What is your first reaction when someone says “I need to talk to you”?
Live Journals Writer’s Block
“About what?”
What else could I possibly think of on first contact? >_>.
Ok, so my mind just works like that, lol — I can’t help it 🙂
Hard Target
Caught an interesting action movie on, Hard Target. I’m not a fan of Jean Claude van Damme, but I was well impressed. Throughout the entire action flick, I couldn’t help but wonder who made this movie… the planning and use of the camera was awesome; in a way, that I have not seen for years lol.
I also had the train of thought, some where along the lines that if John Woo didn’t have some influence on this, I’d eat my hat! Sure enough, Directed by John Woo, and executive produced by Sam Raimi, which really explains a lot. The shots in the movie alone make it worth watching, the ingenuity during fight, fusion of gun play and close quarters, go well beyond what you see in many of the more recent action movies. Not quite the invincible hero syndrome of the 80’s, or the regular 90’s flair but without a doubt, superb! Hard Targets a must see for any action movie goer lol.
Also good to see a techniques using a pistol in each hand, combined with Van Damme’s foot work; which can only be outshone by the bayou lovin’, moon shine drinkin’ uncle lol.
I can really relate to this:
Dark Helmet: Careful you idiot! I said across her nose, not up it!
Laser Gunner: Sorry sir! I’m doing my best!
Dark Helmet: Who made that man a gunner?
Major Asshole: I did sir. He’s my cousin.
Dark Helmet: Who is he?
Colonel Sandurz: He’s an asshole sir.
Dark Helmet: I know that! What’s his name?
Colonel Sandurz: That is his name sir. Asshole, Major Asshole!
Dark Helmet: And his cousin?
Colonel Sandurz: He’s an asshole too sir. Gunner’s mate First Class Philip Asshole!
Dark Helmet: How many asholes do we have on this ship, anyway?
[Entire bridge crew stands up and raises a hand]
Entire Bridge Crew: Yo!
Dark Helmet: I knew it. I’m surrounded by assholes!
[Dark Helmet pulls his face shield down]
Dark Helmet: Keep firing, assholes!
For some reason, they’ve been playing Spaceballs a lot lately, refreshing really – they usually don’t put it on cable that much.
scary…
Ok, picking apart X86 assembly by studying code written for Linux under GAS, using NASM for documentation on FreeBSD, was fun.
When it’s after 0800 zulu, I’m starving, and picking apart notations is beginning to compile into making sense….. and you can’t remember the last time you slept at ease, somerhing is just nuts… : I guess, the real question, is how much will still be remembered in the morning, or with the time frame I’m likely to get to bed at, probably the _afternoon_
Grrr….. spanning around 20 pages of wikipedia and other places on the net, I think I can kiss sleep good bye tonight…
One sad fact, with the limitations of my education: I always find myself backtracking through the “Eh, what does that mean” ‘ing of things, until eventually I figure it out, or my brains stack overflows; especially a problem, since once I start I often end up exploring further. (I still remember looking up something from the 1800s for school, and ending my quest around the 1960s in Vietnam War…)
In one of my many side steps from topic matter, to trying to make heads or tails of things I see, I finally saw something that made sense:
rewritten as:
I saw something like the above earlier today, and scratched my head. Seeing the decompiled form of it, the really strange thing? I see an iterative loop much like a line of code, haha! I remember seeing a symbol like the one in the center somewhere, in reference to summation; so considering that possibility (and noting to look try and look it up later); the n above and the i=1 below the symbol, it became clear. The ci xi made sense the instant I saw it, I’m not that numb lol; it was the stuff in the center that didn’t fit my comprehension.
So, if the n was the length of vectors c and x, with i so obviously being an index value >0 and < n; i=1 would have to be the first index value to use for iteration over c and x; intended to make it clear what element the slice begins at (helpful to me, since I often count from 0 to n, thank you C lol); and having already written off the funky-E as an operator meaning the find the total value of each element added together. The middle of the image became in my minds eye like some what like this:
for (i=1, n=length(c); i <= n; i++) { do a sum += c[i]; ... }
only, written sideways with lovable horizontal terseness 😉 I am reminded of a something I once read:
Mathematicians are [like] a sort of Frenchmen; if you talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and then it is immediately something quite different.
but in this case, you could say a programmer is trying to translate math notation, into concepts he already knows as second nature lol. You know, it really would’ve be nice if school had thought me this stuff.
I think, I could really use a drink…
I had a shocking thought, stick a nice cigar in my mouth and give me a week in the brush, and I’m starting to look a little to much like Big Boss for my tastes :. I really need to get cleaned up this weekend, and get a close shave…. Really, I’d like to get out of this rats nest for awhile, and have some fun, but I am supposed to be using this time for a little Rest and Relaxation; guess taking a Buddy Love inspired holiday wouldn’t be very restful any way >_<
If it wasn’t for trying to learn something about differential equations (curse smart people for piquing my interest!) and reading a little bit of lisp, this might be a boring, lol.
Now if I could just do something about getting some sleep at night…….
Should reading lisp be considerd hazardous?
my eyes are starting to see ) and jump back to matching (, then reparse what I just read, jump back to ); like a bloody type writer, lol
(define (factorial n k)
(= n 0 (lambda (b)
(if b
(k 1)
(- n 1 (lambda (nm1)
(factorial nm1 (lambda (f)
(* n f k)))))))))
if I wasn’t hungry, I would think that I was getting dizzy after 30min of this kinda stuff :. I generally don’t mind the parens, but I find assembly easier on the brain sometimes…
Just one o’ them songs
Heard it enough times on the radio to get sick of it, until it actually starts to sound pretty good….
Just a girl born in Dixie, washed in the blood
And raised on the banks of the Mississippi mud
She always had a thing about fallin’ in love with a bad boy
Yeah they could see it all comin’
But her daddy never dreamed
She’d grow up that fast, you know what I mean
The way a girls gets when she turns seventeen, kinda crazyShe’s a rebel child and a preacher’s daughter
She was baptized in dirty water
Her mama cried the first time they caught her with me
They knew they couldn’t stop her
She holds tight to me and the Bible
On the back seat of my motorcycle
Left her daddy standing there preaching to the choir, you see
God love her
Oh, me and God love herShe kissed her mama good-bye
Said, “I’ll be sure to phone ‘ya”
She called her from a truck stop in Tucson, Arizona
With amazing grace we made California alive
And then my gypsy life started takin’ it’s toll
And the fast lane got empty and out of control
And just like an angel she saved my soul from the devilShe’s a rebel child and a preacher’s daughter
She was baptized in dirty water
Her mama cried the first time they caught her with me
They knew they couldn’t stop her
She holds tight to me and the Bible
On the back seat of my motorcycle
Left her daddy standing there preaching to the choir, you see
God love her
Oh, me and God love herNow she holds tight to me and the Bible
On the back seat of my motorcycle
Left her daddy standing there preaching to the choir, you see
God love her
Oh me and God love her
God love her
Me and God love her— GOD Love Her, by Toby Keith
I really hate to tell people how to do their job
I really hate to tell people how to do their job, especially when they are the ones who should be getting paid to do it; but sometimes I can’t help but wonder, if some people have ever heard of the words race condition or predictability, being used in the same sentence as exploit or security vulnerability?