Outing

[ateolf]

Yesterday after work I rocked over to the library for the friends of the library book sale, to check it out. It's apparently the first one they've been able to do in two years so I was interested to see what they might have. I got a few things: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut, The Book of Daniel by E. L. Doctorow, To the Wedding by John Berger, The Facts by Philip Roth, and Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill. Then I popped over to Second Editions (the permanent used book store in the library) and picked up a couple: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and Night and Day by Virginia Woolf. Then in the evening Mary Beth and I went over to Josh and Molly's to hang out. When we get there Josh was working on work stuff trying to troubleshoot some problem he'd had after a deployment. I was curious and he was showing it to me and then I was trying to help him troubleshoot. It's dorky but it was fun. I didn't solve the problem or anything but I did help eliminate a possibility so that's always something. So this guy who isn't with the company any more and is a ui genius apparently BUT writes everything from scratch and doesn't use any frameworks and just uses straight up javascript and doesn't even use jQuery for things like tables, makes those from scratch so he has this inscrutable mass of code that's hard to work with. Anyway, Josh is trying to figure out why one thing he added isn't working and while I had no idea of the big picture of what was going on, we zoomed into the function where he thought the trouble was and I was able to at least follow along in that little piece and I at least determined that it wasn't a problem in that function but how things were being set or unset outside of it. Dorky as it sounds, it was fun looking into code you're not familiar with and getting some sort of idea what's going on. When work isn't your own work I guess it doesn't feel like work! Then Josh gave that up for later and we played around just a minute with this DX7 he had and he said he'd gotten one cool sound out of and the sound he had on it was VERY cool. Then dinner of street tacos that Molly made and were very good. And we hung out and chatted a good bit. Finn (formerly Maria) even talked to us a bit and hung out and we got to discover this thing the kids these days are into called weirdcore. It's basically surrealist photoshop collage images and they tend to have lots of eyes on everything (which made me immediately think of the Alien Soundtracks cover). And they were showing us the pictures they'd made and it was all very cool! Okay, I think that catches us up!

Comments

[symbioid]

The table stuff is funny. My friend used to LOVE tables so much. He also helped me with that Quardinex game you played (he basically did all the react UI But yeah he said he enjoyed it. Then he tells me a few weeks later: "Never get a job as a dev".

I think it's the same thing - programming for fun is not the same as doing it for a job LOL.

"how things were being set or unset outside of it." *shakes fist at state setting*

I love my Volca FM. I am curious about the OpSix, but basically holding off for The Korg Drumlogue. (Korg fanboy much?)

OH - my friend is getting into euro - He just bought that nifty keys euro keyboard thing - have you seen that?

[ateolf]

Hey, at least react is a framework! (Hey, I love having a job as a dev. Sure it's not the same as doing it for fun, but it makes work a lot less crummy than it could be. I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the company/work environment/etc.) Is that one of those keyboards that has a built-in single-row euro case? Or is this something else?

[symbioid]

Haha, yeah, I just hate the mixing of UI/Logic. I mean it's not, but it feels very convoluted, unless my friend just writes programs wierd.

I think it's like - he likes to code, but when you do it, at the end of the day you wanna do anything to chill the brain.

Yeah that keyboard is the one! I guess it was just announced?

[ateolf]

I know Waldorf had a really nice one like that for a while but kind of recently got discontinued (and there was another company before that with one that was more basic, and was discontinued before the Waldorf, the Waldorf way very expensive too, but looked really nice...). Anyway, didn't know there was a new one coming out now. I'll have to check that out.