The Great Purge

[Purge]

I'm an Assasin for Hire!!!

According to experts, my personality type is : Assasin for hire Other people like me display these traits. They work in fast food resturants They have nose hair They listen to Brittany Spears They go commando Take the Ink Blot Personality Quiz at JokesUnlimited.com

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My Code's Compiling!!!

Aw, Sweet!

RIAA Can Suck Air In a Vaccumm

http://bash.org/?444453

#444453

ProfessorOhki: oh, ud get a kick out of this
ProfessorOhki: cisco guy came to talk to my class
ProfessorOhki: (lecture hall)
thepieisabomb: ya
ProfessorOhki: and he goes "i ask this ever year out of curiosity, who has the most media collected and served?"
ProfessorOhki: no one wants to raise hands
ProfessorOhki: one guy rasies his hand
ProfessorOhki: "how many gigs of media do you have shared?"
ProfessorOhki: guy: "about 3.6 terrabytes"
ProfessorOhki: i swear the cisco guys heart stopped for a sec

Killed By a Rabbit Recently?

Quote available here.

[Dejos] I was killed by a rabit in D&D once
[Wiser] lol
[Dejos] stupid DM
[recursive] did it have big sharp pointy teeth?
[recursive] \/\/\/\/\/
[Dejos] no! it didnt have squat.. I tripped over it and fell off a cliff

Han Solo Solo No More

This is so cool! This guy has replaced Han Solo's face in the legendary block of carbonite with his own! Check it out at
www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000668.php. As he says, it's definitely one way to try and cement one's nerdship for a looooong while. Well done Rob!!!

Biology in IT

bash.org quote here.

[SSilver2k] he worked on a server called Servix in a college, he asked this girl to log into her "servix" terminal...you can see how that conversation went.

It's All a Matter of Physics...

Bash.org quote here.

[chaz] I had to recompile our software to pick up the new libraries etc
[chaz] we then hit an issue with connectivity to the database server
[chaz] but thats what i fixed (i hope) this morning, so we'll see :)
* Twitch crosses her fingers for you
[chaz] my apologies, I didn't realise you were female.
[chaz] I should turn my geek off. :/
[Twitch] I'm in Physics, don't bother

Bash.org - Duke Nukem Forever

*siiiiggghhh...* I'm still being optimistic and waiting for Duke Nukem Forever. Hopefully it won't be recorded as DNF...

Here's a good DNF quote from bash.org:

[Analogy]:     The Voyager 1 spacecraft has travelled approximately 2.5 billion miles since the announcement of Duke Nukem Forever

How It Feels To Lose A Girl Explained To A Gamer

Digg link:
This is a brilliant quote!!!

Direct link:
http://www.bash.org/?761414

SergioThree: there's other fish in the sea, man, she's just a girl
Beatsfromkorea: no dude, that's bullshit.
Beatsfromkorea: Think of it this way. if your precious copy of street fighter third strike broke and i told you "it's ok man, there's other games in the sea. here, play mortal kombat instead" what would you say? you'd be like, "fuck that, gimme third strike."
SergioThree: ...
SergioThree: you just reached me on a level that i never thought possible

A Few Quotes and Stuff...

• "The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea."- _The Wizardry Compiled_ by Rick Cook
  
• Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
  
• Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
  
• We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers.
  
• The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten 10% of its capacity, the rest is overhead for the operating system.
  
• Programming is an art form that fights back.
  
• There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
  
• Best file compression around: "DEL *.* /S" = 100% compression
  
• Windows: Just another pane in the glass.
  
• RAM disk is *not* an installation procedure.
  
• Shell to DOS...Come in DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS...
  
• What happens to programmers when they die?
  
  • They get deallocated?
    
  • Their values become undefined?
    
  • The get re-intialized?
    
  • Their structues break down?
    
  • They become WORM food...
    
  • They start dropping bits........
    
  • They branch to a new address!
    
  • Their social system resources are released?
    
  • They dump core?
    
  
  

Battle in the Kruger Park

Here a small pride of lions, a crocodile and an herd on buffalo. It is AMAZING!!!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM

Questions in the early morning

What am I doing? Where am I going with my life? Am I moving forward? Progressing? Stagnating? Growing?

I think I'm growing, moving forward. I feel/think that it's just a bit slow...

Google Health Turns a Little Bit Evil?

Google Health Advertising Blog: Does negative press make you Sicko? Was Lauren Turner doing anything wrong other than trying to get more customers? She said what they wanted to hear, but don't most salesmen?

S N O W ! ! !

It snowed yesterday morning!!! I never thought I'd see snow in my life, not to mention snow over my home in Kempton Park! The last time it snowed like this in Kemton was about 27 years ago, four years before I was born. Check out some photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/gdilord

Goodnight dear reader. Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite.

Good Morning

It was SO cold when I hot up today! My knees really protested! Had some lekker rooibos tea with rusks, now making the day's sarmies - two peanut butter rolls and a ham sarmie. Also boiling the breakfast sausages.

Still surprised I forgot to blog about Father's Day. A belated blog-Happy Father's Day Dad!!! I love you, I'm proud of you and I thank the Lord for you often. Thanks Dad. Love you.

The Power of Focus

A month or two after one of my colleagues told me that in the States one typically specialises in a certain type or field of programming (as opposed to the jack-of-all-trades approach typical of South Africa and New Zealand) I still find it amazing!!! What an awesome opportunity to specialise like that!