Axodys

Well, I’ve got a lot of boxes taking up space in my already too small apartment. Now I need to start filling them so that I can migrate over to my soon to be new, bigger apartment.

I went out to Mary’s parent’s house for a traditional Greek Easter dinner. The food was very good, but much richer than I’m used to.

One of the coolest 5k contest entries I’ve seen so far is called Blocks. It reminds me of assembler.org, only the next iteration of functionality.

Hey, I saw Pedro the Lion live at Bumbershoot a couple years ago. Fancy stumbling over their Blogger powered Tour journal at 2:20 AM on a Saturday.

Hmm… I’ve started attacking the site redesign process again. Progress is being made.

John, a fellow Spokanite, has put together a collection of pictures of the old painted signs that grace many of the aging brick buildings in downtown Spokane (note: somewhat bandwidth intensive). I drive by several of these buildings on a daily basis, but many of the signs were new to me.

I’ve been playing with Zope a bit off and on this week and it seems pretty cool. I installed and worked through this new tutorial and found it to be a pretty good intro into the Zope way of doing things. I don’t have any experience with PHP, but Zope’s DTML scripting within documents seems to be fairly similar in nature. Of course Zope is completely different in that it works out of its object database, while PHP uses standard text files. That and the fact that anything in the object database can be edited via the web. Groovy!

A thunderstorm passed through downtown Spokane yesterday evening and I tried unsuccessfully to capture some cool lightning shots with my new camera. It has a cool movie recording feature that will save the previous 10 seconds of footage when you press the button, but I didn’t figure out how to use this mode until after the storm had passed.

If you’ve ever been curious about what Bill Gate’s mansion on Lake Washington is like now you can find out.

Being sick is not normally a fun thing. Being sick on a beautiful day like today is a bit worse. However, as there’s been a lot of good weather days in recent weeks during which I haven’t managed to extricate myself from the confines of my apartment anyway I should just move on and quit complaining. Especially in light of the fact that I have a couple new books to read after a brief excursion to Barnes&Noble this morning.

B&N is definitely a bit of a drive for someone who’s staying home because they’re sick. In this case I felt moderately justified in that I had just finished an appointment getting some car damage appraised by an insurance adjustor and had to drive more than a mile just to get home again. I’ll eventually be receiving a check in the mail to pay for repairs (if I so choose), but I may just pocket the money and see what I can do on my own. The damage was fairly minor. What’s another scrape on a fairly scraped-up 12 year old bumper cover after all?

Of course I wrote this post over four hours ago and now the weather’s not quite as nice. Sunny, but windy and hazy as well. I still feel terrible after lying around all day reading and completely drinking a 1.892 L of lemon-lime Gatorade. So it goes.

Hmm… I don’t go to Starbucks very often so this struck me as a bit of a scary coincidence.

This is a view of downtown Spokane, as seen from my apartment.

It finally occurred to me today that installing Python on a Win32 machine is a pretty trivial task. A little later I suddenly realized the same holds true for Zope. Considering I’ve only had a machine perfectly suited for the task sitting beside me at work for the last six months I’m feeling a little perturbed. Of course the satisfaction of having a working version does make up for that I suppose.

The camera arrived safely today and works like a dream. I’m looking forward to playing with it more this afternoon and evening when I get back from work.