Of Miles Rausch

House Keeping

Tweet1) What Lies In The Shadow Of The Statue has become my most pop­u­lar post, at least recently. Only a small per­cent­age of read­ers of that post real­ize that I have no deep insight, no knowl­edge to share within it. A small per­cent­age of the rest have actu­ally been adding their own the­o­ries, seem­ingly try­ing to help me with my lack of deep insight. I, ever uncouth, mock them for hours with my thoughts and then move on to some­thing else.

2) Be sure to read Holli’s update on our lat­est news, if you haven’t already. Some pretty awe­some updates.

3) Awayken.com has a pur­pose once again. What had orig­i­nally started as my per­sonal blog has found a new life as my web play­ground. Every­thing per­son­ally asso­ci­ated with me will be here and at MilesRauschFamily.com, but any projects that I want to show off or open up, any con­cepts or demos I want to test out, will live on Awayken.com.  I’m call­ing it “an odyssey of learn­ing and growth, a menagerie of strange web trinkets.”

Those of you who do web devel­op­ment  may peri­od­i­cally find it inter­est­ing. I don’t find much time to work on these trin­kets, but I’ll add things as I do find time (or as I dig them out of the depths of my old “test” folder). Right now, there are only two real projects: LinguaFranca.js, an inline lan­guage trans­la­tion project for javascript, and The Lat­est MilesRausch.com Blog Post (Jet­pack for Mozilla Fire­fox), a sim­ple exten­sion for the Jet­pack API.

4) Tired. Mega-tired. But I thought you all should know.

5) Sad that LOST is done for the sea­son. I’d for­got­ten how empty and cold life is with­out a LOST episode to look for­ward to.

6) See #5 above. But, very happy that Kings will be back in June.

7) Holli and I have started watch­ing Star Trek: The Orig­i­nal Series. No, we weren’t inspired by the movie; we haven’t even seen it. Don’t bother ask­ing me why. We’re just weird.

8) Also, I’m lis­ten­ing to more This Amer­i­can Life, so I can jus­tify my obses­sive mon­o­cle adorn­ment. Blame my brother.

9) Peo­ple com­ment that I’m los­ing weight, but I know that I’m not. This is puz­zling, and it can only mean that I’ve been gain­ing weight, and at such an alarm­ing rate and den­sity as to bend the very light around me. This would cause me to look thin­ner, theoretically.

10) For some rea­son, I just thought of the pool at Unity Square in Mil­bank, SD.

11) I feel very for­tu­nate that my job has allowed me to pro­gram in Cold­Fu­sion, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Clas­sic ASP. Most peo­ple prob­a­bly don’t under­stand why hav­ing to learn more lan­guages would be some­thing I’m thank­ful for. I can’t explain it. I just love lan­guages: for­eign and domes­tic, nat­ural and con­structed, human and machine.

12) GOTO BED;