Names and babbling

Oniugnip?

The name might ask a bit of explanation. The "oni" at the beginning
is coincidental -- Japanese mythology and Italian suffixes are unrelated.
Oniugnip is a nicely pronounceable reversal of "pinguino", which is the
Spanish for "penguin". Somebody had taken the LJ account "pinguino" --
and then subsequently been purged, leaving nothing there but an unavailable
slot in the LJ namespace. I've used the handle Pinguino in at least a
few other places -- the reasons for choosing it in the first place
aren't complex; I speak pretty passable Spanish, and I like penguins
for a number of reasons :)

So today... has been really quite enjoyable :) I got up at a reasonable,
leisurely time, had a nice brunch, talked with Mac, with whom I hadn't
spoken in a while, wandered with him until we ended up at the student
center mailboxes... and got the package (after a rather lengthly delay)
that Esther had sent, which caused no end of smiling -- this was due
to a combination of things, the anticipation, the unexpectedness of showing
up at the stucen, my earlier (fairly pleasant) mood, the bright sunshiney
and cool day... and then the actual package itself. I was purely,
childishly, unequivocally ... just happy. With Mac standing there in
the post office, I carefully pulled open the duct-taped big manilla
envelope, gently sifted through the contents, and felt the smile
spreading out past the bounds of my face. After bidding him adieu (he
was headed off elsewhere), I walked, skipped, ran, and hopped back to
the chateau, clutching the envelope close to my chest.

We got some bagels and groceries, which was very nice... this was especially
important for D., who's going to be stuck here over the Christmas break.
It's not easy to fly to and from Sri Lanka, apparently -- nobody's
going to be around, so the least I could do was get him to the grocery
store so's he could stock up.

*laughs* Today, I've been playing around with Pascal a bit... it's
an interesting language so far. It was interesting, setting up the
GNU Pascal compiler -- it effectively just plugs into GCC, and to
make it do this, you have to compile up a new copy with the Pascal
packages in the appropriate places in the source tree. It wasn't
terribly difficult, but it was nontrivial -- the documentation didn't
cover my particular case quite right, and I had to do some library
symlinking that they didn't mention. Ah well.

GPC makes some rather large executables. I'm not quite sure what to
make of it yet, although I am enjoying the language thus far. I can
see the attraction, really. It feels just kind of reasonable, kind
of all-purpose. It's not as much of a Manly Man language as C.


$ du -hs hello*
4.0k hello.c
4.0k hello.pas
16k helloc
560k hellop


Hrm. I'll probably write some more later. Sleep seems like a
good option at this point.