My little tomato plant has doubled in height over the past three weeks.
It was starting to look sad about a week ago, and I wasn’t sure it was going to make it. It seems to have recovered and looks like it’s doing pretty well.
Gardening baby steps
A tomato plant!
I’ve always had aspirations of having my own back yard garden. I don’t really have much of a green thumb though. I have a hard enough time keeping the grass growing in my yard.
A tomato plant got planted in the back yard today just off the patio. Let’s see how well it does.
Cliq: Month 16
The Cliq continues to function decently as long as I don’t use it as a phone.
The G2X recently came out, which I’m rather tempted to upgrade to. $550 including taxes and shipping is a little more than I can afford right now though (car needs new tires). Then there’s also the impending T-Mobile/AT&T merger. Not sure that I want to give AT&T any more of my money.
The Market app on my phone is a little messed up. There are a bunch of apps (both installed and not) that it tells me it can’t find on the market. It will tell me that I have app updates, but when I tap on them it tells me the app can’t be found. But if I manually search for the app, it’s there and I can update it just fine. Very odd behaviour.
Ramp building
Got involved with Ramp It Up today. Their mission is a simple one: build wheel chair ramps for people who need them. The original plan was to gather for a kick-off breakfast, then disperse to various areas to build the ramps. That got nixed by the weather though. Instead a few people ended up at the disAbility Resource Center where we assembled the sections that will later end up being assembled into wheel chair ramps on site. I did a lot of board cutting, while others took the pieces I cut and assembled them into the different sections. Later, those pieces will be delivered to a house somewhere, and more people will assemble them into a ramp that will make it easier for someone to get into their house.
Knowing I helped play a role in that makes me feel good.
Ramp It Up has only just started up, but there’s already a list of 30 requests for wheel chair ramps. Want to help?
Android app idea
Imagine, a soundboard type app where you can select an HTTP status code and it displays in great big letters on your Android device.
Someone walks up to you while you’re busy with something. You select the 404 code and show the offender the 404: Not Found. Someone asks you a stupid question. You flash them a big 400: Bad Request.
What a brilliant communication tool!
I need to learn how to write Android apps now.