| When you get The Black Box, THEN you can give geography lessons; until then, this man goes to Tahiti |
[May. 27th, 2007|07:50 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  calm | ] |
| [ | music |
| | There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, The Lucksmiths | ] |
Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
And they're young and alive
Driving in your car
I never, never, want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Any more
Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people
And I want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please don't drop me home
Because it's not my home
It's their home
And I'm welcome no more
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-tonne truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine
Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought "Oh god, my chance has come at last"
...But then a strange fear gripped me
And I just couldn't ask
Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
Driving in your car
I never, never, want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Oh, I havent got one
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine
Oh, there is a light and it never goes out
-There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, The Smiths
See? I told you it was a pretty song.
In other news, I have basically no content today. Linked lists are still defeating me, though Thomas' sample may help - if I can figure out how to fix the things he's intentionally broken. The code needs a few other changes, as well - most prominently to remove the global variable use. *shrugs*
...At least the assignment's due Friday, not Monday, like I first thought.
I have the Network Servers prac test tomorrow. I have no idea how that's going to go, so I've been trying not to think about it.
*looks at calendar* Hey, there was a Super Smash Tourney today that I didn't realise was on. *shrugs*
Chris and I are planning on watching lots of movies in quick succession in the days after exams finish. It's going to be fun.
Today I watched Sneakers, while hacking at my C code. I'd forgotten how much I purely adore that film. Dad came in and watched from halfway through. Examples of why I love it so:
[Abbott asks them what they want in return for the decryption chip]
Whistler: I want peace on earth and good will toward man.
Bernard Abbott: Oh, this is ridiculous.
Martin Bishop: He's serious.
Whistler: I want peace on earth and goodwill toward men.
Bernard Abbott: We're the United States Government! We don't deal with that sort of thing.
As I've said many times in the past, I'll forgive all sorts of things if it makes me laugh.
And now I will stop forcing you to read highly disconnected paragraphs, and go do something else, probably of questionable usefulness. How's AQ strike you, on that scale?
-Mmaster
EDIT: Oh, something I did forget to include:
Yesterday was spent visiting my grandmother, and taking her tech shopping. She's reasonably tech-savvy for an eighty-something year old who knows very little of what she's doing. Though she spends a lot of time holding a magnifying glass close to the screen and peering through it vaguely.
...Anyway, one of the places we visited was her semi-local Officeworks. (She claimed her local one was "Too small to be useful".) While we were there, we must have spent a good half hour chatting to one of the guys working there, who was helpful up and beyond the call of duty - even to the point of telling us to go to Dick Smith to buy the cable we wanted, since it would be half price (which it was). So he officially qualifies as "awesome".
Also, while we were there, I spent a lot of time drooling over assorted pieces of tech, in varying levels of seriousness.
* The NAS drive was very tempting, till they listed the price tag as about twice what I had expected (and since it was around twice the capacity we needed, I decided to search up the 500GB ones when we got home).
* The wireless routers were more of an "Ooh! Shiny!" thing than anything else - Internet in the lounge room has a certain vague appeal but is certainly not essential; I was perhaps more tempted because it meant I could finally update my console.
* The bottom-of-the-line Palm Pilot was somewhere between "Ooh, shiny" and serious. Having found a bunch of plain-text novels on the web (more than a gigabyte), having a small portable way of reading them is tempting. The price tag is moderate (Probably about $200, once you add on a case and stuff like that - equate to about ten novels and it would've paid for itself), but still a sizable amount to take out at once. I'll probably wait for the next time Seeker calls me back, and then splurge on it. I'm not sure whether it displays .docs, though - and at least some of the files are in that format (not that that's insurmountable); or even if it displays uploaded files at all. |
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