Gary Gygax, inventor of the role playing game, yesterday failed to recover from an Abdominal Aneurysm spell cast by higher-level mage. Finished off by giant spiders:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080322/news_1m22gygax.html
He is survived by a wife, six children, and 8 million teenagers with funny-shaped dice.
Part II in a series of… several.
In Part I I whined on about static type checking in views. Here I moan about composability of page elements.
It (well, they) amused me.
Lots of Japanese adverts for Fanta. The DJ one is the best.
In work, we’ve been using MonoRail for a while. It’s a C#/.NET web application framework, and it’s very much nicer than ASP.NET, which is what I was using before.
Now I’ve had a bit of experience with it, though, there are things I would definitely change: I want the framework to allow me to compose page elements more easily, and to have stronger type-checking.
The easy one first. I’m going to talk about…
![[Picture of two robots having sex. No kinky stuff involving humans here.]](/images/robot-sex.jpg)
Some overpaid academic (not that I think that all academics are overpaid, but this one evidently is) is rolling out more trite ‘predictions’ about The Future. (Like Kevin Warwick, only less plausible). A choice quote:
It won’t only be people who are lacking a sexual partner. Some people will do it for curiosity, some for fun. If a wife says to the husband, ‘Not tonight, I’ve got a headache,’ she could then say, ‘Why don’t you make it with the robot.’ And, traditionally, women worry about their husbands when they go on business trips, but if he’s got his robot with him, he doesn’t need to go to a nightclub or a strip joint.
The Globe and Mail, Thursday 15 Nov 2007
So gentlemen, can you see your wife/significant-other/any-fucking-woman-at-all falling for that line?