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Diploma over the toilet [Aug. 1st, 2002|12:16 pm]
Brad Fitzpatrick
I bought a frame for my diploma so I could hang it over the toilet in the guest bathroom.

Now whenever I'm taking a piss I can think back to the warm memories of my education.

Like the time I stayed up late working on adding run-time array bounds checking to Scott's and my compiler just for fun, but maybe to get some extra points.

But then we got docked points because the executable generated by our compiler failed the TA's test-suite. Why? Because one of the TA's programs had an accidental array overflow.

So I pointed it out and managed to get the points back, but we still didn't get any extra points.

I ate some of last night's left-overs for breakfast this morning. They were good.

That is all.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled LiveJournal programming. (i.e. quizzes and whining)
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[User Picture]From: jackola
2002-08-01 12:23 pm (UTC)
You may now return to your regularly scheduled LiveJournal programming. (i.e. quizzes and whining)

ROFL... that sounds about right. don't forget surveys too.

*jack
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[User Picture]From: skittl1321
2002-08-01 12:32 pm (UTC)
You may now return to your regularly scheduled LiveJournal programming. (i.e. quizzes and whining)

You have probably single handedly boosted the internet quiz industry by creating livejournal. I had my moments of massive quiz posting in my journal but have finally stopped. Stopped taking them. Stopped posting the few I take. WOW. Not sure why I ever did that.

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[User Picture]From: jackola
2002-08-01 12:41 pm (UTC)
i was like that too! i even MADE some... and now i HATE one of the wuizzes i made... i made the biased "homophobic" quiz a few months ago.. its only crap because it seems no matter what you do it tells you that your gay. lol - and i made the spiderman master quiz.. which never really succeeded very well.

im done now tho... i swear!

*jack
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[User Picture]From: graceadieu
2002-08-01 01:07 pm (UTC)

:)

I don't post quizzes or surveys because I can't figure out how to do them (I wouldn't anyway), and I admit I whine and even RAIL but the majority of my posts are contemplations of things past and present. Am I emoting? Ummm...why yes, I am! :)
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[User Picture]From: mart
2002-08-01 02:17 pm (UTC)

I once took one of these stupid quizzes linked from LJ. It was JavaScript-based and hosted on some lamer's GeoCities site. It didn't seem to be making a lot of sense, so I checked the source code (good ol' client-side JavaScript) and found that the person who wrote it had forgotten to rename some of the form elements after copying and pasting, so a bunch of the radio buttons were wired up wrong.

Sigh.

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[User Picture]From: newscane
2002-08-01 02:38 pm (UTC)
Now whenever I'm taking a piss I can think back to the warm memories of my education.

Or you can think about how much money you pissed away over those four years.
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From: sheehan
2002-08-01 06:12 pm (UTC)

shit

i don't remember that...

i remember us both staying up late trying to get references of some sort (to arrays?) working (which it never did)... i remember the bounds checking, but not the points-dockage...

and i have a quiz for you:
did your last sentence constitute whining?

--scott
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[User Picture]From: brad
2002-08-01 06:15 pm (UTC)

Re: shit

Dude, you told me it was stupid and a waste of time.

We did stay up late getting something required working, but then you went to bed around 2am or something.

And we totally got points docked... I can probably still find the paper to prove it.

I have a theory: it was that bump on your head! That's why you can't remember....

http://www.picpix.com/brad/pic/0003ktkt/


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From: sheehan
2002-08-01 09:24 pm (UTC)

Re: shit

coincidentally (or not ;), that bump did indeed happen the same quarter that we were taking 401...

i think i have all our project papers anyway... the feedback for that class sucked too... we were getting bit hard in phase 3 by stuff we did in the first phase...

--scott
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