Casa De Morrill

If you see weird stuff happening here today it is because I am funking around with the page. /geezer on: Back in the day when there wasn’t php and stylesheets we made webpages /geezer off

yep, i am attempting to mess around with code once again, that way maybe i can do some of my own work this time.

A couple of months ago I pre-ordered the new Sluggy Freelance book. The book has not arrived when expected, so I fire off an e-mail to Plan 9 publishing to find out the status of the order. The following is an excerpt from the e-mail I got (oh, and when I send out E-mail it usually shows the person as being Inigo Montoya)

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You have keeled my father, prepare to die!

Sorry, brain frazzle there.

Pete (Author’s note: Pete is Sluggy’s writer) is getting daily cookies, alternating with floggings with well
cooked linguine. Unfortunately, neither has had the desired effect.

At this point, we will probably not have the book before May.

Sorry.

Inigo Montoya wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to inquire on if these books were shipping yet or if we need to
> feed more cookies to pete to make him work faster..
>
> Copy of my order:
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I love places with a sense of humor.

There are days that I find being a coder a very fulfilling, satisfying job. There are other days in which I’d like to go postal because of the code that I’m working at that given instance. Last night was one of those times when I wanted to go postal. I was working on another one of my useless projects for my CS317 class and the damn code just didn’t want to work. It would compile, but I would get nasty run-time errors. It was one of those annoying ones, too. A “First-exception error” according to Visual C++ (Trust me, I’m no happier to be working with that damn compiler than the next, but my code has to work on it, thus so do I). I finally gave up last night. I typed up the descriptions of all of my functions and printed it out. I went to bed at around 12:30 or so and decided to get up at 5:45.

This morning was one of those times that being a coder is a very fulfilling job. I woke up at my designated 5:45, with barely more than 5 hours of sleep. After taking a quick shower, I sat down at my computer and started to meticulously comb through my code with the debugger, finding the places that I was getting errors at. After working on it for another 30 minutes or so, it finally compiled and ran. It doesn’t run completely, but I’ve made serious progress in getting the code to work. If I can get the thing to work for more than the first loop, then I’ll be completely set, because it looks like everything else works beautifully.

Now, all I have to do is get through the work day and get to school early to finish all of this up and I’ll be set. Ugh. I am soooooo tired.