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firewood overunity
Wednesday, March 26 2014
Extreme unseasonable cold continued today. The snow pack, which had turned into mush during the last warm spell, had resolidified to a consistency akin to limestone. The bottom of the snowpack has melted and refrozen so many times that it has lost all its tiny pockets of air and now it is nearly transparent. I went out on that snow pack twice this afternoon to gather firewood west of the farm road not far from the house. Ramona came with me, but it was so cold and my antics with the chainsaw and backpack so boring that she abandoned me and ran home, ears flopping with her every bounding step. Despite the recent cold and my relatively modest gathering apparatus, I'm officially overunity when it comes to firewood gathering. This means that I am gathering firewood at higher rate than I am burning it. If I somehow manage to get in the habit of gathering just one backpack load of firewood each day all year long, then I need never be in fear of running out. If I get the wood from nearby, it requires no more than about fifteen minutes' worth of work.
For the past few days I've been cranking away at a single complicated page belonging to a web application whose frontend is written mostly in AngularJS, which is javascript framework (that is, yet another layer in the LAMP stack). Angular makes some things easy but it also makes some things difficult or impossible. Today, for example, I needed to run some code after certain things had happened. One way to tell that they had happened was to look for changes to variables in "scope," which is a term used to describe the data environment. The problem, though, was that the scope I was testing turned out to be a different one than the one being changed. And there was no obvious way to navigate to the correct one. I don't understand why the scope has to be so fucking complicated. Why can't it be more like the document-object model (DOM) where everything with an ID can be found, read, and altered?
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