Flagon With The Dragon

I’ve been doing a lot of python programming the last couple of days.  I Love python but going from a strongly typed language to a losely typed one always breaks my brain in horrible horrible ways.

For those none programmers out there a strongly typed language is basically just different parts of a program what kind of object they are getting.  Cheeseburger, rock, poem… whatever.  It’s great because programs are dumb and if  it expects a cheesburger but gets a rock by mistake you don’t want it to try to bite down on that.

Python is a language that doesn’t do that, it basically just hands stuff off no matter what it is and this hurts my head.  There’s terrible “but that may not be a cheesburger at all, it might be a rock!!” feelings.  I’m writing the damn thing and there are ways around this (assertions) but still, just the principle of it makes my brain hurt

Also… I’m sorry but new… hello… NEW  implicit news make my head hurt too.  I’ll tell YOU when something is new you crapply little program, don’t try to assume!

Python, you make me laugh an cry at the same time.  It really is light flying.

Driving into work this afternoon (woot for working from home mornings) I saw my first “McCain 08″ bumber sticker and quipped “McSame 08″

Likely this is a joke floating out there already but in my little world I’m the first I know of to coin it so I’m laying claim.  At least inside the borders of Scottopia.

George Carlin is dead and many people don’t even know why their life sucks more because of it.

Nothing I write here could do the man justice and I’m in the middle of an upgrade today so I can’t do my own injustice justice.

Carlin wasn’t really a comedian, he was a philosopher.  Whatever comedy he had came from the absurdity of the things he talked about.   I loved him because he was a champion of thought and pushed the truth that ideas don’t harm anyone, it’s forcing or suppressing an idea that does.  He is my absolute hero really and I’ve probably modeled more of my life on him than even I realize.  A dissident, he perfected calling buill-shit to an artform and the beauty of his way of thinking is he owned fealty to the truth, not the movement.  He wasn’t your friend no matter how much you thought he shared your opinion because somewhere along the line you were going to get called on your own bullshit.

Occasionally people would think they were smart by trying to call him on his own bullshit, but they never could because Carlin realized the one fundamental truth of human behavior… It’s ALL bullshit.

I feel guilty just talking about the guy, he needs to be praised by a better man than I.

Put together another video, this time of our guild putting up the city walls in Age of Conan.

More silly testages

Your result for The Are you as smart as you think you are Test…

The Are you as smart as you think you are Test

Take The Are you as smart as you think you are Test at HelloQuizzy

Hmm, apparently I’m a socialist according to OkCupid.

You are a Social Liberal (71% permissive) and an… Economic Liberal (18% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also : The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

I’ve been mulling over the idea of putting Emory Pagan Lunch or some similar derivative together again. That was a great experience previously and after a few years I’m feeling the need to perhaps do something similar again.

My thoughts are now though that it would be a similar discussion format but at night, perhaps Wednesday or Thursday night 7pm to 8pm at someplace like The Thinking Man Tavern.

Anyone interested? The community has kind of degraded the last few years network wise so does anyone have good routes for advertising such a thing?

Clicked around a bunch of social networking and dating sites I had old accounts on. OkCupid in particular does match ratings and there are several people I know in real life on there so it was funny to see high or low matches as it came up. Given the slice of folks I saw there and different ratings it’s hard to imagine how anyone can take them seriously, it seemed completely random especially given the level of detail folks would put in. Not that the numbers should or shouldn’t be a specific value I just couldn’t see anything in any of the profiles I ran past that would even produce a match. I suppose it’s all in the tests but honestly, what do questions akin to “do you like small animals?” really do for matching people up.

It would be and interesting Sci-Fi plot device if a central AI ran the world, completely tracking all of us and matching us up based on our browsing and network habits.

Saw this question on a quiz today and a chill ran up my spine:

Imagine that a partner seems to be developing a pattern of verbal abuse toward you. You have already called them on it, but the problem continues to worsen. Which would be closest to your reaction?

Answers
- I’d change my behavior to minimize conflict.
- I’d end the relationship.
- I’d recommend help and hope for improvement.
- I’d take other steps to fix the problem.

ugh.

Dinner tonight (probably thinking mans) then back to our place for Battlestar Galatica. All are welcome, drop me an email (streamweaver@mindspring.com) if you’re interested.