Programmers hate to repeat things, thats what computers are for.

Well, startup costs notwithstanding, I think I'm going to get through today relatively unscathed...

Session Start (ICQ - :Orinoco): Thu Jan 10 12:08:06 2002
[12:08] Orinoco: Heidi, the Impudent Guttersnipe.
[12:09] Orinoco: I'm writing an email to her now. I don't know what to say.
[12:10] Quiddity: *ah* Woe, okay. :)
Sounds like fun... kinda...
I wrote to a dominatrix yesterday!
[12:11] Orinoco: Heh. Did you beg?
[12:14] Quiddity: *haha* Hell no. :)
I've met dominatrix'es before, and was filled with a sense of imminent foreboding before going on a rampaging destruction warpath filled with pointless cruelty and wanton sadism fueled by alcohol and emotional fits of savagery.
I was actually writing to ask if I could use some of the photos I found on her website as part of an 'ongoing' work in progress... *heh*
Session Close (Orinoco): Thu Jan 10 12:14:03 2002

...and then...

Session Start (ICQ - :Larcin): Thu Jan 10 10:09:14 2002
[10:09] Larcin: The more I sleep, the more I want to :\
[10:56] Quiddity: *ah* This is a common problem, you have to do like me and stop sleeping. :)
[11:06] Larcin: I'm not hardcore enough ;(
[11:08] Quiddity: How come?
Sure you're hardcore, you're the most hardcore person I know, actually.
[11:09] Larcin: Haha. :b
[11:10] Quiddity: You are! You like, never sleep and you smoke, and shower at irregular times, and you make web pages.
Thats the very definition of hardcore. The dictionary entry probably has your picture next to it.
[11:10] Larcin: lol
[11:10] Larcin: I shower!
I haven't made a page for months...
And I slept for something like 11 hours :b
[11:13] Quiddity: Thats only even hardcore people have to take a break sometimes. :)
Session Close (Larcin): Thu Jan 10 11:13:41 2002

When I was quickly browsing through this site, I just about fell of my chair laughing... and then...
Well, hooray for writing to people in Columbia and wanting to colocate a machine. "Why'd our server go down?" you may ask frantically
"Vell 'senor, I'ze had some blow, and then I don't know, mebbe ze plug, it come loose?" came the terse reply.
Hopefully they won't pursue with automatic weapons if you break the laws in various states of America. "But we're marketing to people from Holland!" Oh god, leave me not continue this line of thought any more.
My god, I hope I never stoop to this level either. At least I can compose my own bad poetry.
It'd be kinda nice if my dad didn't fall off the face of the planet. I've discontinued the ihydes.com domain, since my family have proven themselves to be luddites, and deserving of all they get on the internet, so I'll save myself the money and the trouble. *heh* They're all the type who thing HTML is a 'programming language' and is "hard to learn", etc.

...and now for something completely different. Geeky, but different.

May I humbly present (read: "Don't hurt me too much!"), the "Rat Bastard Console Popup:"

onUnload="window.open(
'http://haha.com', 'Ha_Ha',
'fullscreen=1,menubar=0,toolbar=0,location=0,status=0,scrollbars=1,resizable-0,
top=0,left=0,width=screen.width,height=screen.height'
)"

Which, while it won't go with the Rat Bastard Shaking Console of previous entry fame, can still be amusing at times when sprung upon unsuspecting luddite surfers.

my first real crashable program in python for math functions.

Now up until this point in time I've always just written bashscripts because I've been too lazy to bother with becoming a real programmer. But since I can't realisticaly run PHP scripts in a shell, and all of the shell scripts that I've been writing lately have been too slow, too big, annoyingly complicated, and relatively featureless. So I've started learning Python. While the syntax irritates all hell out of me, its actually quite a reasonable high-level language, and being interpreted, is kinda cool to develop in. Now...

elif choice == "c":
radius = input("Radius of the circle: ")
while radius <= 0:
print 'Must be a positive number'
print "Area of the circle: ",circle_area(radius)

this, whilst being relatively benign on the surface, is again irritating, becasue you can't assign just numbers to this string. Grr. Put a letter in, then it breaks. There's too much stuff to learn at the moment, and I'm sick and can't cope with math. Ereetz0r.
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