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Somehow I find it kind of sad, that over 50 years later, we still lack a programming language clearly more advanced than lisp. Either that or lisp just grows with the times better than most 0.o.o.0.

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Shoot, between a seminole and a zombie slayer, now I’m craving hostess twinkees!

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I missed my intended travel window for hitting the library, but on the upside, for the first time in a long time, I *really* enjoyed a good film—Zombieland!

The jist of it, is “Mad cow disease became mad person”. It’s also the first and only zombie flick I’ve seen that makes note, that the fatties got eaten first xD. Combine a hopeless idiot whose just lucky to be alive with a zombie killing machine searching for Twinkee’s, and you’ve got a recipe of some kind. Add in two sister con artists heading for an amusement park and it gets better :-).

The thing that surprised me is Bill Murray showing up in the middle of it all. Just priceless!

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A programmer programs,
A painter paints,
A pilot pilots,
A inventor invents,
A sculptor sculpts,
A writer writes,
A sailor sails

What do all these have in common? Each only needs the right to prefix their name with “Doctor” and point at a plaque on the wall, before they may philosophize before students and profess to doing anything in class!

Programming a computer is as much related to the business of developing software as piloting an air plane is to the business of dropping bombs. Uniquely so when you look at the typical software product :-o.

If the words noun, verb, and dictionary mean nothing and you happen to be an American, you seriously must have slacked off through the elementary school grades more than I did ^_^.

Poly want a quacker?

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In my efforts to “Bury myself in code” rather than let this place get the better of me, I’ve been getting plenty done.

On the computing side, I’ve made around 25-30 commits between version control systems, including finally wrapping up a project that’s been waiting weeks to get pushed out. Even crashed yet another compiler with a typo, but this time it was one I could file a bug report against ^_^.

Today alone, I’ve employed about 5 computer languages, plus my laptop is still displaying most things in German and google-chrome is set to English. Yesterday tack on Python, Ruby, and brain storming for something lispy of my ‘own’ on top of all that.

Sometime when I get around to it, I need to find time to acquire a few more languages lol.  I’ve an interest in picking up Haskell and ML, the former because I often encounter snippets of it and the later based on what MJDs written about it on the web.

Programs have no language, they are the language.

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Woke up at 0600 just to get back to coding before work. Fell asleep trying to figure out the solution to a problem and dreamed of getting my eyes checked, ending up dizzy as heck. Woke up and fell asleep trying to figure out if the compiler is smart enough to tune the solution without my “Help”. Then dreamed of chasing Escrt around a modified RvS game with iron sights, before falling down a 50~70m pit in the process lol.

It’s true, reading around MSDN is that boring.

Odd mix

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  • A mood that would peel paint
  • Grilled cheese and old popcorn
  • Choice of Army of Darkness or Dear God
  • Six sectors to clean / organise
  • A lot more code to get done
  • Kill a few thousand zombies, eventually.

This is some funky weather!

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Just got out of a Hard Rain campaign in L4D2 with some excellent teamwork going on. Once we hit the end game however, our luck resoured.

First the tank smashes one of the teammates into the roof, incapacitating him while two of us leap off the side and the fourth man dives down the hole in the roof; who summary gets tackled by a charger moments before rescues due to arrive.

I’m one of the two dreebs who leap off the roof, because it hurts less than being hit by a tank lol. We kill the tank and pull a quick split: he goes to save the charged guy while I go zap the teammate on the roof back into action with my defib. kit; not exactly something I would want to do during a real thunderstorm. That goes out the window when my fellow pigeon gets himself whacked by a charger from behind, and I have to save his bacon instead.

Another tank suddenly comes stomping through the middle of the building as the charged teammate finally dies – we get our butts bounced out onto the lawn by the tank. Now this is where it gets silly.

Taking an adrenaline shot (speed booster) and making ready to fight the tank 2 on 1, while hacking my way to the roof: I ended up slipping off the peer and getting water logged — as the rescue boat runs me over and the tank flings my sole surviving teammate into it, killing him instantly.

Then the hard rain campaign plays it’s end video clip, as the boat floats away. Miraculously Spidey01 who almost got drowned before being run over by the boat, was the only player to survive the campaign!

There is just something so wrong with that, lol.

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Some days I really get the thought that living here is roughly equal to this algorithm:

    while here:
        me.darkmood += stepping * Proximity.to(HRP) / rare(fun)