sunrise

Last day of the season

Last day of the season

Place to read and reflect

a bee in my ear

Dear love, you have always been there for me,

yet vanished slowly.. Now, in dreams I see




your beauty and soul, and love I rejoice.

Sweet song. Now! I hear can your voice




Like a bee in my ear, humming so sweet,

dreaming of the day we will again meet.




The day will never come -- is what I fear.

Cruel world! There is no way you would come near.




Tonight, visit me in dreams of years past,

good times together, went past all too fast.

Java final keyword

Wikipedia has a great article on the subject so there is no need to re-state it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_(Java)

The final keyword is especially important when you write a lot of asynchronous code (GWT), or write complex subclassing.

Sailing on Sunday

GWT: Override StackPanel onBroswerEvent()

An inner class is a customized class that is used inside a java class. The main purpose of inner class is to use a generic method that may be problematic to use in the actual class. This is a useful concept when using when using onBrowserEvent(Event event) method for instance in google web toolkit because I could not initialize an event in the original java class. Below are the step t implement this:

- Create a private inner class StackPanelNav  that extends the container/super class StackPanel:

private class StackPanelNav extends StackPanel

    {

public StackPanelNav()

{

    super();

}

@Override

public void onBrowserEvent(Event event)

{

    super.onBrowserEvent(event);

    switch (this.getSelectedIndex())

    {

    case 0:

    {

        // Handle selected

    }

break;

}

Chicago Marathon

This is probably one of the best pictures I ever took, click for full size.

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Paweł and Lili sailing

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Boogey man

To avoid emberassment most people will not point out the feeble, disabled, nor the will not admit their own, deepest fallacy, or limitation. Most people cannot come to terms that their lives are finite, that once they die it will not continue, that there may be no saving grace boyond.
Over the millenia were devising things that were not, monsters and the seas that dropped into never ending abbys if you travelled to far from home. People have real talent devising stories. There is a boogey man under each child's bed and there is a different god in each culture.
Some may argue that it is really the same boogey man for all of us, but once some of us grow up we realize that there is really nothing worth mentioning there.
This would be fine, some might argue, since everyone is entitled to their own believes, but what if these believes prevent is from living our lives to the fullest?
What if these false believes cause wars, or cause us not to explore the seas being afraid of the mosters and what if they terriffy the little kid with a boogey man ?
Aren't we supposed to look under the bed, turn the lights on, and have a deep conversation and tell the scared kid -- there is no Boogey man, don't be scared.

Last Thursday on Lil Walkabout

log

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Lili: making curlies

GWT: Auto-saving a TextArea

    You can use this inner class:

 private class TextAreaAutoSave extends TextArea

 {

   public TextAreaAutoSave()

   {

    super();

   }

   @Override

   protected void onDetach()

   {

      if (saveButton != null)

     saveButton.click();

   }

 }

HTML: superScript

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First sail out of North Point

I am at
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.505138,+-87.780633

Sailing today

Prayer of Bodhisattva

Demons can't sleep
Thru night they creep
They stab again
My soul with pain

What should I choose?
To fight -- and loose?
To love and cherish?
Each way I'll perish.

Have peaceful mind,
Mindfull and kind,
Do what's your best,
Don't mind the rest.

Cooking

HTML: adding bullets

To add an .html bullets, insert below code to get a circle bullets: Circles: <ul><li type=circle>First element <li type=circle>Second element <li type=circle>Third element</ul>

• First element
• Second element
• Third element

If you need square shaped bullets, insert below code: <ul><li type=square>First element <li type=square>Second element <li type=square>Third element </ul>

• First element
• Second element
• Third element

Source: http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_textarea.asp

Tomato soup receipe

1. Boil the beef (lamb, deer, etc.) bone to create a broth
2. Put in chicken legs and boil them to get a richer broth
3. add whole baby carrots, halved onion, parsley, celery (dry flakes are OK)
4. add all-spice (whole)  other herbs to taste
5. after the chicken is boiled, take it out and fry in on butter with paprika, cayenne and cajun spices until crisp
6. add to the soup a few drops of sesame oil, cayenne and black pepper 
7. mix diced tomatoes on the frying pan on butter,  add canned tomato paste if needed, add it to the soup
8. mix couple of spoons of flower with cold water, gradually add soup to it and slowly mix it all into the soup
9. mix a small yogurt with he soup gradually (vanilla yogurt works well)
10. let soup slowly boil for all the herbs and spices to give up aroma, all day, or overnight
11. fish out the onions and celery if it was fresh
12. boil the thick noodles (pol. kluski), or rice separately from the soup and add on the plate

This week plans

I might take time off work Thursday, or Friday for sailing if the weather is 

nice. Check this blog for updates, I really want to get out few more times this season.

Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate

I am reading a new book. Wow! At least I have an explanation to 2 questions I have been asking myself lately:

1) Why the politicians spend so little time on their environmental agendas?

2) Why do they talk about God so much (both Bush and recently Palin lost my votes because of their claim that the current wars are our mission from God)?

Forget about separation of religion from politics.

Well the research shows that nearly 80% of Americans believe in biblical account of creation, versus only 15% in evolution.

Now, if you don't see how deeply sad and troubling it is, don't despair, you are not alone, 8 out of 10 people will not.

Politicans being glorified, yet the still sleazy snake oil salesmen, would never dare to oppose 80% of the public opinion -- even if they believed otherwise -- sadly, most of them don't.

Then again, there is a bright side. In feudal Japan there was about 7% of educated class, in medival Europe even less, so 15% in USA is not bad.

I am sure that with another 20 years of teaching evolution and ecology in every school (they did teach me both 20 years ago in Poland), we can get to, well maybe 20%, that is if some RELIGIOUS WAR will not wipe us out first.

DF920 Trimaran Demo Video

Sailing 37 foot Jeanneau out of Monroe

This trip was courtesy of John.. Thanks a lot!

Me, Uki.

The wind was very light, at most 7 knots South-East, no waves, so there was not much work on the boat, but to relax and soak up the sun. 

Jeanneau 37 is a beautiful boat inside and out.

It is set up for charters with all the running lines to the cockpit and with the in-mast furling mainsail that makes it very easy to operate.

You can get this perspective on Chicago ONLY from water, people who are not yachties miss the point of living in this town.

This is as far as we sailed today, the turning mark, from, and to the Monroe Harbor. Not far, but again there was barely any wind.

Sailing 37 foot Jeneau out of Monroe Harbor

see more:

http://sailgreatlakes.blogspot.com/2008/10/sailing-37-foot-jeneau-out-of-monroe.html

hereIam

I am at
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=41.924547,+-87.539964

Saturday sailing

So far it look like Saturday may be OK to get out and sail. 

Let me know if you would like to join us - we need a helping hand!

Plan on warm windbreaker jacket and pants.

10 AM in North Point Marina, Winthrop Harbor, IL,  peer I.

Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, Canada picture

Why someone would like to sail the Great Lakes? Just take a look!

Mac: changing default internet browser

To change your default internet browser in Mac, follow bellow steps: 1. Open your current internet browser. 2. Click on Safari menu -> Preferences -> General tab. 3. Select your preferred browser from the drop down as illustrated in the picture.

Stitching the sails on Lil Walkabout

Occasionally, every sail has to be re-stitched, especially around the edges and batten pockets.