03.30.06
Posted in General at 4:33 am by BestFriendChris
:-(
So, it is my last day here in Bangalore for TWU. So sad… I’ve decided to write all the things about TWU I’ll miss. Here goes:
- Auto-Rickshaw rides. Thrilling, life threatening rides for dirt cheap. Awesome.
- Queens. My favorite restaurant in all of Bangalore. The Chicken Tikka Masala is to die for. (hold the bird flu)
- The other TWU peeps. I’ve made so many great friends (and a few ones that are just all right) since I’ve been here. It’s crazy to think that I’ve only met these people less than 2 months ago.
- Muak!
- Hot Pockets!
- Go Team One!
- The door man at the Royal Orchid. If this guy wasn’t standing right by the door, and you tried to open it yourself, he would RUN to open the door for you. Fantastic.
- Hacky sack at lunch.
- Head Wobble. Instead of nodding, Indians wobble their head back and forth. Genius.
- The guy who cleans my apartment. Cleans is kind of a strong word. What I mean is, he makes my bed, every once in a while he washes my towel, and he reads my newspaper and watches my TV. Oh, and once he was making my bed when I walked out of my bathroom in a towel after showering. It was, well, odd.
- Freaking Learning Log.
- Little Italy. Mozzerella and Capsicum pizza. For when you’re just not feeling Indian food, it always hits the spot.
- Crossing Airport Road. Especially with Clint about to wet himself with fear. Hilarious.
As I think of more, I’ll add them. For now, “Fare thee well, TWU, we hardly new ye.”
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03.04.06
Posted in General at 3:23 am by BestFriendChris
I know, I know… Two posts in one day! Wierd…
This is big news, however. My mom is now a published author. As in, you can find her book, not only on her publisher’s website, but also at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Books-A-Million. There aren’t words to describe how surreal it is to be related to somebody who has a book on Amazon.
The synopsis, as found on her publishers website, is:
Once More from the Top
DeeAnn Schnack |
| Once More from the Top is a collection of poems and personal reflections about one woman’s spiritual journey to find herself. Her prose paints a vivid picture of her life, which includes reflections of her childhood, the challenges of her alcoholic and abusive marriages, and the horror of being widowed after five days of marriage.
Only when she found herself jobless and living in a shelter for abused women was she able to see the blessing she was being given. She understood she had always been the person she was meant to be, and that her forgiving Father never intended life to be lived perfectly…He’d given her the chance to learn a lesson…she could just do it Once More from the Top. |
I would totally recommend picking it up. 
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Posted in Software Development at 2:53 am by BestFriendChris
I just read an excellent article on the O’Reilly Ruby Blog, which talks about Martin Fowler’s book, Refactoring. While the article does speak on the issue of not having refactoring tools available for Ruby at this time, it really is about a deeper and more important message relating to refactoring in general. In short, while refactoring tools do help us fix the issues we create, many refactorings simply cannot be taken care of in an automated way. No matter what language you use, it’s more important to have an idea of why a class needs to be refactored and what to do about it than to have a keyboard command to automatically change a method name every place it’s used. I really recommend you read the article, though.
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