theodosia | May 23rd -- The Green Canary Is Not A Superheroine

I thought, therefore I twittered:

This morning I'm vicariously following Wiscon via Twitters. So wish that I could have gone -- school AND finances = KO
The top 5 words I've tweeted: time, class, listening, looking, gronk. bit.ly/To6TR

Also vicariously following Wiscon via LJ and Dreamwidth, too. I suppose I could have "afforded" missing a school Saturday class, considering it concerned a bunch of stuff that I know well (no way to predict that in advance, though) and I'm still not flat broke after more than two years of unemployment... but with the uncertainty of just "when" I finally get a job, it feels too much like fiscal irresponsiblity. But damn, what a wonderful group of friends and interesting people, and cool discussions and ideas.
The Tweetstats app is pretty interesting both for the statistical charts (I didn't know I was most likely to tweet at 7AM) and the psychological/social reveals of the most-used words. Although, the top five are a bit skewed for me, because "listening" and "looking" come from the Twitterfox plugin for adding links... oh, and for the longest time, I'd start out my Twitter day with a "gronk", considering how I feel most mornings when I wake up.

Finishing up C# today -- Monday we start Java.
I survived C# Database Transactions. ::proudly shows off scars::
We got let go early on account that it was Mem. Day wkend and it was sunny out. I'm thinking seriously of nappage....

Actually, it's Wednesday we start Java -- we get Monday night off, I keep forgetting. It's not that we didn't cover important stuff - Transactions are so important to data integrity in a multi-user situation! -- but I've been there, done that. As it was, our instructor gave up on making us do a lab, because not only would that take time, he'd have to go over it with us. Instead we did an in-class program set up so that if we ran two instances of it, would set up a race condition that needed the transaction locking to make it work.

ow.ly/8OdG -- just one instance of what they did to teenaged "terrorist" Omar Kadr at Gitmo.

Mercifully brief description, really, and I wouldn't recommend it for the weak-stomached. Suffice it to say, Kadr was a young teenager picked up on near a battlefield whose possibility of knowing anything strategic or important was nil. Anything you could get out of him was probably 'buyable' with a couple candy bars and some priveleges like playing soccer. I can't begin to tell you how Orwellian his treatment was.

Now out in backyard, going to cut grass and deweedify. Right afer I finish teh interwebs.
My "lawn" is less than the size of most living rooms, so cutting it was pretty much waving around a string trimmer. Wiktory!
The backyard smells like newly-cut lawn. I should probably go in before I get hair fever!

I really should cut it more often, especially because I have an electric string trimmer and a hundred-foot extension cord (used to power the laptop, whose battery now holds about a half-hour of charge) Also, there's a bunch of comfrey that's occupied part of the side, and I'm waiting until they've finished blooming before I get rid of them, I hate to kill pretty things!
Well, except if they're vines.
Interesting side note -- when I tweeted "cut grass" I got a private tweet from an outfit called Green Canary that specializes in painting lawns green. I'm not making that up. Suffice it to say, that if I have to CUT my lawn, it's not in need of further greenifying (though once you take out all the weeds, it's significantly less green and more patchy).