02:27 0407.31
WHAT WHAT
int main {
bool concert, another_song = true;
while (concert && another_song == true) {
int awesome;
int johnmayer = awesome++
if (func(audio_in) > 0) {
another_song = true;
}
else {another_song=false;}
endif;
}
return(0);
}
In other words: YES.
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12:29 0407.26
Stupid worm attacks TEH GOOOGALE
Yeah, so I'm reading slashdot, and there's this article that a new version of that blasted MS worm was taking down Google on the East Coast, albeit indirectly. More information here: http://jtype.us/index.php/archives/2004/07/26/google-succumbs/.
Further, look at the error message. Number 27. Tee-hee.
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14:05 0407.24
Street Cred with C-dog O' Bling Bling
Did anyone else see Conan last night (Freitag)? Oh my goodness, it was absolutely hillarious.
Oh, so I finally got my Mayer tickets yesterday: Section C, row O (A-D aren't used, so this is even closer than it seems), seats 16-17. Is anyone still in town that likes his stuff, and wants to go with me? Otherwise, I'm taking the MTA or something.
Finally. I'm going to upgrade the blog to MT 3 today, so it'll probably be funky for, like, the next week, knowing me. Comment resigstration'll probably work soon, though. XD
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17:13 0407.13
BBR: Prey
Since I know I'm going to be reading, like, twelve boatloads (5 metric boatloaddes) of books this summer, I figured I might as well write some short, worthless, crappy literary reviews thereof as a service of iaatb.net (which is now one of my favorite phrases). Thus:
Benny's Book Review
Prey by Michael Chrichton
Plot
A software-engineer-turned-stay-at-home-dad finds out what his wife's nanotechnology firm is really up to. The hard way.
Weltanschauung
The book is written as first-person narrative in a pseudo-journal format. Written in 2002, it appears to have been set in the immediate future (I think a timestamp puts the date as 2009, IIRC). Chrichton is obviously familiar with the manner in which tenchology companies in Silicon Valley operate, as well as technology in general, and has an expectation that the reader does, too. No partonizing explications, thank goodness.
Grip
Although I admit I had already derived the first few plot points by their primier forshadowing sentences, the books was still interesting enough to keep me going. Chrichton has a command of the vernacular, but at the same time maintains a good narrative flow in this book.
Presentation
I've got the paperback (what do they call these things? Trade? Mass Market? whatever). Not the best material, but the paper isn't particularly pathetic, and there are only two printing errors (a couple of the right-hand-side pages have been overinked). Nowehere near small-format, hard-back linotype, but nothing is these days, you know.
Final Comments
Everything seemed really plausible-- no real suspension of disbelief, honestly. Chrichton has done his research, and a lot of it-- the final few pages are an extensive bibliography of papers on relevant topics ranging from Distributed AI to tactics of large carnivores to molecular engineering.
This book merits the rank:
HOORJ (+5)
On the Lamb Literary Rating Scale (LLRS).
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So much wasted in the afternoon
I've been meaning to get benjies back to nomral for a while now, but I've only finally gotten around to it.
I finally found the charger for my cell phone! When I plugged it in it didn't spriung to life like it used to; but maybe it'll charge up someday.
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