Posted on August 27,2010 12:10 PM by
class Fruit {
    public Fruit() {
       init();
    }
    protected void init() {
    }
}
class Orange extends Fruit {
    private String color = null;
    public Orange() {
        super();
    }
    protected void init() {
        color = "Orange";
    }
}
If I create a new instance of Orange what is the variable 'color' set to? The answer is null.

Posted on August 24,2010 09:55 AM by
So yesterday we were going to swim lessons and I noticed 5 kids walking along the 71 access road. I pointed them out to Julie as "Schools back in session". Then I realized. Those kids were walking from the Govalle bus back to our neighborhood. Which meant that they had to walk 1/4 mile from Travis High to the 7-11 at Oltorf and Parker. Take the bus down Parker to Parker and 71, then walk 1/2 mile back into our neighborhood.
Then this morning I noticed a woman and her child waiting at the bus stop by Ware Rd. And a guy walking home from work along Burleson from Oltorf.
So while the bus might not have had high ridership, it definitely reached places that other buses don't and the loss of service is affecting people in very obvious ways.

Posted on August 5,2010 09:25 PM by
This would be a riff on Afraid of Everyone by The National if that's not obvious:
Oh... I'm afraid of everyone
in the whole wide world
But I love them
Even though I'm afraid of them.

Don't worry if you can't make the lyrics match up. It's not going to happen.

She's been driving us a bit crazy singing it over and over. Not to mention that it's permanently wedged in my head. I'm listening to it now. If you can't beat them...

Posted on July 28,2010 09:40 PM by

Fantastic weather tonight. A wonderfully cool 79 degrees with a breeze pretty much the entire length of the race. I ended up running behind a kid who looked like me at 10 years old for about the first mile. Like chasing my youth. Except that he was far faster than I ever was, which was funny because he seemed about equally coordinated with limbs flying every which way as he ran.

Very happy with this race time. Wish I'd pushed myself just a tiny bit more since I only needed to shave off about 20 more seconds to be under 8 minutes. All in all a fantastic race and end to the season.


Race Time Min/Mile
226:458:34
626:448:34
1026:178:21
1225:168:06

Posted on July 28,2010 08:21 PM by
Shared by Tim
So when I said that my campaign wasn't involved, I meant that in the Republican way. You know - flat out lying.
Campaign finance reports show Gov. Perry's re-election campaign paid Stuart Moss for mileage while he was doing political research in November. At the same time, he was helping the Green Party field candidates.