Pete's Log: forth, gigs, laughing, and weddings
Entry #464, (Life in General)(posted when I was 22 years old.)
forth. threaded, interpreted goodness. it makes me feel all warm inside. well, maybe not. but it has been my friend. Dan Diemer and I wrote an interpreter for Programming Languages a year ago. Fun project. Multithreaded (well, a gui thread and an interpreter thread, so only kinda sorta multithreaded), gtk frontend, and the infamous first instantiation of the segfault instruction. Now I am beginning to relive that code while I look into this whole kernel forth interpreter idea. I asked Dr. Kogge about notes from the Prog. Lang. class, and he asked what I was doing, and when I told him he exclaimed "Neat!" which is cool. Dr. Kogge rocks. He gave me three forth books.
ftp.ndlug.nd.edu continues to set records. The 25 gigs on monday seemed like a lot. Well, tuesday we moved 49 gigs and yesterday we moved 50 gigs! wow! yay ndlug!
walking back from lafortune with arun, I was enjoying his explanation of how the Bonanza theme is the chemotherapy of songs, when we heard this girl we were passing start laughing. she'd apparently overheard him and was also quite amused. laughter is good. Loud laughter is better. Really loud laughter is best.
Jenny's wedding is this weekend. Best of wishes to her. Wish I could go. Just about the entire family is going to be there. It'd be fun to see them all again.
And, to improve my mental health (which I've mistakenly allowed to drop below prime), I ordered a cd by the Atari's off cdnow. Yet another band I became familiar with thru mp3's. This cd offers to be very relaxing, featuring songs such as "Angry Nerd Rock" ... mmmm... punk rock... it's funny, tho, because I was talking with Arun about them, and I'd said something about them being a fun little band, but then I realized I didn't know if they were really little or not, so he asked if they were all short, and lo and behold, the Ataris are on a compilation cd called "Short Music for Short People" which is (at least to me) an amusing coincidence... or is it?!?!