http://davemclain.com my life dot com Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:20:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After the July of Doom, I have been more active than before about trying to pare down my spending, especially in the realm of food. My parents gave me a rice cooker a while back, and rice as most of the world knows is a really good basis (or entirety) ... http://davemclain.com/archives/253 The decision to use caffeine for me feels like the decision to use steroids or not, if I ever did anything more physical than sailing in my life. If I drink coffee I will inevitably be twice as productive as I would have been without it (for the math inclined ... http://davemclain.com/archives/252 After a long summer of no internet in the house, I'm finally waiting for the Time-Warner cable guy to get here. I started setting up the network so that I can pretty much just plug it in and have it be just like home again. Here's a diagram of how ... http://davemclain.com/archives/250 In the last 6 months I have at least to some learned the following: Objective-C (including a working knowledge of XCode) Struts (though I was introduced to it last summer) the iPhone SDK the Facebook API Enough javascript to start using Greasemonkey to increase productivity and yet I feel like I am slipping in terms of ... http://davemclain.com/archives/248 I owe a great debt to the following people: Michael Dylan Jeff John Brett They made my living room look like 4 times better by helping me install hardwood floors. Over a span of 9 wall clock hours, roughly 40 man hours laid nearly 600 square feet of hardwood. Snap together is the only way to go. ... http://davemclain.com/archives/245 Here are the pictures of the painted interior. http://davemclain.com/archives/238 I was sitting on my back porch eating a peanut butter and honey sandwich, drinking sweet, looking at the trees and listening to the birds. Driving back in from church I passed 2 lemonade stands, one which didn't even have any adults in sight. Every yard in the neighborhood has ... http://davemclain.com/archives/236 I've put in three more days of effort into operation chicken little, but that's rather pathetic given the nearly month long period that has transpired since day 2. Day 3 was the third bedroom. I was joined by Jeremy for Day 4 when we took down the entire living room ... http://davemclain.com/archives/232 I have vanquished the sky in bedroom 2 (the north-west one, for some reason I think of this as Swanson's room, even thought that has not been discussed). Lessons learned: 8 feet 4 inches is plenty wide when it comes to 2 mil plastic sheeting Use more masking tape when attaching the plastic ... http://davemclain.com/archives/231 This evening saw the beginning of improvements to the house. I'm typing this post on the iPhone because I do not yet have Internet. Those of you who read my not so clever titles already know that the project that I began was the removal of the acoustic ceiling (the ... http://davemclain.com/archives/230