mornin' drive
March 19, 2004 by Eric Richardson
It's really foggy out today here in La Canada. I could barely see the tops of 5 story buildings walking in from my car. Today was a short walk, since I actually got here early for once. 7:10 and I was at my desk. Kathy's parents needed to be in Hollywood for a medical conference that started at 7:30, so I picked them up at 6:35 at the USC Radisson, made the short drive up to 7th/Figueroa, and dropped them off with subway tokens. Hopefully they figured everything out ok. The LA subway's a funny thing... I think it's the nicest subway I've ever been on -- if it goes where you're going. For me, it's really only useful between Hollywood and downtown.
Listening to Roger Lodge on 1540 this morning, all they could talk about was how the Dodgers raised parking prices to $10. This summer I tried to get a job with the Dodgers, but they didn't have anything available. I talked to the VP of HR, and he looked around, but didn't come up with anything. Now he's resigning, part of an exodus/firing of most of the executive staff. This kind of thing makes me glad for a job with stability, even if the commute is longer.
the simple things
March 17, 2004 by Eric Richardson
It's funny, now that I've got support for Markdown syntax, the thing I'm most excited about is now I'll actually have my paragraphs wrapped in p tags instead of via my ugly excuse for turning line breaks into
tags. The simple things...
Kathy and I just picked her parents up at Union Station. They rode the train out here from Chicago, a trip that started Wednesday. They enjoyed it. After dropping their luggage in the car we walked across to Olvera St and ate at La Golondrina Cafe. I had carne asada tacos and enjoyed them.
It's way too nice to be inside, but that's where I am. You can't have everything, I guess.
ahh... formatting made simple
March 16, 2004 by Eric Richardson
I'm putting this post in place of the test post I had because I'm not testing any more... The new code's now in place.
Yesterday Brian Tol was showing me the new version of http://wiremine.org, running on his new bliki system. I still don't think I quite understand exactly what he's getting at, but he's a smart guy so I'm just goign to wait and see what happens. What I did think was cool, though, was the wikiformatting stuff he's using.
That got me thinking, and today I was talking about formatting stuffs with Shmuel. He mentioned Markdown, which struck me as cooler and more natural than the other things I was looking at. Tonight I took the markdown code, made it into a module, and added support for it into eThreads. Now I can get all the formatting I want through a nice simple syntax. Very cool.
I need to think harder about how to integrate format hooks into the code better, but it's up and running after I only heard about the thing this afternoon, so I really can't complain that much.
the always helpful error message
March 16, 2004 by Eric Richardson
I just got this beauty from Perl:
Unknown error
Compilation failed in require at eThreads/core.pm line 226.
It fails trying to require a module. "Unknown error" really helps out your debugging, now doesn't it?
hazy days
March 16, 2004 by Eric Richardson
I woke up today and the LA haze was still in full effect. Even driving through it downtown was blurry. But then I emerged into Pasadena, and the air was clear. I'm still not used to LA's crazy differences in weather that depend solely on which side of the hills you're on. Yesterday it was 15 degrees warmer leaving work than it was twenty minutes later riding through downtown. It makes sense if you look at the air flow and the hills and all that, but it's still kind of weird to me.
Sunday was really nice, even downtown. Kathy and I took the DASH up Fig and walked around for a bit. We at lunch at the Angelique Cafe, wedged in the split of Spring and Main. It's only open for breakfast and lunch (unless you eat dinner before 4, I guess), but it's cheap, good, and the sandwich I got had a lot of turkey on it. Kathy made note of authentic French touches, I just liked the food.