Diary

With the examination session over and two weeks since my last post, it's a high time to post something again.

First and foremost, I am very happy that I managed not to fuck up majorly during this session, even though it was one of the most difficult to date. 79% average is really really good, compared to what I was expecting. Numeric Methods and Concurrent Programming made this term look grim, but hey, I'm still alive and going!

Other than that... The little discussion in the previous post's comments has led me into developing a game with Zvitruolis. Nothing too grand to look at right now, but everything is going in quite a comfortable pace. The basic premise of the project may look ridiculous (a Java game???), but right now it's working quite alright and there isn't much of the notorious Java lagging. Maybe JVM 6.0 is actually fast enough to keep up with the requirements for a normal 3D game?

More about things in the next couple of days. Right now my brain is drained by the exams, thank you very much.

RIGHT NOW: Writing rotation implementation in the physics engine of the game. Some serious shit, I can tell you that.

Hello, hello, hello! Apparently, people realised after all how cute and lovable I am, since I at last got my Christmas presents... way into New Year. Well, better later than never, huh? I got a lovely donkey from my friend. She got a bunch of angry looking owls for that. Yay! I got 15 euros from my grandma. Well, she always pays me money instead of an actual present. Well, again, better money than socks. Yay! Also I got an awesome Porsche 911 so I can kill myself fast. No, not really. And last but not least, I got a cheque to buy some books in a bookstore. Double yay! I don't remember how printed text looks anymore anyway. Except my stupid university homeworks.

Other than that, I have a couple of new addictions. First and foremost, I got in love with Korean national sports. So much intensity, so much skill... like, wow. Yeah, I'm talking about Starcraft and Warcraft 3. My obsessions are way behind the schedule, it seems. Doesn't matter, they will release Starcraft 2 sooner or later... and my hardware will not be able to cope with it, which is quite another story. Add to that my religious hatred to Vista (that piece of shit ain't touching my computer EVER). Ah well... Maybe when I'm old someone will start releasing games for Linux platform as well, sniff...

The other new obsession is... well, geeky. I have become a functional programmer. No no no, I am still as dysfunctional as ever, it's the programming that is functional. I mean, pass function as an argument of another function? Sounds like yay! Also, it confuses the shit out of people reading the source. To make matters worse for them readers, I have begun learning J. Now that thing is a blast. What's not to love? Any programming language that doesn't have cycles, because its operations are by default meant for whole arrays at once, is good language in my book. Seriously, what can be better than finding the biggest member of an array in three keystrokes?

>./

Can't get better than that, no way.

Of course, it does have some disadvantages. For example, the final code looks something like this in the end:

],(+/@:(_2&{.@:]))

Bonus points for those, who know, what this program does. But hey, at least its programs are ten to twenty times shorter than similar C programs because of lack of cycles, and you can piss off people who claim that's just random gibberish.

RIGHT NOW: Just looked through a list of driving schools that are accepting new students. I want to get my licence this year, even though I don't have a car yet. Face it, being 21 and not having a licence sucks. And now to watch some Starcraft MSL matches

Fuck fuck fuck and fuckity fuck, it seems I spent last night thinking so much about the stuff I was going to blog about that I totally forgot to write anything in the blog! Very clever of me, especially when I don't remember most of the planned stuff right now anyway. OK, so let's try to remember everything...

First and foremost of all, I got an invitation to join a band. It is about a year since the last time I played in a band, so it came both as a pleasant surprise and a huge headache since most of my hardware wasn't used for that period of time and my skills aren't as mad as they used to be, and they weren't too mad even then. Anyway, I believe I will be able to cope with it... barely. I have three programs to write in the upcoming week - one in Java, one in C++ and one in Python - and they must be finished until Friday. There are no other variants - either they are finished by them or I am dead. Of course, the wonderful part about it is that I have started doing none of them yet.

This brings me to another great thing - the meeting of Lithuanian Formula One fans. OK, I can clearly see some of the people who know me a tad better than average confused. Yes, you remember it right - I absolutely hate Formule One as it is now. Doesn't matter really - I'm there to party and to promote some other racing series as well. However, this also means that I will most probably be absolutely unable to work on the three programs. This leaves me precisely four days and four nights for everything...

And I'll be damned if I don't make it.

RIGHT NOW: I have just spent three (four?) hours playing snooker online with my friend. That was quite fun actually, however, we're both terrible players and have lots and lots of things to improve. Well, if we play it as much as we played today, it might take quite a short time... and I will have even less time for the programs. Argh...

Oh, and yay for my new haircut. People say I look like a human being at last... What a nice way to put it, isn't it? Anyway, I kind of like it.

First and foremost, yay for the first snow this autumn! Since all autumns in this country are defined by absolute greyness of everything around, except the ground, which more resembles shit colour wise, and this kind of colours make me depressed all the time, I always enjoy the first snow. And the second. And the third. Snow is great. Right now it's still mixed with a lot of water, so it feels yucky, and if there is wind, the overall feeling is terrible, but outside the window it still looks a lot better than the usual grey and shit brown landscape.

Other than that... Well, not much to write about. I promised my coursemate to get a haircut this weekend and blew it, because I had insanely lot of work (I stayed up until 5am on Saturday without spending a single minute on the internet, except for Wikipedia, where I had to look up the info I needed). Hence as of now I have twelve hours fourty five minutes to get the damn haircut, because that's when I will go to the lectures and she will see me having broken my promise... which I, of course, do not want.

RIGHT NOW: It seems it was quite a while since I visited ICanHasCheezburger.Com, hence that's where I'm spending my time right now. Also I'm browsing BoardGameGeek.Com for all the info I can find about Warcraft: the Boardgame and Starcraft: the Boardgame. I have plans to make a boardgaming group of some sort, and I want some cool games for that, and I figured these might bring me some ardent PC gamers. Come on, you have to leave that box of silicon once in a while, don't you?

Oh... my... god... how scared I was today. Well, theoretically there was absolutely no reason for me to get that frightened, but theory and practice sometimes go differently. Anyway, there I was with one of my coursemates (the most favouritest of my coursemates, I must say, enter any droolings and overexagerated superlatives here you deem to be necessary). I was helping her with homework a bit (anyone who says "sure you were" in a sarcastic tone after reading this sentence will be shot on sight). I was perfectly informed that she has a boyfriend long time ago, but... let's be honest, I hoped to never ever meet him. However, the damn bastard came to her today right when we were doing homework.

I don't know, what got into me. We weren't doing anything that might have upset him even slightly, but I still went "Oh shit". I was ready to be killed instantly, smeared onto the wall or something else equally terrible happen to me. Anyway, I managed to gather my thoughts soon enough, so we just shaked hands, introduced ourselves... and I got the fuck out of there.

If you don't understand, why should I feel scared of him... Well, I don't either. But I would seriously rather not meet him ever again. That dude scares me just as much as that coursemate attracts, which is quite a lot.

RIGHT NOW: Converting Las Vegas oval from daylight to night. Saying that it doesn't go too good would an understatement. However, given (the lack of) tools I use for it, maybe the result isn't that bad after all. Anyway, I still think that the biggest problem with anything I and my online racing friends do is the lack of competitors, not quality of tracks, cars and other modifications we do. So if you know anyone interested in racing modded F1 Challenge 99-02... Champcar mod, to be more precise... feel free to inform them.

Last time I tried to be brief, I wrote one of the longest posts in this blog (out of four).

This time I ain't doing that mistake. It's 2:45 am and I want to sleep badly..

By the way, today something went 'click' in my brain and all of a sudden I started enjoying concurrent programming and started thinking its problems are actually cool. Either I am going insane or the world is going to end in 24 to 48 hours from now.

By the way squared, Tiffy raised my girl-o-meter up to 15% just because this blog is called diary. Oh come on, don't try to tell me only girls write diaries.

RIGHT NOW: I have just watched Scott Nicholson's video review of Blue Moon City boardgame. The dude is really awesome at presenting boardgames and his reviews are really worth watching... if you're interested in boardgames, that is.

Sorry, people, but I will be brief tonight. It's already 3:40 am here.

If you ask me, what I did up till now... well, uh, nothing serious really. It just seems that I am the last fan of Champcar on the Earth, because the last race was over 48 hours ago, but no one has bothered to update Wikipedia yet. Since I thought going to sleep isn't as fun, I just edited and edited and edited... Wikipedia is powerful on this regard. Once you start editing something, you just can't stop. Anyway, I've done what I could do, so maybe I should go to sleep after all.

Other than that, today was procrastination galore. I didn't even bother to get put of bed until it was 1:00 pm. Even then, instead of going to university, I turned on the PC and played F1 Challenge until... well, until I went to edit Wikipedia apparently.

I need a girlfriend pronto, otherwise I will become into fat smelly bearded excuse of a man in no time :-(

RIGHT NOW: Watching several YouTube videos about on-board laps in various venues, e.g. Nurburgring Nordschleife, Road America, Circuit Charade and Surfers Paradise.