Zhanga: November 2007
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 (2 comments)
Ok ok, so my life isn't completely boring. As a faithful Zhanga reader, you are entitled to all the interesting news in my life. This month, that news is that Maylene and I are back together. Actually, she decided we're going to be just friends, then changed her mind half a day later, then re-dumped me 8 hours after that, then un-re-dumped me a day after that. Women...
I'm in office hours right now, and I helped some people with the compression (Huffman coding) assignment. I was hoping for some shining examples of how not to code, but unfortunately today I didn't see anything really bad =(
One girl was using a Mac in Korean and asked how to click a button with the keyboard because the mouse didn't work. I didn't want to help her for using that abominable OS/language combo, but I told her to push tab to select the next button in the dialog. Apparently, tab is too logical for Mac OS. It doesn't work.
Besides that, I've been playing the old Starcraft campaigns, and I'm almost done. Zerg own. Now where is that Brood War CD?
8:20PM
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 (3 comments)
I'm too lazy to update. Nothing interesting is happening in my life. Over the break, I had an RCP at my house, went to see Maylene, and played Starcraft with Gene after Pat lagged too much. I was also very flatulent over the break, if that's interesting at all.
I brought my bike here when I drove back to campus. Riding it for the first time after riding the huge, clunky Duke bikes felt kind of weird, but much appreciated. I actually have real brakes (on both tires!), handbars that don't stick out 3 feet on each side, and enough gears for them to actually be useful. And... a seat and front wheel that are easily detachable and thus stolen. I haven't figured out what to do about this yet. I figure I can take my seat off whenever I lock my bike, but I'd really rather not carry around a tire to my classes.
I've been sitting here all class trying to think of something to write for this post, and now class is almost over and this is all I've come up with. I think I'm just going to start writing Ubuntu tutorials and spam Digg with them.
10:57AM
Sunday, November 18, 2007 (1 comment)
Maylene wrote that post on Nov 3 that doesn't sound like me. Now you know why I sounded more retarded than usual...
12:05AM
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 (3 comments)
My operating systems professor keeps using crocus.cs.duke.edu as an example hostname. Somebody named a computer crocus! Crocus! I can't stop thinking about that awful book Fleenor made us read!
It's been three years since that awful class and it still haunts me! Ahh!
3:44PM
Monday, November 12, 2007 (1 comment)
To add to the recent list of crappy products produced in China, we now have toys that transform into GHB/date-rape drug when metabolized.
Key word? Metabolized. Ok sure, giving little kids date-rape drugs is bad. But it's not like they're playing with the toys and it's soaking in through their skin. You have to eat these things for them to have any effect! Apparently, one kid "swallowed several dozen beads" and fell into a comatose state, and this is somehow China's fault. Ok, if a 2-year-old kid swallows that much plastic, that's just Darwin at work and he's lucky to be alive at all. Even ignoring the fact that American companies hire Chinese labor because it's cheap and increases their profit margin, is it really the fault of the date-rape drug? Teach your retarded kids to not eat half a pound of plastic!
Today also happens to be a grading day, therefore I will complain about my students. One submission, in one of the most crucial/central functions, has if{for{for{if{for{if{if{}}}}}}}... TWICE, one after the other. And guess what's inside the innermost if{}? Oh yes, a recursive call to the same function. I was completely unable to debug this mess, so I just put down "Your WordFinder is very broken." as a comment.
Hmm, I just got a great idea. Next time I grade assignments, I will put all my feedback into one of the cow bubbles from the last post. I'll choose an appropriate cow depending on how poorly they did. The head-in cow will be reserved for those who do so poorly that I hope they get stuck in the backside of a cow permanently, never to see a computer again.
12:12AM
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 (7 comments)
There is this really awesome (read: useless) command called cowsay. For whatever reason, it's standard in pretty much every Linux distro. It just draws a speech bubble above a cow, like this:
$ cowsay 'Hello, World!'
_______________
< Hello, World! >
---------------
\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
Sure, the cow is kind of cute, but what about this?
$ cowsay -f head-in 'milk me'
_________
< milk me >
---------
\
\
^__^ /
(oo)\_______/ _________
(__)\ )=( ____|_ \_____
||----w | \ \ \_____ |
|| || || ||
$ cowsay -f sodomized 'mooooooooooooooo'
__________________
< mooooooooooooooo >
------------------
\ _
\ (_)
\ ^__^ / \
\ (oo)\_____/_\ \
(__)\ ) /
||----w ((
|| ||>>
And this one is awesome:
$ cowsay -f flaming-sheep 'wheeeeeee'
___________
< wheeeeeee >
-----------
\ . . .
\ . . . ` ,
\ .; . : .' : : : .
\ i..`: i` i.i.,i i .
\ `,--.|i |i|ii|ii|i:
UooU\.'@@@@@@`.||'
\__/(@@@@@@@@@@)'
(@@@@@@@@)
`YY~~~~YY'
|| ||
What a useless post.
12:25PM
Saturday, November 3, 2007 (3 comments)
More damn complaining (I was too busy eating and keeping her away from my food Friday):
So after she (girl in previous post) gets her beef, she comes and sits down next to me. I try to lean my elbow in a little bit so that she doesn't start eying the other items on my plate, but apparent she takes this as me trying to sit closer to her or something and just giggles. Wtf?
a) She's not hot.
b) She's wearing clothes.
Why in the world....ok, whatever. Enough about useless girls.
Actually, speaking about useless... I happened to know something Korean that Maylene didn't know today. She was really embarrassed but I was definitely more embarrassed. I would like to know why Chinese girls are attracted to Koreanness and Korean guys. Can somebody answer this for me?
2:47AM
Friday, November 2, 2007 (3 comments)
The other annoying girl in Chinese (the one I wrote about last year, who is still unfortunately in my class; not the same one as the last post) came up to me while I was eating lunch today. She looks at my lunch and goes, "Wow! That looks so good! Can I have your hot and sour soup?" (Exact quote, no omissions.)
Come on, seriously? I was taken kind of off-guard, so I looked at her with the wow-are-you-stupid look and said "Uhh, no?" How are you even supposed to be polite about it when she asks for the entire bowl of soup?
I just finished typing up the above while she was in line buying her own damn soup.
Now she comes back, and she asks me if I'm going to finish my beef... twice. I tried to be polite this time. Then she figures out I'm not going to give up my beef and she asks if she can have a piece, which I can't really say no to. So she eats a piece... then steals a bunch of rice... then eats another piece! And she had the audacity to say thanks after stealing each successive food item, as if thanking me for my generosity!
She's back in line buying her own damn beef now. More complaining to come soon.
1:21PM
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