What she wanted was someone to share rides with her from a place in the suburbs which was like 30-45 miles away...
But what she said in the e-mail (spelled this way atleast twice and no other way) was that she needed a "car pull"/"call pulling" from such-and-such a city...
Hours later, after someone apparently clued her in that a tow-truck wouldn't help much, she sent a new e-mail...
"Normal" society doesn't want to admit that they are as much a part of the problem as they really are. If they can pin the whole thing all on a bunch of wierdos, they can then kid themselves into believing 1) they aren't actually the ones causing the problem, and 2) if they can say they know who "the cause" always is, they can feel they have a handle on the problem when in fact they would be totally scared if they had to actually admit they don't know...
The funny thing is, if they know so much about what causes such events, why do they still happen? Because they don't actually really know :-D
2) Java almost got named "Oak" cause one of inventors crazy about an oak tree. (I'm reminded of a joke I once cracked about "Crabtree & Evelyn")
3) I didn't get wind of StringBuilder (Java's not only Language I use on my job)... Oh well, my Java apps will just run a little slower than everybody elses :-D Atleast my strings will be threadsafe while they're being built...
4) In Java (all these are about Java unless I specify) if you write a constructor with parameters, the default one (no parameter one normally generated automatically) is automatically removed. I always made one that was private in those cases just to be safe :-D
5) A Date is a particular point in time and a Calendar represents that in some particular culture's "representation". Just needed clearing up in my mind, that's all :-D
6) Enums are really classes/objects :-D ... This is what happens when RAM chips become super-cheap :-D
7) 'ant' simply stands for "another neato tool".
8) 'super constructors' of parent classes will always be called. There's no way around this or any way to prevent this. Not that I ever tried to prevent this from happening, but it's nice to know I can't somehow accidentally cause my code to not do this by somehow doing something stupid :-D
8) Is best to let Eclipse generate your .equals() methods and then just go add whatever they're missing, cause there's a little more to this than you'd think and you might forget some of those things...
I thought "hmmm... maybe "my_favorite_girl_on_LJ" :-) played with the settings..."
Took me about 3 minutes to realize that LJ gives you significantly more abilities if you are actually logged in :-D
"ColdFusion isn't my favorite programming language"
"What is your favorite programming language?"
"Whatever one gives me enough talent to instead design consumer packaging or appliance control panels for a living"
"Well if it's any consolation to you, if you are programming in CF8, then you're actually really programming in Java"
"Whatever dude. Are you like a pitchperson for Adobe?"
First some background.
Everyone knows that the "byte" is the fundamental unit of computer storage (or atleast a frequently mentioned one). A byte is 8 bits. A bit is an on-or-off flag (this means a bit represents only two states... a bit is either set or is not), which means 256 different values can be stored in a byte (cause there's only 256 different combinations of settings possible). There's also something called "a nyble" which is only comprised of 4 bits. 2 nybles together form a byte.
There are only 16 different combinations representable by each of the 4 bits in a nyble being either on or off. For this reason, values in nybles are often written as "hexadecimal" notation. Because only 16 different values are possible and they want to use only a single character to represent what's stored in each nyble, hexadecimal uses not just the digits 0 through 9, but also the letters A through F (A=10, B=11, C=12 and so on) to represent the 16 different possibilities using only a single character...
And when a byte's value is written out in hexadecimal, this takes just two of these hexadecimal digits cause one competely tells you what's in the first nyble and the other tells you what's in the other nyble.
Anyway, I was reading today that in compiled Java program units (called .class files), the first 4 bytes are always the same value to help identify the file as a Java class... And it just so happens when you write out all 8 of these nybles in hexadecimal, they spell out an -English word- (cause A through F are -letters-). The start of every .class file in Java spells out the word
"CAFÉ BABE"
(You'd have to open the file in a hex viewer to see this though)
Makes you wonder where the Sun Microsystems developers found time to be funny/cute :-D
When you're only using LJ, it's almost easy to subconsciously avoid. But who has time to worry about avoiding whatever little thing f-'s up LJ when you're jumping back and forth between -other websites-??
Anyone seen these?
Aren't they the most wonderful planets on the plant? :-D :-D :-D
In general I just sorta turn up my nose at nature stuff, but these REALLY ROCK.
I came out to 'the social Internet' because of a now proven rumor that what I was looking for my entire life "was out there".
But the fascinating thing? The ratio of women to men in my life is completely bizarre. On LJ, is about half and half (which by itself is strange for a "nerd"), but on one site I'm on, everyone seems to be female. Even people I originally assumed were guys when I started talking to them later turned out to say they were female...
My presence on the web all this time has had a purpose 'which could not be father from' "picking up chicks", but I'm willing to bet that if it suddenly was about that tommorow, they'd all probably -scat-, cause "somehow they know" :-D
An oddly enough, it started out this way too. The first place I joined was a group on Yahoo that was over 90 percent girls (no it wasn't a knitting club :-D). Unfortunately for -that situation-, whenever people congregate because they are different than the norm (even if they are 'different' in pretty much exactly the same way as each other) or to talk about sex/romance (even if not looking to use such on each other), gender automatically can be come an alienating factor. The way society 'drops' guys and girls who are 'different' isn't the same. One is dropped such that they're more likely to land on their feet and the other is dropped so that they're more like to land on their back :-D (There's problems with the analogy I used here, but has more truth than not)
At the end of the day though, the explanation seems to be 1) what I'm actually really interested in 2) how those real interests map to conventional outlets.. As an example for #2, I'm a labeled packaging collector. Just like computer programming used to be a guy thing, collecting beautifully labeled tins (as just one example) I think is probably more of 'a girl thing'.
And when I'm saying all this, I'm not saying I have a lot of friends on the Internet, cause actually I don't. What I am saying is that pretty much everyone I end up actually talking to online is either a guy who is interested in computer technology or is a girl, and the Latter way outnumbers the Former :-D
(In the above picture says "O W E N D AND OPERATED BY" on back right side of a bus...)
You gotta give them credit For using a Relative of my favorite font though :-)
This is way too easy to do on some devices when LJ puts two buttons called "Post" on every page whenever viewing a community (one of them goes to your own Journal. They really should make 'em different colors or something).
(The music and sound effects in this show are downright cheepy. The producer apparently was trying to do weird stuff to show listeners what the phenonemon is like apparently)
The phenomenon (term means "union of the senses") is about people who when they see words, names, letters, -in their minds- colors are associated with these concepts. They literally see the colors. And there was one girl who'd convert -touch- into colors in her mind...
Is a totally bizarre show and did I say creepy? (At the end of day this speaks to what a good job they did.)
And the premise is this: They're talking about like how blind people, deaf people, etc have heightened senses in other areas... and they're talking about taking a person with already supernormal sensory perception (an ex-fighter pilot) and making him simulate not having each sense for like 6 months at a time (I was born without a sense of smell by the way) to heighten his senses even further...
And for the first three years he was to be paid $20,000 for all 3 years and after he was done would make $20,000 a year for the next five years....
This 'huge sum' of money was supposed to totally woo him, LOL :-D
Incidentally this thing had a really 'nothing' ending :-D
This place got hit twice in a row:
http://community.livejournal.com/_space
"In a $5 million dollar deal, (his username) to relocate to friendster" (and then just for effect I drew the friendster logo after this, and this last addition just totally made it funny to me, especially since the logo just so happened to be badly drawn in such a way that just so happened to resemble the look on his face in many of his userpictures... I mean I could never do this as well again if I tried, but the whole thing just worked...)...
And like many LJers and others of my geek friends, he likes the first Transformers movie. I haven't seen anything but the TV show. I guess the previews to me looked too different than the show so I skipped the theathrical release and the DVD always seems way overpriced (haven't looked in a while tough)...
And so we're talking about the next one coming out cause he has seen the previous movie material... and while this was going on a co-worker comes in and hears this and he has a story to tell...
The upshot of the conversation is that in the new one a robot probably turns into the the SR-71 Blackbird... And apparently this co-worker was visiting the National Air and Space Museum (The one near Dulles, not in DC) where there is an SR-71. And apparently he couldn't see the whole museum (like even the big rooms behind the SR-71 where the space shuttle is were blocked off because of this*) while there cause the -Transformers Film Crew- was shooting scenes with the SR-71. And he said they also were filming some remote control devices they had moving around in the museum. I know nothing about filmmaking so I don't know what any of this was about or how reliable any of this was.
*Since when did filming a movie take precedence over people from perhaps all over the world visiting a museum to look at things as important as the space shuttle? I like sci-fi too, but if I'm a tourist from Japan or something then this is going to irritate me :-D
To quote the only woman I ever really loved, to my statement "Everyone in DC has a story to tell", she said "Yes, and most of them are fiction"...
but you never know ... so who knows... maybe some of us who have been to this museum will see familiar stuff in the next TF movie...
I may only develop software using "platform independent" technologies like Oracle, Java, PHP, CF, etc, but I have -some idea- how the Windows API works cause I wrote a custom control for Visual Basic in C once...
Obviously screenreaders can't peel the ASCII codes out of screen RAM like in the old DOS days :-D ... I'm guessing Microsoft lets screenreader coders somehow 'intercept' calls to the API that draw characters to the screen? What if the app doesn't draw them in the order they'd normally be read? Also, these functions get called repeatedly everytime a window is maximized, minimized, or something happens overtop that Window (like if you drag one window over another)... Ok.. maybe Windows caches this.... anyway...
I guess screenreader authors cache the calls they intercept so they know when redundant drawing requests are made? And since they know where in theory each piece of text was drawn, they can resolve the 'reading in order' issue?
Microsoft probably didn't want to give programmers of one app the ability to "Listen in on" the API calls made by some other app, but I guess millions of blind users not otherwise being able to use Windows probably influenced business and software architecture decisions for the better? :-D
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