“And at some point a pole should appear, and we should tell them about it.” — Jessi

Why isn’t there an option to show the trail of your mouse cursor in Windows anymore?

I spent a good chunk of Saturday playing B Nomic, which I’ve been involved with since about the start of the year. For those who haven’t heard me rant and rave about the wonders of Nomics, they’re a type of game, where the gameplay centers around changing how the game is played. You can propose just about any change to the game, which can make for interesting contradictions where you want to vote for a change that you don’t want, or sometimes the game just completely crashes. Usually though, it’s just a fun Internet community where you keep on changing what it is that you’re trying to do.

Many doors are installed, molding is around most doors, windows, and floors, and the base of the vanities are in the bathrooms.

See today’s pictures!

You know your house is taking too long to build when…

warm : warmth :: cold : ?

And why?

The doors and cabinets have arrived, although they’re not installed yet. Also, the heating registers are installed in most (maybe even all) of the rooms. I have some pictures. I especially like the box that quite clearly has its “This side up” arrows pointing down. (No, the camera was not upside-down, nor was the image rotated.)

The thing that’ll take forever is the telephone poles so that we can get power and data. We may end up having a completed house just sitting there for a few weeks without power (and thus, without an occupancy permit). The person who owns the land across the private road from us said that they would sign an easement to let Verizon and Mass. Electric put up poles on the road, but they apparently haven’t done so after about two weeks. So, we’re probably going to just put a pole on the corner of my parents’ yard near the paved road, and have wiring go underground from there all the way to the house (instead of just from a pole-on-the-private-road to the house). This method will cost a bit more, but then we don’t have to worry about anything since it’s all on our lands. (The person who owns the land across the private road is making a rather dumb decision by not getting that in quickly, since having the utilities put poles on the road would likely increase his property value significantly.)

Over the past 5 years or so, I’ve amassed at Checkerboard a collection of screenshots called the “Error Hall of Fame”. (Well, I can’t take credit for everything in there, but I think that the majority of contributions are mine.) They include errors like “An error occurred”, “An attempt was made to remember a device that had previously been remembered”, and many other goodies that I can’t remember off the top of my head. I ought to post some of them online for the rest of the world at some point.

Last night, I tried to run a Magic NAC Qualifier, but we only had 5 people. (The minimum for running a sanctioned tournament is 8). That was rather disappointing, especially since we managed to have 11 last time. So, we had an informal unsanctioned booster draft instead. Jessi came in first place and I came in last place.

They were supposed to finish plastering our house today, although I haven’t actually inspected it to ensure that they did. I think the critical path is just waiting on the phone company to put in poles for us. Hopefully, we’ll be in the house within a few weeks.

Microsoft released its monthly patches today. These patch vulnerabilities that are currently being exploited. Windows users ought to make sure that their patches are up-to-date.

“Ramming doesn’t work when you’re a human” —