And we're watching baseball.

but then I restarted it, dog gone it.

Plus, Capturing the Friedmans, the dead old lady and the dead geeky son, the arthropods revenge, saling wrapup, Irish girl catchup, World on Fire, Hell in a Very Small Place, VP lunch, Suite Life, MILF night, Jack's Pumpking Spice Ale, Marc's, She's failing English? That's unpossible! and less.

Poll: Who won the VP debate?

So I got some random curry-related things, including 3 different bottles of masala. None were what I was hoping to find (an oily but otherwise dry masala) since they're all quite wet. This is what I get for being too lazy to whip up my own.

Despite this, it's good to have a variety of spicy things, to which end I've also gotten some thai chili sauce (I'd have gotten the chilis themselves but I couldn't find any) cayenne powder, etc. So given rice/noodles and meat, I can do just about anything I want to them.

I have my rules posted on a whiteboard in my office.

Lots of interesting stories.

I'm no financial expert. I'm not even a finance novice. I'm just some sort of young fool. I don't quite know what to think of this financial crisis and the rescue (not bailout, I've been advised) package.

Dad whipped out a new toy yesterday for its first real drive. Sweet, sweet looking car. Bright red, whitewalls, old-schoolish wheels with the simple silver disc center on cream/yellow outers and a super-smooth interior with flat dash/console. Very nice.

So, I stop in the BIG WIG parking lot to check it out on my way home and the head of HR comes whipping by to brag it up, like, you know, I wouldn't have a clue about it. Because I only saw this thing in pieces about a six dozen times or so before finally seeing it come together. Whatever.

Work. MSSS. Something's going right? Technobaubles.

things and other stuff.

i am ruminating here in the Desert Castle, and i am thinking of you, husi. and thinking of what to do next.

Related to this.  Today, at lunch time, I was messing about with World Canon, and bumped once again into a problem with the algorithm I use to drill down into the hierarchy.  The problem is superficially straight forward, given a triangle determine if a point is inside it.  However, IEEE throws you a curve-ball occasionally, and a point sat on, or close to an edge or vertex can fall through the cracks.  In the past I have used a combination of epsilon values, nasty work-arounds and generally avoiding situations that cause this to be a problem.

I had spent some time - quite a lot of time - when I first wrote that code, researching the problem and found neither prior art addressing the issue or a solution of my own that I was happy with.

This afternoon, whilst working on a totally unrelated piece of code (new game project, Wii/PS2/PSP, very cool licence), I had a Eureka moment...