I ordered this shirt from www.threadless.com.  :-)

So how did you like all of those spanish posts I made over the last few weeks?  Pretty great, right?  Oh, woops.

Anyway, Spanish 1 finished yesterday (it was only a 5-week course).  It went quite well.  By my count, I now know around 600 Spanish words/phrases.  I’m starting to struggle a little with motivation (right now I’m basically just doing it “for fun”, but as it gets harder and I have no immediate need to learn Spanish, it’s starting to feel a little burdensome).  But It’s really good to interact with “real” (non-Microsoft) people!  Even if it’s mostly along the lines of “Hi”, “You wear a yellow shirt.”  “What is your mother’s name?”, “What time is it?”, “Are you married?”  “What’s your address and telephone number?”  “Fine.  Be that way.”

Anyway, I’ll be continuing with Spanish 2 on Monday.  Yay!

char *s;
// A
do
{
    s = read_from_file();
    if (s != NULL)
    {
        // whatever
    }
}
while (s != NULL); 

// B
s = read_from_file();
while (s != NULL)
{
    // whatever
    s = read_from_file();
}

// C
while ( (s = read_from_file()) != NULL )
{
    // whatever
}

// D
for(  s = read_from_file()
    ; s != NULL
    ; s = read_from_file() )
{
    // whatever
}

// E
loop:
    s = read_from_file();
    if (s != NULL)
    {
        // whatever
        goto loop;
    }

Redmond 4 weeks ago...

Redmond today...

They're both pretty nice, though. :-)

Lovely...

A long time ago I saw the Simpson's episode, "New Kids on the Blecch"  in which Bart joins a boy band and they use a magic "voice enhancer" to make their voices sound awesome...  I thought that was pretty funny, but it turns out to be real! 

Auto-Tune is a proprietary audio processor created by Antares Audio Technologies for correcting pitch in vocal and instrumental performances. It is used to disguise inaccuracies and mistakes and, due to its increasing use in modern music, has allowed many artists to produce more precisely tuned recordings.

There's a general article about Pitch Correction on wikipedia too...  In case you're curious, there's also an article about Robotic Voice Effects...

I keep thinking I should play around with sound synthesis...  It seems like it'd be a fun application of my programming skills...  just playing around with different effects and stuff...  I even took a class on digital signal processing...  I could apply some of that.  I wonder if there's a nice framework around that I could use...  Maybe CSound...

Man...  I wish software bugs were this funny...

The legislation was intended to establish 18 as the minimum age to marry but also allow pregnant teenagers to marry with parental consent, bill sponsor Rep. Will Bond said. An extraneous "not" in the bill, however, allows anyone who is not pregnant to marry at any age if the parents allow it.

So this weekend I was in Iowa for a family reunion thing.  It was nice, but I sprained my ankle playing basketball.  Check it out:

Neat, huh?  And that's 5 days after the injury. :-)

This is my second foot injury this summer (fortunately, I'm alternating between left and right, I guess)...  It's kinda' depressing.  Am I getting old?  Or could it be related to the fact that I spend 10+ hours a day sitting in front of a computer?  Hrm...  I resolve to be more active (once I'm healed)...  Injury != cool.

These 200 Bad Comics are pretty hilarious.  Here's my favorite:

By the way, I'm trying to post more videos and jokes these days so that later I can replace myself with a robot and nobody will notice.

So after 2 months, my foot seems to be pretty healed.  This means I finally got to use my Garmin ForeRunner!  Turns out it rocks.  Here's a map of my run.  Well, pretty close anyway...  It shows me running through some trees, when actually I was cleverly using the sidewalk, but close enough...  I'm not going to use it to land airplanes...  =]

I took it pretty easy because I really really don't want to re-injure myself, but I ran almost 2 miles and didn't have any pain, so that rocks...  I did have some weird twinges, but hopefully that's part of the healing process? =]  We'll see...  A month ago, I couldn't walk half a mile without pain, so this is definite improvement.  I'll gradually try to ramp up and see how it goes.  Probably no Marathons for me this year though.

Anyway, Garmin rocks...  If I bought stocks, I'd probably invest in them.  I have two of their devices now (GPS in my car and now the ForeRunner) and they're both awesome devices.

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Have you read Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl?