relationships: November 2004 archives
Python, Parrot, and Chicks
[ rakaur on Tue Nov 30 at 03:26 PM // category: life, programming, relationships, technology ]
Not that any of the new features really interest me at all. The new “sets” seem to me to be what arrays are in Ruby (lists with lexical magic for operators; I thought you could do this with lists anyway?). Function decorators anger me. They seem a big cheesy hack to avoid adding some keywords. What’s so bad about static def?
In other news, Parrot looks promising. It’s a register-based (most are stack-based) VM that was originally designed to implement Perl6 but aims to be language-independent as to offer a suitable VM for other bytecode languages like Python (Ruby, as of now, uses ASTs for parsing, but I believe they plan to implement a Parrot compiler anyhow) to run faster in (Perl is decent, Ruby is slow, Python is slower than frozen piss running uphill in the snow). They say it already goes faster than Perl5 (a good accomplishment in itself). Also, it allows for the bytecode generator to be implemented in the language that it’s compiling (Python bytecode compiler written in Python, etc). I’m not sure how they do that yet (bootstrapping problem anyone?), but it looks to be very neat.
Parenthetically.
It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned el chicko. I tried to get a friend to talk to her for me, which is pretty bad. But you know, considering every time I see her my brain turns to jello and I’m lucky to not make a complete cock out of myself, I don’t think it’s such a bad idea. I really like her, and it’d be a shame if I never even at least let her know, even indirectly.
That was the worst run-on in the history of the English language.
I digress.
I have actual work to do. Work that pays. So, naturally, I’ll be going to do my homework now instead of my real work (because making a profit would perhaps give me a little something to be happy about and I insist on completely destroying my self-esteem especially by attaching myself to girls I don’t/won’t know etc this isn’t psychology).
On a side note, I keep seeing my checkbox for “photography” under my “category” thingy, and I keep realizing how much I miss my camera. Oh shit, that reminds me, I have a yearbook meeting in about four and a half hours ago.
Whoops.
-- rakaur // 2004.11.30 @ 03:26 PM
I Hate Titles
[ rakaur on Thu Nov 18 at 05:05 PM // category: life, programming, relationships, running, technology, web ]
About time for a blog update I suppose.
I did some weight training last night with a friend who actually knows what he’s doing. It sucked. I’m hurting bad today. We went running immediately after, and it seems as if I’m becomming worse rather than better.
Speaking of running, the girl I like mentioned to me that she runs. So today I asked her about running together after school (that’s like, the most outright “let’s do something together” thing I’ve done) but she runs at the YMCA whereas I just run around town. Oh well, I tried. She has a boyfriend anyway so I don’t know why I keep doing it to myself.
I’ve been working a bit on a Python Markdown. It’s insanely harsh. I don’t know Perl, so I don’t know what half of it is about. I can get maybe half of that half out of the PHP version, but I’m still in the dark over the rest. I think I can do it, bit it’s going to suck and it’s going to take a while. Should be a nice little pet project though.
As for right now: it’s raining and I’m so sore that I’m not going to bother running. I think I just need to run more often; however, I rarely have someone to run with and running alone sucks. When I run alone there’s no incentive to keep me going, so I just stop and walk a lot. That doesn’t really help so much.
-- rakaur // 2004.11.18 @ 05:05 PM
Still Screwed
[ rakaur on Sun Nov 14 at 08:33 PM // category: life, relationships ]
Yeah, so, haven’t worked much on the blog on the new site. I’m sure everyone cares.
I went to a party last night with a bunch of friends. I got lost. I got found. I lost. We had fun. We didn’t really sleep much.
The girl I want is dating the other kid.
-- rakaur // 2004.11.14 @ 08:33 PM
Compulsory Blog Update
[ rakaur on Fri Nov 12 at 10:11 PM // category: life, programming, relationships, running, technology, web ]
Not much happening in the land of Eric lately.
I’ve been running. It sucks. I have varying degrees of success. I tend to eat and then go running shortly after and do poorly; however, running without eating for a few hours tends to yield better stamina.
I still haven’t finished the new site. The only thing left (besides the Markdown situation) is comments. I haven’t delved into that yet because threaded comments aren’t fun to play with.
I still can’t talk to Kayla.
My legs hurt.
-- rakaur // 2004.11.12 @ 10:11 PM
Blog Update 2004
[ rakaur on Sat Nov 06 at 04:11 PM // category: life, politics, relationships, running ]
Yeah so, I just bought this. I only realized afterwards that it comes off as “republicans suck, democrats rule.” I’m not a democrat. I’m not a republican either. I saw this shirt as “people who voted for Bush are complete morons” not “republicans are complete morons.” So, now that that’s cleared up.
Thursday… I think… a friend asked me to help her with a docudrama. Sure, what the hell. As it turns out, it was on the Spanish Inqusition for the European Studies class. I was Heretic #2! Anyway, it was the girl I want’s sister’s project. She was Heretic #3. So, I got to spend some time around her, which was cool.
Harrison and Tim (Tim hates me because he’s republican, Harrison hates me on principle) were gaurds. They got to hit me a lot. First to beat the confession out of me, second to flog me as was my punishment. Heretic #1 had to wear a cross or some lame crap. Heretic #3 (the girl I want) wouldn’t confess and was burned at the stake. We had marshmallows. Right before they started shooting she turns to her side and goes “so… does anyone else think this is funny?” and pointed to the giant mirror labeled “FIRE EXTINGUISHER” next to her. I started laughing so hard I had to leave so the camera wouldn’t pick it up. No one else thought it was funny.
In other news, I started running in preparation for Track. We (Harrison and I) only ran like a mile and a half, but it was pretty harsh on me as I’ve never run more than required before. It wasn’t that I got tired, it was the throbbing in my side. That went away after a while, and I had to stop less often. We ended up going up a giant hill “not a through” street, and that owned my legs. From then on, they were burning like mad (which is awesome). This morning when I got up it hurt to move (which is equally awesome). My back’s stopped hurting now, and it’s just my thighs that are sore. I haven’t seen Harrison around today so no idea if we’re running again today. We’re going hiking tomorrow though.
Fun.
Check out SorryEverybody. It’s a plea to the rest of the world on behalf of 49% of Americans who aren’t stupid.
These are also good… I’m not sure what each is so I’ll just paste:
-- rakaur // 2004.11.06 @ 04:11 PM
Holy Shit, Not Screwed?
[ rakaur on Tue Nov 02 at 05:03 PM // category: eawr, life, music, relationships, school ]
Aww yeah. School insurance is only like $40, one-time. Now I get to join Track etc! Yay!
In other news I’ve compiled a list of songs for girl-depression purposes:
- matchbox twenty - last beautiful girl
- the offspring - denial, revisited
- matchbox twenty - stop
- grinspoon - hate
- the offspring - (can’t get my) head around you
- sister hazel - killing me too [live]
- audioslave - what you are
- the offspring - spare me the details
- nirvana - heart shaped box
- a perfect circle - orestes
- the offspring - self esteem
- matchbox twenty - rest stop
- audioslave - getaway car
- matchbox twenty - hand me down
- the offspring - gone away
- a perfect circle - weak and powerless
- muse - hysteria
- a perfect circle - magdalena
- muse - hate this and i’ll love you
- matchbox twenty - you won’t be mine
A play time of 77 minutes. Subject to revision.
-- rakaur // 2004.11.02 @ 05:03 PM
Screwed Again
[ rakaur on Mon Nov 01 at 02:42 PM // category: eawr, life, relationships, school ]
So, I mentioned joining Track this March. This got me thinking… I’d need a physical for Track, and since I have no health insurance I got to wondering how much it’d cost. Then I got to remembering that you have to have proof of insurance for any activity at school. So I’m screwed. I can’t even join Scholar Bowl because you have to have proof of insurance for that too.
The good news for today? Ha! Well, I guess the girl I want like oh get out driving past my house as I walk inside sort of counts as good news… somehow.
I hate my life.
-- rakaur // 2004.11.01 @ 02:42 PM
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