Axodys

Mary woke me up from a dream this morning that was pretty interesting. I have no idea why, but in my dream I was writing some code to solve one or more linear algebra problems. I hadn’t thought about stuff like matrix multiplication, the identity matrix, etc. in quite a while so it seems like a pretty strange dream. I definitely don’t remember programming in a dream before, and I haven’t been doing any programming recently so I’m not sure what it all means.

Math Against Tyranny [via Kottke] is an article giving the mathematical reasons that the Electoral College is a good thing for our country. The article makes an analogy between the Electoral College and sports that I really like. It’s entirely possible to score more total points (or runs in baseball’s case) than all the competing teams during a season, yet still lose the championship because it’s total wins that matter not total points. Of course under the Electoral College some states (or wins to go back to the analogy) are worth more than others.

Yep. Blogger is moving at blazing speeds again!

I’d be posting more except Blogger has been having some issues lately. This is my first post upgrade post. Hopefully the backend improvements will end all the misery.

Perhaps the coolest wedding gift Mary and I have received to date is an Enviroscape River Steps miniature waterfall. Plugin tranquility at its best.

My latest upgrade project seems to be going quite well. I bought a cheap video card from OWC that offers panning and zooming. I hadn’t ever used a card that supported that nifty feature, but I like it. It’s almost as good as having a bigger monitor.

Fun, fun, fun.MacAddict’s X Philes > Prebuilt CGIs on Mac OS X

It’s far too cold in my office here at work. And it’s far too cold for November period. Hopefully the Huskies will find it especially unenjoyable tomorrow during the 100th Apple Cup.

Did I mention my wife is a UW alum? It could get ugly tomorrow.

I just realized today that I’ve been using Blogger to update Axodys for over a year now. And in late January, Axodys will actually be two years old. Hopefully we’ll know who are president is by then.

The lack of updates over the past couple couple weeks can be blamed entirely on my recent wedding and honeymoon down at Disneyland. Things should be returning to normal shortly.

I’m getting interested in Zope again and I’m especially excited to have Luke Tymowski behind the helm of Zope Newbies. He’s always done a great job of providing useful and interesting information at Qube Quorner so it’s great to have him actively working to illuminate and promote Zope as well.

I’m getting married today! Since I’ll be on my honeymoon all next week, don’t expect any updates for a while…

I saw Maya Angelou speak at Gonzaga tonight. What an amazing, beautiful woman! I almost didn’t go, but luckily my sister was able to come along so I didn’t have to go by myself. Our prime tickets and early arrival allowed us to find seats a mere six or seven rows back from the stage with a great view of the podium. Three word summary: moving, entertaining, inspirational.