I watched “Chicago”, a spoof about the law using props from the 1920s. It was amusing, I quit paying attention after ten minutes, I found the people so pretty. The old photos of that era show there were a lot of ugly people in those pre-Botox days. Furthermore, due to the structure of society, the crowd was clearly five years or more older than the late-teen in crowd of my generation. Zellweger again plays the only character she can. Did you know she annulled her marriage to the country singer, Chesney, claiming he was a “fraud”? Possibly his performance was as one-dimensional as hers?The new guitarist called. We have a rehearsal scheduled before the year is out. I listened to his postings, they are on the amateur side, but that’s what’s required for a local duo. Much will depend on how readily he adapts to duo work, it is not the same as a couple guys teaming up and playing whatever they want. Over the phone he sounds willing to put in the required time, so peek back here once in a while.
It was Barnes and Noble time until past dark. I like that place, the one in Aventura, but not the trip there. It’s a scary stretch of road most of the time. A surprising number of gals in the coffee shop, but none of them smiled back. Well, that’s not strictly true. Some of them looked like they never smiled at all. So I read a lot. I learned that California is cracking down on farmer’s markets. They are requiring that the produce actually be grown and be sold by the farmers direct to the public. It’s un-American.
When it comes to economy, it pays to keep a global perspective. The national on-line sport of flagging on Craigslist has been lately made easier by software that changes your proxy, makes their code think you are a different computer each time. The only other way is to keep changing your IP address, but then you have to reboot your modem and router every time. So, now you can hire 48 Hindu-types for $22 for 24 hours. They’ll flag away to your heart’s delight. They accept PayPal.I took a deeper look at Android programming. These are the phone apps that use Google software. If it seems confusing, it is. You need Java, Eclipse and Apache Ant to make it work. Alas, this is how programming has degenerated since C+ became a standard. Don’t ask me how a logical thinker is even supposed to know what these strangely-named items are or how they are related, and nobody on the Internet is likely to tell you. However, the system seems popular with those young enough never to have used a real programming language.
The Android interface is Eclipse and Apache Ant is the compiler. Without ever having seen or used an Android app, I can see right now that they are mostly simple constructs that do one thing each and that they must all quickly become very repetitious. It may assist to understand the analogy that real programming is like a Meccano set while modular programming is like Lego. The bigger Lego pieces only fit together certain ways and the output becomes homogeneous and boring unless the projects keep getting bigger and more expensive.
Last, I read that for a laugh, some people are using Kool-Aid to dye their hair. The food coloring is so strong, by making slurry of the powder and rubbing it in, it lasts through a couple of shampoos. So if you are the sort that needs grape or lemon colored hair to get noticed, there’s your cheap way out.
