I came here to live

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I grew up in a town where tough was a cigarette
And a souped up car on a county road
Nothin’ much to do back then
So we’d make bets
On how much drink a guy could hold
And I held my own
Learn to hold my own

Daddy works some dead-end job at the concrete plant
Mama taught the Sunday bible class
For eighteen years I remember thinkin’
There was more to life than that
So I ran the streets to beat the Devil
Goin’ just as fast as I could fly
‘Cause I came here to live
I didn’t come here to die

Mama used to wait for me with the porch light on
Worried about her little boy ’til I got home
Daddy he’d say listen son
But back then there wasn’t much
That I didn’t already know

I reckon I was doing close to 80
When I felt the tire slip out from under me
And I never set out lookin’ for Jesus
So I guess Jesus come lookin’ for me
And He found me upside down in a ditch
Smokin’ gas in my eyes
And He said son you came here to live
You didn’t come here to die

Sunday morning I got up and I went to church
That summer I got a job and I went to work
Met a girl in town put some money down
On a little house with a yard

Our little boy was due in September
But he came early in July
For eighteen days all I remember
Was settin’ there at his side
Sayin’ son open up your eyes
Just open up your eyes
‘Cause you came here to live
You didn’t come here to die
Son you came here to live

— I can Here to Live, Trace Adkins

Clear with a vengeance!

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Ok, I can take the lag, I can almost stand a 9x19mm P228 compact pistol packing a harder punch then a 7.62x67mm (.300 Cal) Winchester Magnum WA 2000 sniper rifle with half the stopping power of the 9mm…. but this is just to much.

Teammate trew a frag into the room I’m in, stampedes the tangos and flushes me right into them.

I can stand the tangos, but if y’all want to start frag-flushing me into a 4 on 1 dance off… I ain’t getting on my dancin’ shoes, I’m gettin’ a bigger freakin’ gun.

H&K 23, 5.56x45mm NATO Light Machine Gun —> room cleared with a vengeance like no other baby!

(and no, I didn’t shoot the idiots on my team, I shot that tangos lol)

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Darn it, I had my mail down to under a 100 messages in the queue…. few months of busyness and it’s over 700 lol. Oh well, weekends are good for something 🙂

merging the new code into master

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After 3~4 days of coding, I’ve just merged the parserlexer branch back into master; I love coding 🙂

 commit 9857e5e9556f31543075fb4a74350dbda97a42e5
 Merge: c9a8ae4... bb425eb...
 Author: Terry ....snip...
 Date:   Wed Apr 8 07:23:19 2009 +0000
 
     Merge branch 'parserlexer'
     
     The new parser, lexer, and quote expansion code (+ a few bugfixes) has
     finally been merged into the mainline of development (branch 'master').
     This marks the new sh_eval(), tpsh_parse(), expand_quotes, tpsh_lex()
     functions in such a way that they should be considered 'stable' for
     general usage.

some nice things that come with this:

a sane way of quoting stuff; but not sh compatible (”’ = ‘, not an error), more then one set of quotes on the line; and things like `cd /foo; vi bar` finally work xD. In the course of the necessary bug smashin’ for the merge, I’ve also cleaned out a few pains in the todo file, that have been there since last month++ lol.

things that remain to be done: pluggable completion; make completion play nicer with perl/gnu readline backends; restore support for pipes (critical); handling of keybinding (likely painful across perl/gnu/zoid Term::ReadLine backends; but at least zoid is nice…). In the more long term: control flow, (subshells), better `handling`, {anonymous macro/grouping}, more advanced I/O redirections (i.e. only >, >>, and < currently work lol); making `fc -l` and `history list` use a format for display rather then print(); make &do_getopt able to be configured by callers (so fc can accept negative indexes, etc); give a way to turn off shell options (set - and set + currently turn on, only lol); and who knows what else that I can't remember atm.
and to abuse {erls idea of objects and verbs: eval { $spidey sleep $now };

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I wonder if a programmer goes to heaven, does GOD let him study HIS assembly language?