Sunday, November 30, 2003


Leftovers


  • The turkey was nice and juicy. I left the dressing in the oven a few minutes too long, but it recovered when we ladled some turkey broth over it. The rolls didn’t rise as much as I would have liked — I blame the yeast. The cranberry sauce was surprisingly good. I mean, really, I’m-never-buying-the-canned-stuff-again good. Pies were sweet potato and key lime. We didn’t bake either of them, but they still rocked.
  • I have a comments feed. It’s nothing special, but it exists.
  • “How the hell do I pound a nail with this screwdriver? It must be broken!”
  • Reasonably friendly solution for Palm handheld owners with OS X Macs who are still, after two years, waiting for a stupid conduit from these clowns.
  • Netflix comes through again. Currently immersed in this.
  • “Ellzey said Wal-Mart officials called later Friday to ask about her sister, and the store apologized and offered to put a DVD player on hold for her.” How nice.
  • My Playstation 2 is broken. This is not an uncommon thing (can you say engineering defect?) If you know the magic words, though, they’ll fix it for free.

:: Dave Walker 16:15 (EST/EDT) [+] ::

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90% Crud wrote:

Title: PS2 Broken Beaten Down?

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Is your Playstation 2 having problems reading discs? Well apparently there was a class action lawsuit about PS2s sucking and now Sony will fix them for free. You just need to know the magic words, which are at http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/playstation2_sony_repair.txt (via...



=== ALL USERS PLEASE NOTE ======================== CAR and CDR now return extra values. The function CAR now returns two values. Since it has to go to the trouble to figure out if the object is carcdr-able anyway, we figured you might as well get both halves at once. For example, the following code shows how to destructure a cons (SOME-CONS) into its two slots (THE-CAR and THE-CDR): (MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (THE-CAR THE-CDR) (CAR SOME-CONS) ...) For symmetry with CAR, CDR returns a second value which is the CAR of the object. In a related change, the functions MAKE-ARRAY and CONS have been fixed so they don't allocate any storage except on the stack. This should hopefully help people who don't like using the garbage collector because it cold boots the machine so often.