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shannon_aI've been meaning to write about a variety of things for days.
The most exciting thing for today is that we released Reiner Knizia's High Society, which I'd been working on for many months.
Mind you, there's a downside to that too. Very mysteriously the distribution release fails on older iPhones running 3.1.3 of the OS. I say it's mysterious because I can replicate the bug on my iPhone with the version that went through Apple, but every other build works fine. Pfah. I'm going to try and locate another slight bug I saw in "continue" and upload a totally new build with the newest SDK tomorrow, and hope that does the job, because a bug that I see only after Apple's 1-week approval is going to be a pretty nasty one to debug.
Edit: Having had several hours of downtime I was able to go back to High Society, replicate the bug, find the cause, and fix it. Now I just have to wait for Apple to approve the update. My note to self is probably to wait until day #2 to do my publicity engine, so that I can pull a release if it went wrong. And my bigger note is probably: more beta testers.
Here's the other stuff of note:
Oakland Lives. So, I biked down to Endgame on Saturday, and along the way got to see the carnage caused by the pseudo-humans who were "protesting" on Thursday. It wasn't actually as bad as expected. Once you got to the Twelfth to Nineteenth Street corridor, maybe every fifth or sixth shop had some boards in the windows.
It was also obvious that there were two different types of protestors: the anarchists who hit the banks and the looters who hit Sears, shoe stores, and salons. It was pretty impressive how every single bank was boarded up--and you know that wasn't preventative, beforehand, because who would smash the windows of banks during a riot!?
Chip Lies. And let me say, screw Chip Johnson, a local Oaklandite who writes about Oakland affairs. I used to have some respect for him as someone writing about issues from a personal point of view, but lately it's become obvious that his writing is so biased that it actually doesn't have any veracity. Leading up to verdict last week, he wrote about the riots last January ... except he refused to use the word riot; he kept saying "protest" instead. And then, after this latest riot he claimed that the people were just "expressing their point of view".
They were animals, Chip. Looters destroying their own community. You should be ashamed of yourself and your pathetic pandering toward them.
Berkeley Falls. So I went back up to the falls behind Codornices Park with Kimberly this Sunday. It was a challenging ride because of the hills, but we made it, and the walk back to the falls was as beautiful as before. I read some Harry Dresden to Kimberly back there (we're currently reading book 7 aloud) and then we biked back down the hill.
House Blinds. Kimberly and I just rather exhaustingly pulled the old blinds out of her office. The problem, as ever, was that some past owner of the house painted everything. All the hardware, all the screws, etc. And it's never fun to unscrew screws that have been entirely filled with paint.
Tomorrow 3DayBlinds (more like 4WeekBlinds, though be fair they said 2 because of the "specialty" blinds we ordered for our stairs) will be installing some of the blinds that we missed when we blinded the house ten years ago: replacements for the crappy previous blinds in Kimberly's office (which we might have ignored because it was supposed to be an unused guest room originally, and thus they wouldn't see much use) and new blinds for the stairs and for the dining room, where the windows cause us problems in the late afternoon and early evening.
This has been part of some general upkeep and maintenance on our house. Kimberly and I have started doing some weekly cleaning together, which is slowing making progress against years of grime. That's in turn encouraged me to replace things that need replacing. So I've gotten new curtains for some downstairs windows that were destroyed by Lucy and by the elements and there are our blinds, coming tomorrow. I now need to get the screens that I've been meaning to get for years. And then I'm thinking about painting stuff, if I can manage the energy while working on my RPG History Book and otherwise eating up my free time.
We'll see.
The most exciting thing for today is that we released Reiner Knizia's High Society, which I'd been working on for many months.
Mind you, there's a downside to that too. Very mysteriously the distribution release fails on older iPhones running 3.1.3 of the OS. I say it's mysterious because I can replicate the bug on my iPhone with the version that went through Apple, but every other build works fine. Pfah. I'm going to try and locate another slight bug I saw in "continue" and upload a totally new build with the newest SDK tomorrow, and hope that does the job, because a bug that I see only after Apple's 1-week approval is going to be a pretty nasty one to debug.
Edit: Having had several hours of downtime I was able to go back to High Society, replicate the bug, find the cause, and fix it. Now I just have to wait for Apple to approve the update. My note to self is probably to wait until day #2 to do my publicity engine, so that I can pull a release if it went wrong. And my bigger note is probably: more beta testers.
Here's the other stuff of note:
Oakland Lives. So, I biked down to Endgame on Saturday, and along the way got to see the carnage caused by the pseudo-humans who were "protesting" on Thursday. It wasn't actually as bad as expected. Once you got to the Twelfth to Nineteenth Street corridor, maybe every fifth or sixth shop had some boards in the windows.
It was also obvious that there were two different types of protestors: the anarchists who hit the banks and the looters who hit Sears, shoe stores, and salons. It was pretty impressive how every single bank was boarded up--and you know that wasn't preventative, beforehand, because who would smash the windows of banks during a riot!?
Chip Lies. And let me say, screw Chip Johnson, a local Oaklandite who writes about Oakland affairs. I used to have some respect for him as someone writing about issues from a personal point of view, but lately it's become obvious that his writing is so biased that it actually doesn't have any veracity. Leading up to verdict last week, he wrote about the riots last January ... except he refused to use the word riot; he kept saying "protest" instead. And then, after this latest riot he claimed that the people were just "expressing their point of view".
They were animals, Chip. Looters destroying their own community. You should be ashamed of yourself and your pathetic pandering toward them.
Berkeley Falls. So I went back up to the falls behind Codornices Park with Kimberly this Sunday. It was a challenging ride because of the hills, but we made it, and the walk back to the falls was as beautiful as before. I read some Harry Dresden to Kimberly back there (we're currently reading book 7 aloud) and then we biked back down the hill.
House Blinds. Kimberly and I just rather exhaustingly pulled the old blinds out of her office. The problem, as ever, was that some past owner of the house painted everything. All the hardware, all the screws, etc. And it's never fun to unscrew screws that have been entirely filled with paint.
Tomorrow 3DayBlinds (more like 4WeekBlinds, though be fair they said 2 because of the "specialty" blinds we ordered for our stairs) will be installing some of the blinds that we missed when we blinded the house ten years ago: replacements for the crappy previous blinds in Kimberly's office (which we might have ignored because it was supposed to be an unused guest room originally, and thus they wouldn't see much use) and new blinds for the stairs and for the dining room, where the windows cause us problems in the late afternoon and early evening.
This has been part of some general upkeep and maintenance on our house. Kimberly and I have started doing some weekly cleaning together, which is slowing making progress against years of grime. That's in turn encouraged me to replace things that need replacing. So I've gotten new curtains for some downstairs windows that were destroyed by Lucy and by the elements and there are our blinds, coming tomorrow. I now need to get the screens that I've been meaning to get for years. And then I'm thinking about painting stuff, if I can manage the energy while working on my RPG History Book and otherwise eating up my free time.
We'll see.