Friends

lol

I added this sound effect to my Trillian notifications: http://www.dailywav.com/0800/message.wav

It just played out of nowhere (which was the idea), and oh god. I'm still cracking up.

=(

I hate it when I make a basic, architectural mistake because I didn't consider some random use case.

Who the hell defines their origin as "horizontal center, 25 pixels down"?

Now zooming and panning around is hard. Instead of dynamically building it around the vertical center, I have to calculate by how much I need to move the viewpoint up or down. -_-

This was pretty cool:

http://www.thirdseventh.com/index.php?/4thdimension/film/

Apparently, it's entirely CG. O.o

*happy / less worried*

Well.

That was more wine than I've ever had in my life.

Not more alcohol, though. I put down about 90% of a white russian, once. It was... tolerable.

I think I liked the fact that it was warm more than I liked the fact that it was fruity.

I remain curious about what drunkenness is like. But not really interested.

I figure I'd be effusive for about five seconds, and then spiral into being depressed and shut myself off. And that's not the funny drunkenness people would like to see. Might be fun for them to try to get past the porcupine quills, though.

In other news, tonight I learned that conversations that sound to me like they're starting to revolve around me may not actually be revolving around me. I keep getting worried about that, because I know I'm kinda narcissistic and I don't really know how to fix that, but I don't want to be a jerk about it.

So I'm narcissistic about my narcissism. That's... so meta... yeah. Brand of me. Which is... narcissism about my narcissism about my-- oh god make the turtles stop.

I'm tempted to start carrying around a voice recorder so I can playback conversations and analyze them afterwards to see if this new theory holds up to a larger sample.

But that would be creepy.

[10:19] Kevin: Instead of me spazzing about Islam or Monastic orders, or Chinese Opium wars, or forming 7th chords, staying up all night until I have absorbed everything I can....
[10:19] Kevin: I'll be doing that about data structures and programming.
Kevin grins.
[10:21] Michael Chui: I have no problem with this.
[10:21] Michael Chui: I might even one-up you and repeat your stuff back to you in Javascript/Ruby.
[10:21] Michael Chui: :p
[10:22] Kevin: I'll see your raise and raise you Python implementations of your Javascript verions of my Java programs.
[10:22] Michael Chui: Boo. That's not a challenge.
[10:22] Kevin: Raise me again and I'll dust off my assembler cookbook.
[10:22] Kevin: Bitch.
[10:22] Kevin: :p
[10:23] Michael Chui: I'll see you raise and write it in Clojure.
[10:24] Kevin: FPGA implementation on programmable hardware. Top that.
[10:25] Michael Chui: Rocks.
[10:25] Michael Chui: Bitch.
[10:25] Kevin: Rats wearing tin-foil hats, getting processed through a series of tubes to make the logical connections.
[10:26] Michael Chui: Bacteria, genetically engineered.
[10:26] Kevin: You know, pretty soon we'll be down to ... no, you just went there.
[10:26] Kevin: Hrm.
[10:26] Michael Chui: :p
[10:27] Kevin: You know, years and billions of dollars later, we'd have successfully implemented it thusly only to realize that this whole time we could have just done the computation in our heads and written the results on a piece of scratch paper.
[10:27] Michael Chui: Well, yeah. Heh.

This is fascinating. I've noticed that the people I tend to become good friends with have a particular attribute in common with me: they're rocks.

I mean, one of the great joys in my life is being this ineffably stable force in others' lives. I think I do it slightly above average, since a lot of my friends have ended up using me as one despite being such themselves.

But it always surprises me to find out exactly how people act as becalming influences on the people around them.

I also wonder whether or not this is one of those "everyone is like this; some are like this more than others" deals. That would explain a lot of other, unrelated stuff. I'm thinking probably yes, but I don't believe myself. :p

This is a pretty rockin' post:

http://worldsstrongestlibrarian.com/4851/why-perpetuation-of-the-human-race-depends-on-men-aka-buy-my-lemon-chicken-guest-post-by-ashley-ambirge/

My response is pretty simple.

Could it be that in hoping you’ll pay for my lemon chicken, I’m really just hoping you’ll give me a hug and love me forever?

Must they be the same thing? I mean, I say this as someone who has no problem paying for your dinner. Or, you know, anyone else's dinner, if I like them.

If a friend of mine forgot his wallet, I'll pay for them. Not because they'll pay me back, because I do not care about that. Not because I get something more than the simple happiness of knowing they're eating something they want to when they might not be. Not because it's charity, because I wouldn't really mind doing it even if they could pay for it right then and there.

What is money to me? Money is a tool. Its purpose is to provide a store of value across an exchange. All I'm doing is injecting a bit of three-way action into the deal.

That's all beside the point.

The point is that it's a bad standard. It's a useless test. Sure, if they fail, then hey, they failed. But if they pass, it just means they've bought into those nasty "social constructs" you pretend to be independent of, whatever that means.

If you want to test someone for good sex, have sex with them. If you want to test someone for baby quality, okay, you have to wing it. That's what the social construct is for. If you want to test someone for quality of fatherhood, put them together with kids and see how they do. If you want to test someone for friendship, then become friends with them.

This isn't hard. Why lump all of these things together into some great big matzoh ball of ZOMGROMANTICRELATIONSHIPZOMG? What's the point of that?

Pfft.

я так не люблю кому-то показывать фильмы. и когда мне показывают.

кино, как и книги, надо смотреть в одиночестве.

Педро Альмодовар очень сочен. А Пенелопа Крус очень талантлива.