Back to co-authoring: ECMA documentation no more
News, Work, Guns ·Friday June 6, 2008 @ 21:40 EDT (link)
20080529: Emailed question re: cans at SVRC; the rules appear to conflict: "no cans" vs. directions how to set up cans as targets. The info@ guy forwarded to the club president; no answer yet. It's possible cans are allowed on the rifle range but not the pistol range, since the prohibition appears in the pistol range rules.
My HDMI cable from Amazon arrived. (Note: be not deceived: don't buy expensive HDMI and other digital cables; digital signal isn't subject to degradation in the same way (i.e. it is, but it's pretty much an all-or-nothing proposition) as analog.)
20080530: Got TruGlo Tritium Fiber Optics (TFO) sights installed; posted to the Gun Club @ Microsoft forum and someone here in Duvall replied offering to put the sights on for me. Due to a Glock slide modification in recent models, he had to mill down the front sight and screw so it fit properly.
My HDMI-DVI adapter arrived. Honey had Chelsea from school over, we got pizza for dinner. When we got back from dropping off Chelsea, I connected the Myth box to the TV via the HDMI cable and DVI-HDMI adapter (together they were under $10 from Amazon). I had to tweak my xorg.conf file a bit (searched the web, this thread was helpful, mainly the bit about not treating it as a TV; I changed the Monitor HorizSync/VertRefresh to their values, set Screen DefaultDepth to 24, Screen/Display Depth to 24, and commented out the Screen "ConnectedMonitor" and "TVOverscan" options as well as Screen/Display's Modes: defaults work fine). Wow, HD is pretty! I had a test HD episode of Grey's Anatomy saved, and it looks wow.
Pin right through the zipper!
20080603: Amazon order arrived (DVDs, range bag, pistol rug (which was defective and had to be returned, fortunately they pay return shipping), and staple gun).
20080605: Got our ECMA standards deviations shirts: green with a cream-colored sigma (sigma, for standard deviation, get it?)
20080606: Hallelujah! Free at last from ECMA documentation, and back to doing the work I signed up for: Word development in C++. C# was fun for a while, but dealing with deviations is tiring, because the whole framework was badly designed by a non-developer; kudos for doing it, sure, but I'd rather waited and had it designed right, and then much of my work would not have even been necessary. Onward to co-authoring!
Books finished: The Revolution, Tantras, In the Gravest Extreme.DVDs finished: A Few Good Men, The Score, The Brave One.
My HDMI-DVI adapter arrived. Honey had Chelsea from school over, we got pizza for dinner. When we got back from dropping off Chelsea, I connected the Myth box to the TV via the HDMI cable and DVI-HDMI adapter (together they were under $10 from Amazon). I had to tweak my xorg.conf file a bit (searched the web, this thread was helpful, mainly the bit about not treating it as a TV; I changed the Monitor HorizSync/VertRefresh to their values, set Screen DefaultDepth to 24, Screen/Display Depth to 24, and commented out the Screen "ConnectedMonitor" and "TVOverscan" options as well as Screen/Display's Modes: defaults work fine). Wow, HD is pretty! I had a test HD episode of Grey's Anatomy saved, and it looks wow.