It does feel good to be a published author—that’s Is de waarheid dan niet de waarheid? (Studium Generale 2004-2005), ISBN 9077582061. What’s that? Neglectable, you say? Well, Rome wasn’t built in a day, sweetie.
No, seriously, enough with the hubris. It’s just … nice.
Won’t somebody please think of the children?
I’m totally gonna regret what I just did, but, right now, I’m glad I got it off my chest.
So we’ve got this commercial on TV where an animated cartoon dog with the voice of Thomas Vanderveken—who some people like—asks children “Hey! Have you guys got bookmarks yet? Those are totally useful!” and then promotes a brand of yoghurt by telling them it comes with a whole series of bookmarks you can collect. Somehow, I think they’d rather have … err … whatever it is children play with these days. Pogs? No, wait. Jacks! Oh, I’ve got it! A bingo game!
By the way, yesterday when I said I don’t feel anything, I meant that in a fairly positive way. I am just unable to give a damn. If I were repressing anything, that’d be a different story.
I don’t feel lonely.
I don’t feel betrayed.
I don’t feel stupid.
I don’t feel.
Makes it easier to do homework, if nothing else.
As much as I always want to be right, it’s not always that pleasant when I find out that I am. Or, in less cryptic and more painful words, I’m single again. Part of me wishes I’d never been optimistic. I bloody know why I shouldn’t. I didn’t need to be told again.
You know how, no matter what, people say it’s all going to be allright? I’m past that. Sure, there’s always hope, but once you even have to get into “it’s going to be allright”, you know it never quite will be, don’t you? That’s life for you. Given the circumstances, I’d saying I’m doing fairly well, but I could be doing a whole lot better.
And I quote, beste tim ik wwet mijn wachtwoord wat moet nu doen. If someone sends you that message as the sole content of an e-mail message—which, surprisingly isn’t in rich text—so vague that you don’t even know which of the sites you administer the person is referring to, you feel somewhat obliged to applaud the poor sod, then ignore the e-mail.
PS I love you.
Because .be’s are free for a year, SourceForge.net offers free VHOST hosting, and ZoneEdit.com offers free DNS hosting, the Chirpy! homepage is now available at chirpy.be as well as chirpy.sourceforge.net. I’m not planning on paying to renew it in a year—it’d have to be a Flemish domain name for that—but it’s nice for the time being.
Also, object-oriented programming and artificial intelligence just don’t mix. They throw a class diagram at you and expect you to turn umphteen levels of abstraction from a brute-force algorithm into a heuristic algorithm and still expect you to look them straight in the eyes. Or maybe it’s just me.
And finally, don’t forget 96x96.be is still available, now at version 1.0, to get yourself a yummers MSN Messenger display pic.
