use Perl

It's very fugly. Very alpha. Very clueless.

But, it can turn [% GET 'Hello World' %] into Hello World using an ANTLR grammer, an AST to C#, compiled and invoked with a test.

It will be long road, but it should prove to be a fun learning experience for things I don't normally mess with.

http://github.com/claco/tt.net/

I liked you when I first started using you. Now you just keep getting slower, and slower, and slower and slower.

BitBucket screams in comparison.

Please fix your site.

than spending weeks on something and getting absa-frigging-lootly nowhere.

I couldn't have a bigger hate of ANTLR than I do right now.... closely followed by Thunderbird and VirtualBox, who won't send a damn email if I've copy pasted ASCII text from a VM bitching about UTF characters.

I have this habit of getting off task with what ever new idea tickles my focus. I am tangental yak shaver of the ooh-shiny variety.

So, I'm working on MVC Marathon, a site called BurningPlate, coding ASP.NET MVC in C#. When it comes time to saddle up and write some views and tests, I wonder what ViewEngines there are. I see on for NHaml and StringTemplate.

Then I wonder what if would take to get Template Toolkit templates under .NET.

One ANTLR Reference book and a few days later, and I'm screwing around with grammers, lexers, parsers and AST.

What a learning session this is going to be, but if I get far enough, it will change the boundaries of what tools I have in my toolbox.

A big thank you for fucking up perl in Thursdays update. This is definitely how I wanted to spend my Tuesday night.

IO is toast. Now that that is reinstalled, looks like Time::HiRes is next.

Time::HiRes object version 1.86 does not match $Time::HiRes::XS_VERSION 1.9719

Can't wait to see how far this rabbit hole goes.

I'm giving serious consideration to buying this for a $work mascot, and shaving half of it.

I woke up happy to be an American. All politics, finger pointing, commercials and accusations aside, we made history last night. The first African-American president [elect].

It almost brings a tear to my every time I think about it. For the first time, I fell like there's a chance we can bring people in this country back together again and do great things.

So, it's week 7 (woohoo!) of going to the gym, now 4 times a week. When I started going with a co worker, I bought a generic-Master-like padlock and gave him one of the keys. We could share a locked locker, and he could leave earlier than I without playing where's the key madness.

Monday, he asks "what locker did you have?". an odd question since he usually just uses the locker with our padlock on it.

As it turns out, there were two lockers that evening with the same padlock brand. Even more fun, our key opened both locks.

Given that I purchased that lock at a drug store and not at a kmart/walmart/lowes, I think this was an odd coinkydink.

My mind wonders at how the probability changes of two people, bought two locks for two different uses at two different locations are instead purchasing two different locks to use for the same purpose and the same location.

How fun.

Of course, this is what I get for getting a cheap Made in China knockoff. Time to get a paired set of Masters.

It's been a month now since I started going to the gym. Just this week I've started going 4 times a week instead of two times a week (Mon/Thur -> Mon/Tue/Thur/Fri).

Not doing to bad so far. On the week parts, I've almost doubled the weight I can lift in the same # of reps. For the stronger parts, I've almost tripled the weight.

Hopefully in the next 5 months the muscle will start to burn some fat.

The routine is pretty straight forward so far. About an hour on the upper body machines (random order), about 10-13 minutes on the bike (2-3 miles) and then 5 walk laps around the track (1 mile).

Oh Venture Brothers cartoon, where have you been all my life?

What will it be today: Henching or Arching?