What is a compiler? And, please, donate.
It’s boring here at home.
I ended up giving my mother a half hour lecture on what a compiler is, why code has to be compiled, why Java is interpreted as bytecode and isn’t machine code, and what CVS is (no, it’s not the drugstore). I also “shined a light on Marblehead” for her on what is OSS, and why in the hell anyone would want to write something that’s open source. I used the IBM funded Eclipse project to explain it best. I think she retained perhaps 5% of my entire narrative.
In other news, some of the most devoted users of MassWrestling.com have begun to campaign for others to make a donation. I couldn’t be happier. I was planning on paying for a MassWrestling.com banner to be printed out for next season’s tournaments with some of my own money, since I donated all of last quarter’s earnings from the site to the MA USAW organization to help defray the cost of two Oklahoma State National All Americans who are coming in July to Hudson, MA for a two-day clinic. It’s really a great feeling to know that people are willing to step up and butress my efforts in providing for the site.
That also underscores the movement I’ve been leaning towards for the site itself - I’m going to found the site legally as a non-profit organization, so that donations in the future can be tax-deductable. I think this kind of thing would help attract some large donations that I could easily delegate to the community to help improve the MassWrestling.com mission statement, which is a document that I’ve been working on for awhile now and plan on having it reviewed soon.
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