looking for a good place downtown<\/a>?\u00a0 Contact me (mattfife at gmail.com)!<\/p>\n2. Holidays<\/strong>: Got a bit bogged down with running the name exchange for my family.\u00a0 Funny part was doing the name drawing.\u00a0 Here I was thinking about writing this clever program to draw names for other folks.\u00a0 We have some members in school so you want each person’s gift giver to be a mix of folks that have money and don’t have money.\u00a0 Each person got two or three names depending on ability to pay, etc.\u00a0 After pondering the problem I realized the fastest solution was just to write the correct number of names on paper slip, drop them (literally) into a bucket and draw.\u00a0 First round produced almost perfect results.\u00a0 The only conflicts and clumps were resolved by just re-drawing with only the affected names.\u00a0 Took 5 minutes tops.\u00a0 Sometimes you can try to out-smart yourself – and the easiest solutions are also the fastest. Thank you Jamie from Mythbusters – I took his motivation to always to do the quickest, easiest approach and not try to over-engineer something when a much simpler and faster solution is available.\u00a0 As Fr. Bob would say – “Be brief, Be holy, Be done”<\/p>\n3.\u00a0 We might get snowed on<\/strong>:\u00a0 Oregon is funny.\u00a0 It’s like they haven’t seen snow – even though the mountains have dozens of feet on them.\u00a0 But everyone’s been talking ALL WEEK about the *blizzard* we might get this weekend.\u00a0 If I had my bets (and I’m putting one down now) the WORST we’ll get is 2″ of snow that’ll melt off in a day or two at most.\u00a0 My real guess is that it might flurry but it won’t even stick.\u00a0 Oh, the mountains will get good snow, and the coast will get some bad rain storms for sure – but the “blizzards” out here don’t even beat the average snow front in the midwest.\u00a0 Still, one never drives when it snows out here.\u00a0 They simply can’t drive on it.\u00a0 I’m parking my car in a safe spot away from traffic and intersections for the inevitable bumper cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lots going on.\u00a0 More than the usual Christmas – that’s for sure. 1. I need a new roommate: my old roommate is moving out – so I need someone for January.\u00a0 Anyone looking for a good place downtown?\u00a0 Contact me (mattfife at gmail.com)! 2. Holidays: Got a bit bogged down with running the name exchange for my family.\u00a0 Funny part was doing the name drawing.\u00a0 Here I was thinking about writing this clever program to draw names for other folks.\u00a0…<\/p>\n
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