Quotes Tagged 'cco3'
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cco3 | I've decided that if I ever right an autobiography, it will be totally factual, except that I will have the superpower to jump back in time 24 |hours and tell myself, "24 hours from now, you will be <insert implausible scenario that actually does come to pass>" cco3 | write* cco3 | So this future me will keep jumping back in time and telling me this crazy stuff cco3 | "24 hours from now, you will be totally lost in downtown Austin in a car you borrowed from a paranoid schizophrenic" cco3 | Stuff like that +telnoratti | You stole a paranoid schozophernic's car? cco3 | borrowed... cco3 | I was helping someone move, and he had the UHaul, and someone needed to drive his car to the UHaul place +telnoratti | he's paranoid schizophrenic I don't think he'd let you borrow cco3 | and I was the only one that could drive a stick cco3 | I guess his meds were working for him that day? +telnoratti | This story seems dubious cco3 | When I started up the car, it was one of those where you have to turn the key *just* right to get it to start cco3 | so after 5 minutes of struggling, I got it started, we rolled out of the driveway and I was following him cco3 | He starts to pull over at a gas station, and he's being pretty hesitant cco3 | I guess he doesn't know if the uhaul is too tall or he's having trouble seeing everything cco3 | so park and get out to help direct him cco3 | turns out he was just letting someone else in our party pass cco3 | I rush back in the car and try to start it cco3 | of course, I can't start it again cco3 | it takes me like 10 minutes to get the key to turn right cco3 | and this guy just doesn't notice that I'm not following him cco3 | luckily someone had given him my cellphone number and eventually he calls me and tries to direct me cco3 | but this is before GPS was everywhere, and I had only been in Austin for a month or so, and it's near midnight, and I have no idea where I am cco3 | After 30 minutes of driving around while trying to talk on a phone at midnight in an unfamiliar place, I finally made it there cco3 | but that was pretty stressful +telnoratti | you didn't know where you were goign so your solution was to just keep driving randomly? cco3 | telnoratti: yes cco3 | optimal algorithm cco3 | I don't think it'd be as bad now that I'm older, but back then I hadn't had a car for months and even driving was somewhat unfamiliar cco3 | I was so sure I was going to hit something and wreck his car -
cco3 | "Never declare a variable inside a loop." cco3 | That was a TA +ram | cco3: you knowledge-ed him/her correct? cco3 | ram: yea, I did cco3 | I was like, "You krazy, fool!" cco3 | and then explained about function stacks and stuff cco3 | and he was all like, "well they shouldn't be relying on these features of the language" cco3 | and then I was all like, "So what, should they declare every variable globally so it doesn't get recreated on each new run of a function" cco3 | and he was all like "blubber blubber blubber" cco3 | and I was all like *smack, smack* cco3 | And that's how that went
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14:01 cco3 : Ok, so once again, second semester freshman year, Spring 2005 14:01 cco3 : I worked at the office of undergrad admissions 14:02 cco3 : getting to look at my younger friends grades as they applied to VT, stuff like that 14:02 cco3 : making a little bit of money every other week 14:02 cco3 : I also lived off campus because you are allowed to do that if you are a freshman if you have a relative within 40 miles 14:02 cco3 : my grandfather lived over in Newport which is like 20 minutes from campus 14:03 cco3 : I wasn't sure I had enough gas to get home and back, and I didn't have money to buy gas 14:03 cco3 : so I brought a sleeping bag with me and decided to stay up late doing some kind of math homework (I forget which class) 14:04 cco3 : and so I'm in McBryde 133, doing math hw until 4Am 14:04 cco3 : oh, right, this was on a thursday and I was getting paid the next day 14:04 cco3 : that was the point of mentioning the job 14:04 cco3 : so I just had to last to the next day 14:04 cco3 : so at 4, I roll out my sleeping bag and hit the hay 14:05 cco3 : at 5:00, that crazy mcbryde janitor with the bulgy eyes and grey hair came in and saw me 14:05 cco3 : (maybe you know who I'm talking about) 14:05 cco3 : He's talked to me before about weird things I didn't understand 14:06 cco3 : he came up to me once and slapped his face a bunch of times and shook his head 14:06 cco3 : but that's another story 14:06 cco3 : anyway, instead of just nudging me and telling me to get, he calls the VT police 14:06 cco3 : the police come in, from either sides of the lecture hall 14:06 cco3 : hands on their holsters 14:06 cco3 : shining flashlights in my face 14:07 cco3 : I wake up and start to get out of my sleeping bag 14:07 cco3 : they jump back real quick and tighten their grip on their guns like I'm about to whip out an uzi from my sleeping back 14:07 cco3 : they say "sir can we see your hokie id" 14:08 cco3 : I hand it to them and they call it in "This is Unit 64. we have a 10-20 on the Hokie Passport" 14:08 cco3 : then he turns to me and says, "alright sorry, we just didn't know if you were supposed to be here or not" 14:08 cco3 : And then I went back to sleep. 14:08 cco3 : THE END
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13:46 cco3 : ok, here it goes 13:46 cco3 : ok so once upon a time, way back in January 2005 13:46 cco3 : (wow I'm old) 13:47 cco3 : I had to take intro to computer engineering, which you CS majors don't know jack about these days 13:47 cco3 : because they teach you easy stuff 13:47 cco3 : anyway, I'm not big on buying books and only bought stuff I absolutely needed to 13:47 cco3 : turns out I needed to buy two little paper back books for this class 13:48 cco3 : and they cost $113. 13:48 cco3 : Which was way more than I wanted to pay for them 13:48 cco3 : So I did some searching online and found a guy who would sell me the book for $80 13:48 cco3 : I was ok with that, so we arranged to meet at one place at a certain time, and then ended up changing the plan probably 3 different times 13:49 cco3 : but finally we were going to meet thursday night, in front of volume 2 13:49 cco3 : (the bookstore at university mall) 13:49 cco3 : Anyway, I thought this was pretty cool, some black market book exchange in front of a book store 13:49 cco3 : so I dressed up in a suit and leather gloves, like a hitman or something 13:50 cco3 : and waited with my $80 in front of the bookstore 13:50 cco3 : We had planned to meet at 6:00 13:50 cco3 : at exactly 5:59, a honda civic pulls up to the curb 13:50 cco3 : a girl is in the driver's seat, a guy is in the passenger seat, a black lab is in the back 13:51 cco3 : the guy gets out holding a book, the girl keeps the car running at the curb 13:51 cco3 : he walks up to me, neither of us saying a word and I start to hand him 4 $20 bills and he starts to hand me a hardback textbook 13:52 cco3 : I stop and say, woah, hang on...I wanted intro to computer engineering, this is intro to computing and economics 13:52 cco3 : he gives me a brief confused look and says, ok, well I have the book you want, just come with me and we'll get it 13:52 cco3 : so I get in the civic in the back 13:52 cco3 : the black lab is jumping all over me and my suit 13:53 cco3 : and we start driving down that road that goes in between kroger and the university mall (I always forget its name) 13:53 cco3 : anyway, we are going way back in the woods 13:53 cco3 : and there's like nothing but log cabins and stuff 13:54 cco3 : and after 10 minutes he finally pulls over to some cabin and gets out 13:54 cco3 : he's gone for like 15 minutes while I'm trying to make awkward conversation with the driver 13:54 cco3 : finally he comes back and gives me the book 13:54 cco3 : he says, i don't want this book and it's an older version, you can have it for $40 13:55 cco3 : I think that's pretty awesome, so I take it, we drive back and I go home, happy with my purchase 13:55 cco3 : I'm sitting in my room when a here a *ding* 13:55 cco3 : (That's the sound IM made back when people used AIm) 13:55 cco3 : and it's the guy 13:55 cco3 : he says "Hey, we've got a problem" 13:56 cco3 : I say, "Oh, what's that" 13:56 cco3 : He says, "I don't know what you look like" 13:56 cco3 : I say, "what do you mean?" 13:56 cco3 : He says, "I was there at the bookstore, where were you?" 13:56 cco3 : THE END