Justin Lloyd's Thinkering

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Archives for 1991

Go waste your life somewhere else

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I have noticed that people who protest something whilst it is convenient and safe and doesn’t require much effort don’t actually have much of an opinion, and rarely one that is their own, or defensible, or valid, on the subject.

What they want is to shout a lot until someone pays attention to them.

One day we will have a website where people congregate and do this as an alternative to television.

It will just be an endless stream of people’s unfounded opinions on politics, religion, sports teams, television shows and other shit that doesn’t matter.

 

Studying – BSc Computer Science

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This month I am studying “BSc Computer Science”

Taking a Bachelor’s in CompSci. It is a special sandwich course the University is offering to people with overall Merit or higher on their Hnd CompSci (that’s me) or someone with at least five years of real-world experience programming computers (also me).

I’m doing nothing else, studying wise, until this is completely done and clear.

Laziness is bliss

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“Never attribute to malice that which can be explained away by ignorance” – Various

“Never attribute to ignorance that which can be explained away by sheer bloody laziness” – Justin Lloyd

Read – A Dog’s Tale

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Today I finished reading “A Dog’s Tale” by Mark Twain

I am emotionally upset and I would not wish anybody who is an animal lover to ever read this book. There are happy stories, but Jesus H. Flaming Christ on a Pogo Stick are there some fucked up ones too.

Studying – Electronics

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This month I am studying “Electronics – Large scale circuit design”

3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th month of the 6 month, part-time correspondence course.

I’ve been accepted on to the BSc in CompSci at University of Glamorgan. I need to cram four months of eight hours a week electronics study in to just one month.

This is not going to be easy.

Update: Done. Sliding in to the pit stop sideways with smoke pouring the tires and the bonnet and windscreen missing.

I. WILL. NEVER. DO. THAT. COURSE. LOAD. AGAIN.

Touch Typist

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I do not understand why computer keyboards do not have braille markers on each key.

Not so that blind people can type, but so that sighted people will, just by dint of time elapsed and common usage, learn braille.

Studying – Electronics

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This month I am studying “Electronics – Large scale circuit design”

1st month and 2nd month of the 6th month electronics course

This is a six month course that I am going to do in three months. Should be pretty easy.

Diplomacy is an art and I am a lousy artist

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From several years ago.

“That is some fucking ugly string handling code.” I said as I looked over the shoulder of a colleague at the code he had written in TurboC.

“I agree it could stand to be prettified. I could write a prettification function.” He nodded.

“As opposed to now where it is a string petrification function? The only way that code could be prettified is with the backspace key.”

In my youth, I wasn’t known for my diplomatic language.

HR liability

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I am the kind of person capable of committing six HR violations in a single sentence.

Running on empty

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When we get hungry, our stomach growls which is the audible signal to the rest of the world that our stomach is empty and that we need to be fed.

Interestingly I believe the human brain works the same way.

When we stop filling our brain with new facts and useful knowledge our mouths start making noise which is a signal to the rest of the world that brains our are empty and we should be given something to read.

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