You are a Naturalist Thinker

I just took the "What kind of thinker are you?" test:

You are a Naturalist Thinker

Naturalist Thinkers:
- Like to understand the natural world, and the living beings that inhabit it
- have an aptitude for communicating with animals
- You try to understand patterns of life and natural forces

Like other Naturalist thinkers, Leonardo longed to spend time in the countryside. He spent hours watching birds to understand how they flew. Other Naturalist thinkers include
Charles Darwin, Jane Goodall, Johnny Morris, David Attenborough

Careers which suit Naturalist thinkers include
Biologist, Meteorologist, Forester, Farmer, Astronomer, Alternative therapist

WOW. I did grow up on a dairy/farm and enjoy gardening. I also think it's a privilege that I can write software for a pistachio and almond company. Coincidence?

Impressive Sight, Indeed!

James posted about the home coming.

I was walking into the bank around 3:30 when I heard the sounds of jet engines. I looked up and what first appeared to be a flock of birds was a group of Naval jets. It was really impressive to see them fly by. I have never seen 30+ jets fly that close together.

I believe they were F-18's.



Welcome home!!!

Thank you Mike!

Mike Amundsen wrote some very kind words.

Mike has that special kind of excitement. The kind that's addictive! It is such a blast chatting/coding with him. I picked up valuable food for my brain while interacting with him. This was the kind of excitement that kept me up past 'Round Midnight!

He's working on a blog system called EraBlog. This is the most impressive blog system that I've seen. He's investing time in building the middle components to be robust and extensible. He's also working on implementing many of the blogging API's and is constantly adding new features.

I'm most excited about how he's opened the system via the EraBlog API. This allows me to build and host the presentation on my server yet leave all the back end stuff on EraBlog. This is nice because I don't have to worry about new versions of RSS, supporting changes to API's, backing up data, statistics, and so on.

Hopefully soon I'll be ready to move my blogs to Mike's system!

GeoCaching

This (http://www.geocaching.com) makes me want to pick up a GPS unit:

"Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. Participating in a cache hunt is a good way to take advantage of the wonderful features and capability of a gps unit. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is if they get something they should try to leave something for the cache. "

Wow .... there's a cache near by!

Iteration Performance in .NET

In a response to Trevor Misfeldt's article on iteration performance Don Box notes in item #3:

"The DataEnumerator type should have been sealed and probably should have been a value type (struct)."

I could follow (with a little help from Kirk Evans) the previous points, but why should the DataEnumerator should have been a ValueType?