4 February 2003

My camera was shipped back from Sony today, all fixed up. They seem to have replaced everything but the lens and the LCD backplate, for a flat rate, even though it was way outside the warranty and the case was heavily scratched and dented. Now I have a shiny and new DSC-S85.

. . . In other news, Miguel ported all the Python I wrote in the last few days to C#, and so now I’m finishing my little project in Mono. And I have to say: using a strongly-typed language is a nice change. That is definitely one of the failings of Python I could have done without.

. . . Also, a word of advice for the youth among you.

Once you graduate to that stage in your life that requires you to buy your own toilet paper, get into the habit of buying the thinnest, roughest, most sandpaper-like tissue you can find. You will find that after not very long, your apparatus will adjust to the harsher conditions. Then, when you travel to Europe, and especially Germany, whistle happily as you painlessly apply the foreign cloth, while your American comrades wince and bleed.

Plus it’s a nice bonus when, in the stall of a fancy restaurant or bar, you happen upon a roll of Charmin.