Thought or Rant of the day!!!

[hEarty]

Being out of work for 6-8 weeks with nothing to do. That's my rant.

After 5 weeks of already walking on this painful right foot, various x-rays and MRI's, and 3 different diagnosis (first it was bone spurs, then it was broken toes, then it was hairline fractures), my doctor put me into a cast up to my knee (and she angled it funky so I could not walk on it AT all without bending my knee backward) and told me that somehow in the past 6 weeks I did some severe trauma to my right toes (NO CLUE what I did) and so something happened to my second meta-tarsel (however it's spelled) which is causing the bloodflow to my toe to be restricted to the point that my toe is "half-dead" (the doctor's exact words) and was only getting WORSE with me walking on it. So, I had either two options.

1. Wear this STUPID cast for 6-8 weeks, stay off my foot completely and HOPE that the toe heals itself.

And if that doesn't work,

2. Get surgery on my toe and have part of it removed and a prosthetic put in.



So now I find myself at home, a cast up to my knee, not able to work for 6-8 weeks, not able to get disability because I won't be out of work for a year, not able to get unemployment because I am still employed at my job and just basically screwed.

[Leo Luncid]

After what happened today, I'm concluding that my father is crazy. I'm posting this so that I can look back at this ages from now and remind myself why it's here in the first place. End of story.

(Maybe I should stop being so impulsive like that.)

[notsure]

I lost a diamond ring and a contact lense in the same day.

notsure

[SekoETC]

Oh, thought of the day: JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB! And they called one day earlier than last year.

[Zanthos]

holyyyy fucking shit i just found out i passed all my classes this term. this is the first time i did so since A term last year. Given, I got straight C's (which i find to be pretty shitty) i still passed everything, putting me back on good academic standing, off of warning. You have no idea how much stress this takes off my shoulders, because for a few days i didnt think i passed one of the classes, which would have put me on academic probation, meaning i would lose $10,000 of scholarship money, and all my financial aid elegibility until i brought myself back into good standing.

[Leo Luncid]

You remind me of the consequences I had to experience when I started to follow that "Don't bother, don't care" philosophy (or whatever its supposed to be) I idly created. And it really doesn't mix well with the "No excuses" policy either. Basically, I'm real stressed over how I just stay looking down, both literally and symbolicly.

And sorry for being so ridiculously subliminal all this time. I'm just in a deep dive from control.


And does it really help you guys out to let it out like this? Just for your sake?

[Money]

Yes

[BarbaricAvatar]

And does it really help you guys out to let it out like this? Just for your sake?

:shock: After what happened today, I'm concluding that my father is crazy. I'm posting this so that I can look back at this ages from now and remind myself why it's here in the first place. End of story.

(Maybe I should stop being so impulsive like that.)

So to whose benefit was this if not just your own?

[SekoETC]

I hear we were supposed to have stuff at the academy today, so I asked my dad to give me a ride. But there sure isn't anyone else from my group. There are some class members, ones that are "advanced" and know how to do things. The hell I ain't going even into the same room with them.

Since I can't use Encore because they moved the computer that has it and I'm not sure where, I figured maybe I could check out some Java since I've had this thing hanging for like a year. Well, running into the same problems as back then. As in I have a program with the MAIN PURPOSE of creating a number of moving objects and there's no way of knowing how many there's going to be because the seed amount is given by the user and they multiply based on random chance and some variables. But based on my experience, it's IMPOSSIBLE to add components to stage during runtime. The fucking manual gives an example in Visual Basic and maybe C++, well I fucking know how to do it in VB, that's not the point. The point is in Java it's done somehow completely different, there is no row of automatically generated code that could be copied somewhere like controls.add(), there's only a piece of shit! I think I read somewhere that instead of creating new objects, a model of all used components should be on the field (invisible if need be) before the program is run, and during runtime you can then copy or duplicate those components. Well guess what? Google for "visual java" "duplicate component" returns 0 results. If you don't use quotation marks, you get all sorts of shit that's not related. So the next thing I did is search for something simple as "new button" in the local help topics. It returns all sorts of fancy schmancy articles but not something you could do to create a new goddamn button during runtime. Actually last time I got far enough as having my damn class inherit picture frame or what ever that's called but it sure as hell doesn't help adding it to the field.

Visual studio is so damn far from practicality that I don't know if even it's creators know how to use it. There are so damn many classes and shit I don't know how anyone finds anything in there or how come they're all even necessary. Ok I want to understand the code I'm using, not just pull some undocumented function out of a library and it does a whole bunch of stuff.

[SekoETC]

I worked four and a half hours on a 3d modeling project, not counting the hour at lunch break and three hours in class, only to realize that I don't have the teacher's email address so I can't send the picture anyway. Also I was supposed to be reading for a test that's tomorrow.

[Solfius]

As in I have a program with the MAIN PURPOSE of creating a number of moving objects and there's no way of knowing how many there's going to be because the seed amount is given by the user and they multiply based on random chance and some variables. But based on my experience, it's IMPOSSIBLE to add components to stage during runtime

If it were me, I'd be looking into using a List or Array to store the objects you're dealing with, and then using a loop to generate enough objects based on this random input you have.

something like...

List ListOfObjects = new LinkedList();
numberOfObjects = (result of user input)

for( counter = 0; counter < numberOfObjects; counter++){
ListOfObjects.add( new Object)
}


where object is whatever object you want to add, you'll need some extra code to actually display the objects in the list, but that's usually dependent on the Object you're using


hope that helps, it's just what I thought of when I read your post, so it might not be what you need

[the_antisocial_hermit]

Fuck the goddamn graduate college. Fuck myself for screwing up the first time. Now I feel more stuck than before.

[Yosarian]

I wish someone had told me before I went to grad school that whenever people said "there's a teacher shortage", they didn't mean history teachers. Trying to cover that much college debt on a teacher assistant or subsitute teacher salery really, really sucks, and whenever a history teaching position does open up there's like 10 bazillion other people trying to get it.

[BarbaricAvatar]

xxxx(a man in his twenties) says: "ooc: xxxx: Project Farming to get potatoes has been finished (1366 grams, ending up on the ground)."

I thought the all the twats who did this lazy-ass play had disappeared or changed their ways. Obviously not.

[SekoETC]

Solfius, the point is I cannot create even one object. I have a console application where the creatures are stored in an array, there is a creation method for new creatures and everything, the only problem is the visual representation. In the console application, the field is drawn in ascii art but the whole idea of creating a graphical user interface is having graphical representation of the situation, not having to resort to incomprehensible lists of coordinates or character based simulation.