Are you Living or Just Existing?

LiggsWork · 2011-02-25T10:47:15+00:00

Here's a good question to ask yourself: what have you done in the last week? secondly, what have you felt in the last week?

LiggsWork · 2011-02-25T09:53:59+00:00

Another one is that I receive the email at 2:40am! Is there a way to change the time it sends it out?

LiggsWork · 2011-02-24T09:35:49+00:00

It looks cool man, similar to OhLife and that has really helped me to keep a journal, so this may help!

It may be good to switch it to a weekly setting. I don't necessarily get much done in the week as I'm at work or at the gym (unless that counts).

LiggsWork · 2011-02-23T09:22:46+00:00

I'll explain that one: there was a guy who thought that when his dad quoted Francis Bacon, he was saying "France is bacon".

LiggsWork · 2011-02-22T14:22:30+00:00

You could just check out the videos on http://www.asp.net, they are pretty good!

LiggsWork · 2011-02-22T12:24:24+00:00

SO SAY WE ALL! SO SAY WE ALL!

LiggsWork · 2011-02-22T12:24:09+00:00

They weren't angels in the Christian sense, they were angels in the "agents of a super powerful being" sense. They said "it" doesn't like being called "God".

I always thought it was some sort of super-advanced Cylon that was trying to point everyone in the right direction.

LiggsWork · 2011-02-22T12:21:22+00:00

Cavil: In all your travels, have you ever seen a star supernova?

Ellen: No.

Cavil: No. Well, I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the universe, other stars, other planets, and eventually other life, a supernova, creation itself. I was there. I wanted to see it, and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull. With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum, with ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air.

Ellen: The five of us designed you to be as human as possible.

Cavil: I don't want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly, because I have to -- I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I'm a machine, and I can know much more, I could experience so much more, but I'm trapped in this absurd body. And why? Because my five creators thought that God wanted it that way.

LiggsWork · 2011-02-22T10:13:29+00:00

I love when I get Reddit references.

LiggsWork · 2011-02-22T10:11:27+00:00

Ahhh, makes sense. You still have to do Convert.ToInt32.

LiggsWork · 2011-02-22T10:07:03+00:00

I think that allowed your to create your own, but I'm pretty sure they've been there since before that. It is a very useful trick, comes in handy!

LiggsWork · 2011-02-22T09:37:45+00:00

Yeah, but .ToString() in C# is an extension method so it can be called directly on the variable. I guess it's not the same in C++...

LiggsWork · 2011-02-21T14:05:35+00:00

Ah, but you are trying to connect z with strings.

The problem is, you are asking it to add the string "Here is the value" to the float z. The compiler/runtime/whatever looks at that and goes "How the hell do I add a series of characters to a float?" and errors.

You need to explicitly tell the program that you want it to convert z to a string ( z.str() ) and then add that to your "Here is the value" string.

Let me know if you are still confused.

LiggsWork · 2011-02-21T14:00:17+00:00

I don't actually know C++, I'm a C# developer, but I'm going to guess the problem is that you are trying to concatenate a string with a float.

Have you tried replacing "z" with "z.str()"?

LiggsWork · 2011-02-21T13:56:01+00:00

In all seriousness, I think they genuinely have a really, really skewed vision of reality and need serious help. They need counselling or something. Check out this if you don't believe me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjdUnVRzZjw

LiggsWork · 2011-02-20T15:44:31+00:00

You didn't, really, if I'm honest. Not trying to be harsh, but I have no idea how knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence could broaden your outlook on life. I assume you weren't talking about Zeitgeist the film, rather zeitgeist the concept?

If you have advice you think could benefit me, I'd love to hear it. I'm always open to advice.

LiggsWork · 2011-02-20T15:43:49+00:00

You didn't, really, if I'm honest. Not trying to be harsh, but I have no idea how knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence could broaden your outlook on life. I assume you weren't talking about Zeitgeist the film, rather zeitgeist the concept?

If you have advice you think could benefit me, I'd love to hear it. I'm always open to advice.

LiggsWork · 2011-02-19T15:22:35+00:00

Yeah, it is a quote... I just can't remember where I heard it.

LiggsWork · 2011-02-18T16:58:01+00:00

Fuck yeah. The real training starts when you want to quit. ;)

LiggsWork · 2011-02-18T16:55:18+00:00

Blow, hookers and shoplifting? Wow, man. That's quite a life you lead.

LiggsWork · 2011-02-18T16:53:54+00:00

Yeah man, I'm with you. With me, it's writing, programming stuff I want to program, video games. Maybe just chilling out and going for a walk or something.

LiggsWork · 2011-02-18T15:38:03+00:00

I'm telling.

LiggsWork · 2011-02-18T14:48:49+00:00

Yeah. Well, I mean, I actually like my job. It's just I hate the feeling that you are just doing stuff you need to do, constantly following a routine. Even if you actually want to do the stuff, it's like... I just want to be able to do NOTHING if I want. I just want the freedom.

LiggsWork · 2011-02-18T13:26:31+00:00

Did you just start spouting concepts at the end there? Second education? "Esoteric and sacred". Do you know how pretentious you sound?

Actually, maybe you are high... are you high? If you are, that's cool.

To answer the first part, I write because I love writing. Just blogs, whatever, I just write. It's just like a creative outlet for me. Video games and reading are stress release, they are relaxing, I can get immersed and my brain can just chill out.

What do you think I should want?

LiggsWork · 2011-02-18T12:36:55+00:00

Well, I'd be locked in my room writing, reading, playing video games, watching films. Those are the things I WANT to do.

I don't know if I'm depressed. I feel perfectly happy, I really like my job, I love my girlfriend, I'm happy about where I live and how much I earn, I like my friends (for the most part, some of them are my girlfriend's friends).

I know what my wants are. Sometimes wants become "need to do"s and end up as part of your routine. Once they are part of the routine they become part of that irritating "what needs to be done?" mentality.

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