h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I am bored.
I wish Arisztid would come back online, but she probably won't be awake for another ...um... five hours.
I'm only still here at uni because I'm doing this darn assignment, and I didn't really expect it to take this long.
I really want to get it out of the way, especially now that the coding's finished and I just need to run the test sets. I have work in the morning and I don't know if I'll have any time later in the week to come back again and finish it before the deadline.
Only problem is that I didn't work out how long the test sets would run for. I should have bought a book...
Testing 4x3x3x3 variables, and of a sample size calculated (ie blind guess) so that the slowest tests take just over 5 minutes... 4x3x3x3 is 108 tests, times 5 minutes per test is 12 tests per hour; 9 hours of running time. After spending about four hours correcting the last few bugs in the code I'm now ready to go home.
Even more unfortunately I ran out of stuff to put into my new entry on How to be a Bass Puppy, so now I have nothing to do between tests except write drivel in my journal.
I should have spent another twenty minutes optimising my algorithms...

Aargh! The test computer crashed!

I give up. I'm going home.
Most of my last posts were over nine hours ago.
I am sleepy, and haven't eaten anything since breakfast. It's now 1:21am.
Goodnight.

i'm online!!!
i'm sorry that watevver you were doing didnt work out. i hope you had somehting good to eat when you went home.
however i'm sort of hoping that because it didnt finish you'll some back tonight. i'll actually be here! my aunt and uncle have gone, so now i can be on the computer at night. i couldnt last night because to leave the computer room when i'm done i would have had to go through the room they were sleeping in...

I'm back again, and you're online too! Yay!

(Trying to put off replying to the 'Absolutely Fabulous' thread - confrontation stresses me out, and I don't need that right now.)

hooray!! i missed you!

i cant say that i blame you. however you seemed to be very good at it... in all honesty the first time D_R appeared i put it off untill you replyed... and today i had to reply to him twoce...because i couldnt jsut leave it like that while you were away... he makes me so mad!
but i dont think hes on now.... perhaps we can attempt to drown him in backlog...

Nah I don't think we can; He's out to cause trouble, so he'd just skip the backlog and read the first couple and the last couple of posts and then leap into flaming again.
I wish I could say he'll be gone before long.

i wish i could say that too. but at least we know that we're above that kind of behavior... i wonder if we cant find a little pitty for people that insist on being like that. i mean still be really mad and frusterated.... but like in movies.. where tahts the biggest insult to the villan, to have his life spared and be pittied... does that make any sence.

but its ok. we'll just stick together

Yeah I know what you mean; there's a kind of condescension in pity, which can sometimes be the worst insult of all. I suspect that's why heaps of people in wheelchairs or whatever get sick of people offering to help them get around... or why my friend goes nuts at her mother for offering to do her dishes when she visits, just 'coz she's pregnant.

I don't know if we could do that here; you need to be in a position of power to be able to dole pity, and on hootoo everything is fair and equal, unless you're a moderator or an italic.
No, I'm just going to stick to the moral high ground until he goes away or is sent away. Until then, I have you with me!

yay!

it all sounds good to me.

so no evil plotting, and no harmful pitty.... i do feel bad....

Don't feel bad. Here, would you like to share one of these hugs I got a boxful of for my birthday? Go you halves, if you like...

awww... thanks jerms.


what a good idea, it must be a special, thoughtful person, who like you very much if they gave you a box of's

i feel much better now, thanks

That's what I figure!

mind if i rant a little? i hope not...

my brother is being such a pest! he keeps telling me that its time for bed, and that mom and dad told him we shuouldnt stay up more that 20 minutes after them. well we both broke that rule already. and now hes gone upstairs and hes going to make lots of noise! because he doesnt ever seem to have learned to be quiet! and hes going to wake my parents up! and then my dad will come down and tell me i have to go to bed.. and i'll have to say goodnight, and then i'll lay awake in bed thinking of how i'm missing talking to you....
i can already hear him tromping around and banging drowers....
its like he feels all self richous and like its his job to be nosey and poke into what is clearly my business. ....

sorry... my rants over now....

I guess siblings are like that.
I won't hold it against you if you have to leave suddenly... I'll be back again and I know you will too.

well guess who was right!?
it happened exactly the way i said it would.
but this time i told my dad i wasnt comming to bed. i mean for heavens sake i'm still in the house! its not like i'm out wiht guy!!! i shudder to think what that would be like!!!

so i have to go at 12:30 an its 12:09 now.

after i said no, he started getting all disgruntled. and wouldnt tak no for an answer... and then pulle out the big guns and started accusing my life style of being unhealthy. telling me staying up till 2:30 in the morning isnt good. well i could see where that was going.. next would be the accuastion that i spend too much time on teh computer, that i dont get enough excersize... so i just decided to give up.

so at 12:30 i turn into a pumpkin...

Well I hope you sleep well, my little pumpkin girl.

ok 5 mins to go... i'm going to head off after i post this.
so good bye, and come back soon. i'll be waiting, and i'll miss you lots.

little pumpkin girl? i like the sound of that

night jerms

ok 5 mins to go... i'm going to head off after i post this.
so good bye, and come back soon. i'll be waiting, and i'll miss you lots.

little pumpkin girl? i like the sound of that

night jerms

and i'm sure i will sleep well, you too... that is when you go off to bed...

well i'm up again. maybe a little earlier than i'd like. but it was more or less to prove a point... that i can stay up late and still get up in the morning... so here i am...

too bad you've gone again, but not at all unexpected. its too bad you'll be gone for a while, but i wont be on for the next 4 days anyway... i have a friend comming that i havent seen in a year, because she moved away.

well anyway... bye... till next time

Guess what? It's next time already!