Eat your chopsticks, yet?

My wife sent me this… Funny!

1. 외국인: 자판기의 커피가 다 나온 후, 불이 꺼지면 컵을 꺼낸다.
   한국인: 자판기 커피 눌러놓고, 컵 나오는 곳에 손 넣고 기다린다.
   가끔 튀는 커피에 손을 데기도 한다.
2. 외국인: 사탕을 쪽쪽 빨아먹는다.
   한국인: 사탕 깨물어 먹다가 이빨 부러진다.
3. 외국인: 아이스크림은 혀로 핥으며 천천히 먹는다.
   한국인: 아이스크림은 베어먹어야지 핥아먹다간 벌떡증 걸린다.
   한입에 왕창 먹다가 순간적인 두통에 머리를 감싸고 괴로워할때도 있다.
4. 외국인: 저런 냄비근성 다혈질 민족 이탈리아같으니.
   한국인: 저런 여유만만 느려터진 지중해쪽 국가다운 이탈리아 놈들. 아 답답해.
5. 외국인: 버스는 정류장에 서서 기다리다 천천히 승차한다.
   한국인: 일단 기다리던 버스가 오면 도로로 내려간다. 종종 버스와 추격전이 벌어진다. 가끔은 버스 바퀴에 발이 찧이기도 한다. 문 열리기도 전에 문에 손을 대고 있다. (그러면 빨리 열리냐?)
6. 외국인: 인도에 서서 “택시” 하며 손을 든다.
   한국인: 도로로 내려가 택시를 따라서 뛰어가며 문 손잡이를 잡고 외친다. “철산동!!”
7. 외국인: 야구는 9회말 2사부터. 힘내라 우리편! (끝까지 응원한다.)
   한국인: 다 끝났네, 나가자.(9회말 2사쯤이면 관중이 반으로 줄어있다.)
8. 외국인: 영화의 마지막은 엔딩크레딧과 함께 OST를 감상하며 여운에 젖는다.
   한국인: 극장에도 리모콘이 있으면 채널 돌렸지. 빨리 안나갈거야?
9. 외국인: 오늘의 요리는 폭찹. 폭찹의 기원은 블라블라블라인데 이 레스토랑은 요리사가 에벨레벨레…
   한국인: 씨브럴! 돼지를 키워서 만들어오나, 드럽게 안나오네!
10. 외국인: 그영화 어땠어? 연기는? 내용은?
    한국인: 아 그래서 끝이 어떻게 되는데!!

Group G

• France
• Switzerland
• South Korea
• Togo

Sweet!

No shit?

With less than a week remaining until the start of the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting here, Hong Kong is like a city preparing for a siege.

Hospitals across Hong Kong have postponed elective surgeries and staff vacations and have emptied beds and operating theaters to prepare for riot casualties. A 141-year-old colonial jail has been readied to handle detainees, its usual prisoners sent to other jails.

Roughly 9,000 police officers, a third of the force here, have been assigned to work in shifts to provide security around the convention center where the conference will be held. Many schools are closing and some banks are following contingency plans for dispersing computer operations to backup sites far from the convention center and to other countries.

WTO participants should ease up on violence during negotiations…

This is quite deceiving and misrepresenting. The asm folder is way too big – it’s mostly doc. I haven’t coded seriously in ASM since, oh, 1985? That was on a Motorola 6809, too. 2 MHz!!! 8-bit memory space, lots of page swapping [I had 320KB]. Fun, but well, I got too old for that crap. The C folder is bigger than the RB one – that’s because this is where I stash the IDE and docs, as well as some old projects. The current[ish] projects folder is somewhere else, and weighs a little above 1GB. Plus, some of the C crap is actually stuff I wrote to run with RB: dylibs, mainly.

The Haskell folder is a joke: I got the nhc98 compiler and the GHC-6.4.1 install package in there. Never did much in Haskell. Maybe one day… Icon is not really meaningful. I did quite a bit of hobby/learning stuff in Icon, but it’s mostly gone. Most of the stuff inside the folder is issues of the Icon Analyst, now defunct. My first icon script actually slurped the PDFs from the web site.

The Java folder is *very* representative, as the Python one, for opposite reasons! PHP and JavaScript are actually mostly docs [and for JS Mozilla’s JavaScriptCore implementation –> that should go to C ], since all my coding went into web sites. Likewise for shell, since the scripts are all over the place [bad bad]… Forth is merely a remnant of the past – I wrote my own implementation of Forth in RB some years ago.

As for Mono… Well, I am trying to resist the temptation. But it’s hard… Grrr!

One folder would be missing: Scheme, but all the stuff, which I haven’t touched in years, is in Dr Scheme’s folder. Don’t disturb sleeping tigers and all…

In the end, I earn quite a bit of my yearly income from RB code – which finally pays for itself and then some – and Python. I have yet to write C code for cash [I am in no hurry], although I did use a dylib once – unbeknownst to the client. I had once to translate Pascal code into {insert your favourite language here}. It was the source code of a driver for a Radio Frequency modem, or whatever. Once I mustered my quarter-century old Pascal foo, I was able to rewrite that in RB. Never again…

The good thing about being a wine trader and coder is that when I am fed up with code, I can drink lots of good wine!