Sparge: The process of filtering hot water through crushed, malted grain to make wort. My mind is the crushed, malted grain. My will to document is the hot water. This journal is the wort. Add yeast and it’ll be beer. I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Tried out my electric lawnmower today. It’s awesome. I can tell that it doesn’t have the raw power of an internal combustion engine, and I’m already a little tired of dragging the extension cord around, but it’s (a) light (b) quick to turn on (c) quick to turn off (d) quiet. All in all, an excellent replacement for either the push-reel or the busted IC mower.
Other than that, I spent the weekend wrapping my head around Applescript, Objective C, and XCode (Apple’s development environment). Until it goes public, let’s just say that my company has a really stunning opportunity if we can turn out a nicely packaged demo by Wednesday.
Impressions: Applescript is quite powerful, but it’s chatty, and has some fundamental weaknesses involving case sensitivity and escaping keywords. Objective C reminds me of Lisp. XCode is pretty sweet. It makes the difficult trivial, but the trivial is sometimes really difficult.
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