wasn't there a section on CP for jobs??
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No, not 9th grade, think smaller. 8th. But yeah, I've been called many things throughout the ages, most of them involving 'nerd' or 'geek' in some way, often with 'hyper' or 'mega' prefixed onto the beginning. I'm mostly a maths and science person - my aunt gave me a university chemistry book she had and I'm about a quarter of the way into it; she also gave me a book on anatomy/physiology, but I'm not that far through it. I also started learning piano at the start of the year, which is FUN!!! :-D I can't draw, although I really wish I could, and I can't sing either, which I really, really wish I could. I'm generally very quiet, but I tend to write a lot. Often what I write is kinda like 'stream of consciousness' style. I'd like to think that I don't fit into any stereotype, at least none of which I am aware. I know a lot of people at my school think I'm a cold, emotionless, humourless sociopath, a kind of evil genius, but I wouldn't hurt a fly. Honest. :)
Richard of York gave battle in vain.
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hey, its been months since I've been here(all because of my stupid school exams) If i remember correctly there was a place here on CP where i could find people wanting to recruit programmers?? is it gone now? Thanks Gideon
giddy_guitarist wrote:
...stupid school exams)
Let me guess, grammar tops that list! :rolleyes:
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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giddy_guitarist wrote:
Ok, did notice you were a girl!
Girl? :suss: Look harder! :mad: Must be the androgynous name... I don't...look like a girl, do I? Maybe it's just when the picture is scaled down so much. Oh well. I'm an INTJ, although I don't set much store by MBTI. It gets a lot right, but it gets a lot wrong too. I guess you can't pigeonhole people into 16 different categories, huh. Although I do like being the same as Niels Bohr, Isaac Newton, Sherlock Holmes and yeah, even Professor Moriarty. ;P I'll sing softly, how about that? ;P Maybe singing will be easier when my voice breaks a bit more. I dunno. I wish I could sing like Maynard James Keenan[^] from Tool. As far as programming goes, I've been doing it since I was about ten/eleven-ish, starting immediately off with C++. I read all kinds of stuff on it, but I'm never dedicated enough to actually finish anything I start. I get side-tracked very easily by something else. I'm very much more theoretical than practical in everything I do, so I think about how I would do something programming-wise, but never actually do it. I'm all right in HTML, spent about three hours learning Java before saying 'nah, screw this', wrote a simple program to teach you sign language in Visual BASIC (which sucked, but did work), learned Python for a bit, and learned some of some 3D modeling/animating programs. I beat Windows Vista in a game of chess to try and impress a girl (I'm not sure that she was very impressed though... :( ) and spend WAY too much time on Wikipedia. I have, though, made numerous contributions to it, of varying accuracy and detail, so I'm not a complete freeloader.
Richard of York gave battle in vain.
Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
Girl? Look harder! Must be the androgynous name... I don't...look like a girl, do I? Maybe it's just when the picture is scaled down so much.
Oh jeez, I'm so sorry! It was more your last name that lead to that conclusion, and something about mother nature ... on your bio. Gosh i hardly noticed your pic.... sry! yea, even i used to try a whole bunch of things earlier! I really like C# and .NET 2.0 now, so thats what I'm focused on, in fact trying to learn some ADO.NET right now!
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giddy_guitarist wrote:
...stupid school exams)
Let me guess, grammar tops that list! :rolleyes:
"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." - Ellen Goodman
"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
Grammar? ;P
Richard of York gave battle in vain.
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giddy_guitarist wrote:
Ok, did notice you were a girl!
Girl? :suss: Look harder! :mad: Must be the androgynous name... I don't...look like a girl, do I? Maybe it's just when the picture is scaled down so much. Oh well. I'm an INTJ, although I don't set much store by MBTI. It gets a lot right, but it gets a lot wrong too. I guess you can't pigeonhole people into 16 different categories, huh. Although I do like being the same as Niels Bohr, Isaac Newton, Sherlock Holmes and yeah, even Professor Moriarty. ;P I'll sing softly, how about that? ;P Maybe singing will be easier when my voice breaks a bit more. I dunno. I wish I could sing like Maynard James Keenan[^] from Tool. As far as programming goes, I've been doing it since I was about ten/eleven-ish, starting immediately off with C++. I read all kinds of stuff on it, but I'm never dedicated enough to actually finish anything I start. I get side-tracked very easily by something else. I'm very much more theoretical than practical in everything I do, so I think about how I would do something programming-wise, but never actually do it. I'm all right in HTML, spent about three hours learning Java before saying 'nah, screw this', wrote a simple program to teach you sign language in Visual BASIC (which sucked, but did work), learned Python for a bit, and learned some of some 3D modeling/animating programs. I beat Windows Vista in a game of chess to try and impress a girl (I'm not sure that she was very impressed though... :( ) and spend WAY too much time on Wikipedia. I have, though, made numerous contributions to it, of varying accuracy and detail, so I'm not a complete freeloader.
Richard of York gave battle in vain.
Fercryinoutloud... I'm starting to feel like an old geezer here. Kids in high school and junior high? I thought CP was filled with software professionals. I was programming before either of those two were born. Heck, I was MARRIED before either of them were born. anyone else feeling a bit old right now?
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Fercryinoutloud... I'm starting to feel like an old geezer here. Kids in high school and junior high? I thought CP was filled with software professionals. I was programming before either of those two were born. Heck, I was MARRIED before either of them were born. anyone else feeling a bit old right now?
If it makes you feel any better, you're much better at programming than I am.
Richard of York gave battle in vain.
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Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
Girl? Look harder! Must be the androgynous name... I don't...look like a girl, do I? Maybe it's just when the picture is scaled down so much.
Oh jeez, I'm so sorry! It was more your last name that lead to that conclusion, and something about mother nature ... on your bio. Gosh i hardly noticed your pic.... sry! yea, even i used to try a whole bunch of things earlier! I really like C# and .NET 2.0 now, so thats what I'm focused on, in fact trying to learn some ADO.NET right now!
Oh, no, that's all right. I forgive you. :) I do find it weird that you didn't look at my picture though...
Richard of York gave battle in vain.
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Fercryinoutloud... I'm starting to feel like an old geezer here. Kids in high school and junior high? I thought CP was filled with software professionals. I was programming before either of those two were born. Heck, I was MARRIED before either of them were born. anyone else feeling a bit old right now?
Draugnar wrote:
Heck, I was MARRIED before either of them were born. anyone else feeling a bit old right now?
I was first married in late summer of '86. feel better? there are a few of us old folks here.... you can even borrow my cane. ;)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Draugnar wrote:
Heck, I was MARRIED before either of them were born. anyone else feeling a bit old right now?
I was first married in late summer of '86. feel better? there are a few of us old folks here.... you can even borrow my cane. ;)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Much better... I was 20 and "sowing my oats" so to speak back then. I shared an apartment with two girls and yes, they got drunk on more than one night... Any more and it would not be kid-sister friendly. I even took pictures... It would still be three more years before I got married. My wife burned the polaroids...
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giddy_guitarist wrote:
Ok, did notice you were a girl!
Lucky that wasn't in one of your exams, a 50/50 chance and you fucked it up. Even had the opportunity to look at his bio and photo.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
"I'm 17 btw. Ok, did notice you were a girl! I never manage to actually meet smart girls ever! " That just shows again that people sometimes see what they want to see instead of reality :P
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giddy_guitarist wrote:
Ok, did notice you were a girl!
Girl? :suss: Look harder! :mad: Must be the androgynous name... I don't...look like a girl, do I? Maybe it's just when the picture is scaled down so much. Oh well. I'm an INTJ, although I don't set much store by MBTI. It gets a lot right, but it gets a lot wrong too. I guess you can't pigeonhole people into 16 different categories, huh. Although I do like being the same as Niels Bohr, Isaac Newton, Sherlock Holmes and yeah, even Professor Moriarty. ;P I'll sing softly, how about that? ;P Maybe singing will be easier when my voice breaks a bit more. I dunno. I wish I could sing like Maynard James Keenan[^] from Tool. As far as programming goes, I've been doing it since I was about ten/eleven-ish, starting immediately off with C++. I read all kinds of stuff on it, but I'm never dedicated enough to actually finish anything I start. I get side-tracked very easily by something else. I'm very much more theoretical than practical in everything I do, so I think about how I would do something programming-wise, but never actually do it. I'm all right in HTML, spent about three hours learning Java before saying 'nah, screw this', wrote a simple program to teach you sign language in Visual BASIC (which sucked, but did work), learned Python for a bit, and learned some of some 3D modeling/animating programs. I beat Windows Vista in a game of chess to try and impress a girl (I'm not sure that she was very impressed though... :( ) and spend WAY too much time on Wikipedia. I have, though, made numerous contributions to it, of varying accuracy and detail, so I'm not a complete freeloader.
Richard of York gave battle in vain.
Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
I don't...look like a girl, do I? Maybe it's just when the picture is scaled down so much.
Dorry to say it, but your picture is ambiguous at first glance. In a few years once you develop a manly stubble, or if you take to cutting your hair shorter it won't be an issue, but as is a casual glance isn't be sufficient to dissipate a false assumption.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
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Much better... I was 20 and "sowing my oats" so to speak back then. I shared an apartment with two girls and yes, they got drunk on more than one night... Any more and it would not be kid-sister friendly. I even took pictures... It would still be three more years before I got married. My wife burned the polaroids...
I never had polaroids, but I have memories! ahhhh, I have memories! :-D :-O :-D
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Oh, no, that's all right. I forgive you. :) I do find it weird that you didn't look at my picture though...
Richard of York gave battle in vain.
Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
Oh, no, that's all right. I forgive you.
Cool!
Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
I do find it weird that you didn't look at my picture though...
Guess i glanced at it quick and probably thought it was more of a random pic! sry!
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Fercryinoutloud... I'm starting to feel like an old geezer here. Kids in high school and junior high? I thought CP was filled with software professionals. I was programming before either of those two were born. Heck, I was MARRIED before either of them were born. anyone else feeling a bit old right now?
Draugnar wrote:
Kids in high school and junior high? I thought CP was filled with software professionals.
Oh common, we're not that bad now? Doesn't the fact that i'm MCP count??? You've been on CP only 5 months more than me! And Ravel has made 10 times your posts! JK, obviously your way better than us! :-D Hope that did make you feel better? :)