In two days I will be home. I've only got one thing left to do before I go [yes it's 22 pages of my 25-page paper. why do you ask?] and I'm actually making good progress. It's a happy thing. Diagrams are my friend... since I'm at work I'm just sort of sitting here making elaborate diagrams, and I've got a good page worth. They make my paper ( Read more... )

( Am I boring, or what? )

How much is the Earthsea movie going to suck?

Enough to make Ursula K. LeGuin write this. (about halfway down the page)

That's a bad sign, folks. A very, very bad sign. a much worse sign than the minor issue with having *shudder*Kristen Kruek*shudder* star

ETA: MUCH WORSE NEWS

In short: His Dark Materials is being made into a film. Except ( Read more... )

Last night I went to bed before 8pm. This morning I woke up after 8am ( Read more... )

On the radio right now seems to be "Ground Control To Major Tom" in ... some language I don't speak.

ETA:

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DEAR LORD.

It's doing what it's supposed to do. Only too well and it's spiraling out of control.

Damn you, breadth-first trees!

Don't you love it when you've been banging your head against the wall for [too long to say without embarrassment] and the variables just won't change values.

And then you realize it's because you forgot SETF.

And then suddenly your program goes into an inexplicable infinite loop and it looks like text is dancing across the Terminal window.


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I took a break from programming, and got this lj haiku:

Let us hope it is a good omen, because I'm kind of struggling.

*Bravely onwards*


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It's down to the line, really. I demonstrate my project in 17.5 hours and I've got a whole lot of work left to do ( Read more... )

I've written my program! Now all I have to do is run it and watch the debugger crash on every line. But the essence is there--I only have hours upon hours of debugging left ( Read more... )