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Feb. 28th, 2004 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goldenmeanAnother idle day in the bit mines. I'm more than a little bitter about waking up at 6 am on Saturdays to come in and spend most of the day sitting on my thumbs, but such is life.
I read lots of email here, and more and more often I am finding that I enjoy random spam at least an order of magnitude more than emails with actual content. As a result, I've decided that I actually like spam more than I like most people. My current favorite is the ad for ministerial certification whose selling points include the ability to "VISIT CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES" and "MARRY your BROTHER, SISTER, or your BEST FRIEND!". Yes, incest and conjugal visits can be yours for the low price of only 29.95$ apparently.
There's a special place in my heart for the anti-bayesian gibberish that they've been tacking on to these also. I've been viewing them as vaguely glossolalic koans, and can almost feel satori within my grasp with each new penis enhancing email I read. And really doesn't "Knuckle salty bookmobile" just scream transcendance?
I think I need some book recommendations. I'm flat out of fiction to read, and though I've gotten most of my old books out of storage, I've also come to the uncomfortable conclusion that my tastes in literature in high school sort of, ummm, sucked, and nothing I've picked up randomly at the bookstores recently has kept my interest long enough to finish it, and considering how fast I read, that's saying something. I've taken to my old habit of buying interesting textbooks and reading those. Currently chugging merrily through Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, which is pretty interesting, if you're into that sort of thing.
I've been occupying my time with random completely useless programming projects also, just to keep my skills from degrading. I've been writing a 3-d rendering engine entirely in Perl, no wussing out and using OpenGL calls or any of that jazz. I haven't exactly decided how I'm going to output all of this to the screen, but seeing as I'll almost certainly lose interest before then, I'm not too concerned.
I've also been fiddling about with writing some scripts that would let me harf out nomic triviality if I ever decide to run another one, which I'm idly toying with. If anyone's interested in playing, lemme know. No promises that it'll go anywhere, I can be easily distracted by sparklies occasionally.
Hrm, lunch over now, back to email, and hopefully more spam!! JOY!
I read lots of email here, and more and more often I am finding that I enjoy random spam at least an order of magnitude more than emails with actual content. As a result, I've decided that I actually like spam more than I like most people. My current favorite is the ad for ministerial certification whose selling points include the ability to "VISIT CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES" and "MARRY your BROTHER, SISTER, or your BEST FRIEND!". Yes, incest and conjugal visits can be yours for the low price of only 29.95$ apparently.
There's a special place in my heart for the anti-bayesian gibberish that they've been tacking on to these also. I've been viewing them as vaguely glossolalic koans, and can almost feel satori within my grasp with each new penis enhancing email I read. And really doesn't "Knuckle salty bookmobile" just scream transcendance?
I think I need some book recommendations. I'm flat out of fiction to read, and though I've gotten most of my old books out of storage, I've also come to the uncomfortable conclusion that my tastes in literature in high school sort of, ummm, sucked, and nothing I've picked up randomly at the bookstores recently has kept my interest long enough to finish it, and considering how fast I read, that's saying something. I've taken to my old habit of buying interesting textbooks and reading those. Currently chugging merrily through Quantum Computation and Quantum Information, which is pretty interesting, if you're into that sort of thing.
I've been occupying my time with random completely useless programming projects also, just to keep my skills from degrading. I've been writing a 3-d rendering engine entirely in Perl, no wussing out and using OpenGL calls or any of that jazz. I haven't exactly decided how I'm going to output all of this to the screen, but seeing as I'll almost certainly lose interest before then, I'm not too concerned.
I've also been fiddling about with writing some scripts that would let me harf out nomic triviality if I ever decide to run another one, which I'm idly toying with. If anyone's interested in playing, lemme know. No promises that it'll go anywhere, I can be easily distracted by sparklies occasionally.
Hrm, lunch over now, back to email, and hopefully more spam!! JOY!
