cartesiandaemon

Dear LazyWeb,

Does anyone know of a SWIG-a-like which can turn fairly vanilla C++ into GObject-ified C? If it can make IDL files suitable for Vala, all the better.

The hidden agenda behind my question is the way that all the ‘cool kids’ in the Desktop world seem to use GObject for some strange reason and I guess it would be nice if Firtree could as well.

On the Firtree front: One can now save images! Sort of… This moves Firtree almost to the level of functionality shown by Photoshop 0.01 :). Until I get the OpenGL redner-to-texture stuff abstracted away inside Firtree::Image however, it wont be able to save the results of accelerated GLSL processing. Being as this is the main feature of Firtree, the image saving feature is a bit pants at the moment :).

This is more of a 'what the hell' then a 'suck'.

About two hours ago, I get a call from a guest who said he went out walking four hours ago and wound up getting lost. One would think that after realizing you don't know how to get back to the hotel after the first hour or hour and a half, you would either stop somewhere to ask for directions or get a taxi. Maybe the Texas heat fried his brain


This is a suck..

A short time ago, I got a few calls from guests on various floors saying that people were being loud in the hallway and banging on doors. Fortunantly this didn't last long. It was only recently I learned the people causing the disturbance were people here who are going into the military. Not to cause any wank or anything, but you would think they would have more common sense.

I work at a big-name bookstore outlet, in a rather large mall.

 
Our store was supposed to have our district manager make a surprise visit sometime this past week, so we were all on our best behavior- well, we tried.

On this particular day, there were 2 employees on shift, myself, and another girl with the same name. We had just blown up some balloons for our big clearance sale we have going on. So we had to tap the balloons back at each other for a few minutes. (Who doesn't?) 

Then this man walks in, with his wife, and we knew he was somebody. He came right over, and was joking about my juggling skills. He asked us soem questions, and acted like he knew the answer to them. He then walks away with his wfe, walking through the store. I then find a pop one of the shelves, and dispose of it, before walking out for my 10 min break. I come back, and they are still there. 

He comes over, asks me some more questions, and I check him out. As he's leaving he asks for our store card, and my name. When he gets to the door, we get a phone call and I answer. I happen to notice he's still at the door, listening to me answer the phone.

Afterwards, my co worker and I freak out. Did they like the store? Did we do a better job than last time? What will otu store manager say? He walked in on us playing with balloons, ect. He also asked for my name specifically.

About 2 hours later, we get another phone call, a man looking for me. 

"Hi, this is so and so. I was in your store earlier, and I was wondering you if you had a moment to spare. I saw how much you loved your job, and you obviously take pride in what you do. I have this job opening in our headquarters in _____ and I think you would be perfect for the job. We should get coffee sometime and go over the job details. You are over 18, right? Well, is there a number where I can reach you? No, well, I'll give you my number, and you call me when possible, and we will see if we chan't schedual some time. I don't know how much you like working at ___ but I can tell how much you like selling books, and this atmosphere, and you have a great energy and pressence about you, and I would love to see you come apply for this job. You even impressed my wife, and that is saying much. Have a great day!"

wtf?

I work at our local hospital. It's medium sized, but it's certainly not sparkly clean. This isn't to say that isn't clean, but ya know. There are the occasional blood stained cloths left on the floor, bandaids, contaminated tape, fluids, etc.

This is more of a WTF than a suck. 


Do not let your child under -any- circumstances, go barefoot when he or she is walking around. Especially in a high traffic area. Ever. Especially in a hospital. 

There's a statistic out there that claims that patients pick up many illnesses from a hospital - the flu, the common cold, pnuemonia, infection. Put some socks and/or shoes on those little feet!