Went for another trip to the park today to try and find some of the sights I had already observed on Google Earth. Normally I would simply be content with this but given they were in the middle of the park rather than by the side of the road I couldn’t get an image on Street View 😉 .
On Tuesday we had a debate with the Islamic apologist Adam Deen. The man is a fantastic public speaker and even though I think most of us from A-Soc have heard all the arguments before, they were very eloquently put. Norm did a good job of speaking for outside, as did Sophie chairing a debate for the first time – not an easy one to start on!
With the days having gotten lighter I finally made it to Roundhay Park this evening if only for a short while. Enough time to get a few pictures in anyway, hopefully I will get a lot more chance to make use of the park before I move out.
Sunday saw us head to Mosaic for Michelle’s baptism.
If there was one thing that was apparent while I was there is that, that church has plenty of cash. Not that I wasn’t drooling over the electronics last time I was there but they have really done it up since then and added some cool stuff – though Joel tells me they have actually had to downgrade their speakers.
In any case, this tithing thing seems to be the way forward 😀 .
Me and Eric had been saying for a few months now that when the weather got warmer we would do a BBQ after the close one night. The weather having got better recently I decided that Saturday was the day we should finally go for it and despite initial rain when we started out shift it was (relatively) warm and dry by the time we got out. So we settled down for a BBQ and a beer in the car park – epic win 😀 .
The photos didn’t come out too clear as I’m still playing around with my various camera settings but it portrays the idea.
I’m quite proud I managed to cook everything without killing anyone and Becky brought along drinks and donuts too so it was quite a night.
I ended up with a bit of a crazy weekend (again) over the past few days.
Friday I did my usual shift at Open Door before heading over to The D to do a close. I then got up on Saturday and did some freelance work before going back to The D to do another close. On Sunday I got up early (having only got in at 4:30am) to go to Michelle’s baptism then grabbed some more sleep before heading out to the pub and then back to The D for a third time for another close.
This resulted in me getting to bed at about 3:45 and getting back up for work about four and a half hours later.
As such, tiring would be a good way to sum up my weekend.
Thursday saw an interfaith social supposedly organsed by the interfaith assembly. They didn’t really do anything other than delegate all the work to Nicola though. The event featured a quiz and a buffet which was nice though Nicola did all the food so it soon ran out. Of course the real socialising took place in The Old Bar afterwards but that is to be expected 😀 .
Congratulations to Paul, who along with others including myself, who was one of the first set of people to be awared honorary life membership to Leeds Atheist Society. It just shows you if you that if you really put time and effort in you can come out with a nicely designed certificate ;). And much more besides of course!
On Tuesday I delivered a short series of talks to Atheist Society on evolution. It focused on some of the fun facts of evolution and strange twists which don’t seem to make sense at first but then, when you actually find out the answer, it makes perfect sense. The enemy of the god of gaps if you will.
ASP has a lot of “interesting” features shall we say. I’ve just been working with the dictionary object which is basically an array with named items, so everything has a key and value pair.
There is a method to add elements to it which accepts variables instead of literal text strings (as you would expect of course) but it doesn’t seem to accept variables in array.
For example, this will not work…
totals.Add RSTdata(“id”), 10
Response.Write(totals(RSTdata(“id”)))
However this will work just fine…
idNumber = RSTdata(“id”)
totals.Add idNumber, 10
Response.Write(totals(idNumber))
This isn’t quite as cool as the way ASP decides the forget about some variables but only after you’ve referenced them for the first time creating a rather nice heisenbug when you put in a few print lines but never the less interesting.