Random Things Happening In Cedar Rapids

Here are some random things happening in the Cedar Rapids area:
1) Creepy white van following kids around town – Cops haven’t done anything really
2) Evidently the Norhtern Lights will be visible tonight, the catch is a slightly waning gibbous moon

That’s a pretty lame list.

I now have a program I can use to write my novel. Scrivener – well the free version. It looks pretty cool and I’m excited to try it out.

Erica and I are heading to Ames this weekend for the alumni dinner at my fraternity. I have to head into work for an hour tomorrow to finish something that I couldn’t get done today, but that will take an hour and means I only need to take 4 hours of vacation due to the extra time I worked today and the rest of the week.

Well crap, I should probably head to bed.

Bird Flu

So there is this commercial that just started airing with these kids asking their elders about bird flu and possibly hinting at an upcoming pandemic. There are also the new political commercial with kids telling their elders to be united in government (which I agree is a good thing). Seriously though, what kids care about stuff like that and is school feeding them this stuff? All i really cared about at that age was Legos and GI Joes.

If you actually visit this place often, you’ll notice I took down the random FORTRAN codes on the project listing. I got tired of them being there and they weren’t anything spectacular. I also updated the Airfoil Generator page with a new picture and updated text. I have figured out how to make a standalone binary for OSX and will be getting py2exe for my XP partition to make a standalone Win32 binary. I still need to come up with a hosting solution, a Linux sort of installer to add the shebang line to the main file and fix up the code a little.

Erica made the best patty melts for dinner tonight. Texas toast makes an excellent holder for them, really beats regular bread. I finally opened one of the cans of salsa she made. Amazing. I think it’s good enough to mass produce. I mostly finished the first can Friday afternoon and then finished a whole can by myself today. Don’t know what I’m going to do when the last two cans are gone. I don’t think I can go back to store bought stuff.

I’m looking forward to work this week, but I’m not at the same time. It’s going to be hectic; but I’m taking Friday off.

I’m thinking more about starting my novel and not reading a book on digital communications.

Almost Releasable…

I’m inserting a picture of my new Airfoil Generator program. There is a menu bar, but since the development is on a Mac, the bar is at the top of the screen and not in the window.

So far, good progress has been made; it can generate the 5 types of airfoils listed on the bottom of the window (of which only 4 will be available to the end user) and will invert the airfoil. I need to work on the saving routine and how to rotate and scale the airfoil and where to place those widgets. I just got a brilliant idea of making a generic drawing function that can plot any set of coordinates given, this will help plot pressure data easier when I add that to the code.