alexr_rwx | no smooches today!

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.

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

*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.

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'.

... 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.

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

*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.

O my God!

Thanks for good comix.

Sincerely, AP Saulters

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

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" ? ...)

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.

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? ...)

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