Older blog entries for Iain (starting at number 150)

Sally Cinnamon, you are my world:

• Khemicals: When I played starcraft, with people who really were addicted to it (Hi Tony, Adrian, Jer and Jeff), the winning tactic (never by me), always seemed to be to get the big woolly mammoth like things (Nautiluses? can't remember, it's been over a year since I played it) and just to make lots of them. They can run totally take out guns and cannons and stuff like that. Tony always used to do that, and it was really annoying :).

  Damn wish I had a network here, and people who wouldn't mind spending a week playing Starcraft constantly. Oh well.

Dup dup dup dup dup dup dudup dup:

• Boredom came over me last night. This was the outcome. Bombjack moves left and right and jumps. GNOMEForest rules, although I've only been using it a few hours and I already know features that will be needed.
• Writing resumes sucks. Especially when you don't have much to say.
• Like now. I don't have much to say.

Thats when she got her sweet tooth for white boys:

• I still suck.
• Went shopping for the last 2 books I need for my exams. No-one anywhere had the GFX one (Foley, van Dam, et al.) so I ordered it from whsmith. I ended up getting very very pissed off at them because I had no indication that I had ordered a book. No confirmation email came back withint 5minutes, so I emailed them and said it wasn't acceptable, and could they please tell me if I had ordered the book, as it was 50quid and I couldn't afford to click again in case I ordered another copy. By the time I'd finished that, I looked at my mail and there was the confirmation email. Bloody typical.
• Cookie bonanza. So far I've had cookies that will persist until dates in the range [12 May 1970, 31 Oct 2032]. Hmmm, seems no-one really knows what cookies are about these days.
• Still playing Bombjack. Level 19 and 157320...
• Need to make a resume. Resumes suck.

On a cracker:

• Still not come up with any cool way to do this. I suck
• Still revising.
• Still reliving years of old by playing BOMBJACK! I'm so addicted to this game, I might just make a GNOME port. I'm sure the copyright owners won't mind...
• Off to play more Bombjack, or maybe read goats.com, not sure.

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• I need a new layout. I'm bored with this
• Apparently (according to a FWD that I got twice, from different people at the same time...) I have huge problems, but I just watch them and think of cool problems, and my sexual desire is huge, but I feel sex is of absolutly no important what so ever...

  Cool

• More revision. Revision sucks. Can do some of the miranda stuff, reading the networks is still interesting, NLP is pointless, and KB systems has no point either. Graphics looks interesting, and the exam is a bastard but should be okay so long as I remember equations and stuff, and I dunno about the distributed computing cos I've not even thought about it yet. (Thats next weeks fun topic once I finish networking this week).
• Dawned on me today:- If I fuck up these exams, I'm fucked.
• Strangely "Linux && Belfast" revealed no jobs in any of the job databases
• Al left today, dunno when he's back. Means I get to nick his modem and our electricity bill drops.
• Wanted to be on the Ricki Lake show so badly today, just to insult one of the audience members. The situation was that there was a guy sitting at the front who said he hated gay people and thought they were all wrong in the head, and this woman stood up and said "I can't believe that in the year 2000, we can't all just accept each others views, and you are so wrong in your view"...I just wanted to point out the fatal flaws in her arguement.
  I also wanted to ask her what her views on paedophilia were, but then I realised that if I did that I'd be linking someone who chooses to love members of the same sex, with someone who chooses to love small children, and that maybe this example was a bit too extreme.

A flower:

• When I don't get my degree, I will say "If only I hadn't started reading goats.
• I think Chessmaster looks like a photo of Bowie J Poag, or at least it looks like the photo I saw (from memory)

You are pure, you are snow, we are the useless sluts that they mold:

• You know a band has hit the mainstream when a 40year old checkout person tells you they are "a brilliant band". I knew the Manics had sold out, but it had never hit me till today.
• Did the biggest food shop ever. I'm never going to need to buy food for the rest of my life. 30quid (although that did include a 7quid CD). Got lots of cool food now.
• Was sitting in a revision lecture about Baysian Belief Networks, when I suddenly switched off and started thinking about how I (or someone else) could implement scaling gnome-canvas-text items. Came up with the solution that there could be a cache of all the zoomed in levels, so when it draws the item, it actually uses the larger size. When I switched back on again there were lots of squares drawn on the board and I've no idea what they were all about. I'm going to blame Harold if I fail KBS

If a ten ton truck, kills the both of us:

• Looky Colour!
• Miguel released GNOME-Libs 1.0.60. My text patch broke it. I don't think this is a good thing. All I know is, it compiled here fine.
• Made another attempt at the canvas scrolling patch. Did it the right way (tm). Waiting for someone to tell me what to do with it.
• Played with Nautilus for the first time in ages. Wow, it's so amazingly cool now. It's such a good time waster just adding random emblems to your files, and funny backgrounds to your directories. Totally cool. Plus I made a patch for it so it checks the width and height of an image before deciding to use it for an icon (stops icons being made from huge images, that are really small in bytesize).
• Trying to learn DESS for my exam, but I'm not sure if I need it.

I left my wallet in El Segundo:

• I never want to be famous. I found a site on a Neighbours star (Here) because I was looking for information to prove that there wasn't going to be a lesbian relationship on Neighbours, and these fans are freaks. Like every time this poor girl is on screen there's about 10 stills taken of her in the same pose but her arm has moved an inch...FREAKS. I have trouble accepting that people read this diary or email I send them, to know that my every move was recorded...scary
• Revised some more.
• Hacked an ugly hack that won't go into gnome-libs, it really was hideous.
• Not going to revise anymore tonight. Well, I might do some more networking stuff, cos it's actually interesting, and easy to read (as opposed to Knowledge bases. It's boring as hell)
• Rewrote a song. Got lots of them now, ones that I'm quite pleased with.
• Need to buy/steal more Hiphop CDs

Kill the fo':

• Nietzsche: Aren't you dead?
• Went out last night. Too tired.
• Played some good songs last night ("Can I Kick It", "Groove Is In The Heart" spring to mind), but they also played loads of crap like "Billie Jean". Oh well.
• Threw some girl into a skip on the way home. Then shut the lid on her. She smelled after that :D
• Made lots of icky errors in my gnome-canvas-text patch. Duh - Can't add new fields to GnomeCanvasText.
• Did Gonzo demo today. Never have to worry about it again. They both seemed impressed, and Prof Sleeman isn't as scary as I'd imagined.
• Must revise. Tried revising "knowledge based systems" today, but fell asleep cos it's so dull. It's dull and seems pointless.
• Networks is interesting though. I'm learning how to write a TCP/IP implementation for a kernel. Pity all the kernels these days have one.
• Wrote the encryption for my ciphersabre. Was only an extra 6 lines. Going to write on for the ZX Spectrum later on after I finish revision.