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Full Name Ernest Pazera
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signed or unsigned chars in BF Ive been doing a lot of work with BF lately, and so a couple of "interesting problems" occurred to me. One, a BF interpreter usually has an 8 bit "data cell", but I can imagine implementations that has 16 bit chars (a UNICODE implementation, for i... 
Posted July 6, 2005 12:33:56 PM
Secondary Return Values Y'know how occasionally there are those functions that need more than one return value? Typically something like this: int f(int* secondary_return); In cases like this, the primary return value might give you a status code, and he... 
Posted June 29, 2005 12:23:29 PM
Funny Comic Sometimes, this comic is a little hit or miss, but I like this week's: http://www.partiallyclips.com/pages/archive.php?id=1305&b;=1&c;=1  
Posted February 23, 2005 12:11:10 PM
Wikipedia Vandalism I occasionally go wiki-surfing at wikipedia.org. When wiki-surfing, I typically either click one of the links on the main page, or hit "random page", and then go through links to see where it leads me. Today, I clicked on "graffiti... 
Posted February 18, 2005 11:25:55 AM
A Pissing Contest I realize that most of you lounge lizards don't make it to the diaries often(and for good reason), but figured you might find this amusing: linky 
Posted December 6, 2004 9:30:56 PM
Animal Crackers I skipped breakfast today, so I brought a big box of animal crackers to work to munch on so that I don't get ravenously hungry and start to kill and roast my coworkers. Dunno about you all, but when I open a box of animal crackers, I always t... 
Posted July 23, 2004 9:26:11 AM
Okay, need some help here... So, I’ve been writing a little flash game. Linky-poo The problem I’ve been having when I show it to people is that they don’t immediately figure out what they are supposed to do. I’ve been showing mostly programmer/engi... 
Posted April 15, 2004 1:18:48 PM
The Froogle Literary Challenge Challenge #1: Take all 25 of the items listed on Froogle’s main page(note: clicking the link will give you different items than the ones I show below), and make a short 1-2 page story with them. The items that were listed when I went this mo... 
Posted March 31, 2004 9:53:22 AM
New Product Development Research I need your help. Periodically, I put out a new version of my game JetLag. The last version was in 2003, and the version prior to that was 1999. Four years is way too long between versions, I think, so I’m doing a JetLag2004, but thus far I&... 
Posted March 26, 2004 2:47:59 PM
R2-D2 Saves The Day I was just reading another Star Wars based post, and decided to share something that a guy I know and I came up with regarding R2-D2. Episodes I,II,IV, and V (and presuming III, but time will tell), are all episodes of "R2-D2 Saves The Day" Epi... 
Posted February 25, 2004 10:32:58 AM
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Jerk on the internet http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html 
Posted November 18, 2005 6:33:58 PM
User Rating? ... popularity contest, more like!  
Posted November 18, 2005 6:29:48 PM
Idea Your post does not specifically mention blogging, however, the serialization of a book over time is rather similar in mechanism, so I have this article for you. http://shirky.com/writings/weblogs_publishing.html The blogiverse has untold quanti... 
Posted November 18, 2005 5:03:32 PM
One Week/One Button 2 Winners: Trapper Zoid and scgrn JetLag Crystal, Single Button Edition Space to begin a game, and the direction of travel is controlled by the state of the Caps Lock key. It is a flash projector, so I don't know how kosher it is within your rules. And you are collecting poi... 
Posted November 16, 2005 5:10:38 PM
Star Wars video clip :::waves hand::: these are not the copyright violations you're looking for. 
Posted November 3, 2005 3:46:21 PM
What is infinity? Quote:Original post by SunTzu Personally I think the concept of zero is a heck of a lot more important than the concept of infinity. ...and much more important in day-to-day use. Zero crops up a heck of a lot more often than infinity does. ... 
Posted November 1, 2005 11:28:47 AM
What is infinity? And I will tell you that the statements that you have made above are not True. But nor are they False. They are FileNotFound.  
Posted November 1, 2005 11:21:36 AM
Is Marriage an Obliteration of Self? This is not my own take on the subject. It is what I have learned about God's take on the subject. Your post reminded me of my own marriage. God gives us a priority list for our lives. It looks something like the following: 1: God ... 
Posted October 25, 2005 8:19:32 AM
Whatever happened to Mithrandir? Quote:Original post by benryves Quote:Original post by krikkit Whatever happened to Fay Rae?That delicate, satin-draped frame? ...as it clung to her thigh... 
Posted October 21, 2005 3:30:01 PM
Critique my sci-fi short Just a few off the cuff remarks: You should attempt to use the active voice more. for example, this: The avatar broke off its talk when it realized Ralph’s livid stare was directed at it. becomes: Feeling Ralph's livid stare, the ava... 
Posted October 12, 2005 5:13:40 PM
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