OT- Best Snack Donut

dmm · #1 August 17th, 2001, 06:46 PM

Oh noooooo! What have I done?

Dress: Jeans and a t-shirt. Preferably one of four that I got free from Compaq, even though I've never bought any computers from them.

But I invented a custom called "dress-up Monday." (I don't need a "dress-down Friday" because I always dress down.) So on Mondays I come in with nice clothes, even a suit and tie sometimes. It's fun to see people doing double-takes, or wondering if I have a job interview.

For programming: VB for interfaces and simple programs. Visual Fortran for serious stuff. VC++ for working with interns. Matlab for data analysis/visualization.

Taqwus · #2 August 17th, 2001, 08:15 PM

Oh, sweet tea,
For when I'm thirsty.
Pour me a cup -- hey, make it three
Yo, sweet tea,
Come on and quench my thirst.
Come on, come on, come on and quench my thirst...

(and, probably, "I went to the fridge just a moment ago / I spotted a tea that could make me glow" etc.)

Pardon this bout of strangeness... Would that be the equivalent of sweetened Nestea? That stuff's strikes me as possibly too sweet...

Dress -- loose-fitting clothing. Short sleeve shirt and jeans (usually grey, black or green) most of the time.

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

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Lemmy · #3 August 17th, 2001, 08:54 PM

Donut : Chocolate
Dress : uhm...anything that fits....

Programming (the real reason for my reply

) : Visual C++ and Visual J, and those are the only Languages i know, well, still have a lot to learn about C++. First i used Textpad for Java, but since i started using Visual J i got hooked on intelliSense. The programming got easier, the price is that i can't use Swing in Visual J

, and i'm too lazy to try and figure out why. And once i got used to the little .exe files Visual J makes for me, the platform indepence thingie of Java is also killed

Geek-O-Meter rating : 28 (what is the scale btw)

might as well put this in also :
Favourite war theatre/era :
any war where the sides are not equal like in Isreal, or in Yugoslavia, and of course all those former Sovjet countries. What i like about it is that even though the government side is so much bigger than the rebel side, the Government never seems to win, and rebels end up having their own nation, that's why i think that someday there will be a Palestine state.
I'm also writing a game that simulates a civil war, started working on it Monday, proceeding rapidly without problems for a change.

Instar · #4 August 18th, 2001, 04:46 AM

Pretty much VC++ for everything, as thats all I know. Used to do AppleBASIC on an Apple 2, a long time ago. Well, maybe no more than 9 or so years ago. I think we had the Last functioning Apple 2 used by real people (schools have a million of the things, at least around here they do)

Quikngruvn · #5 August 18th, 2001, 06:02 AM

quote:
Originally posted by tesco samoa:
The sweet tea again. Oh no. Iced tea with sugar. It is how it is always done up here in Canada.

Unless I am wrong about what sweet tea is??

TS, they are, in fact, two different things. In sweet tea, the sugar is mixed into the tea during the brewing process. The sugar is already dissolved in the pitcher of tea in the refrigerator. What I think you are drinking is called (in the southern US) unsweetened tea. Trust me, it makes a world of difference!

Wendell: no doubt! (The rest of the world needs to find out for itself!)

Tawqus: ditto!

My favorite programming language? Since I don't program, that's a tough one to answer! (Am I the only one around here who doesn't?) Since I'm sure my geek rating takes a major nosedive from that, I gotta make up for it by throwing out a random SAT word.

Logorrhea. (Look it up!)

Quikngruvn the Occassionally Logorrheic

[WendellM's edit: "Look it up" link fixed (one too many "http"'s]

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WendellM · #6 August 18th, 2001, 08:15 AM

quote:
Originally posted by dogscoff:
Is that the Blitz Basic on the Amiga? If so that's extra points on the geek-o-meter for using an antiquated cult OS=-)

No - it's actually out for Windows now (see blitzbasic.com if you're interested). However, my first computer was a late-1981 TRS-80 Color Computer which came with BASIC built-in - that's where I learned to program. While I was intrigued by the Amiga when it came out (since it was so well-designed), I had to pass due to its lack of software (also a problem with the Color Computer). I finally replaced my beloved 1 MHz 8-bit CoCo in early 1988 with a PC-clone Tandy 1000 EX (a whopping 7 MHz 16-bit - woo-hoo!). Since then, I've stuck with PC machines at home solely because non-mainstream games (like wargames) show up there more often than anywhere else.

quote:
Originally posted by Quikngruvn:
Quikngruvn the Occassionally Logorrheic

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Try saying "Pepto-Bismol" twice every 4 hours and see if it clears up

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DirectorTsaarx · #7 August 19th, 2001, 01:38 AM

Quikngruvn: I don't program much either; I fooled around with shell scripts & nawk scripts for Unix for a couple years, but changed jobs Last November and haven't needed to do that. I've been designing communication systems instead...

As for clothes, I'm generally a jeans & short-sleeved polo shirt kinda guy. Of course, at work I have to wear button-down shirts and dress pants. I also try to wear as little as possible around the house - fortunately for me, so does my girlfriend...

Anyway, to get back to the original topic for this OT thread: growing up, I always went for Dunkin Donuts. When I moved to Northern Virginia a few years ago, I found a little sole-proprietor shop that sold good donuts (and great apple fritters). But they closed. So I went back to Dunkin Donuts for a while; then my girlfriend introduced me to Krispy Kremes (although we have to get them from the grocery store, 'cause there isn't a KK outlet anywhere nearby). I also like the Entenmann's stuff you can get at the grocery...