I haven't written in my blog at all in July. Here's some things that happened:
- The Feds have collected all my remaining census materials. The only things that I had left were my training manuals and workbook. I had already turned in my ID and enumerator's bag, so I can no longer impersonate a g-man.
- We had an end to the census NRFU (Non Response Follow UP) phase of the census. We had hot dogs, chicken kebabs and fun.
- The Feds telephoned me asking for my ID and enumerator bag back. I told them that I had already turned them in. "Who did you give it to?" they asked. My crew leader, (name omitted here). "How do you spell it?" they asked. Being a super grass, I told them. I then emailed her to give her a heads up. You got to love dealing with temporary feds.
- I fixed Python scripting in Golly on amd64, at least on my machine. It seems there is a two year old bug, reported to Debian, that has not yet been fixed.
The bug report:
- Installed and played a bit with some other cellular automaton programs. Golly and Mirek's Cellebration still rule, as far as I can tell. I plan to revise my CA (cellular automaton) program, but I'm in learning mode right now, picking up more C++ skills. I'm using a book from the library, Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo. I highly recommend it; at least it's working for me.
- John Biggins, the author of A Sailor of Austria, is writing again! His new novel, The Surgeon's Apprentice, is available as a kindle book from Amazon.com. It's great, even though it's not about the Austro-Hungarian u-boat service. He's working on another novel, too. Life is good.
- It's bedtime, so I'll bore you dome more... later.
