No, not mipmaps. Just a lot in a small space (hopefully small):

• We’re starting to get some nice ice growing on the fountain:
  
  
  Once we can get the heater to run through the night consistently without tripping its GFI, it’ll be awesome.
• On the topic of the fountain, progress is being made in teaching it to speak SMTP. I have my module mostly complete, and have also found Giddings & Lewis’s official SMTP email block, which I am poring over to find the bug in mine. It was interesting, though slightly disappointing, to find a functional block from G&L that does, in fact, work, after putting several hours into writing my own.
• Google’s Russian definition of concatenate contains the word treehouse.
• I lost, yet again, to Jared in racquetball last Friday. A bit disappointing that I was up 7-3 and still lost 15-11 or so. That’s at least the 2nd time this year I’ve done that, though last time was worse: up 13-2 I still lost 15-14. I suppose it’s only fair, mason. Makes up for nearly every math test since 7th grade 😉
• Sunday night I decorated some Christmas cookies with Jeni & Lauren (and, briefly, Erin). We’ll find out tonight if any survived for the Enlight meeting… (I take full blame for the horrible attempts at rendering a fountain and the Enlight logo onto a tree and a bear, respectively. I quickly realized I’m not capable of such things and desisted.) Later Jeni and I were confounded by a tangram puzzle that I think is impossible. And Lauren solved the triangle problem in just a day. A lot less time than it took me (about a year and a half, I think. Anybody remember when I first brought this to school?):
  
• Nate had a very original, inventive, and truly inspired idea last night. But he doesn’t want me to share it. So for the record, Nate had his first idea in a long time, but it died of isolation. (kindof like the died of loneliness joke… I tried.)

I think that’s about it.