"Throw it a book! They like books."
Oct. 19th, 2005 08:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonWe saw Mirrormask last night. I would have probably liked it better if I hadn't already had a lot of exposure to Dave McKean's artwork (showcased nicely here, I admit) and Neil Gaiman's theme of the "other mother" (he did it better in Coraline). And the main characters spend a lot of time being surrounded by circles of strange creatures. None of which is meant to say it wasn't a fine thing to watch on a Monday night.
I have officially started my Christmas shopping, and also bought a CD alarm clock... I have an ongoing hate affair with my current, fairly new alarm clock since its snooze button is much harder to press than its off switch (can you say wrong, wrong, wrong?), and have decided to bite the bullet and get a good clock. What I want is to make a CD that will replicate my friend's Zen alarm clock... it chimes nicely, then chimes 10 minutes later, then 5 minutes later, then 2 minutes later, and so forth. HLM has said he'll help me make the CD. And unlike my friend's Zen alarm clock, it will not have a striker that can occasionally miss the bell. I am excited about all this. Oversleeping every day for the last few weeks* has kind of sucked.
Oh, and by the way, I've largely cracked the code of my evil multithreading bug. It's all about minimizing memory allocation. Whew. From here on it's solvable. That only took 7 work days... :b
*This doesn't necessarily mean I've been late to work, but it does mean my mornings are no fun.
I have officially started my Christmas shopping, and also bought a CD alarm clock... I have an ongoing hate affair with my current, fairly new alarm clock since its snooze button is much harder to press than its off switch (can you say wrong, wrong, wrong?), and have decided to bite the bullet and get a good clock. What I want is to make a CD that will replicate my friend's Zen alarm clock... it chimes nicely, then chimes 10 minutes later, then 5 minutes later, then 2 minutes later, and so forth. HLM has said he'll help me make the CD. And unlike my friend's Zen alarm clock, it will not have a striker that can occasionally miss the bell. I am excited about all this. Oversleeping every day for the last few weeks* has kind of sucked.
Oh, and by the way, I've largely cracked the code of my evil multithreading bug. It's all about minimizing memory allocation. Whew. From here on it's solvable. That only took 7 work days... :b
*This doesn't necessarily mean I've been late to work, but it does mean my mornings are no fun.
