Piotr Walczyszyn’s NativeApplicationUpdater for AIR 2. Thanks!

tea clouds, er lang (stupid boy), re re re. RE. Religious education (Regular expression). Religion is a regular expression? /religion/g. Religion as a global religious expression. /religion/i; case-insensitive religion. Insensitive expression. Stunning prophecy on p.LXXI.

Don’t get started on labels again. I love jumping to labels. They drive me along on my little way, helping me avoid all actual inclination to do things, but just to say “oh yes I’m X and therefore I can have the opinion Y.”

I have applied the following terms to myself in the past:

girl. felon. agnostic. Australian. wife. solipsist. son. alone. pilot. husband. monk. nihilist. daughter. friendly. Christian. enemy. vegan. Buddhist. assured. right. Estonian. parent. vague. transwoman. lover. man. gay. heterosexual. polyamorist. boyfriend. queer. genderqueer. boy. atheist. girlfriend. unfriendly. wrong. transgender. father. Zen practiser. Sikh. antipatriot. vegetarian. feminist. universalist. woman. omnivore. friend. humanist. relativist. theist. programmer. homosexual. interpreter. Muslim. Mahayana practiser. mother. monogamist. Theravadin.

myself?

That’s one label I should keep.

書くのは書くから始まる。 Writing starts with writing.

When I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 Beta, my Ruby (1.9.1) and its RubyGems (and thus any loading of any external code) stopped working pretty quickly. Searching around didn’t do a bunch of help, until I stumbled upon a great entry by YAMADA Akira 4 days ago entitled “Ruby 1.9.2とRubyGems 1.3.7とGem.pathの消失”.

I’m providing a translation here for those interested, albeit a very poor one with many inaccuracies.

If you’d like a really short way to get your gem command working again, add this line to the top of your /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:

Gem::QuickLoader.remove unless !defined?(Gem)

The problem is that it doesn’t actually seem to fix the issue (not on Ubuntu, anyway). While gem runs and installs things, require is still broken. I’m continuing to investigate.

The source text is copyright to its author YAMADA Akira.

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A few weeks back, my flying instructor related a terrifying thing—a full time grade 2 instructor’s pay is somewhere in the range of $32,000 to $34,000.

And, while I’d certainly like to continue flying for the joy of the activity itself, it seems a tad too selfish (and frankly wasteful) to do so when the opportunity cost is so fantastically high.

Hence I’ve decided to give it a (permanent) rest. I definitely enjoyed it while it lasted, and am happy to say that I’ve spent a significant amount of time up in the air flying a plane both with an instructor and on my own, and while I’m a tad annoyed that I haven’t gotten to GFPT standard (where I can take passengers while going solo), and was indeed just about to go on my area solo, there’s no time like the present for directing my energy into something else that I want to continue with.

In other news, I’ve gotten back into Akari in a big way, and look forward to making more time for it in the future.