Ouch, my throat hurts. I hope I'm not actually sick. This
week has been long and tiring with almost no hacking. I
did manage to get the second room set up as a passable
office after a couple of trips to ikea in houston to go buy
furniture. The house is now starting to look like some
sort of bizarre ikea add.
The last trip to ikea turned interesting when the tire on
the minivan completely lost its tread. The minivan was
carrying the bluk of the furniture for two households and I
was doing about 85mph at the time. It was a loud and
shaking experience, but the tire stayed inflated despite
losing much of its self and the car stayed under control as
I pulled off the highway. I put on the temporary spare and
we went and found a hotel. It was already late and the
propect of finding another tire that night and driving the 2
hours back to Austin with a 9 month old baby in the other
car was to much to handle.
It is impressive how much damage a tire tread falling off
can do to the wheel well and surrouding bits of a car. It
looks like the spining bits of tire managed to break the
turn signal and brake light on the opposite side of the back
end, as well as kill the antilock breaks. What fun. The
neatest looking damage was the piece of metal that used to
hold the bottom of the bumper and wheel well cover that is
now folded and beaten into a polished archway that sort of
wraps around the severed tail light wires.
Ettore, Radek and Jonas have been hacking on gtkhtml. It is
quickly approaching a correct and usable state. Very cool.
A couple of new rendering problems have creeped in as the
old ones got fixed, but I don't think they should be too bad
to take care of. I think I'll look at table printing
right now though.
