Below are the 6 most recent journal entries recorded in Sam's LiveJournal:

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
9:52 pm	A great thing about test-driven development is that sometimes, when the test run is particularly long, you get to go goof off and claim that you're working. ( New High Score ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 14th, 2008
11:44 am	Well, it looks like they're working... It's really windy in San Mateo this morning. The trees are all leaning to one side, there's debris flying down the streets, and my hair sticks out nearly sideways if I walk crosswind. Outside the building are two gardeners, patrolling the sidewalks... with leafblowers. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
10:40 pm	Shedding the winter coat The weather's warming up a bit, so I decided to get ready for the heat and get rid of some surplus facial hair. ( Apparently, my goatee had become a bit overgrown. ) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
10:48 pm	Team Fortress 2 mini-review If you want to play it tomorrow, better start today. Downloading the 7 GB installer took about three hours for me, and I've got the fastest cable Internet connection that you can get in San Mateo. Once you get it installed, it's a fun game. There are 9 character classes to choose from, none of which seem to be dominant. On the servers I played on, there was a pretty good mix of the different classes on each team. Nobody's figured out how to abuse one particular class to dominate everything else. Although the game is still in beta, it loses major points for stability. I got about 90 minutes of gameplay in, and in that time, my computer locked up three times. Completely frozen; had to hit the reset switch. Sure, it could be drivers (latest Nvidia) or hardware (no crashes in months other than TF2), but it really hurts the gaming experience when the game just randomly crashes. I'm hoping that the release version is stable enough to play for a few hours without rebooting. Overall, it's a game to look at when it's released, but the beta is just not stable enough. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 4th, 2006
10:58 pm	Tiny polyglot program #define do main() /* # This is a valid program in C, Perl, and sh. eval 'function sub() { echo "I like code."; exit; }'; sub echo {} #*/ do { printf("I like code.\n"); } I thought about adding Brainfuck and Whitespace, but both those languages specify that invalid characters are ignored, so it would just be an exercise in sticking stuff on the end of the file. If anyone wants to try it, there's a Whitespace mode for Emacs. Current Mood: unable to sleep (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
1:44 pm	Deep Thought If programmers ever form a labor union, they'll have to call it the Programmers' Struct, because all its members will exist simultaneously. (2 Comments |Comment on this)