Have you always wondered who you would be if you were a sports car? Take this short quiz to find out the answer. "Me?", you ask. I'm a Porsche Boxster, which they describe as
You're stylish, nimble, and good-looking. When it comes to having fun, there are few who can surpass you. And yet, you suffer from a lingering inferiority complex. Maybe it's because you have an older relative who is always in the limelight?
It's hard for me to argue with that.
This post offers some food for thought on why geeks make good dads. The ones that I most identify with are
3. MATH. A huge plus here. No matter how old they get, Steve can still help with the math homework. My ability to be of assistance is going to last another few years before *I* end up throwing the math homework across the room in disgust.
for obvious reasons and
9. SMART IS COOL. Having a Geek for a father instills the message into your children that smart is cool. They idolize Daddy. Hopefully, they'll want to grow up to be just like him.
because, gosh-darn-it being idolized ROCKS! It makes up for just about anything during your day to get a toothless smile from that chubby pink face when you get home. I'm a proud geek dad today.
I must have found more free time than I really should have, because I am posting this from the little desktop blogger app that I whupped up in less than a day using Cocoa, Python and the deliriously wonderful Python-to-ObjectiveC bridge PyObjC.
The app is called GolbPy and currently supports only one blog using the Blogger API and you can't go back and change your mind, so be careful what it is that you're posting. It has no features and is all future, but hey, what else is software development for?
Here is the illustrious product
This is a test of the non-emergency PyBlogger system.
I posted this from a Python session using Drupal's XML-RPC interface by way of a Python module called PyBlogger.
I anticipate that in my copious free time I will dream of putting together a simple Cocoa/PyObjC application to leverage this module into a free blogging app for MacOS X, which doesn't currently exist, to my knowledge.
This post was also helpful in getting me on the right track.
I have been working with a new computer code this week that outputs its results as HDF files. These are a standard format for scientific data, but they are opaque to the "naked eye". Because it is a binary, compressed format, it isn't possible to look at the files with a text editor and see what they contain (say, to learn the inner workings of a new program). But, lo and behold, I dug up a Python module called PyHDF that exposes the data as Python objects. So, since I enjoy using Python I can now poke around in these HDF files at will. This is primarily the reason that I love Python: object-orientation and a shload of contributed modules to do just about anything.
