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• May 13, 2013

  Continuing Catastrophe Coverage: Completed

  Or so I’m assuming. They drywalled over the hole, told me it would be drying for 2 days, then came back the next day and painted it. It is still a disaster area, but the ceiling is sealed, so that is pretty much all I need. You can clearly see the difference between the drywall [...]

• May 7, 2013

  Continuing Catastrophe Coverage: Communications

  So, finally, 4 months later, the management company is sending somebody to repair my ceiling. Only when the repair people call to set up an appointment and say “painters”, I had the foresight to ask if they are going fix the giant hole before they paint. Of course, they do not do that. The new [...]

• April 27, 2013

  Fox Kit Review

  Fox kits: some assembly required. The fox kits are out of the den over at the Fox of the day. See more and some video on their debut photo page. The mist has matted down their usual fuzz. There are 4 kits, and both parents show up in the videos. They are already much bigger [...]

• April 22, 2013

  Anime Review: Spring 2013

  Giant robot SF seems to be the stand-out theme this season. Suisei no Gargantua is all around solid, and Valvrave the Liberator‘s surprise ending makes up for the Curse of Shinji it demonstrated up to that point. Humor is a mixed bag. Hayate the Combat Butler seems to have given up making anime inside jokes [...]

• April 15, 2013

  Warcraft Review: Thunder King

  This patch has been good. The “learning epic patterns through daily practice” is nice, although Haunting Spirits are very expensive right now, and I don’t have many chain mail patterns. The gated and phased assault is sometimes annoying, as when you open the new phase and get exactly the same daily quests, but there are [...]

• April 9, 2013

  Testing: Web Testing

  So, back in the day, I did a survey of the available testing tools. I wanted something that would be able to run on a server or locally, wouldn’t require compiling for every new test, and would be able to run multiple items in a row, which violates the setup/teardown of usual *Unit tests, but [...]

• March 18, 2013

  Applescript: Speak Messages

  I have Messages speak the incoming messages. I am frequently zoomed in on something, as I still have not gotten new glasses or moved closer to the screen, so I might miss the dock bouncing or the actual text showing up in three places. The built-in speak messages is nice, but it reads everything and [...]

• February 28, 2013

  Continuing Catastrophe Coverage

  So, to celebrate the 2 month anniversary of my ceiling collapse, nothing has been done. There is still the tarp covering some the holes, but the water damage (peeling paint and sagging plaster) has spread the width of the bedroom and stains have spread the length of the living room. The whole place smells now, [...]

• January 18, 2013

  Anime Review: Winter 2013

  Only a few shows this time: most of the series are second seasons or sequels. (of them, Shin Sekai Yori is excellent scifi weirdness.) I don’t generally review them. You either saw the original or didn’t. Maoyu was nice, but draws the inevitable comparisons to Spice and Wolf (same cast, economics), and loses. Holo’s obviously [...]