An orange in an apple orchard
Ended up as good as passed out cold… No work done, but I finally got some sleep lol.
Managed to catch the end of The Matrix. I like the end game, although I must admit the gun fights are pretty tame compared to Equilibrium (a real must see!)
finish later.
Another day of hell almost over.
Another day of it sure to come.
Just once, I wish
I wish I could soar.
Spread my wings and fly, leave the past gone far behind.
And look down upon all that should come my way…
Another day of hell almost over,
Another day of it sure to come.
Still fightin’ it off one blow at a time, bit by nit.
As they nail another one in my coffin.
Just hoping I’ll drop, ‘fore they do.
Oh God, why am I here?
It’s just another day of pain
Just another battle to come roarin’ through these halls.
Leavin’ nothing behind but flames in its wake.
Another day of hell almost gone by,
Another trip through the flames waitin’ for me on the other side
As I choke on the ashes, lungs burning from the flumes
Of a day nearly gone.
Look at this photograph
Every time I do it makes me laugh
how did our eyes get so red?
And what the hell is on Joey’s head?This is where I grew up
I think the present owner fixed it up
I never knew we ever went without
The second floor is hard for sneakin’ outThis is where I went to school
Most of the time had better things to do
Criminal record says I broke in twice
I must’ve done it half a dozen timesI wonder if it’s too late
Should I go back and try to graduate?
Life’s better now than it was back then
If I was them, I wouldn’t let me in
Oh oh oh
Oh god I, IEvery memory of looking out the back door
I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor
It’s hard to say it
Time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye
Every memory of walking out the front door
I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for
It’s hard to say it
Time to say it
Goodbye, goodbyeGoodbye
Remember the old arcade
Blew every dollar that we ever made
The cops see us hanging out
They said somebody went and burned it downWe used to listen to the radio
And sing along with every song we know
We said someday we’d find out how it feels
To sing to more than just the steering wheelKim’s the first girl I kissed
I was so nervous that I nearly missed
She’s had a couple of kids since then
I haven’t seen her since God knows when
Oh oh oh
Oh god I, IEvery memory of looking out the back door
I had the photo album spread out on the bedroom floor
It’s hard to say it
Time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye
Every memory of walking out the front door
I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for
It’s hard to say it
Time to say it
Goodbye, goodbyeI miss that town
I miss the faces
You can’t erase
You can’t replace it
I miss it now
I can’t believe it
So hard to stay
Too hard to leave itIf I could relive those days
I know the one thing that would never changeEvery memory of looking out the back door
I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor
It’s hard to say it
Time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye
Every memory of walking out the front door
I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for
It’s hard to say it
Time to say it
Goodbye, goodbyeLook at this photograph
Every time I do it makes me laugh
Every time I do it makes me…
Ok, now I really know that I’ve got to dig up a copy of the C++ standards (both 1998 and 2003) and run a personal sanity check or C++ has finally succeeded in shocking me. Tested each of these with g++ 4.2.1 using the -std=c++98 -pedantic switches for the sake of quickness.
int f=true;
bool b=15; // 15 is demoted to 1
enum foo_t { ONE,TWO };
enum foo_t spam=ONE; // ok
enum foo_t ham=false; // error
enum foo_t eggs=1; // error
In C the enum would be little better then making a pair of preprocessor defines for 0 and 1 and ‘foo_t’ being much like an equivalent to a typedef to one of the common integer types. In C++ enums create new types, that’s nice because it actually forces you to use one of the enum values, making the last line of the example (assigning a foo_t an int) becomes an error in C++ rather then (likely) a typo in C.
That makes good sense to me and I like it, ok.
Most C implementations that I’ve seen that have a stdbool.h usually settles things as defining bool as an int either via reliance on typedef or the preprocessor, then defines true/false as 1/0. So there is really nothing to enforce a bool to equal anything else in common C, although I’ve never seen an undesired result… But in C++, bool is done as a fundamental type…. not an afterthought. So the thing I don’t understand is why restrict newly created enumerations to there sane values, shooting off a compiler error if something odd happens. But allow the built in booleans to be ‘almost’ automatically converted like regular numerics? (apparently similar to the usual promotion/demotion rules)
bool isSomething = false; // becomes 0
isSomething++; // becomes 1
isSomething -= 500; // strangely becomes 1
isSomething--; // is an error using this operator
isSomething = isSomething -1; // becomes 0
I find it rather odd that things seem to work this way, the only logical reason I could see for it is compatibility with those in a ‘#define true 1’ world. Personally I don’t have a problem with it, I just find it odd. Maybe if I nabbed a copy of the C++ standard it would make more sense. I’m familiar enough with reading the C standard (and enjoy it) but I’ve never managed to get a copy of the relevant C++ standards :. Heh, then again until recent months I haven’t really touched C++ in ages… But it has been encroaching on things I normally use C or Perl for doing.
Or maybe I just need some damn __SLEEP__
Just two more days of work until the weekend…. I hope the “getting off early” streak continues !!!
Because I’ve got a mega-shitload of stuff to do after work lol.
If youre tellin me Im not on fire
Youre just preachin to the choir
Ive gotten dull as old barbed wire from livin
Last night I watched the evening news
It was the same ol nothin new
It should have cut me right in two
But it didnt
I dont know why it didntBut I wanna feel somethin
Somethin thats a real somethin
That moves me, that proves to me Im still alive
I wanna heart that beats and bleeds
A heart thats bustin at the seams
I wanna care, I wanna cry, I wanna scream
I just wanna feel somethinIf youre tellin me thats just how it is
I dont buy it cause once I was kissed
By a red-headed girl with cherry lips
On her porch when I was sixteen
And I felt it somewhere in my soul and time stood still and I couldnt let go
I cant tell you cause I dont know how I got so cold
When did I get so coldI just wanna feel somethin
Somethin thats a real somethin
That moves me, that proves to me Im still alive
Run my fingers through your fingers, across your face and through your hair
And close my eyes and breathe you in like air
I just wanna feel somethinI hate that Im jaded and I make you cry
But still you stick around me, only God knows why
Damn it all to hell, Im done
Cause I dont like what Ive become
So come here, baby
Come here, babyI just wanna feel somethin
Somethin thats a real somethin
That moves me, that proves to me Im still alive
Run my fingers through your fingers, across your face and through your hair
And close my eyes and breathe you in like air
I just wanna feel somethinI hate that Im jaded and I make you cry
But still you stick around me, only God knows why
Damn it all to hell, Im done
Cause I dont like what Ive become
So come here, baby
Come here, babyCome here, baby
Artist: Trace Adkins
Song: I Wanna Feel Something
Album: American Man: Greatest Hits Vol II
enough stuff to do to choke a frickin’ horse….
work tomorrow
and to damn tired to do any of it :
If you had to immigrate from your current home, where in the world would you choose to go?
Submitted By [info]purplemer3
Live Journals Writer’s Block
I guess if I was forced to immigrate to another county, there are only about 3 places to consider as a final resting place.
Canada
Because I know a few people out that way, a fairly large portion of the population speaks English, the changes in laws are easy enough to figure out, there are lots of places to go fishing, and the women ain’t so bad either >_>
Great Britain
Again, I know a few people out that way, also have a relative who is originally from England. It’s about as English speaking a country as your going to find outside the United States of America. Plus the differences in lingo and customs of our cultures are not too mind bogglingly different.
Germany
A few people there that I would love to visit, one in particular that I could just imagine the two of us staggering home half drunk ^_^. I’ve always been quite fascinated with the country and it’s culture, not to mention that the “Bart Simpson method” is probably the only way that I would ever learn to speak German *decently*.
I can usually manage well enough with a dictionary, but I try to avoid speaking in German as much as possible… I can’t do the language justice with my American tongues vocalizations :
I would love one day, to have a chance to travel the globe a bit and visit other countries frequently: Canada, the UK, Germany, Italy (I’m half Italian and love the food), Denmark, Norway, Japan (a must visit!), and probably a few others as well. But when it comes to permanently living in another country, what can I say, I am an American at the end of the day. Sure I’d love to spend lots of times else where, why not? But I can’t fathom the idea of what it would be like to never again set foot on my homelands sore again…
My stomach would miss the USA too.
As a good friend has often said, the food over here is very much a salad bowl. And it really does make sense because America is a nation of immigrates, who most surely brought their tastes and cooking styles along with them :-).
I spent about five and a half hours in a project meeting today. So maybe it is a good thing I didn’t have the second set of charts done… We did managed to settle on the important stuff needed before we could continue, along with a couple of good ideas coming from it. The only bad part was it took so dang long to complete lol.
Crud… After 0400 already and still not finished with everything :
Oh well, at least I had time to inhale a bit of GnuPG hehe.