Monday, March 13, 2017

Just one tiny screw


I'm having the hardest time (ahem) trying to open this ancient desktop PC.  It's been trusty over the years but it's been gathering dust for a while.  I remember getting the PC at Costco when I arrived off the banana boat.  I even had to borrow a friend's Subaru Outback because I couldn't fit everything in the backseat of my car.

I just need to remove the hard drive because it has my oh so secret data.  What were my playlists?  What e-books did I read or ignore?  What about all that email sent to people I haven't heard from in.........[cricket noises]......years?   To complicate matters, I opened my tiny PC tool kit and it literally has cobwebs.   Dirt and dust and lord knows what else.  

I've never been one of those people who got excited over taking apart a PC or replacing a car tail light.  I find more excitement from cooking Spanish rice.  The dirt and dust and cheap sheet metal proves that I lived in the crypt, right?


Monday, August 22, 2016

Fitbit One is the Loneliest Lost Tracker

The first one was a gift a few years ago.  It died and I couldn't revive it.  I got a discount coupon and I bought one.  Last week, like billions of dollars sent to the Iraq War effort,  I lost it.

Since then I noticed that the Fitbit One now has a sleep thingie.  Do I clip this thing on my boxer shorts?  Granted, I did see a lot of wristbands designed for the tiny Fitbit One.  The addition of a sleep thingie means the price varies anywhere from $60 to $100.   This bites.  I liked the tiny Fitbit One that I used to clip on my pant's pocket.  It kept a charge for a really long time.  Fitbit Ones and my ancient Amazon Kindle keep all their electrons!

I know how much sleep I get because I can't sleep 8 hours straight.

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Code Test

I had a C# question a couple of weeks ago:  Print all of the even numbers in an int array.

(new[] { 1, 5, 6, 8, 33, 15, 212, 432, 244224, 131, 33225, 888, 64, 89, 101 })
.Where(x => x % 2 == 0)
.ToList()
.ForEach(x => Console.WriteLine(x));

In js it's even easier:

[1, 5, 6, 8, 33, 15, 212, 432, 244224, 131, 33225, 888, 64, 89, 101 ].filter((el) => (el % 2 == 0)).forEach(el => console.log(el))