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Yeah. It’s the Sunday before the last week of the “spring” semester, and it’s snowing. SNOWING! To be fair, it’s a light, blustery snow that’s not sticking to anything. But, c’mon already. We were having a BEAUTIFUL spring. In Charlottesville, it seemed like there was always a week or so every winter in which it was balmy and beautiful. Don’t tell me that in Altoona we’ll get a week or so every summer in which it’s DARK AND SNOWY!

So, I started playing around more with Ruby on Rails (RoR) recently. I’m seriously impressed. There’s an excellenttutorial available that walks you through making a todo list applicationvia rails. I’ve done a fair amount of CGI programming in Python. And a good bit of Java servlet application programming. Neither feels as natural as RoR. I feel like once I actually have a better handle on both the Ruby language itself, and the Rails framework, I’ll be able to pump out database-supported web applications quickly and with a minimum of fuss.

Now tworecent posts have been lost to the ether. The first one, a few days ago about motorcycling, I clicked “publish” and got a server error. When I clicked “back” the form field was empty. Just now, I had a long, long talk about bicycling. I took a quick break to check email before posting because I wanted to give a moment to see if I really wanted to be that incendiary.

(with apologies to Wallace & Gromitfor the title.) Today was my birthday, though I pretty much used the whole weekend to celebrate. Yesterday, I borrowed a motorcycle from a friend of a friend (how cool is that!?!) and went for a motorcycle ride with about 8 others in a motley collection of motorcycles (only 2 were even from the same manufacturer!). We headed south from Altoona along twisty back roads and found ourselves (with a little bit of searching) at the Road Kill Café.

I always get a lot of spam attempts. I assume everyone does. But lately, it’s been insane. In my current mail log (which begins on April 10 at 4:00 AM) I have all sorts of entries like: `I always get a lot of spam attempts. I assume everyone does. But lately, it’s been insane. In my current mail log (which begins on April 10 at 4:00 AM) I have all sorts of entries like:

We had an odd outage recently. It started last night, and continued through today. I had figured it was just another random network outage granted us by our benevolent cable company. I figured they were aware of it and working on it. But as it stretched on toward 24 hours, I thought I should at least call and check on it with them. I was surprised and worried when they said “No, no known problems in that area.

A website entirely unrelated to the content of this blog entry provoked the entry. I cracked up at this guy’s “camtoons”, and thought that I really needed to share ’em. I guess I’ll add them to funny in my wikitoo. But the way I found that guy’s camtoons was from his page where he had linked to a picture of his motorcycle. You see, I’ve been lusting after a new motorcycle since… well, pretty much since I sold my previous motorcycle in the move to Altoona.

I bought it because I was sure I would love it. A Bluetooth headset so I could use my cell phone hands free, and without wires. Only I pretty much never use it. It’s off, or inaccessible, or I’ve got to pair it again, or… it’s always something. And given the choice between that, and some cold, hard cash in my paypal account… I’m going for the dough. So, treat yourself to a Bluetooth headset.

Through another randomish web walk, I came upon someone’s home page that had various Gay & Lesbian support banners, and included a(n incorrect) link to “The Equality Project”. Seeing that, I thought that gay pride was under-represented on my web page. I was looking for a rainbow icon, and a reasonable place to link it to when I came across the “Homo Depot”. Just the name cracked me up and they have lots of interesting fridge magnets, buttons etc.

I was wandering through Netflix (not quite as fun as wandering through a “real” movie store, but much cheaper!), and I came across The Experimentwhich I added to my queue. I was interested to read one reviewer say that it was clearly based on the Stanford Prison Experimentwhich a quick google search turned up for me. I enjoy psychology, even though I did rather poorly in it in college. And I think that the Stanford Prison Experiment is fascinating.