The Pædantic Programmer

Old news, but worth noting.

Clothier, Anna Lillian
Anna Lillian Clothier – Pueblo Chieftain – February 8, 1998 – Reno County, Kansas – Anna Lillian Clothier, 93, died Feb. 5, 1998, at Pueblo. She was born July 2, 1904, at Kansas City, Kan., the daughter of John and Della Lally. A Pueblo resident for 54 years, she was a retail sales clerk. She married Jim Clothier. He died in 1984. Survivors include: a son, Larry Clothier, of the home; three daughters, June Collier, Seabeck, Wash., Virginia Reichard, Mesa, Ariz., and Betty Meyers, McPherson; nine grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; a nephew, Walt Clothier; caregiver and friend Helyn Williamson; and numerous nephews and nieces. She was preceded in death by two sons, Elbert Leroy and Don; an infant daughter, Juanita Lorraine; a brother, Lloyd C. Lally; and a sister, Juanita McGlashen-Holtz. A memorial celebration of her life will be at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at Southwest Church of Christ, Pueblo. Adrian Comer Garden Chapel, Pueblo, is in charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the Children’s Home Fund in care of the Church of Christ Southwest, 1635 South Pueblo Blvd., Pueblo, CO 81005.

I would prefer that Chapter 26.04 RCW considered anything conforming to the definition of “Domestic Partnership” in SB 5688 qualified as a “Marriage”, but the fact that SB 5688 exists is enough to for Hannah and I to complete a “Marriage License” and formalize our arrangement with the state.

We should throw a party or something.

So. I think the project I’m working on is so awesome that I’m willing to pay for it. I set up the first of many sites yesterday that will be running on my blingy new storm host:

Home Birth Seattle was designed and developed by Cadmium Yellow, AKA my wife, Hannah ;)

We did the site for our good friend, Geraldine Lee. She was our doula when our first daughter, Scarlet, was born. She was also there at Zelda’s birth. If you need a midwife, you should totally hire her.

And if you need a virtual private server, you should use Liquid Web Inc.’s Storm stuff.

And if you want someone to handle all of your hosting details for you, you should give *me* money ;)

(Sourced from http://www.seacoastonline.com/)

AMHERST, Mass. — Russell Alan Adams, 58, died Friday, March 12, 2010, at the Fisher Home in Amherst, after a brief illness.

He was born Aug. 19, 1951, in Boston, the son of Norma Mary (Coggin) Adams. He was raised in Hampton, N.H., and graduated from Winnacunnet High School in 1969. After school, he moved to Boston, where he was employed as a sign painter before switching to the technology industry. He worked the last 10 years as a system architect at Mass Mutual in Springfield.

Mr. Adams is survived by his daughter, India Adams of Boston; and his siblings, Peter Adams of North Hampton, N.H., Katharine Murta Adams of Los Angeles, Nathaniel Jonathon Adams of Hampton, and Hannah Hendren Adams-Collier of Seattle, Wash., and their families. He is also survived by his stepfather, James Richardson Adams Jr.

He was predeceased by his son, Miles Dudley Adams, and his mother.

WE REMEMBER: Russ enjoyed his family and friends, computer games and target shooting.

Russ’ great sense of humor, sharp wit and intelligence will be sorely missed by his family and friends.

SERVICES: A memorial service will be held Sunday, March 28, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Look Park Garden House in Northampton, Mass. Burial will take place in Bridge Street Cemetery, in Northampton, Mass., and will be private and at the convenience of the family.

In lieu of flowers, send donations to the Miles Dudley Adams Scholarship Fund for the Arts, Northampton High School, 380 Elm St., Northampton, MA 01060.

*whew* I did a bunch of things yesterday. We took our kindergärtner to her first Friday at her new school (and were about 10 minutes tardy. oops). We then took our toddler to a nearby playground with swings and slides and let her expend some energy. After she had been sufficiently exercised, we walked back home, stopping at a coffee shop on the way. The baristo (you call male baristas “baristos,” right? :) ) recognized my MC Frontalot shirt and asked whether I had caught him the previous weekend at PAX. Unfortunately, I have not attended PAX since 2006, but I *did* purchase the tee directly from The Front himself ;)

When we got home, I worked a bit on an English Language parser implementation and then went to the University of Washington to meet with Emily Bender about getting in to the Professional Master’s program in Computational Linguistics. It all looks good, and I even got the good news that the GRE is no longer required!

After the meeting, I headed home and poked at the parser for a little while longer. I then picked Scarlet up from after-school care and brought her home. I then hopped in the car and drove toward Bellevue to meet up with Monty while he’s in town. I over-estimated the amount of time traffic would steal on my way to Bellevue, and had an extra hour to blow. So I dropped by building 41 and shot the IronPython bull with Dino. It turns out he’s got an android phone, too. I told him it was possible to put a debian chroot on it and that he should even be able to ‘apt-get install ironpython’ to his phone soon ;) We talked briefly about the CodePlex Foundation and Sam Ramji’s departure from The Evil Empire. Dino seems skeptical about the project. I don’t have enough information to have much of an opinion. However, it sounds like some folks I trust are involved, so I’m hopeful.

I left MS just in time to make it to the wrong address at the specified time. My phone had just enough juice to call Monty to get the right address and then use the navigation system to find my way there. I wasn’t able to make reservations at the place we intended to go for dinner until 8:15, so we went to the Barnes & Noble for a bit. They only had one NLP book in stock and the examples are all in Python. I should learn that language one of these days… As we were leaving the Pacific Place, Monty mentioned to me that he is on the advisory board for the CodePlex Foundation, and that they have been responsive enough to his input that they changed the Mission statement, at his recommendation, just one day before the Foundation was publicized. He feels that this is a very good direction for Microsoft to be heading.

My brother Chris was kind enough to watch the kids while we went out to dinner. Quick note: he recently graduated from UW with a BA in Electrical Engineering and is looking for work using his acquired knowledge, in case anyone needs one of those ;)

We met up with my wife, Hannah and our friends, Mike & Cynthia at our place. Monty graciously avoided mentioning the terrible state in which our apartment has recently found itself. The kids were super cute and polite and said hi/bye.

Over dinner we discussed building an android app (Monty has one, too ;) ) to automate the process of creating bounties for apps and getting folks to implement them. We also talked about MySQL and MariaDB, of course. Hannah and I recalled my time working for MySQL, Inc. on the MaxDB project and some subtle cultural differences we noticed while traveling. It was interesting getting the inside scoop about the Sun acquisition and some of the recent goings-on in the MySQL/Sun/Oracle world. I wasn’t aware, for instance, that the EU is balking on the merger because of monopoly concerns.

So… next week, I start a contract with Microsoft in Redmond. I’ll be working on what seems like a fun project. I’ve enjoyed working at CarDomain for the last four months. Fun projects, a cohesive group, neat technology. I’m mostly moving on because a) I’ve been writing web pages for a long time and want to try something else and b) the commute will be much easier and I’ll get to drive in with Hannah!

I’m looking forward to being able to play with some of the fancy internal toys that I’ve heard so much about. Someone told me yesterday that even the folks who were hardcore MS haters love their job there. I’m certainly not a hater. Perhaps skeptical, but not a hater. I figure I’ll learn a bunch of fun new things even in the worst case scenario.

Anyway. Now that the various colliertech.org bits are functioning again, I thought I’d write something.

My brother’s motorcycle club, The Cretins, recently had an article published about them in the Seattle PI. They even quoted him. I didn’t realize he was the president of the club. The rumor goes that he missed a meeting, and wasn’t there to defend himself.

I don’t really have anything really exciting to report, so y’all get to listen to me blather. And after all, that’s what blogs are for anyway, right?

Zelda is turning 11 months old this month. This is still my favorite picture:

18:32 <@drgone> how's being fired?
18:32 < cj_> drgone: I made money by being fired.  isn't that great?
18:32 <@drgone> rock on
18:32 <@drgone> gotta love hush money
20:13 <@btm> cj: where you working now?
20:56 < cj_> btm: cardomain.com

I went to lunch with a couple of friends from #mono today. That references earns me the right to spam the monologue folks (hi everyone!). benjoldersma, his friend [Ian] and I went to an Indian place in Fremont. I was hoping that RevFry would come, too, but he is lame.

We talked about the Seattle Mono Users’ Group (all four of us), Prebuild, the DLR, my hopes of getting a gig at Microsoft to implement Perl6 on the DLR, IKVM, GTK#, gtk+, XAML, WPF, Moonlight, Ubuntu, and other stuff, I’m sure.

I’m working at cardomain.com on contract. It’s fun. The people there seem smart and interested in what they’re doing. Their development infrastructure makes me happy. The fact that their devs do automated testing also makes me happy. The fact that I have LoS to the Westin makes me happy. The parking situation rains on my parade.

Speaking of the Westin, I let down my friends with whom I co-locate. I was unable to run to the rack when one of the servers needed love and attention. It cost the other folks quite a bit of revenue. Allow me to apologize publicly. I’m sorry folks. I’m doing what I can to reduce the risk of this happening again. I hope I can make it up to you.

Hannah got a job at Microsoft working on the Surface team.

And with that, I will select some categories… thanks for tuning in :)

(Sourced from http://www.remickgendron.com/, with corrections)

Norma Coggin Adams

HAMPTON — Norma Coggin Adams, 79, of 26 Dearborn Ave., died Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008, in Exeter Hospital.

She was born Nov. 29, 1928, in Lynn, Mass., the daughter of the late John and Esther (Stolpe) Coggin.

She was a 1946 graduate of Lynn English High School.

Mrs. Adams was a journalist and photographer for the Hampton Union for many years until her retirement 15 years ago. In the summer her responsibilities included the publication of the weekly Beachcomber as reporter and editor.

She is survived by her husband of 49 years, James Richardson Adams Jr.; five children, Russell Adams of Northampton, Mass., Peter Adams of North Hampton, Nathaniel Adams of Hampton, Katharine Murta Adams of Glendale, Calif., and Hannah Adams-Collier of Everett, Wash.; five grandchildren; two sisters, Ingrid Chruniak of Georgetown, Mass., and Ruth Wood of Woodstock, Ga.; two brothers, William Coggin of Topsfield, Mass., and John Coggin Jr. of Lowell, Mass.

WE REMEMBER: She was predeceased by one sister, Anne Levitsky of Norwood, Mass.; two brothers, Ray Coggin of Vienna, Va., and Robert Coggin of Franklin, Mass.; and recently by her grandson, Miles Adams of Northampton, Mass.

SERVICES: A reception for family and friends will be held Sunday, Jan. 3, from noon to 3 p.m. at the Galley Hatch Conference Center, 815 Lafayette Road, Hampton.

Memorial donations in Norma’s name may be made to the American Cancer Society, 30 Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701.

Assistance with the arrangements was by the Remick & Gendron Funeral Home, Hampton.

[ Originally published on: Thursday, January 03, 2008 in the Daily Hampshire Gazette ]

NORTHAMPTON – Miles Dudley Adams, 18, died Dec. 30 at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield from injuries incurred after being struck by a motor vehicle on Interstate 91.

Born in Northampton on March 20, 1989, Miles lived the first seven years of his life in Haydenville, where he attended the Helen E. James School. After moving to Northampton in 1996, he attended Bridge Street School and John F. Kennedy Middle School. Miles graduated from Northampton High School in 2007 and was a freshman at Fitchburg State College, where he had been accepted into the Film and Video program. Miles was an honor student and talented athlete. He played soccer for the Northampton Soccer League and the Northampton High School soccer team. Nicknamed the “Phoenix” by his teammates for his speed and quickness on the field, Miles was named to the second team Gazette All-Stars last January. At Fitchburg State, he played on the school’s NCAA Division III men’s soccer team. Miles was also a devoted student of karate, and was working on obtaining his black belt. In addition to his athletic ability, Miles possessed tremendous artistic talent. During his lifetime, he drew, played the guitar, acted, and made several short films. During high school, he was known for making humorous videos played to great acclaim at school film festivals. Miles was one of 14 winners in a 2005 contest, Art Outside the Box, sponsored by the Gazette as part of Northampton’s 350th anniversary.

Miles was known for finding the silver lining in any situation, and for a great sense of humor that brought lots of smiles and laughter to his many friends and family. His generous spirit and warm heart were a gift to all.

Miles leaves his loving family: his father, Russell Adams, mother Nina Dudley and sister India Adams; his aunts and uncles, Peter Adams, Nathaniel and Natalia Adams, Katy Adams, C.J. and Hannah Adams-Collier, Justin Dudley and Robin Kennedy, Lisa and Ash Welch; his two grandmothers, Jacqueline Dudley and Norma Adams, and his grandfather, J.R. Adams; his cousins and many loving friends.

A memorial service will be held on Saturday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Northampton Elks Lodge 997 on Spring Street in Florence. Burial in Bridge Street Cemetery will be private and at the convenience of the family. Czelusniak Funeral Home of Northampton is handling the funeral arrangements. In memory of Miles, the family requests that memorial donations be made to the Miles Dudley Adams Scholarship Fund for the Arts, Northampton High School, Elm St., Northampton, MA, 01060.