no smooches today!

[alexr_rwx]

Nobody can kiss me today, because I'm sick. Sorry, LADIES! My father, I think, would describe this feeling as "having some gook in his throat".

However! Brett zip4096 and Martin samarin and I hung out in the afternoon, and it was pretty exciting :) And last night was for karaoke with the Let's Try This! people, at International Bowl, which is a super-interesting place with signs in various Asian languages (and, if I recognized it correctly -- graffiti in the bathroom in Korean) and delicious fried rice. A lot of songs by Journey were sung.

And Graham cola_fan found this really awesome web comic, about "romance, sarcasm, math, and language". (it's right up my alley, and I expect, O dear readers, that it's up yours too.) Here are a few of my favorites.

Summer camp for high school kids starts again on Monday -- hopefully I'll be all recovered for that. I think I prefer the kids and the python to the adults and the java, but it's always good getting more experience teaching people stuff.

Comments

[rusty42.livejournal.com]

one day, when you grow up, they let you use C.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

*grins* I think it should go the other way 'round, actually.

Object references are a convenient lie. People should understand pointers before they're introduced to Java.

[rusty42.livejournal.com]

why? it's impossible to use pointers in 100% Pure Java(TM). you may as well say, "people should understand garbage collection before they're introduced to java".

on the other hand, it *is* possible to use assembly from C.

but this isn't the reason assembly is taught immediately before C at teh CoC. the reason is so that C can gradually be redefined as a 'low-level' language, just like assembly -- after all, they're taught in the same class. and then they can both be thrown out, since they're 'no longer relevant'.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

... I think I see what you're getting at, but it seems like a needless siege mentality -- who's trying to say that writing C is no longer relevant?

I mean, no one language is for everything. And there are a lot of programs getting written out in the wild.

[rusty42.livejournal.com]

i think the writing is on the wall (http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/academics/threads/threads/) for C at teh CoC.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

*shakes head* This is just a new name for what's going on already. Look at some of the requirements pages.

My undergrad career was basically "platforms" plus "intelligence", plus a little meandering for history and spanish classes.

As it stands now, you can get out without doing anything C-like or systems-y after 2200... this hardly different.

[sault.livejournal.com]

O my God!

Thanks for good comix.

Sincerely, AP Saulters

Heh.

[lindseykuper]

So, everyone knows about xkcd now, but you know that you beat the curve by almost two weeks, right?

Re: Heh.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Well, it was with Graham cola_fan's help!

(I'm not sure what's up with the community around the RSS feed -- such a weird vibe over there! Why do people need to comment with "lol" ? ...)

Re: Heh.

[lindseykuper]

Do you mean this? I dunno, I don't use it. Google Reader's just too good not to use. Besides, as I told underwhelm, I was willing to put up with LiveJournal as a feed reader for a long time, but then one of the bloggers I read ripped into me for "stealing" her content after she saw it on my friends page. (And that was the tame version -- you should have seen the email she sent me.) After I explained to her what the sitch was, she blocked LiveJournal's IP.

Re: Heh.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

What a bizarre person! "Oh noes, my content is getting syndicated onto LJ, of which I was heretofore unaware; it sucks that my blog has readers ..." ?

*shrugs* I've heard wonderful things about Google Reader, but I like having people and news all in one place. With the RSS feeds, you can't get friends-only entries, right? (although maybe Google could know your username and password and grab the protected entries as well... they don't do that yet, do they? ...)