habitual pragmatist

aha! I’m lame. Haven’t updated in.. yes… 2 months and 6 days. I believe that officially puts me in the world of “suck”. Redbrain from #linuxoutlaws (@freenode) actually said to me almost a month ago: “Hey, nice blog man, keep it up!” and I said to myself “Man, I really should update that”. But I didn’t. There are no real excuses, but I’ll make some anyways, namely:

1. STL, I love you, but I hate you. Templates, You guys can suck a fatty too. You’re so useful, but just such a pain in my patoot. Of course, I treat you well when we’re writing together on our own… but the pain you cause me when you’ve run off with someone less responsible than me is excruciating. Where’s the love?
2. Haskell … oh boy Haskell. When I discovered the ease of Python after being raised in the world of C/C++, Python was the Orinoco Flow of my programming world! Light and airy, I swear as I checked my indentation that first time that around the world hippies were swaying and holding hands rejoicing about something or other. But Haskell.. you dirty rascal.. you’re my Korpiklaani. You’re a wild beast that’s angry and ready to be let loose on anything that needs a quirky methodology, and yet at the same time, you’re catchy, and enjoyable, and oddly enough, make perfect sense. I don’t know what it is about Haskell (or Korpiklaani, for that matter)… it’s clunky syntax and functional modus operandi are bewildering, but I like the way it works. So much of Project Euler, if done in Haskell, are one-liners, and the flow of them actually makes sense. Haskell seems like doing surgery with a chainsaw, and miraculously, the patient not only is cured, but has grown organs for breathing underwater and x-ray vision. It’s just got that kind of whiz-bang.
3. Left 4 Dead. I haven’t had much time to play, but boy oh boy. If you haven’t seen this game somehow.. let me sum it up for you: Post-apocolypse + Zombies + shotguns + multiplayer first-person-shooter = love.

And that, boils and ghouls, has been what my last two months has been all about. Let’s see if I can make it around to actually post again before I’m 70.