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Thursday, April 17th, 2003
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11:34p - ORKS!
I've got Orks on the brain. Lots and lots and lots of orky goodness.
The madness that is miniature painting is actually progressing rather quickly. I'm liking this method of slathering one colour per night on 30-some minis in 1-2 hour painting sessions. It seems to make the whole batch progress from primed to playable much more quickly than spending an hour or two dedicated to totally detailing a single mini.
In other, less geeky (HAH! Right. Me, less geeky. That's funny.) subjects...
School is unbearably easy. On Tuesday my Java instructor actually asked me why I was even in the class when I breezed through the lab assignment in 15 minutes using a control structure he hadn't even taught yet.
I forget if VB has Switch-Case statements, but I know they're in enough languages that I've simply assumed them to be totally remedial.
Speaking of Java. I gotta laugh at how obsessed it is with Object-Oriented Programming. OOP is nice, and it's great for solving certain types of problems, but good grief! Dumping Procedural Programming completely for the questionable wonders of OOP is just plain insanity.
However, I do feel quite vindicated in that Java still must maintain certain trappings of proceduralism simply because without them, the app would have no place to start. Happily, it's just enough that I can leverage it into driving my instructor into small amounts of neuroses when I turn in assignments with a minimum of unneccessary OOP for OOP's sake and a maximum of nice, sensible proceduralism.
On the annoying side of things though, this whole rigidly typecast variable shit as GOT to go. I want my integers and strings to also be boolean dammit! It just makes more sense that way.
My Business Communications course is laughable. I swear, I'd learn more about interpersonal communication by playing Diplomacy.
The SQL course I'm taking is being taught by a horrid teacher. It's doubly annoying because he's also teaching SQL Server and not ANSI SQL.
Fucker.
Luckily, I've got my handy dandy MySQL server running at home that I can work with instead of that icky SQL Server crap.
All hail the command line, for its archaicness is mighty.
current mood:  cheerful (comment on this)
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