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.

Ugh

I have to go back in this morning to the surgeon to see if my hernia's recurred or if I'm just feeling something pretend. Yeah. I'm so not looking forward to likely having a 2nd surgery. I'm just now over my 1st one (except lifting weight restrictions). At least my insurance isn't bad - the original charge from the hospital was $15K and insurance knocked it down to them paying $2600 and me paying $1500. Which obviously shows how ridiculous medical billing has gotten these days.. [editted] Ok, it's not a recurrence, it's just the results of having a hernia not instantly reabsorbed - silly 'not as young as it used to be' body! Anyways, should be gone in a few weeks, nothing to worry about.

Seizure when falling asleep...

Okay, let me explain my subject. I just finished watching the movie 'Next' (we went with some friends of ours (hi!) to a drive-in theatre to watch it but bug was getting too fussy so we had to leave early so I netflix'd it). Cool movie, the ending didn't bother me, actually, I felt it actually fit with the rest of the movie. Anyways, curious about it, I looked it up online, ended up on Wikipedia's article, then on their article on premonition, etc. That linked to the theory that some premonitions are due to what amounts to a technical mini-epileptic seizure on the temporal lobe, making one think they saw something before (kind of a like a hiccup). I ended up on their article on Deja Vu and found out that that little hiccup you get when you go to sleep, right when you're on the edge of sleep - well that's technically a mini-epileptic seizure too (it's called a hypnagogic jerk)! I had no clue other people even got those - I thought I was just weird (cue the 'um, yeah, you're weird anyways' comments). Just weird, just plain weird. I had no clue.

Comment #50 on this article is quite funny: Polygamy works both ways. There are people who believe women should have more than one husband. The woman choses whom she wants to marry and when, or if, she wants to have sexual relations (or children) whith any of her husbands. The husbands purpose is to provide for and take care of the wife, financially and otherwise. The husbands also share in household chores, cooking, and child care. One man often can not fulfill all the requirements and having multiple husbands ensures all the wife's needs are met and in the case of the death of a husband there must be another husband already in the household to take over the responsiblities. The basic belief behind this is that men are only physically superior to women. The reason they are physically superior is to enable them work and care for a women efficiently, not so they can intimitate, control, and take advantage of women as has happened throughout history. In many species, women dominate and select their male partners, "Queen Bee" for example, although some species have been corrupted. This was God's intention and the laws of nature prove this. Women mature faster, have better self control, and higher intelligence. Men are just stronger. Men must be strictly guided by a woman because of their lack of self control, immaturity, and perverted tendancies. If a man is given the freedom to explore his preverted caveman-like sexual tendencies, such as giving him multiple wifes, corruption, abuse, rape, and molestation will result as it has in Colorado City. Men simply can not handle this type of freedom and power. My wife thought that funny - men can't control themselves and need women to tell them what to do. Also the bit about women being smarter and how men should be serving women. [Edit: My wife mentions that she does not AGREE with the statement, just that she is amused by it.]

Federal money

Ok, so we just got our federal money yesterday. And now I get to stretch it as far as I can: 2 new tires on the car (badly needed), new dryer (badly needed), new couch, new clothes, cabling to move the cable modem to a Isaac-inaccessible place (he's already unplugged them once for us), Mother's Day present. Oh, and I had to use part of it to help pay for the property tax, so we can't do all of this at once. I just paid for the tires - $250 with alignment, and then ~$450 for the dryer, and then we have to wait for a few paychecks to 'pay back' for the property tax so that we can get the couch and the other stuff. We were hoping to get a new desk, but I don't think we'll be able to do that this year - I'll have to just reinforce her current desk. Why can't I have a magic dollar tree in my patio? I would happily water it daily.