Petey Fan Art #7

don't be shamed, it's not intentional. everything I draw ends up looking like it had a nasty run-in with a baseball pitching machine modified to fire bowling balls, which just happens to work for Pel-Freez fan art.
and hey, nostalgia trip to a month ago - your Patty kind of reminds me of former Downstairs Neighbor Tina.

Tell me, staniel, are such machines...common in your area?

How much do they run?

And can you pick me up some brochures?

common only in my imaginings, I'm afraid... 'twould not have been a good scene otherwise.
picture if you will, the bowling ball shards, the bloody remains, all piled outside the Radio Shack...
since you seem to be in an editing mood tonight, I'd rather be credited as staniel on that one. I can promise something bowling-ball related for compensation, though sadly not of a projectile nature.

Okay! Done! GOING TO BED NOW.

By "an unpleasant form of mob justice," do you mean like cement shoes or a Louisville Slugger Shampoo? Petey whiffing nitrous _is_ kinda funny!

Not that I am trying to be a pompous bastard (imagine the line) overly critical. But I think there's more strikethrough this time than was intended: look at the HTML around "Soulless megacorporations" above ( Soulless megacorporations ).

Aha. Now imagine incorrect HTML tags being pointed out in the parentheses above. Maybe this works: <s>Soulless megacorporations</I>

Strikethrus for me and youse

The Twin Peaks one -rocks-! (Even though you got the floor wrong. Pedant Mode now off.) You should color in the red on the curtains and Petey's suit. :)

Mr. Jim: Thanks for the edification, I was mightily confused.

A couple years ago, when I was starting to learn the programming language Delphi, I was reading up on string functions, and there was a function for either searching for substrings, or parsing strings, or whatever. And ... they provided some sample code in which they parsed the string "WOW BOB WOW". This is proof positive that Delphi is the king of Windows-based programming languages. (If you need to program for Linux, the king is Kylix, which just happens to be Delphi for Linux.)

For a couple of years, my housemate was a Borland Beta-tester, I got the new C++ before he did because I got the mail. Mostly I like the simulation languages like Simula, Simscript, and GPSS, and the statistical packages like SPSS and SAS. We had a course in graduate school called Computer Modeling and Simulation, it was optimization using different modeling languages, but not Simula. Simula is an Algol-based language written by the Swedidish Defense Institute and the Norwegian Computing Center. I'm glad that Linux is open-source,
it's continually growing and evolving. Kylix, huh? Sometimes I think that if I have to learn one more language, my head will explode. I think that there is a language that you tell the computer what kind of output you want and the program writes its' own code. Those Linux guys make me laugh talking about their kernels all the time.

What is so ass-kickingly cool about Kylix is, it is source-code compatible with Delphi. That means you can write some code under Windows in Delphi, take the code over to Linux and Kylix, and with but the smallest of tweaks (generally changing the library names), it runs. And I'm not talking wussy "Hello World" programs either, but stuff with forms, timers, messageboxes, and so on. There's obviously some stuff that won't port, but as much as possible, they made it so it's source-code compatible. The graphical development system is as close to identical as possible between the two as well, so if you learn the one, you'll settle right into the other.

This has been a Holy Grail of the programming community for some time; leave it to Borland to produce this particular Grail. Of course, since Delphi is a Greek word, their "Grail" is called "Kylix" ... which is Greek for a certain kind of drinking vessel, etymologically related to "chalice".

(Borland naming conventions are odd. "Delphi" was named in answer to the question: if you're trying to get at Oracle, where do you go? And Turbo Pascal was named after Blaise Pascal's lesser-known younger brother.)

Anyway, I think Borland has released a "free" version of Kylix which you can download, OR you can spend $200 for the next level up, with additional libraries and capabilities.

Ya, I still look at the Borland site some, and now I'll certainly keep my eyeball peeled for Kylix references. It's good that it works cross-platform; I think that a lot of stuff doesn't because it's proprietary, and that's one good thing about Linux, and other open-source code programs. There was a lot of good Fortran programming that became obsolete along the way, and I think that there is a program that translates Fortran into C++; I've never used it, I hope that it works better than Babelfish as a translator. Now that I've got a bigger drive, I can load-up Linux, C++, Perl, in addition to the graphics programs. I saw one Linux setup where there were four full-screens launched at the same time, and you could mouse from one to the other. Yeah, that KDE stuff, too.

The version of Reversi that ships with RedHat, more often than not will whup me even on its stupidest setting. This is just sad.

I don't know if you would find Simula interesting...maybe.
http://www.isima.fr/asu/

These days, most of my programming time in the evenings is devoted to freelance CGI work. I get to do a little Delphi, most of which is related to the Web in some fashion -- for example, FTPing graphics onto Web sites and that kind of thing.

Ahhh, I remember when I could just program for fun. Seems like another life ...

You two can just e-mail each other, you know.

But don't you see? By keeping a lively and engaging conversation going, it benefits all who visit thingsihate.org.

Granted, it's not as good as new articles, but it's something.

OK, thanks, Sean. What do we owe you for the introduction? Please don't lynch us! I thought that since we'd guessed the director, we'd run out of stuff to talk about. Sorry for the insurrection.

Back on topic for a minute ... very nice detail on the "Dune" cartoon, with the rabbit in the moon making rice patties. I think I kinda subconsciously noticed this the first time I saw the cartoon, but it didn't really click until now.

Do you guys have browsers that automatically refresh every couple of minutes? Yowzers! On a completely unrelated topic, everyone should listen to Son House.

Yep, I like the Rabbit in the Moon; that was all that I could see for the longest time, so that does strike a cord. But the Rabbit in the Moon will never be the same after Petey. Son House is good. I been listening to Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, and Ry Cooder lately. A local radio station has a one-hour noon show called, "The Blues Plate Special," they play obscure musicians. I did like the movie, "Blue Velvet," I got a .wav file of that tune on my 'puter. It's very evil.

oh wait, there are other people now. and not my line, at any rate.

I have one more installment of Mysterious Midweek Petey Glut to put up tonight.

Usagi Tsukino or tsuki no usagi