On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 12:51:44PM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 16:41, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 02:35:34PM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > > Why are you attending youth group meetings? > > > > The church my family goes to has a youth group for teenagers. My > > parents decided that I need to socialize with kids my own age, so they > > "suggested" (it was voluntary, but I figure resistance is futile) that > > I join. So I did. *shrug* > > Is resistance truly futile? Perhaps you should resist and find out. Yes, it is. I don't know about youth group (once I volunteered to go, my parents were like, "Oh, good! See, now if you don't like it, you can just drop it and stop going." That's why it's better to just go with it sometimes, instead of resisting); but I tried that with gym class (I'm home-schooled now, so when my mom and I go to the local gym, that's my gym class), and I literally got kicked out the door one morning when I decided that I just didn't want to go to gym class-- I had been up late the night before (reading a really good sci-fi book or playing with/hacking my then-brand-new computer), so I decided that I was going to try my darndest to get left home to sleep; instead I got booted out the door. Don't get me wrong, I probably did deserve it, and it just woke me up, but... getting kicked in the butt is a good deterrent, you know? :\ So, in my family, resistance is totally, indubitably futile. > > > > "ISP? What's that?" Someone seriously asked me that. "Computer > > > > language? You mean you're learning how to talk to computers? How do > > > > you talk to them?" *sigh* Those quotes from the future of > > > > America... *rolls eyes* > > > > > > It's not sufficiently cool to know things like that. Hence, they don't > > > know. When (if) they grow up and coolness loses its relevance, they'll > > > grow more knowledgeable in that area, at least to the degree of knowing > > > what an ISP is. > > > > Hmm... I hope so. If not... *shudder* > > Well, there will always be bums, but I suspect you won't have much > contact with them later in life, unless you're a police officer. Or either a sysadmin or doing tech support. Except then they're not called 'bums', they're 'lusers' or 'lu^H^Hcustomers'. :P > > > Amen. I'm glad at least some members of your gender have some degree of > > > sanity. :P > > > > *grin* Yeah, well, my mom is trying to train me to be 'insane' > > (normal) like that. Help! ;) (HHOS) > > She's not succeeding, is she? *grin* Nah. Not to the point of being able to rationalize having 7 pairs of sandals, all various shades brown, anyway. Though I am realizing that not all 'nice' dress clothes are uncomfortable (before September, I wore strictly t-shirts and jeans (and I thought my 'schemer two' shirt with the lambda on it was really cool :)), and that clothes shopping isn't *so* bad. But I'd still rather be hacking. :) > > Hmm... about 50/50 here-- 50% verbal, 50% physical. Still have a scar > > on my leg where a boy kicked me in 6th grade, in fact. :( > > Ouch. Must have been pretty hard to leave a scar. Yeah-- the boy kicked a ~1/2-1 in. chunk out of my left shin; incidently, my homeroom/science teacher was standing ~5 ft. away, and didn't say or do anything until I was bleeding all over the place and all but curled up in the corner trying to fight him off. Then, when she saw how the fight was going to end up, she just walked over, grabbed the boy's arm and said "Now, Brandon, you know that wasn't very nice..." blah, blah, blah, walked him to his bus, and just totally ignored me (she didn't like me-- I argued with her that global warming didn't really exist, or if it did, we have nothing to do with it, and that the Mars rock didn't have Martian bacteria, that was just a way for NASA to get funding), leaving me to limp off to dance class. >:( Still makes me mad... > > > because physical attacks generally failed. ;) I was still quite shy, > > > though. Verbal abuse is much harder to defend against, and almost as > > > effective. > > > > Definitely. You can duck a punch or throw someone off balance if > > they're kicking you; there's not much you can say to a bully that'll > > faze them, especially if you're not good at thinking on your feet > > (like me). > > Try to lure bullies into close proximity with someone that's protective > of you, preferably someone with authority, like a teacher you're on good > terms with. Try to lead them all to the same individual every time. That Sometimes, in middle school, that was kinda tough... (See above.) > way, that one person will be an eyewitness (earwitness?) to a lot of > what you're taking, and your attackers are likely to get a firm > ass-kicking once your protector gets fed up with it. Heh. Or, if you play flute, you might luck out and the wrong person will pick the wrong day at the wrong time to mess with you-- whip out the flute case, *whap* *whap* *whap*, instant celebrity. _No_ _one_ messes with you after that. *grin* Unfortunately, I didn't luck out like that until April of 8th grade, and school ended in May (I was pulled out of public school for high school, went to private school for 2 years, now I'm being homeschooled). Ah, well-- sic est vita. *shrug* Hmm, I've got to get back to playing flute... On a totally random note-- has anyone ever tried dissecting the kernel and playing with it? See, I can understand the C parts, for the most part-- I'm pulling apart the bits that are in assembly, trying to figure those out. Does anyone know where I can get some good information about the internals of the kernel? Preferrably for free, online, having no money for a $40 O'Reilly book. :( TIA. -- Vikki Roemer Homepage: http://www.2khiway.net/users/vroemer Registered Linux user #2880021 http://counter.li.org/ "Just because you're not paranoid, that doesn't mean they're not out to get you." (ripped from someone's slashdot .sig) PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1 B1D8 5CE0 1578 Keyserver: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT d-(?) s: a--- C++++(++) UL++++ P+>++++ L+++>++++ E>++ W++ N+ o? K- w--() O? M? V?(-) PS+(+++) PE++(+++) Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5 X-() R*(?) tv-- b+++(++) DI+ D--(?) G e-(*)>+++++ h! r-- x? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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