Exciting things afoot...

M'k ya'll listen up,
it's my daughter's third birthday! Yeah!
we marked this milestone by taking her to the dentist, and having four teeth removed and replaced with a bridge. Does that make me a mean dad?
maybe, but we did have a party saturday already, and it rawked! She's at her grandmother's house recuperating along with my traumatized wife. Poor things.

anywho:
Did install the heron on the ole lappy... ... and the lappy is about dead me thinks. Fans are goin' down, it's just a matter of tiempo. stupid fans...
who wants to buy me a mac?

ok, so weird ruby thing I learned last week:
entering:
system("cd ./some_dir/") will not change directories!
cd is not a command found in bin. idk what's up with that, enlighten me oh great Internet Mystics!

Ok, so i'z a wuss...

hehe,
don't have 8.04 release on the lappy here yet,
but hopefully will soon. namely needing time, and i don't have any because i'm in the middle of getting ready for a birthday party for a three year old all week. We are definately overdoin' things.
bleahk.

I feel cheated...

so,
today's the day,
yet there's no Hardy Heron Final. I was so hopin to do that last nite.
jerks...
instead i replaced a battery, and discovered it's not working! great... just spent some dough on something that isn't functioning properly.
i think that it's a computer problem, not a battery problem, for what its worth.

gosh, now what am i supposed to do about ubuntu?!? did some browsing through the website though, especially in the merchandise department. they have some kik-tater teeshirts available for this release, when they release it.
sweeeeeat!
i's got a 97.04% in my C++ class, that's cool. Now I need a job writing programs that are useful. hoosgot work for me?

PIECE OUT!
GB Hoyt

ah yes the very sweetness of life!

so, m'kay,
this is my last C++ class, the final exam. If I pass this I can put that i have C++ experience on my resume. now i just need to get involved in some open source project to keep my skillz sharp, and to learn more. right now i'm reading through a book designed for people who know C to get ninja in C++ and that's alright. just pokin' about in it mainly.

also ordered a new battery for the old school lappy that runs FreeBSD 6.3. when it arrives i'm gonna seriously reconsider using that one all the time, the cooling fan works better.

go figure.

that was when laptops were men!

PIECE OUT!
GB Hoyt

First Fruit!

If you consider squash a fruit, my garden is bearing fruit!

first one came out yesterday, and i planted two more seeding maters, some betterboys to be exact. some of the romas are in bloom, and soon we'll be up to our garterbelts in tomatoes!
i can't wait.

pepper plants are doin' fine too.

i silently thanked a foraging bluejay yesterday i spied chompin' on some insects round the garden. birds are awesome like that.

some notes on C++
it's lame compared to ruby, but at the same time it grows on you. the structure takes a while to appear, but at least it's not as bad as something totally lame like visual basic at least.

lets face it, you'll not be using gedit or anything sans smart tab complete to write a vb program, yet w/ c++ there are shortcuts.

ruby is still my baby though.

it's a wonderful mess.

PIECE OUT!!
GB HOYT

Silly ideas...

#1 grab a turkey, a live turkey, and start asking people if they want to have a lil' wild turkey in their beverage.

#2 Grab an old school fone, cut the end off, place in a glass of coca-cola, and tell people you are drinking jack-n-coke.

#3 Through a party, insist it's 1999. Wear bright colors.

#4 Don't eat for a day, tell people you are remembering the alamo.

#5 See number 1.

ps, check out the BASIC blog.

PIECE OUT!
GBHOYT

#6 spll wrds wtht vwls.

weeeeeee!!

we are stinking awake.
i hate being awake when i should be asleep, it's a primary motivation for getting a new job.
anywon hiring a c++ n00b?
ruby jr h4xx0r?
rails wannabee?
i only need like 55k a year.
PIECE OUT!!
GB