http://jimmoy.com Rodents of Unusual Size Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:21:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 This blog has gone unused, so I'm going to point the default domain index for this site to my piano tuning business now. Old links will still be valid, as well as other services being hosted on jimmoy.com http://jimmoy.com/index.php/2008/07/20/blog-deprecated/ First paddle outing of the year to Boyd. Clear, 70 degrees, slight breeze. Water slightly chilly to the touch, for lack of a more objective measurement. Felt like it had been such a long time since I'd been in, but maybe that's just missing it speaking. Lots of ... http://jimmoy.com/index.php/2006/05/15/first-paddle/ Over the years, there has been discussion on the Internet about origin of the name of the software protocol known as TWAIN, a standard allowing diverse applications to connect with sources of image data like scanners. Nobody seems to know exactly why it was given its name. Even ... http://jimmoy.com/index.php/2006/03/10/origin-of-twain/ Oh, nice, per-application volume control in a little app called IndieVolume. I can wait for the feature in Vista, but for now on XP I can crank up the volume on my tunes and not get blasted out of my seat when an IM or email comes in. ... http://jimmoy.com/index.php/2006/03/06/indievolume/ Time to learn something new. I've been through the tutorials on both Ruby on Rails and Seaside. I'm not sure to which I'm going to devote my limited spare time outside of work. Not enough bandwidth for both, at least not at the same time. Rails ... http://jimmoy.com/index.php/2006/01/31/choices-choices/ ROTFL http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=74230 "...coding style is an essentially solved problem, and we ought to stop worrying about it. And to stop worrying about it will require worrying about it a lot first, because the only way to get from where we are to a place where we stop worrying about style is to ... http://jimmoy.com/index.php/2005/08/29/style-wars/ Oh, look! It's my brother in-law out on the web: http://biotech-investments.com/stream/biotech/ My, doesn't he look handsome and so... so... respectable, doesn't he? Of course, I really know him as the Beach Dude, surfing, and kayaking out in Florida, so I guess I haven't really seen him that often in ... http://jimmoy.com/index.php/2005/07/23/beach-dude/ First paddle this year was this past Tuesday. 70's. Water temp 58F, which felt just fine, though I've been reading about cold shock recently and so have been a bit paranoid. Shoulders are sore, but boy was it nice. And today's it feels like it's going ... http://jimmoy.com/index.php/2005/05/12/first-paddle/ I am still studying major scale harmony, as I have [written previously][0]. Yes, I am going a little slow. Any forward progress is all good though, and I am getting it worked into my brain/muscle memory more and more, so it feels good. [0]: http://jimmoy.com/index.php/2004/09/02/master-modal-pattern/ The usual starting point for ... http://jimmoy.com/index.php/2005/03/20/lesser-used-modal-pattern/ My hero, at least, for the geek in me. http://jimmoy.com/index.php/2004/11/22/adam-bosworths-weblog-iscoc04-talk/ Was out paddling on Boyd Mon/Wed/Fri last week. Mon seemed like the ideal, glass-water day, but I actually liked Wed a bit better where there is enough of a breeze to keep some ripples flowing on the water. Seems like less scum is just floating around when it's ... http://jimmoy.com/index.php/2004/09/12/hot-cold/ I'd been struggling to really understand what was going on with the 7-string master modal pattern on the [Chapman Stick][0]. Part of it was just that I'm new to music theory even though I've played an instrument in some form or another since I was eight. [0]: http://www.stick.com I have great ... http://jimmoy.com/index.php/2004/09/02/master-modal-pattern/ Today and this past Monday, hardly anyone at Boyd Lake at lunch time! Clear blue skies, the closest clouds were over the mountains, a very slight breeze to put some ripples on the water, and mid-80's temperature so I only the occasional splash kept me comfortably paddling. I realized today ... http://jimmoy.com/index.php/2004/09/01/great-weather/ This is for my last weeks worth of trips out to the lake. One common thing about them (including today) is the speed of the waves moving across the lake. They've been slow enough that on my way North I can actually "surf" them, and it seems to ... http://jimmoy.com/index.php/2004/08/25/a-few-trips/