Ray Cromwell

Opps, look like I had this video marked private. It's public now. - Ray Cromwell

I recall there was an extended basic cartridge for Vic-20 and C64 too that added turtle-style graphics. I think there were some software versions too. C64 BASIC had a hook called CHRGET that allowed you to easily extend the basic grammar. - Ray Cromwell

"I can be anything you want me to be. Come on, come, share a potion with me. " :) - Ray Cromwell

"Since that horrible October in 2005, Sophie has needed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of treatments, hospitalizations, surgeries, medications, testing, and interventions in order to stay strong and healthy, and in some instances, to stay alive. She has required three bronchoscopies, the middle section of her lung removed, extensive genetic testing, cardiology work ups, dozens of x-rays, CT scans, and a two week trip to a pulmonary hospital in Denver. When she's healthy, she requires three steroids, twice a day, and when she's sick she is usually on five steroids, twice daily. She's been diagnosed with right middle lobe syndrome (though not anymore, since she had it removed), a genetic mutation of cystic fibrosis, severe uncontrollable asthma, and severe sinus disease. Since SoonerCare is the only insurance that will accept Sophie, we have to meet their financial criteria, which means living at or below the poverty level. I have had to quit wonderful jobs because I made too much money to qualify for SoonerCare. At this point I can only work either part-time, or for a very small salary, because we CANNOT afford to lose Sophie's healthcare coverage. It's the most important thing in our lives. We structure every single financial and professional decision we make around staying eligible for SoonerCare." - Ray Cromwell

A tale of "pre-existing condition" rejection that happened during a switch between insurance companies. - Ray Cromwell

With the number of layoffs we've seen over the last couple of years, we're going to start seeing a *lot* more people in this situation. If all it takes is one day of missing coverage to trigger preexisting conditions, that's a pretty low bar for slipping into the "utterly screwed" category. - Joel Webber

Wow - I'm impressed. - Nick Lothian

One interesting side-effect here - the method inliner could be far more aggressive. Let DEFLATE take care of the duplicate code. - Matt M (inactive)

Yes, within limits, DEFLATE acts like a common-subexpression-eliminator. I actually have a new MethodInliner written which removes almost all restrictions (eval order, param assignment, size, flow control statements in body, etc) which can eliminate up to an additional "called only once" functions in Showcase. It probably won't make it into the trunk for awhile tho. - Ray Cromwell

I'm not trying to downplay GBS, but the hysteria over vaccine side effects compared to their benefit of blown way out of proportion. So, in 1976, out of millions vaccinated, 500 developed GBS, 25 died. Umm, so how many people die of Influenza, and how many deaths were saved by vaccination? No vaccine is going to be 100% safe. The anti-vaccine activists like Jim Carrey demand levels of proof of safety that are frankly impossible, if in principle and do massive harm to public health IMHO. Every year a new flu vaccine is developed, how many are tested to the levels people want? You can't run a multiyear study on vaccine trials when the virus mutates every year. - Ray Cromwell

Umm, ok. - Ray Cromwell

It's all so clear! - Mark Trapp

The caps make all so more true - Matt M (inactive)

The most telling comment I read the other day, was a guy who realized the best record of his child's early years was his wife's facebook account ... - Mark Stahl

Yup, that was @kellegous. I suspect he's not alone in that concern. - Joel Webber

Garlic festival? Sign me up! - Joel Webber

It's the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Gilroy's famous in the bay area for growing garlic among other things. You can even get Garlic Flavored Ice Cream there. - Ray Cromwell

One can accuse NK of committing terrorist acts in the past, but you can't call arresting someone who trespasses on your sovereign territory "terrorism" and negotiating for their release "negotiating with terrorists". We arrest foreign citizens all the time who illegally enter, and sometimes when they break our laws, their government's embassies have to try and negotiate/help them. Does that make us terrorists negotiating with others? :) - Ray Cromwell

Bolton has to say something bad about it. That's just who he is, AFAICT. I believe someone said yesterday "If all we have to do to get countries like NK to do what we want them to is send an ex-president to hang out for a few hours, that's fine by me." - Joel Webber

gv rocks overall, although there are some features still missing :( - saul devitt

i use cyberduck which is quite good - Thomas RICARD

I'll check it out. I found this one called Interarchy that looks interesting too. - Ray Cromwell

What's funny is many of the newer videos include the Chinese subtitles, and the English hosts saying "Ni Hao" and pimping Chinese products. :) - Ray Cromwell

"Homeopathic" - Ray Cromwell

Daily Show was great on this last night. This has got to be one of the dumbest things I've seen in American politics in a while; and that's a pretty damned bold statement. - Joel Webber

the birthers are weird, but I find the health care nuts much more painful. They might actually do some damage. - saul devitt