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May. 23rd, 2002 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioDrivers of school buses should set better examples. A couple days ago I watched a school bus be the third vehicle in a line of traffic that was running a red light. Sheesh. (In case you're wondering, no I was not at the head of that line. I was at the head of the line of traffic that had a green light but couldn't safely move.)
Last night was Temple Sinai's annual meeting. Doing back-to-back meetings for two different congregations led to exercises in comparative anthropology. Tree didn't really give a "state of the congregation" talk; Sinai did but they painted a picture that's a tad more optimistic than the facts really support. (Nothing untoward, mind -- just PR spin.) I wonder which is worse -- no info or sanitized info.
This Shabbat it's my turn to bake for the kiddush. I wimped out; you can get these "instant cookies" that you just break apart and stick on ungreased cookie sheets. I'm not usually that much of a slug.
Much to my annoyance, I learned today that the java compiler isn't as smart as I thought it was. Suppose your class has a method that returns an instance of your class. Suppose you subclass that and want to override this method to return an instance of the subclass. If Base.fn() returns a Base and Derived.fn() returns a Derived, you would think that the compiler would be able to tell, given code such as "Derived d = Derived.fn()", that it should use the overload that returns a Derived and not try to return a Base, right? You'd think so, and I'm told the spec says so (though I haven't checked), but apparently you'd be wrong. Bah.
We watched the season finale for "West Wing" tonight. Some interesting developments, some disappointments. The end of the CJ story was particularly annoying to me. But overall, I'm enjoying this show. We've only been watching it for a couple months. (We encountered it for the first time over Pesach.) I haven't gotten around to the season finale of "Enterprise" yet.
Dani is talking semi-seriously about buying the first season of "West Wing" on DVD. This must mean he's thinknig about getting a DVD player -- which must mean that he's inclined toward that TV upgrade. The (new) TV room is currently under some construction, but that should be done soon. Then we can do furniture.
Our D&D party (in Ralph's game) has some down time between now and the next session. Real Soon Now I need to figure out how my character is spending it. I'm really enjoying being in a D&D campaign again; it had been a long, long time (12 years or so). I like to think that I'm a better player now than I was then, just due to general maturity, though I don't actually know that.
Last night was Temple Sinai's annual meeting. Doing back-to-back meetings for two different congregations led to exercises in comparative anthropology. Tree didn't really give a "state of the congregation" talk; Sinai did but they painted a picture that's a tad more optimistic than the facts really support. (Nothing untoward, mind -- just PR spin.) I wonder which is worse -- no info or sanitized info.
This Shabbat it's my turn to bake for the kiddush. I wimped out; you can get these "instant cookies" that you just break apart and stick on ungreased cookie sheets. I'm not usually that much of a slug.
Much to my annoyance, I learned today that the java compiler isn't as smart as I thought it was. Suppose your class has a method that returns an instance of your class. Suppose you subclass that and want to override this method to return an instance of the subclass. If Base.fn() returns a Base and Derived.fn() returns a Derived, you would think that the compiler would be able to tell, given code such as "Derived d = Derived.fn()", that it should use the overload that returns a Derived and not try to return a Base, right? You'd think so, and I'm told the spec says so (though I haven't checked), but apparently you'd be wrong. Bah.
We watched the season finale for "West Wing" tonight. Some interesting developments, some disappointments. The end of the CJ story was particularly annoying to me. But overall, I'm enjoying this show. We've only been watching it for a couple months. (We encountered it for the first time over Pesach.) I haven't gotten around to the season finale of "Enterprise" yet.
Dani is talking semi-seriously about buying the first season of "West Wing" on DVD. This must mean he's thinknig about getting a DVD player -- which must mean that he's inclined toward that TV upgrade. The (new) TV room is currently under some construction, but that should be done soon. Then we can do furniture.
Our D&D party (in Ralph's game) has some down time between now and the next session. Real Soon Now I need to figure out how my character is spending it. I'm really enjoying being in a D&D campaign again; it had been a long, long time (12 years or so). I like to think that I'm a better player now than I was then, just due to general maturity, though I don't actually know that.
Re: Java...
Date: 2002-05-29 01:32 pm (UTC)