Is it Friday Already?

Weeks go faster in term time. But they also wear you out more quickly. By Friday I'm down to my second knees. Had some good final year project meetings though. I hate it when students say "I can't really program" and then show you a really neat piece of work with graphics and things sliding around the screen. Perhap it is the British knack for self deprecation coming to the fore though.

Went home to a hero's welcome as usual (or at least I think they noticed when I walked in). And fish and chips. And I know which I'd prefer.

The Case of the Missing Key

Well, term is running flat out now and so I'm doing my lecturing thing. Those of you who have actually attended one of my lectures will know what I'm on about (or not). I've started writing programs in lectures to make them more interesting (or not).

Today I took my prized Playstation keyboard in to knock out the C# samples. Went really well until I needed a vertical bar character (it means OR). The Playstation keyboard is built for the US, my tablet is set for UK. And I could not type a vertical bar. Cue a lot of very amusing (at least for the audience) messing around to try and find the dratted thing. Ended up drawing it using the tablet pen. Oh well. At least the programs worked in the end.

May the Force Be With You

We watched Star Wars on DVD tonight. Well, we had to. Like a social duty. We paid to see the film. We we paid to see the special edition. We bought the video version. And we bought the DVD version. George Lucas has sold us essentially the same thing around five times now. Go George.

So Princess Leia stands looking at Han. He holds in his arms the body of her brother, covered in swamp water and other yeccky stuff. She looks into Hans' eyes and says "Why are you giving me such a filthy Luke?".

The film was great fun though. Never realised before that both Luke and Han say "I've got a bad feeling about this" at different points in the film. What dialogue.

We (Oh, alright me then) have been playing a game. I reckon that just about anything can be made to sound authentic and Star Warsy(tm) just by putting the word "Luke" after it. As in "I'm just going to fetch the washing in..... Luke". Of course you have to have the right accent. And finish with "if you strike me down I will become more powerful than you can ever imagine...".