- When you listen for Obi-Wan while attempting to parallel park.
- Whenever you get in trouble, you mutter "I have a bad feeling about this." (Right Franky?)
- You swear you saw Obi-Wan in your Cheerios.
- When you unsuccessfully get the last cheerio in the bowl and instinctively mutter, "The Force is strong in this one."
- You start to see visions of Ben Kenobi telling you to go to bed.
- You can't resist to hum when you turn on a flashlight.
- When someone talks about people getting abducted by little green men you say, "Yoda would never do such a thing!".
- When, you're drunker than you've ever been in your life and still know that the possibilitiy of successfully navigating an asteroid field is 3,720 to one.
- At the airport, when the clerk asks you if anyone else has handled your bag you say,"No, it's just me, the boy, two droids...and no questions asked".
- You imitate Samuel L. Jackson saying: "Hand me my lightsaber. It's the one that says "Bad Motherf*cker."" (didnt get it? watch Pulp Fiction).
You know you are a Star Wars fan...
Wednesday, November 30, 2005 by Emily
Ode to my publicity class...
Tuesday, November 29, 2005 by Emily
La verdad.. que este semestre fue toda una experiencia... entre frustraciones y el CENEVAL... la materia que realmente disfrute al maximo fue esta... y a la que me pesaba faltar... aprendi mucho... y lo mejor de todo es que este blog surgio por esta materia... y no morira! asi que no deje de leerlo!!
Profe... realmente fue un placer estar en su clase... gracias por los comerciales... las risas... los sarcasmos... los archivos mentales... los comentarios... las actividades en donde todos renegaban... por bautizarnos alimañas (jajajaja)... su atencion y paciencia (vaya que la tuvo)... lo digo una vez mas... fue la mejor clase del semestre... se que no fui la mas brillante o la mas participativa... pero realmente me intereso...
le prometo que leere a Cortazar y espero que usted lea a Sandman...
MUCHAS GRACIAS POR TODO PROFE... no se pierda!!
Primer post...
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P.d. disculpan si esperaban mas para mi primera entrada... pero... solo me quedan 5 min!! :'(
Hear ye! hear ye! Attention all bloggers!!
Monday, November 28, 2005 by Emily
More geeky stuff
Thursday, November 24, 2005 by Emily
First: The Klingon programmer
For all of you that have no clue what a klingon is... i recommend you check out Star Trek: The next generation... and to make it even more geeky... PROGRAMMING KLINGONS!... here are things that are likely to be overheard if you had a Klingon Programmer:
- Defensive programming? Never! Klingon programs are always on the offense. Yes, offensive programming is what we do best.
- Specifications are for the weak and timid!
- Indentation?! - I will show you how to indent when I indent your skull!
- What is this talk of 'release'? Klingons do not make software 'releases'. Our software 'escapes' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
- Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments' -- and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.
- Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak. Bugs are good for building character in the user.
- A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment his code!
- By filing this bug report you have challenged the honor of my family. Prepare to die!
- You question the worthiness of my code? I should kill you where you stand!
- Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it! Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
- Our competitors are without honor!
- Klingon programs don't do accountancy. For that, you need a Ferengi (another type of character in the ST world who's speciality is commerce).
- Klingon multitasking systems do not support "time-sharing".
- When a Klingon program wants to run, it challenges the scheduler in hand-to-hand combat and owns the machine.
- Perhaps it IS a good day to die! I say we ship it!
- My program has just dumped Stova Core!
- Behold, the keyboard of Kalis! The greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!
Here is the link to the whole page... http://gradha.sdf-eu.org/textos/klingon_programmer.en.html
Second: interesting things that you learn about computers in the movies...
- Word processors never display a cursor.
- You never have to use the spacebar when typing long sentences.
- All monitors display 2 inch high letters.
- High-tech computers, such as those used by NASA, the CIA, or some such governmental institution, have easy-to-understand graphical interfaces.
- Those that don't will have incredibly powerful text-based command shells that can correctly understand and execute commands typed in plain English.
- Corollary: You can gain access to any information you want by simply typing ACCESS ALL OF THE SECRET FILES on any keyboard.
- Likewise, you can infect a computer with a destructive virus by simply typing UPLOAD VIRUS. Viruses cause temperatures in computers, just like they do in humans. After a while, smoke billows out of disk drives and monitors.
- All computers are connected. You can access the information on the villain's desktop computer, even if it's turned off.
- Powerful computers beep whenever you press a key or whenever the screen changes. Some computers also slow down the output on the screen so that it doesn't go faster than you can read. The really advanced ones also emulate the sound of a dot-matrix printer as the characters come across the screen.
- Malfunctions are indicated by a bright flash, a puff of smoke, a shower of sparks, and an explosion that forces you backward.
- A hacker can get into the most sensitive computer in the world before intermission and guess the secret password in two tries.
- Any PERMISSION DENIED has an OVERRIDE function.
- Complex calculations and loading of huge amounts of data will be accomplished in under three seconds.
- In the movies, modems transmit data at two gigabytes per second.
- When the power plant/missile site/whatever overheats, all the control panels will explode, as will the entire building.
- If you display a file on the screen and someone deletes the file, it also disappears from the screen.
- There are no ways to copy a backup file-and there are no undelete utilities.
- If a disk has got encrypted files, you are automatically asked for a password when you try to access it.
- No matter what kind of computer disk it is, it'll be readable by any system you put it into.
- All application software is usable by all computer platforms.
- The more high-tech the equipment, the more buttons it has. However, everyone must have been highly trained, because the buttons aren't labelled.
- Most computers, no matter how small, have reality-defying three-dimensional, real-time, photo-realistic animated graphics capability. Laptops, for some strange reason, always seem to have amazing real-time video phone capabilities and the performance of a CRAY-MP. Whenever a character looks at a VDU, the image is so bright that it projects itself onto his/her face.
- Computers never crash during key, high-intensity activities.
- Humans operating computers never make mistakes under stress.
- Programs are fiendishly perfect and never have bugs that slow down users.
Here is the link to this one (http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/joke/24.htm)... almost all of them are here... but if you want to check it out... here...
Once again my friends... I show you how geeky I can get... Enjoy! Until next time!!
The ultimate guide to unmaintainable code...
Wednesday, November 23, 2005 by Emily
- New Uses For Names For Baby: Buy a copy of a baby naming book and you'll never be at a loss for variable names. Fred is a wonderful name, and easy to type.
- Single Letter Variable Names: If you call your variables a, b, c, then it will be impossible to search for instances of them using a simple text editor. If anyone even hints at breaking the tradition honoured since FØRTRAN of using i, j, and k for indexing variables, namely replacing them with ii, jj and kk, warn them about what the Spanish Inquisition did to heretics (NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!! *confused? two words for you my friend... Monty Python*).
- A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.S.: Real men never define acronyms; they understand them genetically.
- Use Plural Forms From Other Languages: Esperanto , Klingon and Hobbitese qualify as languages for these purposes.
- Underscore, a Friend Indeed: Use _ and __ as identifiers.
- Mix Languages: Randomly intersperse two languages (human or computer). If your boss insists you use his language, tell him you can organise your thoughts better in your own language, or, if that does not work, allege linguistic discrimination and threaten to sue your employers for a vast sum.
- Bedazzling Names: Choose variable names with irrelevant emotional connotation. e.g.:
marypoppins = (superman + starship) / god; This confuses the reader because they have difficulty disassociating the emotional connotations of the words. - Obscure film references: Use constant names like LancelotsFavouriteColour instead of blue and assign it hex value of $0204FB. Only someone intimately familiar with Monty Python and the Holy Grail would know that Lancelot's favorite color was blue. If a maintenance programmer can't quote entire Monty Python movies from memory, he or she has no business being a programmer.
- Be polite, Never Assert: Avoid the assert() mechanism, because it could turn a three-day debug fest into a ten minute one.
- Use Three Dimensional Arrays: Lots of them. Move data between the arrays in convoluted ways, say, filling the columns in arrayB with the rows from arrayA. Doing it with an offset of 1, for no apparent reason, is a nice touch. Makes the maintenance programmer nervous.
And i can go on... if you are interested in reading all the document... check out... http://thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html its really funny... in a geeky / programmer way...
Tuesday, November 22, 2005 by Emily
Mientras hacía la práctica estaba escuchando una canción de Buckethead (gracias Emmanuel)... me agrado bastante... se llama For Mom... se las recomiendo... yo sabía de la existencia de Buckethead por que Dave McKean hizo la portada de uno de sus cds (y al parecer hizo un comic) ...
Se han de estar preguntando ¿Quien diablos es Dave McKean? Ah! Mis amigos... este hombre es uno de mis dioses... la primera vez que vi su trabajo fue en un Comic-Con (por si no sabian es una convención anual de comics en San Diego... http://www.comic-con.org) y despues conocí el mágico mundo de Neil Gaiman (Gracias Issac) comenzando con su comic Sandman... McKean hizo las portadas de muchos tomos de ese comic y las ilustraciones de varios libros de Gaiman... hace dos años tuve el placer de conocer a McKean y a Gaiman... fue toda una odisea... pero valió la pena... si quieren ver el trabajo de McKean entren a http://www.mckean-art.co.uk... para ver el trabajo de neil entren a http://www.neilgaiman.com/... en ambas encontraran una liga a la pelicula Mirrormask... McKean y Gaiman la hicieron junto con the Jim Henson Company... aun no la he visto pero esta en mi lista de must see...
De vuelta del inframundo...
Thursday, November 17, 2005 by Emily
- Mala: Estuve encerrada en mi casa enferma desde el lunes hasta ahora...
- Buena: Creo que maniana podre ver la luz del dia en vivo y en directo... no estoy a mi 100% pero ahi la llevo... si senior!
- Buena: Estare con mis amiguitos maniana en el CETEA (los extranio :'( *sniff)\
- Buena: Se corre el rumor de que Smashing Pumpkins se volveran a unir (SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!! Total happyness!!!)
- Buena: Se corre el rumor que habra un tributo a radiohead (*hint hint* Orlando Sempai)
Bueno tengo que ponerme a trabajar en un ensayo de etica... cuidaos
Otro link de ociosidad...
Saturday, November 12, 2005 by Emily
No tienes nada que hacer en el trabajo? Estas aburrido en casa? Quieres ver cuanta risa te puedes aguantar frente al instructor? Pues este link es para ti! Lo escribe alguien que realmente no tiene vida y con mucha imaginacion que se auto denomina Oscar Wilde... te ofrece definicion a la mayoria de las cosas en esta vida... le da un giro interesante a lo que estamos acostumbrados...
Total Failure...
by Emily
I hate this...
Friday, November 11, 2005 by Emily
Acabo de presentar un examen de XML y que nuevas... no me fue muy bien... pero ya que mas da... tendre que compensar mas adelante para que no afecte la materia que revalidare con ello...
Quiero irme lejos de aqui... quiero irme de viaje... quiero desconectarme de Mexicali (no se ofendan chicos... no tiene nada que ver con ustedes)... sino que creo que es bueno cambiar el ambiente de vez en cuando... aunque sea temporalmente...
En fin... por ahorita me voy... tengo que comer... y llevar a mi hermano que se ira a Tecate de fin de semana... y ni modo me tuve que quedar a hacer la practica de redes... *sigh*
Generacion 2001 - 2005
by Emily
Pues aqui estamos... la generación 2001-2005 de Cibernéticos e ICC ... jajaja lo que pasa es que seré la única a graduarse de mi generación (*sniff*) y me tomé una foto con ellos (por que fueron lo suficientemente lindos de adoptarme)... ésta no es la foto oficial...
El CENEVAL del diablo ha dejado una gran ansiedad por saber los resultados... esa cosa definitivamente debe de ser eliminada... me entere que el 5 diciembre (a mas tardar) llegarán los resultados... aunque me recomendaron a que estuviera revisando constantemente en internet... *nervios!*
Regresando a la foto... podrán percatarse que mi cabello esta muy esponjado... ah pues... es una larga historia y bastante triste... pero para no aburrirlos con eso solo dire que me traumó voltear a verme en el espejo y ver que el estilista grita todo feliz "COMO PAULINA RUBIO!!"... queria llorar... me deshice el peinado 15 min antes de la foto... no me arrepiento...
General: First entry... a new blog...
Tuesday, November 08, 2005 by Emily
por ahorita ando en mi curso de xml... está de flojera (severa)... lo único que me hace sentir mejor es que tengo a mis amigos aquí para sacar curada geeky y a mi pollito :)
bueno... por ahorita no escribire mas... its a new start....