Another beta completed this week, and a good one too. After a stunning revelation (involving code reuse, of all things) we solved all the geometry problems that have been haunting me for the last 5 months. We’re essentially feature complete now, things seem to be stable and fast, and hopefully just one more release til the final gold release is done.
Rock climbing is going well too – finished a record three 5.10a climbs last week; finished one and nearly topped out another today.
On Thursday I saw the band Swarming Hordes at Chop Suey – turns out Neil used to be a roomate of one of the band members. Excellent, amazingly technically proficient speed instrumetal along the lines of early Metallica (only faster).
Besides losing money at Big Two (a weekly thing, lately), and a spot of overindulgent eating (had a good brunch at the Coastal Kitchen last week with Greg, who was here for one morning; then there were steaks at Ruth Chris’ the day after with Jamie and others; and the requisite Red Mill burgers after climbing), not much else is happening. Yes, I avoided Bumbershoot since I missed Hell’s Belles and wasn’t really keen on much else. So I’ll insert some plugs instead. Like for the newer sites of a couple of friends who are doing more interesting things. Manh’s experiments with Javascript are over at manhtran.com – really folks, it’s just a front, he’s really not all that demented. (Although I’m getting annoyed at having to help him debug his cookies. Stop it.) And Mark V has a new blog over at brainwagon with cool stuff as usual. Speaking of plugs, The Stranger gave Salumi an excellent review this week. We eat lunch there every Wednesday – yes, my boss is the son of the owner, and he happens to serve lunch on Wednesdays as well, but the cured meat there is really, really good regardless.
