Woo-hoo! At 12:45 AM, my program works on both simple test cases! Of course, it spasms and dies on the regular and detailed test cases, but at least it’s a morale booster.
Thank you, Billy, for giving me the motivation to go forth and do my Java! *gurgles*
He is so wonderful. So much better than Britney Spears.
Hmm. I’ve been in the lab since before noon, with a brief hour-and-a-half break to go to class, and at current rates of progress, I don’t see sleep anywhere on the horizon.
I wonder what time I’m going to pack. I really hope my e-ticket wasn’t deleted the other day.
WOO-HOO!!! I’m getting statistics! They’re all zero, but at least I’m not getting NullPointerExceptions any more. I will ownz j00, Gas Station Problem From Hell!
W00t! WIAN is getting updated! That is, of course, after I finish my Gargantuan Java Homework of Hellfire-Like Doom.
But….
Echo: Was Percy acting entirely of his own accord in Order of the Phoenix?
JK Rowling: I’m afraid so.
*lower lip trembles*
WHAT?!?!!!?
First Bush tries to cut down all the sequoias, and now JKR wants to cut down all the PINE theorists. I mean, it’s one thing to reply affirmatively, which would just squash the Imperius rumors, but it’s a whole ‘nother thing entirely to be “afraid so.” Okay, so he was acting of his own will, and from the negativity of her statement, it seems very unlikely that Percy could be cunningly fooling them all and going the way of the Secret Agent Demon Hunter theory. So we’re back to the “Percy was just pushed too far and is going through misplaced belated teenage rebellion because his dad is unbelieveably cruel etc.” But everything just seems so OOC for Percy, then…
Percy girls, the Rationalization Wagon has been launched. (Would it be wrong to call those of us that still believe in his goodness “the PINE nuts”?)
*reads more*
MY THEORIES!!! MY BEAUTIFUL THEORIES! *breaks down and dies of the woe*
(P.S. There is no way Charlie is only two years older than Percy. This would violate canon at least five times over.)
*reads more*
NOT IMPRESSED with these new name revelations, Ms. Rowling. Not impressed at all.
Oh well. Better than nothing.
*gapes*
All the messages from both my theninemuses.net email accounts were somehow deleted today.
Frowlers, any idea if I can restore them somehow? I mean, I appreciate the Durdenesque “release from material possessions,” but I had over 200 emails in there that I was saving for some reason or another. Ugh.
Last night I dreamed that I was raising a litter of beagles and baby velociraptors. I was raising the raptors with love, hoping that they wouldn’t be as vicious when they grew up. One of the raptors had killed one of the puppies and he and his siblings were feeding on it, but surprisingly, I wasn’t horrified. It was just part of the cycle of nature. Later, I was carrying one of the raptors around the house with me when I randomly ran into Peter Jackson and the hobbit actors, fresh from the Oscars. They were in the hallway linking the foyer with the den, setting up props and such because they needed to reshoot part of the Shelob’s cave scene.
I was surprisingly calm, obviously excited to be meeting them but not falling unconscious or fangirling too blatantly. I joked with Elijah about a recent magazine cover that had him with Liv Tyler, with Lij at least half a head taller than Liv. I asked him if Orlando had gotten him a box to stand on. He laughed, and all was merry.
Then I talked to Peter, who told me how dangerous it was to breed velociraptors, but just then, the raptor began licking my cheek. It had a scratchy tongue, exactly like a kitten. Peter smiled, but said that sooner or later it would start turning viscious, and that I shouldn’t expect it to be sweet when it grew up, and he didn’t want me to be disappointed.
Strange.
Okay, kids. Poll! What stories/myths/etc do you think of when you think of the notion of Destiny? For example, I thought of the “sword in the stone” King Arthur story, while my friend Michelle thought of Oedipus. What about you? Any and all (no matter how ridiculous) contributions will make my life a lot easier in the near future.
Tra la la!!!! Universal greenlights “Serenity”! *frolicks about in glee*
“… and will be about two passengers aboard the ship who continually attract trouble.“? Dude, doesn’t that describe pretty much the entire cast? Oh well. Here’s hoping it’s Simon and River!
Well, Inara, Kaylee, and Book don’t really make trouble. And Wash, too. And Zoe just kind of absorbs whatever trouble Mal attracts. And Jayne doesn’t attract trouble so much as make trouble… Looks like it’s Simon and River after all! W00t! *gives Simon madschnoogles*
Cross your fingers for shirtlessness! Normally I like my men clothed, but Simon is my exception. Because dude, after “Objects in Space,” that boy is SO never allowed to wear a shirt again.
We wants it. We has a perfect place on our wall for it. My precious…