I hope you feel suitably guilty. I bet 70ish guy wouldn't have done that if he hadn't had an audience.

(It is funny though.)

BO-RING

Is that a spoiler? DO I HAVE TO CUT YOU?

Nice rashguard. SHAME i HAVE TO SLICE IT UP.

It's not really a spoiler. What damn chapter are you on now?

Go go 90ish lady!

I think you're oblidged to start surfing now, Ogged.

Do you surf, Rockdog?

I swear I read the title as "The Good, the Bad and the Poo!", and when _gg_d started writing about seniors in the pool, I still thought I'd read it right. I'm a bad person.

I'm on audiobook chapter 206 out of 310.

I'm on audiobook chapter 206 out of 310.

Whatever the fuck that means. I so don't approve of your audio habit. It would have torn us apart if I'd known about before book 7.

chapter 206 out of 310

What does that even mean? Hurry the hell up.

Where do you swim, Ogged? The pool at the local nursing home? Jaysus.

It would have torn us apart if I'd known about before book 7.

You don't even know. Christ.

That is too a spoiler. Shame on you. Redact, redact, cry, redact.

I've been waiting to read the books until the last one came out. Now, thanks to Ogged, my joy is ruined.

Dumbledore hogs all the lanes! Now you know! Mwahahahaha!

Yeah, that scene where Dumbledore splashes water in the toddler Tom Riddle's eyes was just crushing.

It's book chapter 25ish.

I can see it now: Ogged and Matt F console each other over their mutual annoyance about my audiobook habit, realize how much they have in common, and run off together.

Now I feel guilty that I don't take my aunt swimming. Thanks a lot, Ogged.

7: Not anymore, but I used to windsurf.

Not to be pedantic, but the best saints tend to have rough edges. It's not emo kids who preach to sultans and tame wolves.

Seventy-something guy is a complete asshole. I bet he's just a fictional alter-ego you've concocted on whom you can blame all your bad behavior.

I used to windsurf.

Cool. Surfing sounds like fun, but a lot of work. Joeo, among the blogs readers, is a serious surfer.

I used to windsurf.

Cheese-eating surrender monkey.

Seventy-something guy is the Tyler Durden of this blog. All the ways Ogged wishes he could be, seventy-something guy is. He looks like Ogged wants to look, he fucks like Ogged wants to fuck, he is smart, capable, and most importantly, he is free in all the ways Ogged is not.

24: Cheese-eating surrender monkey.

Because I surfed, or because I stopped?

I am ogged's sense of dejection.

Is that why you're so short?

In 1971, O'Neill became one of the first victims of the surf leash (just invented, ironically enough, by his son Pat), when he lost his eye while surfing The Hook in Santa Cruz. O'Neill's bearded mug, now buoyed by a piratical eye patch, became the new O'Neill logo, one that would be recognized the world over.

when _gg_d started

Don't make me ban you, OFE.

Hey, has anyone here seen 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag?

Hey, has anyone here

Don't make me ban you, Teo.

Nice turn of phrase for ending a story, there, Ogged.

Don't make me ban you, Teo.

Somehow I knew that was coming.

That movie is terrible. Watch "Suicide Kings" instead.

24: Cheese-eating surrender monkey.

From the link in 29: You owe "The Cheese" a debt of gratitude.

From the post above this one: if someone has a block of cheese with wires and a detonator

I'm sensing a pattern, like there's some kind of Wisconsin jihad being cooked up here.

Our cover's blown!

Damn it, that's funny, Ned.

Sorry to threadjack, but: Jesus, about your query for beginner programming resources in the other thread: I didn't link this explicitly in the other thread (it's linked from How to Become a Hacker), but having since read a good chunk of it, it's quite good. A little too much of the social/professional aspects and not as much of the technical parts as you'd hope, but what's there is very good, and he carefully explains certain very obvious truths that for some reason most beginner texts never bother to, because they assume a default level of nerdishness and familiarity with the subject.

That movie is terrible. Watch "Suicide Kings" instead.

I have no intention of seeing it, but at lunch today the waitress said I looked like one of the actors in it (whose name she couldn't remember).

This guy, most likely.

39: Thanks, Rockette. That looks like pretty much what I had in mind.

41: That's what I was thinking. Anyone know anything about his role in the movie?

Third head in the bag?

I was hoping for first or second.

42: There is also SICP , well worth a read at pretty much any level.

42: oh, and this for begginer stuff. They are a bit scheme-y, but have good reasons for it, I think.

Anyone know anything about his role in the movie?

He beds waitresses. Sounds like she was coming on to you.

46, 47: Thanks, soubz.

no problem. sorry about the runaway link

SICP rules, and everyone should read it eventually, but I honestly think it wouldn't be very useful at a 'beginning hobbyist who programs for personal projects' level. Just sayin'. Maybe I'm misreading JmcQ, though.

50: well, that's why I added `How To Design Programs', it's more targeted that way. But depending on your background SICP can be a fine place to start. It's an intro level textbook, after all, just a demanding one. I forget JmcQ's background if I ever knew it, so thought I'd throw that out there.

43: "likeable and inept"

also he is in love with Kristy Swanson, if that makes you feel any better.

You can see what you would look like if you were balding, goateed, sullen and institutionalized by watching his character on "Huff".

Thanks, Ned.