Adam Hinz: The Blog
A bitchin' song?
On 2006-05-16 at 5/16/2006 01:26:00 AM...
[music] some bitchin' song on WIUXa quote:
Hey Adam,
I saw that you called, and I'm sorry I haven't reached you. Here's the deal. My mom has all of a sudden become concerned about me living with a boy for the summer, and I'm having a pretty serious battle with her about this. I want to live with you guys, and I've got nowhere else figured out. I'm sorry that this has only now become an issue, and I'm trying my best to convince her to let me live there. Gah. I'll let you know ASAP when more happens.
(name removed to protect the innocent*)
P.S. How much do I need to pay you?
And that's the last I've heard from her. Apparantely it's un-hip to return calls these days. It's so difficult to keep up with the latest phone-etiquette trends. I guess anybody living in the "too cool for school" Collins is able to keep up with these kinds of things.
The issue isn't even about the money. Yes, the money is important, but what bothers me more is the let down of someone I thougt was a friend. You think you know somebody...
Well, it's also about the money. Let's just say there's two sides to this coin.
The most interesting parts of the story have yet to happen. Honestly, I'm looking forward to awkwardly bumping into her at the library. Of course, the only reason for this is because I feel I have the upper hand, and frankly, I never knowingly have the upper hand.
What will I say to her? "Hey, you remember that one time," as too many of my dialoges begin, "You remember that one time when you backed out of a living arrangement a week before you were supposed to move in, leaving me with no time to find a roommate, and making me and my brother pay for an empty room in our house?" Awkward silence, then my all too natural ability to change the subject, "What's that you're reading? Emily Brontë? How very hip."
But then what would she say to me? I'm sure an attempt at an apology would occur. I'm not so sure how it would be received. It depends on how good it is (insincere? maybe, but I'm upset).
Forgiveness comes to mind at this point. Whether or not I'll forgive her is still up in the air. I'm usually pretty big on forgiving people, and I don't normally hold a grudge. For some reason that's not the case here.
Our friendship is up in the air as well. It doesn't make sense to remain friends with someone who one day talks to you and the next day doesn't, leaving you to wonder what went wrong.
What have I learned? Apparantely, nobody can be trusted. Not even "friends."
I never thought friends needed to sign contracts.
What an innocent thing to do.
Adam
*from here on the word "innocent" shall be used in place of "bitch"
Who am I kidding? Socks are hilarious
On 2006-05-02 at 5/02/2006 04:08:00 AM...
[music] Wir Sind Helden - Wenn Es PassiertI'm proud to announce progress on my scheme/js interpreter. Go me!
Biggest step: Applications of more than one argument. That's right. Kick ass. I know. I've been thinking about how to do this for, I don't know, about 4 weeks, maybe? So you can imagine the feeling. Whew.
With that working, I started thinking about the built-in procedures, and I decided rather than write them all myself, I'll make a program to make them for me. So I wrote a small scheme program that takes a scheme define expression and generates the javascript necessary to create it. That only took about 10 minutes (I even changed it from printing to the standard out to return a string--all within that 10 minutes, yes, I certainly do rock).
Give it a try, but be patient. I'm still disappointed with the speed. What the hell?
-adam
p.s. is it 4am?