Living in fear is no good to anyone.

There is movie night tomorrow. We won't be watching Dr. Tran (yet), but I will be making a big turkey and dressing.

Every time I go to Walmart, I glance at the empty shelf the Nintendo Wiis go on. On Tuesday evening, the shelf wasn't empty. There were two. I wanted to buy them both and sell the second to one of my friends at cost or eBay it if there wasn't interest among my friends. While waiting for 40+ minutes for someone to come over to unlock the case (I prodded many employees and there was an announcement over the PA), a couple came over and also wanted one. I didn't feel like being a dick/fighting about it, so I only bought one Wii.
For those of you with Wiis connected to the internet, my code is: 3369 4653 4227 1295

Hopefully the UCSF study will add to the pressure on the US government to rethink its irrational ban on the medicinal use of marijuana -- and its destructive attacks on patients and caregivers in states that have chosen to allow such use. Rather than admit they have been mistaken all these years, federal officials can cite "important new data" and start revamping outdated and destructive policies.

President Bush has not yet subordinated our judiciary to the military, but the more we learn about U.S. attorneys fired for failing to succumb to Justice Department and congressional political pressure, the more the Bush administration looks like the tawdry, third world, small-time dictatorship its opponents accuse it of being.

More anecdotal evidence for the ~30% crazification factor:
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cm/content/view/179/159/

Why Private Police Forces are bad for most of us.

The other day, niap_si_efil lost his phone. He then found it. The condition he found it in sucks, but I was entertained.

I thought I had a good understanding of knitting looms. It appears they can be far more complex.

This is an interesting list. I'm surprised at how few names I recognized.
The 50 Most Important People on the Web

I sent an email out to a few people the other day:

I have a C++ project I want to work on. I plan on using wxWidgets for the GUI. I want to be able to develop it concurrently for Mac and Windows. I'd like to be able to do the development work on a Mac that I have yet to buy. What development tools do you know of that could enable me to do all of this?

I got the following responses:

From fusiongyro:

Well, Xcode is free and pretty nice, and it can certainly help you code C++, and therefore wxWidgets. That's the Apple IDE.

Of course you'll be able to use Parallels, which will come with your Mac, to run Windows simultaneously. And you'll be able to share folders with it such as your build folder. Presumably cross-compilation is possible targeting Windows with a regular Xcode gcc, but if not you can install a different gcc.

I use TextMate as my editor (non-free), but you could just as easily plug Aquamacs Emacs into Xcode as the editor. It's not seamless but it's pretty nice all the same. Or you could forego Xcode altogether.

I use MacPorts to install software and libraries like gcc and wxWidgets. That's also free and simplifies the upgrading (similar to portage but less featureful).

I'm not sure what you'd need other than free software to do this.

From ravendisplayed:

Well, my experience with wxWidgets and cross platform development are purely in the realm of python, so that is what I can offer. It might not be what you are looking for, but I like it.

wxPython exposes wxWidgets to python on just about every platform wxWidgets runs on. I have a decent into book on using it.
http://wxpython.org/

SPE is a decent cross platform python IDE written in wxPython.
http://pythonide.stani.be/

You can use py2exe to build .exe's for windows users.
http://www.py2exe.org/

And finally, you can use swig to create python interfaces to C++ libs.
http://www.swig.org/

From houdini_cs:

I don't have anything good for those requirements. Vi/emacs and gcc?

Eclipse _might_ do what you want, but that's a maybe. If you're willing to spend some money, there are a few good ones: QT comes with an IDE which is supposedly the shit. Komodo (from ActiveState) felt nice for the ~10 minutes I fucked around with it.

If you weren't attached to C++/wx, you could use .Net/Mono, or RealBasic or something.

fusiongyro's was the most useful, but I also expected that since he's a Mac developer. Looking into it, it appears that Parallels doesn't come with new Macs and costs ~$80, but that's not bad. I'll stick with BootCamp and VMWare (both of which are free) for now, but might get Parallels eventually.

If anyone else wants to provide some input, it would be appreciated.

Yesterday afternoon I ordered a 13" MacBook. Today I registered a domain from which to eventually sell the product I will be developing. I'm not telling too many people about what it is yet (those that know about it shouldn't talk about it too much, please), but if it works as well as I hope and it sells like I think it could, it will be awesome.

From: Jarrod Lombardo
To: help@wrights.com
Subject: Boye Pronunciation
There has been some controversy in the knitting community I'm involved
in about the pronunciation of the brand name "Boye". Some pronounce it
"boy" and some pronounce it "boy-yay". Which is right?

From: "Judy Fontaine" <xxxxxx@wrights.com>
To: Jarrod Lombardo
Subject: RE: Boye Pronunciation
The correct way is boy.

I would have posted this the same way even if the official pronunciation had been the other way. I wasn't as interested in being right as I wanted to know what was the official way to pronounce it.

I don't often read Wonkette, but this one about the Iran War (yes, Iran) is particularly interesting:
http://wonkette.com/politics/iran/war-all-the-time-204928.php

I sent Ronald L. Rivest an email today and had to deal with his spam filter:
http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~rivest/rsf/
It looks interesting, though I don't think it would easily work for me. I would definitely like to see the code whenever he releases it.

"Wombat Land" is a cool shirt:

Meat Cake!

Online weather stations in Socorro so you can know how much rain we've gotten:
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KNMSOCOR1
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KNMSOCOR2
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KNMSOCOR4
http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KNMSOCOR6

Some news articles:
Too many Americans too fat for medical scanners.
Our military men and women deserve better from us
Iraq war splits America like never before
Security issues may drive insecure voters

Tomatoes!!
Originally uploaded by jarrodlombardo.

Two tiny tomatos. They're only about 1/4 inch.

Do any of you have a Resistance/Inductance/Capacitance meter I can borrow for a while?

Dining Room Table Complete
Originally uploaded by jarrodlombardo.

With Brad's help lifing the glass, I finished the table today.

Knitting needle heads after baking
Originally uploaded by jarrodlombardo.

In knitting class today, we made knitting needles. The heads shown here are clay. there are more photos in my flickr account.

Dining Room Table Base
Originally uploaded by jarrodlombardo.

This is the base to the dining room table I'm building. It just needs some more sanding and clearcoat and it'll be done. The top is a big piece of glass that will just sit up there.

Oiled Board
Originally uploaded by jarrodlombardo.

The board after oiling it. The natural colors came out beautiful. When making a cutting board, you use warmed mineral oil to cure/treat the wood. It makes the board waterpoof once it's properly oiled. It'll take a few days until I'm done oiling it.

Sanded Board
Originally uploaded by jarrodlombardo.

I've been working on a making cutting board. It's about 17x24 inches and 1 1/4 inches thick. I finished sanding it today. and took this photo.

It's really cool when you're listening to the radio and a really cheesy 80's instrumental comes on that you recognize, but it takes you a moment to figure out what it is: Jan Hammer - Miami Vice Theme.

I'm doing well. Work is tolerable and home-life has been good. I've been busy with projects. I gor the water filter installed in the kitchen and I should be able to have the table finished by the 15th when I want it done.

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Tonight is the baronj/omnipaul birthday party at my house. They are making some main-course type food (I don't remember what). I'm going to make Scotch Bonnet Slarg (no habaneros were to be found in Socorro and that's what baronj was able to find in Albuquerque) and Better-Than-Sex Cake from my old housemate Chris's recipe (holy shit is it rich). I'll take pictures of the food as I make it, and they'll get posted up on Flickr.

The other day I got the "Spinach" thing I mentioned. It's a Spinach Corduroy LoveSac SuperSac. I took pictures of it when as we unpacked it, but I've been lazy and they're still on my camera. It is really heavy and hard to fluff, but it is really comfortable, especially for cuddling with 2 others.

I'm against by-law marriage because the system is very discriminatory based on creed. If you don't know, I'm very far from being a christian myself. I found this document through one of the political communities I read:
5 Reasons Why Christians Should Not Obtain a State Marriage License
Some of the reasons I have to be against the legal system of marriage are the opposite of some of his (one of my biggest being that marriage is between exactly 3 parties: man, woman, state; he is against it for there being more than 2 parties and I am against it for the number of parties being limited at all and the sex specification), but it's still an interesting read.

Logarithmic Maps of the Universe

How to become an early riser

A well written method for making sturdy sandals from old truck tires.

Comments on Basic Instinct 2

An Economic Analysis of Airport Security Screening

( Answers to yesterday's lyrics meme. )

WY (R) Senator escalates war on women's health care
http://community.livejournal.com/neph_politics/310913.html?nc=10&style=mine

The definitive rebuttal of data mining as a counterterrorism tool.
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/014248.html
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/data_mining_for.html
I think we should all send this to all of our senators and representatives and any NSA/CIA/FBI guys we know. Also, we should tell other people about it, encouraging them to do the same.

"China struck back Thursday against U.S. criticism of its human rights record by saying the United States is plagued by crime and racial inequity and is abusing detainees who are terror suspects."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-03-09-china-humanrights_x.htm

"Please try doing some or all of your travel by declining to show ID and report back about what happens to you."
http://www.papersplease.org/investigation.html

A blanket with sleeves is a great idea.
http://www.theslanket.com/product.php

A parenting advice forum with ranking and commenting not entirely unlike slashdot ranking and commenting:
http://www.minti.com/

I'll be able to talk with lalabob11 in about 45 minutes. Hopefully I'll have reason to move my default icon off of "Sad Jellaby" after we talk.

Food tonight will be weird. I've never sauteed cherries before. I think it'll be tasty though. I'll post the recipes if they come out good.

I'd never gotten a 406 before. Nearly all of the pages at http://www.spunmag.com/ give me a 406 on my widget. I haven't looked with a real browser yet, so I don't know how it is there.