Showing off

This is my second attempt to write this blog so it's bound to be crappier than the first crappy one. You'd think they'd have a mechanism for cacheing what you write so that if you timeout while posting you don't get screwed. But maybe I'm just expecting too much.

So I think I wrote a pretty good Spanish essay (about the book La Celestina) but I pretty much bombed my cs exam. I guess I doubt it was all that bad but it really wasn't all that good either. Just didn't bother studying enough really...

I've had this crazy idea for the longest time that I would write a version of Minesweeper (am I breaking any copyright laws here?) in every programming language I know as a way of both showing off my knowledge and fine tuning it. I was even gonna use it as an excuse to learn new languages that I ought to know like php or python. I finally got started with a cgi script written in perl. It actually was pretty easy and quick. I do have to get over my cowboy coding syndrome though but it'll happen ... maybe ... I didn't bother spicing it up with any inlayed javascript because I imagine I'll probably write one completely in js/dhtml.

I was remembering a stupid game I used to play as a kid. I was so absurdly bored in school that I invented something to do that would keep me busy endlessly. I drew a few quarter size circles on a sheet of paper and, pretending that they were planets, drew death rays coming out from them in random directions. If two rays intersected they cut each other off and both stopped at that point. Sometimes you could get three rays to constantly be intersecting each other. The first and second would intersect, then the first would be cut off by the third, releasing the second, which would cut off the third, releasing the first which would cut off the second, releasing the third and on and on and on. So I decided that i would call those black holes in my world. Anyway, I was thinking I could recreate it in Java or something. A weird bit of nostalgia...