Just a few weeks ago I had recommended his book to my dad. Today, I learned Dennis Ritchie, designer of C, co-designer of Unix, and co-author of the classic book The C Programming Language, has passed away a few days ago. His creations are some of the foundations of where computing today stands.
Yesterday, Jeanne and I were on the bed playing with her Duplo blocks when she decided she wanted to go to out the room. I wasn’t looking when she slid off the bed and out. Then I remembered she had closed the door before going up the bed to play! To check, I carried her back inside the room, closed the door, and asked her to open it. And she did!
This morning, when I got to my desk and checked the iPhone, I read the news: Steve Jobs has passed away. Just a day after the launch of Apple’s latest iPhone, just a few months after he resigned as CEO of Apple. His passing is the end of an era for Apple, the industry, even the world. He is a visionary whose ideas, principles, and philosophies (much influenced by Zen) are what formed Apple and its products to what they are today: less technical and more functional. Or more simply put: simple and works. He will be missed.
Michelle had to have her bridesmaids(?) gown for Khae’s wedding fitted so we had to head over to Angeles in the middle of Quiel’s wrath. Fortunately, for us anyway, the typhoon is a bit up there in the north so there wasn’t too much happening down south. Still, the rains have been going on since Pedring a week back and there’s quite a lot of flooding. Exactly how much, we saw when we passed the Central Luzon plains area, specifically the Candaba area which is known for its swamp so the area is really low-lying and prone to flooding.
Gretchen, Michelle, Jeanne, and I went to mass at UP today. Afterwards, we went to the Sunken Garden, spread out Jeanne’s Nemo comforter on the grass, and had picnic lunch of lechon and rice. It was a great day and the sun was shining. We walked around on the grass as dragonflies buzzed around, we picked up and played with sticks, and Jeanne got an ice cream. I was able to catch a dragonfly and Michelle fed it a blade of grass while Jeanne watched. We let it go after a while. Later, Michelle and I lay down and watched the sky and the sun through the treetops. It was sooo relaxing.