Randomness

Unable to concentrate on a single topic today, I shall post whatever comes to mind. Hey, the damn blog title says its rambling, so I'm entitled :)

I saw a poster for a new movie with Matt Damon in it this morning. Is it a bad thing that every time I hear or see the name Matt Damon I think of Team America?

I also saw a poster for a movie starring Colin Farrell. Unlike Matt Damon, when I hear the name Colin Farrell I think of movies that he actually starred in, like S.W.A.T, Daredevil and that weird Irish Comedy I can't remember the name of. While the movies may not be amazing, he's fun to watch.

I got to Matsuri in time for beef teriyaki today. No running a kilometer for tacos today!

A new programmer started at work today. All of a sudden I feel more professional because he set the company up with a git repository, and sorted me out in terms of getting onto it. It also relieves me that I'm either unlikely to be coding the server stuff, or that I will be taught how to do it by someone who actually has a clue on how to do these kinds of things.

Tomorrow night I have Japanese class. All I can do right now is struggle to remember what I did on the weekend, since its a foregone conclusion that I will be asked this in Japanese class. However, when I realise that at least half of the weekend was spent playing Pathfinder, I try to think of something else to say, as history has proven that Pathfinder and trying to explain what happened in Japanese class do not go together. Mainly because Tomoka-sensei doesn't quite get Pathfinder, or D&D etc.

せんしゅまつ　なに　か　しました　か？

No I don't know any Kanji. Don't ask.

It has been brought to my attention that I am an idiot who forgets a lot of things, and as a result I probably have no business running a Pathfinder game, let alone two. Why I persist, I'll never know.

I'm thirsty, and have a slight headache. I might run off to get myself some Coke. Not particularly healthy - and something I probably should be avoiding due to current gut issues, but I don't care. I want a Coke dammit!

I've been sick a lot lately. But not in the typical way. Well, its normal for me, but different. For the last week and a half I've been sick at least once a day (with the notable exception of Pathfinder day), but unlike pre-gluten free dietness, it wasn't in a way that I have not been able to eat for hours following. Its been brief sickness, followed by quick recovery. Weird. I still do not like this though... in fact, its getting to the point where I am wondering what the point of a diet that seems to be having no effect on me is. *shrug* No choice but to continue until I see the doc again.

Oh crap, I have to get blood taken again in like 2 weeks time. I'm totally gonna pass out again.

I received some games in the mail from PlayAsia yesterday. I was stoked to get Megaman Maverick Hunter X for PSP in their sale (along with Valkyria Chronicles 2, Folklore, Little Big Planet 2 Collector's Edition, and the still-on-its-way-in-the-mail Demon Souls) until I realised that this is the same Megaman game I had borrowed from Andrew a few months ago - returning it shortly after due to its extreme difficulty.

Its not a real Megaman game unless its difficult.

Is Pacman a game about a pizza at a rave that can see and eat dead people? This knowledge makes me love the game even more.

You should totally watch this tetris video. It is amazing.

Now I'm gonna go grab that Coke, and take some Nurofen. My head hurts. Ciao!

Rambling

I can't really put together a coherent post today. Something about there not being much happening at the moment, and such, so today's post will be a bunch of random thoughts I've had lately so that I stay in the habit of writing things.

The other day, someone mistook me for Jack Black when I walked into their convenience store and bought a drink. This is not the first time, though it typically happens when I don't shave for a few days (though to be fair, that happens most weeks because I shave Mondays, then get too lazy to do it again until either Friday, or the following Monday). It's tempting to run a social experiment to just stop shaving for a while, and see how many people approach me. Perhaps see how long I can keep the illusion up (probably just long enough for them to realise that the man doesn't wear glasses. Well, not ones to allow him to continue to see anyway...)

I recently started playing around with HGE (Haag's Game Engine) in C++ in preparation for an event I've applied for entering called GameJam. GameJam is an event for insane people where you spend an entire weekend making a game from scratch. Little to no sleep. To enforce this, they give you a topic and a set of keywords, which aren't revealed until the event begins. You are allowed to use whatever libraries you like, however, and so I started getting back into C++, since iPhone programming isn't very conducive to presenting the game on stage at the end of the event.
Anyway, I noticed that the HGE tutorials have only some of the WORST CODE I HAVE EVER SEEN. Its rife with magic numbers, global variables, and cryptic math that makes me want to find whoever wrote that tutorial, and shove a programming practices book down their throat, which will likely have the same effect as sunlight has on vampires (not the Twilight vampires, they're not vampires, they're sparkle fairies).
The engine itself isn't that bad, and it's possible to salvage it, but those tutorials... it physically hurt me to code like that. Once I get a bit more of a handle on the thing I'm totally gonna write a basic framework for myself. Well, less of a framework more of an organisational thing.

Today, I had breakfast for the first time in ages. I used to never be able to eat solid food before 10.30 or 11am, because if I did I would be sick all day. It seems this was a side effect of my undiscovered Coeliac, since typically breakfast foods (cereals, toast, etc) are filled to the brim with gluten. This morning I woke up early (accidentally), and decided to give that gluten free cereal Mum found a go. I didn't feel particularly well as I headed into work today, but by the time I got there the feeling passed. Though having brekky didn't have the utterly electric effect on my energy levels that I've been told it would. Science lied to me?

I have been sleeping utterly horribly lately. No idea why. This might be contributing to my acting quite crabby when I get home from work. I'd apologise, but right now I probably wouldn't mean it :P
So damn tired...