A few weeks ago, I was walking down the hall in our building, when I ran into a woman who (I hope) lives on our hall. She looked at me, said “happy little person” and walked through the door into (I hope) her apartment. I was a little confused, but proceeded into the elevator and forgot about it. The other day, I ran into the same woman in the elevator, who again looked at me and said “happy little person.” I wondered if perhaps this was just an expression she used, but when the elevator stopped and someone else got on, she just said “hello.” I guess she recognized me.

I guess it’s possible I have really bad hearing comprehension, and in fact she said something entirely different and less eccentric. Or maybe I just look like a happy little person to her. Even though I am a good foot taller than she was.

The Omni Group has a real nice-looking set of Cocoa frameworks that they make available under a relatively liberal license. In particular, OWF looks like it might be a perfect fit for some projects I’ve been thinking about. But the enormous complexity of the framework (there are 580 header files describing OWF and the other Omni frameworks it relies on) combined with a lack of documentation, means that it would probably take me longer to understand how to use the frameworks than it would to just write my own code to do the parts I need. This seems like a shame.