Dusty Chalk

So to answer my own question, there are many 'Model-driven engineering' tools. Actifsource may have been the one that was mentioned. Anyone use any of these?

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Hey, 'Dusty Chalk' is real. It's just not my given name...er...my birth name...or whatever you want to call it. But I am he. For realsies. Is that you friending me? Sorry, I don't know anyone's real name over here.

That reminds me...joining now...under the name, 'Dusty Chalk'.

I think 'almost always' is overstating things, but at least you explained the appeal -- gambling!

Woot-off, currently there's a BOC -- I never understood the appeal of these things...

For the record -- forest fires happened long before there were arsonists, and smokey, and matches. They are a natural phenomenon. It's natural selection at work, and it's a form of composting in nature. (Over simplification, but that's pretty much a synopsis I was given long ago.) That said, I don't wish anyone being in the path of them, and wouldn't deny you the desire to put every last one of them out. EDIT: Me: bought my mom groceries. Yes, that took all fucking day.

I finally tried quinoa a couple months ago -- that sounds delicious, Shelly.

Hey man, miss you. Me: In car -- Chris Rea, Dancing Down the Stony Road -- note: "Dancing" in the title does not imply it's a dance record -- it's a lyric, and that's all. Man does what I call "organic" music -- heavily blues-infused pop rock reminiscent of Clapton's Slowhand and whatnot. All played on traditional instruments, no fancy production, no synthesizers, etc. Every once in a while I get in the mood for that, and Rea fills that capacity almost all the time. At home, on spotify: various Regina Spektor and whatnot. I <3 her so much.

I was recently recommended Robopocalypse by io9. Any of those particularly bad or particularly good?

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but Apple will be changing the ubiquitous iPod connector.

She got better. Hurray!

Phase 2 with the badgers...

Amen to that. Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what I'm doing -- one potential interview requires a code test -- it's hard, too...well, I mean, I knew the answers as soon as I saw the questions, but it's enough code that it's going to take a while to code it all up, and hence I'll be using the exercise as a refresh on Java as I go (I was actually quite good back then -- wrote a recursive and reflection-based generic object debugger just for the fun of it). It's actually been kind of fun. The first exercise I did I got working with only two bugs (I.E. on the 3rd iteration). But she made it sound like it was some sort of CAD tool or something -- I honestly didn't even understand the question, from a coder's perspective -- I mean, beyond an editor and an IDE and knowing the libraries that are out there (and how to look up the ones that one doesn't know are out there), what else is there? She made it sound like there was, in the scientific modelling arena. I think I'm going to get back to my recruiter and just ask him to ask them -- from the perspective of, if I want to get into this field, I do want to learn the software in the area, and see if it's a freeware tool or something that I can look up. I'm going to kill myself stab myself in the thigh if she said Mathematica or something and I just didn't hear her because I was on a fucking cell phone.

Just found Fiona Apple's new one on Spotify, listening to that now. EDIT: And I just found Regina Spektor's new one, too. It's going to be a late night.

Hey, all youse guys who do modelling work -- do any work in Java? I just did not get a job at a company and one of the reasons was that I had zero familiarity with some popular modelling tools for Java. Seriously? WTF? I bet it's slower than C#. I guess the real question is, what are the most popular mainstream modelling tools? I should probably at least have a passing familiarity with them.

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I Die: You Die mixtapes -- currently on #5, Kalte Kleinen.

Brushed up on my Java.

Okay, I understand now. Me: Reamde, Stephenson

Lollers, it's the Dreamworks face.

Smash Pups...-ish, Oceania

Various Artists - When Pigs Fly: Songs You'd Never Thought You'd Hear -- this album is ready-made for Turntable "weird covers" night. Don Ho covers "Shock the Monkey", The Fixx cover "Boots Were Made for Walkin'", Jackie Chan and Ani Difranco duet on "Unforgettable", etc.

What it is? Also: sourdough waffle sounds awesome!