I am committed

... or shall I say, "my submitted patch has been committed"? Today, my first ever contribution to an open source project has been committed into the project's source code control system. I am very excited about that not because that makes me special. Rather, I feel I have taken a very important step towards my career goals, and this is a significant milestone for me.

I had been wanting to get myself involved in an open source project for quite some time now. However, I was never motivated enough to actually hunker down and do it. Two weeks ago on Sunday after church, Dayna and I got into a long "let's blue sky it a bit" type of conversation. We asked ourselves what we want to achieve professionally, and what can we do today to edge us closer to that goal. The answer for me was to get involve in an open source project. I chose NHibernate as the project, picked an open issue to work on from its issue tracker, and two weeks later, I had my patch committed to the project.

I am committed and I hope my enthusiasm will continue. May be someday I will earn the title of Regular Contributor of NHibernate or some other open source project.

What is logic worth?

Okay, everybody roll your eyes now so we get that over with...

Let's follow some logic here: 1pm is before 2pm, isn't it? And 2pm is before 3pm, isn't it? So why is 11pm not before 12pm? Shouldn't "noon" really be 12am and "midnight really be 12pm? I am sure there are people out there thinking to themselves, "my flight at 12:05pm, is it around noon, or is it around midnight?" The clock is a system invented by man; if you were to invent something, I am sure your thought process would not go something like this...

Hmmm... let me see... these are the rules that will govern how this system works... it will work as is, but for good measure, let me throw in a couple of exceptions

It's tough to be a logician sometimes because so many things in this world, important or not, do not make sense at all. My brain is hurting now, I gonna go watch some TV.

The Blank Stare

I got it again... the blank stare.

Karl and I were driving to a wedding last night and the vehicle in front of us had one of those personalized license plates that read, "Gwamma."

This, OF COURSE, made me think of the old granny from Tweety & Sylvester, so when Karl pointed out the license plate, I said, "I tawt I taw a puddy tat!"

Blank stare.

So I briefly explained it to him as being from that cartoon.

Then today it came up again, and I said, "I have to blog that..."
and he said... "I still don't know what you're even saying..."
Which cracked me up even more, so I had to blog that too.

And, now I'm off to do my mystery shopper evaluations. Yes, they make you work hard for that $150 and free sushi lunch!

Amazing Photos

Scott (once again) opened my eyes this week by showing me these amazing photos. They were shot and processed using a technique called "high dynamic range photography" (HDR)... I bet you are googling it right now (ain't I right, Melissa and Kori?). I downloaded a trial version of Photomatix and played around with it a little bit and here is what I got below... not bad for an amateur, huh!?





[Updated 2006-09-11]
I played with the software a bit more and got, in my opinion, better results this time around. You be the judge...

PEARS!

New High Score... oh yeah baby...

Farofa and weekly awards

We had supper with some new friends last night, Dana (pronounced like my name) and Juliano (with a hard "J" sound, not "H"). Juliano is from Brazil, and they made us some yummy supper to thank us for setting up their computer (us with a capital K that is...). One of the things we had was Farofa: kind of a smoky, salty flour for dipping your meat in. It was sure a yummy addition to the barbequed steak and ribs!

So, the Dinner of the Week award goes to Dana and Juliano for barbequed meat and Farofa!

Other awards:

• Irony of the Week: Tofino, a self described temperate rainforest on Vancouver Island, nearly had to shut their town down this weekend due to water shortage.
• Freebie of the Week: Christian Blind Mission International is giving away free calendars. I got mine in the mail yesterday, presumably because I donated (and received) Christmas gifts last year through them. They're an awesome organization, and I did my Masters degree with the Director, so I also encourage you to donate.
• Smarty Pants of the Week: my niece, Alisha
• How to of the Week: "How to Decorate your Dorm on a Dime" ...Yep, I authored my first wikihow, and it wins my own vote as the "how to of the week" ... check it out here and add your hit to the 800+ hits it already got!
• Other Freebies of the Week: Knock Knock: Seth Godin's new ebook about effective websites, and Who's There, an ebook about blogging

Dayna Chu :: over and out