Visitors to my house today included:
Spiderman
A pixie of some sort
A dalmation child — so cute
Snow White
Thomas the Tank Engine
Red Power Ranger
Army guy (with grenade)
Butterfly
Spongebob
Cheerleader / sorority girl?
Bumblebee dog
Pablo, the blue penguin
Jason Varitek
Surgeon (x2)
Ninja (x2)
Some kind of ghoul who was missing some flesh on his ribs
A purple gumdrop
The tiara’ed friend of the purple gumdrop
A small gang […]

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As seen at The Clutter Museum.
Explain what ended your last relationship?
I don’t really have time to get into it now, but I took a trip to the U.P. in my 1963 Dodge Dart to visit my *ahem* “girlfriend” and came back on a Greyhound after meeting my “girlfriend’s” new boyfriend a few hours after my […]

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A few reflections after reading Joel Meyerowitz discuss his early days . . .
One of the things that I love about photographing is that my images reflect what interests me as an artist and who I am as a person at any particular slice in time. On the occasions that I go back and […]

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Deepti-ji beat me to it. This NPR story had me giggling as I merged onto the Mass Pike. Funniest thing I’d heard on the radio since . . . well . . . forever.

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Shouldn’t I be at my little club? Oh, that’s right. Here’s some other photography thinking.
Chinese Photography (about.com)
The Value of Space: A Theoretical Sketch for Photographic Art in the Late-Twentieth Century (LensCulture) — “Giotto and other artists and theorists of the early Renaissance altered the course of art with their fundamental conceptions of space […]

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Maybe I’m just a little slow, but it never occured to me that French speakers might have Internet contractions. (Les enfants these days!) ROTFL if you must.
Here’s an example from a newsgroup that I troll follow:

salut
je travaile sur une carte qui n’est pas niverselle; le probléme que j’ai trouvé c’est avec s-function.
c-à-d, je […]

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Yesterday, I wrote about systems for defect tracking. Since one of the main purposes of a tracking system is to enable a high quality process for getting bugs fixed, what does that process look like? As part of an in-class, small-group exercise, we defined a workflow for handling defects. Two other people […]

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I gave my second presentation tonight in my Software Testing Techniques course. Two weeks ago, I discussed software defects with a synopsis of the Coding Horror article Making Developers Cry Since 1995. दीप्ती-जी, my QE, hasn’t made me cry — yet. This week: defect tracking systems. You know, those applications where […]

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Yesterday I mentioned Perl. Today my other course gets a shout out.
Here are some software testing weblogs:

The Braidy Tester
Bug Free Zone
Testing Hotlist Update — What kind of name is that?
Cem Kaner
James Bach’s Blog

Oh, and here’s a case study with examples. More than 100,000 automated test cases. Damn!

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I turned in my Perl Programming midterm assignment late last night. It’s hard to believe that the semester is half over after only four weeks . . . thought I’m not complaining. I enjoy the class, though I’m still undecided about Perl as a language. It has some serious flaws from a software engineering […]

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Okay, everybody. I’ll be writing soonish about symbols, visual history, and artistic intention; but I wanted to give you all a chance to ruminate on this 2003 photograph, “Awakening,” by Chitra Ganesh. What does it mean to you?

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Fifteen years ago I helped destroy the world.
In the summer of 1991 I hitched a ride with a group from the University of Wyoming’s high school program on their way to F.E. Warren Air Force Base. Some friends of mine were in the nuclear power “class.” Somehow I was put into the sports […]

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At the previous camera club meeting I told a few people about a couple of color-related milestones that celebrate anniversaries this year. Perhaps it’s hard to get excited about color science, but I will try again.
Happy Birthday, CIE Standard Observer
Color is an experience. Colorful light leaves a source of illumination, strikes a surface […]

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My last cryptic post left a few wondering. But baseball superstitions have few equals.
I kept getting distracted from my course readings as the Tiger’s Bonderman retired the first six batters then the first twelve, and then got the next three out. Yes, Bonderman was perfect through five innings, before giving up an extra-base […]

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Yes, I’m doing my homework. And, yes, I’m watching the Yankees-Tigers game. And, yes, it’s very exciting. And, no, I can’t talk about it now.
More — hopefully much more — later.

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