye, homophobia
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Monday, January 9th, 2012
Another part of the weekend’s nostalgia overload, a marathon session of Jason of Star Command. I had remembered the bad guy’s monocle, but there was so much I had forgotten that came back once I started watching. As a kid, I probably didn’t notice that they not only reused sound FX from Star Trek, they even reuse some of the musical cues. I’m certain as a Star Wars obsessed kid, the ‘evil’ wookie-alikes would have been notable. And now I know why the minister from Mom and Dad Save The World seemed so familiar; I was remembering him from Jason.
But the biggest ‘discovery’ was the do-anything-even-fly-through-space-yet-fit-in-a-fanny-pack robot, W1k1, aka Wiki. Wikipedia’s biography claims it comes from the Hawaiian word for quick, but obviously Jimmy Wales was a big Jason fan =p It’s a robot that is capable of interstellar travel, has a built in laser for freeing Jason from the inevitable chains in the dungeon scenes, and R2D2 like one-understandable-sided-jokes.
Tags: nostalgia, tv, wikipedia
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Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
In addition to my Lego work over the holiday season, I also managed to finally get all my musical keyboards setup again, well 99% setup. I need to stop by the store for some more patch cables, in theory, but practically, I don’t pre-program enough stuff that I’d ever have all three machines making noises at the same time. And I could just multi-track the individual instruments in editing.
I do need to pick up some vertical support bars for the extra set of wire rack shelves, to build a little sound isolated zone in the room for recording vocals with. Thinking it’s quiet enough in that room, I just need a simple set of blankets to stop the fan noise from getting in.
I think I’ve finally reached the tipping point in the new place, where enough stuff is put away or gotten rid of, that there’s space to work on the projects that have been backing up for years.
Tags: change, completed, home, keyboards, lego, new, progress, projects
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
The tip-of-my-tounge memory of this show has been rattling around in my head for years, and finally the internet helped me figure out that the show I remembered was Jason of Star Command
. The DVD box set came today, and even before putting it in, I’m on nostalgia level 10. There’s James Doohan as one of the good guys, and the bad guy with an retracting reticle that Last Starfighter ‘borrowed’. The cast list is kind amusing, since they list something they’d be more likely known for, as a parenthetical for almost everyone in the cast.
After having watched how unkind blu-ray was to the original first Star Wars, over the weekend, I’m not sure I’m ready to have my childhood illusions about how cool this show’s effects were, equally shattered. Or maybe it’ll engender warm fuzzy feelings for the fantasy acceptance of youth.
Tags: nostalgia, scifi, tv
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
That’s what I’ve decided to call soft gingerbread, baked in a cake pan. It’s not like it’s actually ground up gingerbread man, plus filler, but metaphorically it seems close enough, and then I get to say “man meat” with plausible deniability =p
Tags: doubleentendre, joke, silly
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Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Thanks to UPS My Choice, I know my mom just bought something for me as a last minute gift, since I’m too sick to make it. I don’t know exactly what she bought, but I know who she bought it from. I don’t suppose many children have signed up for it, so it’s probably not ruining anyone’s christmas surprises, more an amusing annotation on the changes that technology brings.
Tags: christmas, revealed, surprise, ups
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