Friend of a Friend...

We bumped into some friends of mine Friday night, who told us that a friend of theirs - and my near neighbor, apparently - had just won the Archibald Prize with this picture! I've always found the Archibald to be a very conservative award, generally given to a very mundane, pedestrian portrait - but this year, they've impressed me.

I should never have dropped out of art school...

Elbow to the face!

Saturday night, I was in the middle of an attempt to put my arm around evildoom_bunny, at the exact same time as she was shifting around on the couch. Net result: my elbow connected with her right eye socket! Oops! Sorry baby. At least it didn't bruise...

Art Versus Photoshop....

I really enjoyed these for some reason.

Hmmm, this blog has got all arty...

Now off to the gym with me.

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The other day evildoom_bunny was asking be about what I do for a living. This was prompted by finding one of my old text books (Kernighan and Richie's classic The C Programming Language if you must know). The short answer is "I'm a computer programmer". The long answer is "I code in C++ in Visual Studio on a Windows platform making client server applications for..." well, you get the idea :-)

evildoom_bunny's next question was a perceptive one. Is programming like maths? Kinda, I said, one did grow from the other, and programming has a lot of formal rules like maths. This prompted me to try and explain hexadecimal and binary numbers.

Hex is base 16, so it goes 0,1,2,3...9,A,B,C,D,E,F,10 etc. evildoom_bunny didn't believe a word of it, ditto when I tried explained binary numbers... So when I wrote that:

F = 15 = 1111
and
10 = 16 = 10000
(In other words, F in Hex is equal to 15 in decimal and 1111 in binary, etc.) she utterly refused to believe me. Sara insisted that if F was equal to 1111, and E equal to 1110, then by rights:

G = 1.79 = slice of cheese.

And, by golly, in some number system, in some universe, she might just be right :-)

But, equally, I'll never understand a "trill table" in a million years....

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