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From to our wonderful son: "Honey, pinching yourself does not a birdie make." (You see, to make the bird sign you pinch your fingers like a birdie opening and closing its beak.)

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Argh! I want to know what I missed! *sigh*

Apple doesn't really want developers for the iPhone. You want proof, you say? Interface Builder - the worst piece of crap since BEFORE Borland's tools for C++ back in Windows 3.0 days. I could at least build a window that would display what I told it in the GUI without writing code, whereas if I try to use a proper UIView, UIViewController, UIWindow, and throw in a UILabel it doesn't work. Half the time it crashes, the other half of the time the window's blank and doesn't actually display the UIView at all, even though I've double-checked my 'linkings' that IB likes to use. If I could use C#/.Net, my LiveJournal client would ALREADY be ported and done by now (I've already got code that does the LJ client stuff). I ported a bit of the backend code over to Objective-C, but then when I went to write the UI I ended up wasting 4 HOURS of my precious time today that I got to myself - as a dad I don't get a lot of time to myself without having to watch the bug, and I really feel like Apple doesn't want the casual programmer (who nonetheless, without tooting my own horn much, has enough experience to manage in most programming languages) programming on the iPhone. I like the UI itself, but programming it is rather non-trivial, and very frustrating.

Okay, well, today was interesting. We went to bug's swimming class and Mandy and Vinnie showed up, so we all went swimming and had fun. Then, I got my early father's day present: I may get another one, but not until I know that no kids will pull on it (we hold our kids on the left, it's just the way things turned out, so this one's on the right). says it actually looks good on me, I think I like it myself. Ought to be interesting to see who at work comments and who doesn't. [Edit: I got it at Under Your Skin in Aurora Mall in case anyone wondered. And I'm now thinking I may get a second one much sooner.] [Second Edit: Okay, I got a second one put in, now I'm balanced.]

People's Fair

Well today we all went to the People's Fair downtown for the first time. Was kinda interesting - all of the 'alternative groups' (i.e. the libertarian party, green party, highly-alternative religions, 911-was-a-govt-conspiracy groups, etc..) plus all of the food. found some pickled garlic that tasted really good - I was surprised. We got a small jar for future use. We brought the wagon so that neither of us would have our backs killed by kiddo, worked really well. I think when I go to denver pride (first time!) in a couple of weeks I may have to take the wagon then too, although it may not work well depending on the crowds - sometimes today it got kinda difficult to navigate around people. Got some Tokyo Joe's for dinner (or was that lunch?) and hung out with Mandy watching some movie about a football star that finds out he has a daughter, I'm sure my wife will comment with the name of said movie, I forget.