I don’t know if there is a word for some where between about to pass out and being unable to sleep, but if there is it fits me like a glove :
Month: May 2008
Being a jerk
So, I was sitting here working on a class file — defining an interface that’s got over a 100 methods to write. And Ma was complaining that I hadn’t set my clock after this mornings power outage (about 7 hours previously). So, to shut her up I set the clock and carried on coding.
But since the only time source I’ve got handy is my laptop and the cable box is on the other side of a cloths rack. I used the laptop, which just so happens to be set to Universal Time Coordinated (UTC/Zulu time). That is what I set the clock for, and a few minutes ago she comes in to ask some thing and I tell her to look at the clock. Now she wants to rip the clock off the wall because I refused to set it to local time xD.
It’s my damn clock, if I’ve got to be forced to set the bloody thing, who says I can’t put it on STANDARD TIME !?
How brilliant is Raven Shield ?
aDSL connection fails, first I notice it is when my messages stop showing.
XFire splits a message that I’ve been disconnected from the system
30 seconds go by before the ‘connection failed’ message in Raven Shield.
And the entire time, the network stats in game are showing all outbound traffic and no more inbound traffick.
BUT — through the entire bloody thing, the ‘packet loss’ is 0, that is so darn funny it is sickening ^_^
R&R, Day Two…
Been playing still more halo to kill time, I still think it feels to much like a console game in the controls and the vehicle steering system really portrays it imho… But gets the job done, at least it’s some thing to do :
Almost managed to get a round of SWAT4 in but supper was ready to soon :-(.
At least, if nothing else for the day… I’ve gotten a few pages more done of the book and a a slight issue resolves on the website . So the days not a total wash out, I guess.
Hmm, I’m rather getting interested in giving some thign ‘odd’ a go.
Installing FreeBSD 7 on the test machine, then converting it into a fully functional PC-BSD system.
It’s doable, just takes time and effort, and well, I like to tinker with programs from time to time ^_^.
Yes, I’m that bored trying to pass time between /actually/ being able to work lol.
I need a vacation…
Getting closer to the flood, I remember when I first got Halo one of my friends was asking me if I had gotten that far yet, and I was like “The Flood, what the hecks that?”. He didn’t want to spoil ot for me so when I finally got to it, I was shouting “MORE AMMO!”. Best part of the game hehe.
Despite best efforts, my family has still mustered enough to give me a good sized headache… So switching from *actually* trying to learn some thing, to killing time, now I’m hopping to make some progress for the day…. It’s like when ever I dare some try and get any thing done. They either find a way to circumvent it, or cause actions to bring others into deraiing it.
!@#$%^ %!(%*Y^!(%^!’s must have radar.
I start, they start; I stop they stop — intentionally or coincidentally this is getting on my frigging nerves.
R&R, Day One
Been playing a lot of halo latly, on Heroic it’s actually not that much harder then I remember playing it on normal when I first got the game lol. The legendary mode is good stuff but I set it this way so I could relax rather then concentrate on the game.
Still no good at pushing the thought stuck in my head out the other side though…
Oddly, I’ve been catching the end of movies lately :
Cought the end of Broken Arrow which is a nice action flick. I can’t help but laugh towards the end, when John Travolta is arming the Nuke on the train and he’s like “F’em if they can’t take a joke”. I would consider a broken arrow and thieves a foot to steal nuclear weapons horrific but the movies well done — I at least enjoy it lol. Besides Face/off I think it’s the only movie I’ve seen directed by John Woo.
Also saw the end of Rebecca, a good classic. Funny how she almost had the last laugh, almost but not quite but she still played them all the fool. The husband killed her thinking she was having another mans child, lover boy thought she was, and in the end she was dying of cancer instead. But told him that, knowing he’d kill her after so much playing around. The witch planned for him to end up in jail for the murder, knowing she was dying any way so why not cheat him one last time?
Managed to drop into Code Name: The Cleaner only 30min into it. I remember catching it one night and felt my interest gaining with the laugher ^_^. It’s hiliarous towards the end when it all clicks into place and the guys like “I knew it, I’m a spy” but he’s really just a janitor having a twist of fate, “He’s right, we’re going to die!” but they still survive lol.
It’s rare that I watch a lot of TV these days, I mostly gave up on it because when ever there was some thing decent on. I usually spent more time doing every thing else around here but watching the movie…. So I count myself lucky when I do get to watch any thing. I love movies, almost as much as a good book but hey few things beat books hehe.Most films that are derived from books, I usually find fall short of the book. The Lord of The Rings being one of the few exceptions, but generally few stand up to the original :. One thing that I think movies really do best, is offer the ability to tell the story visually just as much as verbally, which can be a bit tougher through text.
2 days off
Planning on enjoying this weekend off, posted my off duty message on SAS and hitting the ‘net.
I’d like to get a few things done that needs testing before deployment, I’d love to work on my book a bit, and rest the rest of the time lol.
The question is how much time will I get to actually do any thing…. (family factor).
Well, one nice thing I actually got to work on a small XHTML and CSS template today, in between AFK spikes 8=)
What else I can actually get done before I’m stuck heading back into work otoh, is… doubtful.
Writer’s Block: Personality Trait = Trouble
What personality trait has gotten you in the most trouble?
Live Journals Writer’s Block
Well, I dunno what I’d call it maybe either being overly technical or just knowing how to be a jerk.
Generally, I’m the kind of guy who enjoys technical things — even in language. One of my favorite things to do is making points about ambiguity, explicitness, and implicitness in speech. In a programming language, there are things that are implicit and things that are explicit. For example, in ANSI C
auto int foo = 1; /* foo is explicitly of type int(eger) with auto(matic0 storage allocation */
bar = 1; /* bar is implicitly of type int(eger) with auto(matic) storage allocation */
I believe in the last ISO standard (C99) that they removed that rule from the language standard. But I dunno of any one on earth who would ever write a compiler that didn’t default variables to int’s other then me of course (my personality :-P). The auto specifier is also an implicit meaning when omited, one which is so implicit that I’ve seen it only a few times any where in C programs and rightly so.
In Perl, there are often default variables such as $_ that are used implicitly when no explicit resource is specified for an operation, not knowing this you might think perl was bloodly physic when reading Perl scripts!
English on the other hand, is not like that — there are very few defined rules in the same spirit.
When I actually pay close attention to whats being said (fairly often if my minds unoccupied), I’ll often ‘abuse’ this lack of understanding in peoples English. There are subtle issues where what you say, is not what you meant and there is no defined way for any one to know, other then to know enough in-context about the conversation or the targets of it, to know what the freaking heck you are referring to,
Me, well I often make it a goal to point this out just to piss people off.
This means I have fun but it also ain’t good — my family doesn’t like it hahaha. You could say, they are the kind to say things that are openly ambiguous and dislike it when I force the disambiguation by not doing what they *expected* me to do, because I did *exactly* what they *told* me to do instead xD.
Yeah, so I’m a jerk… I have some bones with “Gentleman” written on them but I never said it stopped me from having a good sense of humour about life !(^_^)!
Some times people will ask me a question, and because of how it’s worded I’ll give them an answer to a different question or a question of my own in return instead of replying to what they expected me to anwser. You could say, it’s a sort of “you get an answer for what you asked me about, not what you meant to ask even if I know what that really was” kind of thinking on my part. I usually reserve it for people who I know should know better though hehe.
I generally don’t pick on people who don’t don’t know English perfectly (the language sucks any way), but I do tend to give people that were born speaking it a good twist every now and then lol.