Friday, January 11, 2008

Random gibberish

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
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Monday, November 12, 2007

Snow!!!

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?
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