Science Fare

15 years ago or so, when Becka and I were separated by half the continent, we figured out how to email tiny sound files to one another.  Four of those were of my favorite little sister.  In celebration of her upcoming graduation, let’s take a nostalgic trip down memory lane…

Isn’t this the cutest little sneeze you’ve ever heard?

This one is her saying “Thank you much,” which we still use today in it’s colloquial form: “teetoomuss“.

Becka and I both love Jim Henson, and probably as a result of that (via Kermit) we love the color green, and also frogs.  That’s likely why little two-year old was caught saying, “froggy“.

And cutest of them all, who do you send running up the stairs to tell big sister it’s time to eat?  Becky, it’s suppertime!

My drawing of the space shuttle "Atlantis" coming in for a landing.

With the landing of the space shuttle Atlantis Wednesday, the space shuttle program has officially begun its retirement.  Well, maybe… rumors abound that she might go up one more time next year?

We posed for a snapshot before the concert.  You can see me peeking out just behind Jim’s left elbow.

I just found a blog by Mike Ash.  These posts interested me:

• Dangerous Cocoa Calls : APIs you might not have thought could cause your program to crash.
• The Good and Bad of Distributed Objects : Having used DO a little, I’m a bit scared to see how risky they are.
• various ways to do interprocess communication on OS X : Various approaches to doing IPC on the Mac.

Edit.  After experimenting with the NSDate call mentioned in “Dangerous Cocoa Calls” I couldn’t get it to reproduce the weird behavior.  I believe that even if you change your clock or go to a different timezone, an already launched process won’t be adjusted.  Thus it is apparently safe to use timeSinceReferenceDate as a timer.

Can you solve this puzzle?

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That was quite an adventure!  I’ll just take a rest here under the Lily’s of the Valley.  Then it’s off to cross the big “pond”!

…with anyone else but me!

Mr. Reed prepares for his first skydiving lesson.

All the ladies swoon before his mellifluous tones of love.

Mr Reed wonders what part of the Jungle to explore next?