A while back I mentioned how much I love “kill -3” as a Java debugging tool. Today I decided that instead of having to put a redirection in the start up script for each app in the system, I’d change the logging class so that it would do a “System.setOut” to redirect standard output. And that’s when I discovered the horrible truth – that while setOut redirects things that are printed with System.out, it doesn’t actually affect the JVM’s actual standard output. WTF?
Category: Rant
Third Race: 25.62. Still sucking
I tried to pace myself better today, but it didn’t work. I ended up actually being 0.29 minutes (17.4 seconds) slower. I was attempting to go slower on the way out into the bay, but the wind was coming behind from behind, and there were swells coming from three different directions, and it threw me off. Especially since it meant that I had a wind in my face on the way back in, and also on the upstream paddle on the river. I was still tired at the split (and Ken still managed to not record it) in spite my attempt to go slower at first. I’ve got to figure out how to pace better!
There were a lot of people there tonight, both racers and not racers, and there was a lot of traffic on the river. There were a bunch of Huggers Club members, and suddenly I’m not the fastest one, which is mildly disappointing, but good to see the club embracing this activity. There were also some real racers – one guy who is nearly national team level, and he did the race twice in around 14.60. I’m going to see if I can convince him to tow me next time, strictly so he can get a better work out, you know.
There is a guy at the races who I think is a co owner of Bay Creek – the first time I met him was when he came to the Huggers club meeting where we discussed the Paddle Power group. He’s very outgoing – almost to the point of obnoxiousness, but it works for him. Anyway, he invited me for their Monday night training group – he says he’ll be able to teach me some better paddling techniques and some tips on training. Maybe I’ll learn how to paddle so my elbows don’t hurt so much.
Kayak Construction: Glassing the outside
Still only using the crappy phone camera, so not much point doing my standard “embed the thumbnail and link to the big picture” when the full sized picture is so small.
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And the suckage continues
As predicted in Rants and Revelations » I have seen the future, and it sucks, they’ve hired a new Flash guy to write the new user interface. It really sucks to find out that your contributions are going to be even more marginalized just as you’re also finding out that they want you to become a full time employee at a significant pay cut.
I guess it’s time to stop antagonizing recruiters and start finding out seriously what’s out there. Either that or find out if the bank account would survive me taking off however long it would take me to get a masters in user inferace design.
Update: Oh, it gets better. New Guy has never even heard of source code control. In other words, he’s used to toy projects on toy operating systems.
Recruiters suck, New York City people suck, so recruiters from New York City…
…really, really suck.
Can you believe I got called by a recruiter who hadn’t even bothered to look at a map to figure out where Rochester is in relation to NYC? She seemed shocked when I said it would be a 6-8 hour drive for me to “commute”. She kept referring to NYC as “the city”, as if none of the other centers of population in New York (or indeed, probably the world) count as cities in her world view.
Feh.