I wrote this up last night, but apparently it didn't post. How strange =/
Hi guys, writing up another post. I meant to do another one earlier than this, cuz I want to get back in the habit of semi-regular updates, but I'm in Denver, so nothing is really happening
Even Thanksgiving was uneventful, and if you know or have heard me tell stories about this family at all you'll understand how amazing that is
Aunt Ilene was in pretty good form though--my favorite part was when she came in, set down the wine that she had brought, and then walked over to the stove and started adjusting the heat on all the burners. I mean . . . seriously? She didn't even know what half of the pots were!!! Oy vey
I've been looking through my old lj posts, cuz I'm bored but I'm not sleepy but everybody gone or sleeping or whatever cuz nobody's online or answering their phones. So :P
But yeah, that's been amusing. Painful at times, having to relive some of those old events, but pretty amusing nonetheless. And I found a bunch've old quotes that I'd totally forgotten about, so I marked a couple've them down and plan on recycling them
Anyways, yeah, I got all the way back to my SIMUW days. Here's one of my favorite excerpts:
So today in Math Biology we worked a lot on programming using a program called MATLAB. And, well . . . let me just say that that program hates me, and by now I kinda feel the same. Because, you see, I have this amazing talent for making really bad mistakes, usually only a single keystroke. Now this isn't that remarkable--I mean, anybody can write a program that doesn't work. However, when this happens, generally all that happens is the program doesn't work, and you get an error message saying the exact line and character where it breaks down. My mistakes, however, are of the type that fuck up the software so much it can't even give me an error message--infinite loops, for example, or glitches so huge that the entire system is overloaded. I had to force quit at least 4 times in about a half an hour
So I finally called Chris over, cuz he knows MATLAB (and, quite obviously, I don't). About 10 minutes in, we scrapped the whole thing and I actually re-wrote pretty much the entire thing from scratch, with him looking over my shoulder . . . and I still managed a half-dozen fatal errors
So Chris and I called Joel over, and the three of us finally got it working--changing a few "y"s to "y0"s, adding a few semicolons, correcting a few amazingly harmful sign changes, et al. This took us . . . the better part've an hour. For a program that was seriously no more than like 2 dozen lines long. Yeah. I am just damn cool like that
Chris: "Ok, Noah, your program's working. Now you can go around and help others"
Joel: "Umm . . . I don't think that's such a good idea"
:( . . . and I'm ususally a good programmer . . . god I hate that fucking program
Man. And I still hate MATLAB. Fuck that shit
So yeah, that's kinda all I got right now. I'm heading back to Page tomorrow night, so I'm sure I'll have some humorous anecdotes by then
(I find this particular bash.org quote especially amusing, mostly because of the name of the first person. Man, girls make everything more complicated)
"WiLdSeXyPrInCeSs: i luv guyz where would they be wifout us gals???
XeNoX: Still in the Garden Of Eden you gullible bitch."
Noah out
Even Thanksgiving was uneventful, and if you know or have heard me tell stories about this family at all you'll understand how amazing that is
Aunt Ilene was in pretty good form though--my favorite part was when she came in, set down the wine that she had brought, and then walked over to the stove and started adjusting the heat on all the burners. I mean . . . seriously? She didn't even know what half of the pots were!!! Oy vey
I've been looking through my old lj posts, cuz I'm bored but I'm not sleepy but everybody gone or sleeping or whatever cuz nobody's online or answering their phones. So :P
But yeah, that's been amusing. Painful at times, having to relive some of those old events, but pretty amusing nonetheless. And I found a bunch've old quotes that I'd totally forgotten about, so I marked a couple've them down and plan on recycling them
Anyways, yeah, I got all the way back to my SIMUW days. Here's one of my favorite excerpts:
So today in Math Biology we worked a lot on programming using a program called MATLAB. And, well . . . let me just say that that program hates me, and by now I kinda feel the same. Because, you see, I have this amazing talent for making really bad mistakes, usually only a single keystroke. Now this isn't that remarkable--I mean, anybody can write a program that doesn't work. However, when this happens, generally all that happens is the program doesn't work, and you get an error message saying the exact line and character where it breaks down. My mistakes, however, are of the type that fuck up the software so much it can't even give me an error message--infinite loops, for example, or glitches so huge that the entire system is overloaded. I had to force quit at least 4 times in about a half an hour
So I finally called Chris over, cuz he knows MATLAB (and, quite obviously, I don't). About 10 minutes in, we scrapped the whole thing and I actually re-wrote pretty much the entire thing from scratch, with him looking over my shoulder . . . and I still managed a half-dozen fatal errors
So Chris and I called Joel over, and the three of us finally got it working--changing a few "y"s to "y0"s, adding a few semicolons, correcting a few amazingly harmful sign changes, et al. This took us . . . the better part've an hour. For a program that was seriously no more than like 2 dozen lines long. Yeah. I am just damn cool like that
Chris: "Ok, Noah, your program's working. Now you can go around and help others"
Joel: "Umm . . . I don't think that's such a good idea"
:( . . . and I'm ususally a good programmer . . . god I hate that fucking program
Man. And I still hate MATLAB. Fuck that shit
So yeah, that's kinda all I got right now. I'm heading back to Page tomorrow night, so I'm sure I'll have some humorous anecdotes by then
(I find this particular bash.org quote especially amusing, mostly because of the name of the first person. Man, girls make everything more complicated)
"WiLdSeXyPrInCeSs: i luv guyz where would they be wifout us gals???
XeNoX: Still in the Garden Of Eden you gullible bitch."
Noah out