Yesterday was my wife's birthday and this happened.
Years ago I made a Twitter account called @bretlovesanita just to serve as place to memorialize sentiments that, in earlier times, would be carved into trees or passed as notes while the teacher wasn't looking. Before heading to church I made a post that said Happy Birthday to the most beautiful girl in the world.
I'm on my Sunday dinner-time drive to get burritos, top down, listening to Real Jazz on SiriusXM. The Marcus Miller show is on and James Brown's Cold Sweat finishes playing. Miller then says to listen to this and plays the horn line from So What.
Check this out at 0:50.
As I begin typing this, I'm sitting in the dark, with headphones on, listening to Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here.
I used to listen to music in the dark a lot in high school and through college. In fact, I first heard Pink Floyd while falling asleep to WDAI (or was it WKQX?) out of Chicago on my new Pioneer SX-750 receiver hooked up to my equally new Epicure 10 speakers (a combo I bought with the first $700 I ever made that, as I recall, made my dad quite upset with me). I discovered FM radio every night (both waking and sleeping) with that setup.
I decided to switch from Jekyll to Cryogen in producing this static site blog.
This is more of a test than an announcement, just to make sure feeds and such work.
I've been working (some of) the Advent of Code problems since they began just before Christmas in 2015. I've used the problems to exercise some different Clojure muscles than the programming I do for my job. My solutions are on GitHub.
When I read the problem for part 1 of day 03 for this year, it struck me that you could solve this pretty quickly without writing any code. Here's the answer sketched out on my chalkboard.
