Man, how did I not know for so long that one of my blog readers worked on the Simpsons for ten seasons (eight of them good seasons!)? That’s like the time I was on a plane and found out I was sitting next to a guy who worked on the Apollo missions in NASA.
Think we got our first legitimate smile from Buttercup. It was from SarahK and I singing her Birdhouse in Your Soul.
Probably not a good sign when I’m amazed my program actually compiled.
Modern Family got all the attention, but I think I like The Middle even better.
Have you seen that Halloween candy Snickers ad? It’s like they put giving people nightmares over selling their product.
Who can’t remember the thrill of finally unlocking the invincibility code on Goldeneye. That was a feat.
Kinda like kids are forced to read Great Expectations, I hope their forced to play Goldeneye at school to be cultured.
I don’t think I’ve seen the movie Goldeneye since playing Goldeneye, but who care about the movie anymore.
I am watching baseball. I haven’t done that in years. I forgot how slow moving it is. No vuvuzelas, though.
I’ve decided to become an elitist. Obviously, I don’t care what you think about it, you hillbillies.
Now I’ve decided to become a redneck. Obviously, I don’t care what you think about it, you elitists.
I think the computers that do the rankings in the BCS will eventually become SkyNet.
I take it you’ll be getting the new Goldeneye?
Man oh man, did I ever suck at the original game.
“Probably not a good sign when I’m amazed my program actually compiled.”
Probably another reason to get some more sleep, Frank. Just because it compiled doesn’t mean it will function properly when run. As a new father, you’ve no doubt got some weird code in there now.
“The Middle” is so good! Each member of the family is very good.
Even if I forgot to bring teh funny today.
If I’m not using a development environment that compiles on the fly, I would be astounded if anything I wrote ever compiled the first time.
12 years after the game came out, I finally did it. (My parents wouldn’t let me get the game when I was a kid, but I started playing it again when I got bored in grad school.) 1:47, b****es!! Oh, and f you, Dr. Doak for only being in a useful spot like 1 out of 5 times.
Please, the BCS computers are waaaay too retarded to become self aware. Oklahoma number 1? Give me a fricking break.
My code compiled. I’ve heard that before, then we put it into PROD and the whole system blew chunks!
Oh, and am I the only tool who still has the “invisibility in multiplayer mode cheat” for Goldeneye still memorized? I can’t tell you what it is since it’s insanely long and a pain to pull off, but I have muscle memory of that code.
That might make me a giant tool, but I’m an invisible giant tool! And let me tell you, there’s nothing so awesome as an invisble Oddjob in license to kill mode, especially on slappers only.
Iowa Hawkeyes should be number 1 in the BCS. Sure they lost a game to Arizona but that didn’t count. It was out of conference and we look at it as a pre-season game. So, after beating the snot out of Michigan, we will then take on Wisconsin, Michigan State and Ohio State and after we beat them the BCS is ours…ours…ours…!!!
Regarding computers and kids (human interest story for Frank on a Monday morning):
I built my first computer in 1978 (prolly before you were born, Frank). But in the 80’s, along came the 80286 and hard disks and better floppy drives. My four year-old son (now a computer scientist) liked to insert the floppy disks for me. Apparently, one day, he was eating a little box of raisins and a raisin fell from the box onto my desk where he also then set a floppy diskette down on it. He picked up the diskette and inserted it into the drive – along with the raisin now attached – and then later removed the floppy (like a good little boy) inserted it into its jacket and set it back on the desk.
I came home and tried to use the floppy drive and it wouldn’t work. I pulled the floppy drive out of the computer and am ready to declare it dead and take it in for repair when I finally decided to look inside it again with a flashlight. There’s the little raisin preventing perfect contact between the head and the diskette.
Moral of the story: If you let Buttercup eat around your computers, Frank, she’ll eventually become a computer Scientist!
My Dad wrote software for the moon landings. Does that count?
Goldeneye the game was better than Goldeneye the movie.
I want a new Goldeneye where Obama tries to outlaw spies and the entire Goldeneye gang visits Washington. Oddjob vs. Pelosi.
My Dad wrote software for the moon landings. Does that count?
Goldeneye the game was better than Goldeneye the movie.
I want a new Goldeneye where Obama tries to outlaw spies and the entire Goldeneye gang visits Washington. Oddjob vs. Pelosi.
Buttercup is not smiling. She is passing gas.
The two things I loved about Goldeneye was being able to battle another player and unlocking the Tank Gun.
Would that be the They Might Be Giants “Birdhouse in Your Soul”, or some other birdhouse whose location I am unaware of?
Hey, Frank, I bet you my dog pukes more than your kid.
No offense intended at all, but I would choose the latter over the former even though the latter was much more likely, given that 400,000 people worked for the Apollo program.
My pop left me some cool things he had worked on for Apollo, including some circuit boards with surface mounted chips that were ultimately installed in the service module. His best friend has a core memory unit, developed for Apollo, that is roughly 8″ x 8″ x 1″ and about 1.5 lbs. It had a 1MB capacity. When opened, you can see the hundreds of thin wires laid in a criss-cross.
To know the challenges is to wonder how we got there, and how we did it so fast. My dad was a mechanical engineer, and part of what he did was to make certain that electrical components that had never been shrunk before could withstand their environments. He gave me an example that was common for the types they faced. They used magnesium for the heatsinks because it is lighter than iron or steel. They used liquid oxygen for the cooling fluid. But then came the problem that magnesium corrodes and especially so in liquid oxygen. The entire program went that way.
Like the rest of that generation who just did their job, he never told us about it during the years of Apollo launches when I was a kid. I am blessed that he told me all about his work not long before he passed.
Ahhh, but the problem was integration testing. Compiling only satisfies unit testing.
“I am watching baseball. I haven’t done that in years. I forgot how slow moving it is. No vuvuzelas, though.”
Number one reason to love baseball? It’s not soccer.
Apparently I’m no longer next to last to know who worked on The Simpsons. I’m # 1. I’m # 1. But a really curious # 1.
Probably not a good sign when I’m amazed my program actually compiled.
You…compile programs? And you don’t live in Redmond.
What’s with the time stamps?!
Never mind. I’m an am/pm idiot.
Random Comment: Obama to appear on an episode of Mythbusters.
“Today we’re testing Presidential myths. To help us we’ve invited President (sorry, I can’t put these 2 words next to each other) Obama to test the myth of whether or not there was a second gunman on the grassy knoll.”
“How can I help?”
Well, Mr. President, we’d like you to ride in the back of this remotely controlled convertible next to Buster, our crash test dummy.”
“The one wearing the Jackie-O pill box hat?”
“Man, how did I not know for so long that one of my blog readers worked on the Simpsons for ten seasons (eight of them good seasons!)?”
You also have a Property & Casualty Risk Management Consultant (albeit an unemployed one ever since Recovery Spring 2009) among your readership. I just thought being all braggish was elitist and redneck-like. Until now.
Oh, I probably could’ve written for television if I had wanted to earn the BIG money. But, no, I went into the insurance industry to help people. I walked away from those high-paying jobs so I could help people in the helping-type careers like insurance. If only our young people would go into insurance and not those high-paying TV jobs, the country would be in a better place.
And interesting. You don’t get much more interesting than insurance.
Nothing says comedy like insurance. A real knee slapper.
The BCS is evil and until college football has a playoff it won’t be worth watching. It isn’t like the players actually need to go to classes!