Doreen, to be quite honest i gave up trying to work out what gender i am years ago.

put it this way:
* people think my mind is female
* i have just as many problems with time of the month as my sisters, and have for years. i just dont loose blood
* i have been suffering with hot flushes for at least 20 years, and i am not yet 30.

at some point you just have to accept that plumbing isnt the end all and be all of it.

as for my machine, about one every 20 minutes it will stop working TOTALY for about 1 minute. you can move the mouse pointer, but that is it. also i have to reboot one or twice a day on average.

oh, and now i am looking to see if the latest excel crash corrupted the last 3 weeks of solid work again!

you would think given the vibes i must be giving off it would know not to push me today, therefor it must be a standard male. no one else i know can be so totaly obvivious to the blindingly obvious

Doree, the maze is still on going.

basically i am trying to write a program to translate totaly gobblygook into teckno-bable, and back again.

of course, i dont actually have a dictionary or proper definition for either language.

i am trying to perfectly emulate some other translator without knowing how it works. the problem with this is that it is actually two translators chained together, so i am simply skipping the middle stage. this should help, but it doesnt seem that way at the moment.

it would help if the old program would translate on demand, but it wont. unless i give it valid input, it wont do anything. however i dont know what valid input looks like most of the time.

talk about some mad n dimentional maze. the words dont even have constant meanings.

/me *rude sound*

on the "plus" side i do have an example of one language. only thing is it is a 10meg plane text file, with thousands of different examples all jammed together. doing regular expressions on a 10 meg file isnt recormended, it is SLOW

/me wants a cuddle, and for the people around me to go away and leave me in peace

JavaBrain, its nice to see you are back again. it feels like you have been gone for ages.

perhaps your office printer just needs some understanding, and to feel appreatiated?

hmmm well I dunno if I am on the same wavepath as you feline (since you always confuse the hell out of me) hehe

but if your talking about having one program translate the outcome into a diff lingo hit up the main dev?

that's what I did, I said fawgetabowdit I ain't sitting at this machine for a month fighting it.

I went straight to the source and asked the main devs to please please please help me! of course the guys said "Doreen why are you the only one in the County that bugs the hell out of us always looking for stuff no one else does!"
my reply "Cuz I'm different and I need it" of course batting my eyes (girls must use what advantages God gives them)

and now the program I run translates into 7 diff lingos!

I'm so Blessed and Spoiled I cannot stand it sometimes... hehe (but also thankful)

Feline, i didn't actually leave. I was lurking around, but just too busy to post. Work gets in the way every now and then

/me feels happy that I was missed, though!

Lubbing = Loving =P. I think it's a nerdy way of saying it.

Whoa, I thought this thread died

Ahh, nice to be back. I miss this thread so much.

Doreen - hmmm well I dunno if I am on the same wavepath as you feline (since you always confuse the hell out of me) hehe

/me *innocent expression No. 34*
i dont try to confuse you, but the *expression* on your posts is just so cute i cannot help but be happy that it happens.

Doreen - but if your talking about having one program translate the outcome into a diff lingo hit up the main dev?

/me ***sigh***
you have the idea spot on.
i have found that when i try batting my eyes at people they tend to get very worried and then run away.

i did follow your example of using the gifts god gave girls though. only thing was this body has the mental benifits without the cleavage. upshot is that i am the main and only developer working on this. so it is me or no one.


Doreen - I'm so Blessed and Spoiled I cannot stand it sometimes... hehe (but also thankful)

nothing wrong with being spoiled now and then
women and cats deserve to be spoiled on a regular basis

Elf, I don't think this thread will ever die. (Unless T-man or somebody decides it's too big and deletes it)

Actually, i declared this thread dead once, but it came back to life. It's the Frankenstein thread! It's Alive! It's Alive!.....now I have visions of Young Frankenstein in my head.....

Elfkura - Lubbing = Loving =P. I think it's a nerdy way of saying it.

different nerds, different ways of speaking

Elfkura - Whoa, I thought this thread died

/me has plans for this thread *giggle*

JavaBrain - Unless T-man or somebody decides it's too big and deletes it

/me starts creating an emergancy plan to steal T-man's keyboard

no delete key if there is no keyboard

JavaBrain - Feline, i didn't actually leave. I was lurking around, but just too busy to post. Work gets in the way every now and then

/me thinks this is suspicious

however, i have a cunning plan
now that you are back, i could curl up on your lap. this will stop you running off again, and i can hopefully get fed bits of chocolate and cuddled now and then. a win - win solution


JavaBrain feels happy that I was missed, though!

/me *hugs* the returning JavaBrain

Feline, if you were anywhere around me, you could find bits of chocolate. I'm known to be messy, and there is a joke about me wearing clothes that match my lunch so that whatever I spill on myself won't show up.

Here I go, first final tomorrow. Wish me loads of luck everyone. I'm going to need it =/

good luck Elf! just dazzle them with your briliance and everything will go fine

JavaBrain! that is a waste of good chocolate you know!

dracoform says that your hubby should make you eat in the nude. easier and more fun to clean up after eating deserts that way
/me *giggle* *blush*

yikes! you guys have been busy in here! hehe

well goodluck Elf on your final!

feline did you get your prob resolved? or is this stress relief? hehe

Eating in the nude, eh? That would be Ok at home, but I doubt that would fly at work.

Good luck with your final, Elf, I'm sure it will go OK.

I was wondering, how old is everyone who chats on here? I'm starting to feel old. I turn 29 again on Monday. My Mom keeps telling me that I will be 30, but I just can't believe her!

what? you said you turn 29 again on Monday? how many times have you turned 29? hehe

ppl never believe it when they turn 21, 30, 40 and 50 after that maybe it won't matter if we can believe it, probably the hard part will be remembering it... hehe

I better hurry and get to where I think I'm going fast cuz there's not much time left to get there! hehehe
I'm 41 Java (though no body that ask me in person believes me thank God)

/me runs back to school fast to get smart so I can be smart in my casket...
hehe
(sorry grusome humor, you get that working for a hospital)

Doreen, I think I am like that too. Most people think that my Mom is my daughter's Mom, then when i tell them she is *my* daughter, they look at me weird. I always get carded when I buy alcohol, so I must look around 21 to a lot of people. *sigh* I guess it just seems wrong not to be in the "20's" anymore. At least my husband is a year older than me, so that makes me feel better

first thing most wanna know is your age? you tell them and they say "What! no way!" then you say okay I'm 10 does that make you feel better? hehe

age is nothing to get too hung up on, after all we are all moving in the same direction (cept crae he said he is perpetually 16) hehe

at any rate enjoy the minutes & the day, no one is immune to death at any age just look at dredwork he recently passed away at 17 (he was a skinner around these skinning sites Java in case you hadn't heard) plus I look at death alot in diff ways w/ my job both statistically and physically so I know

and what is your age btw are you like 29 X 2 or what? hehe
or did you mean you are 29?

Dorreen, yeah, I had heard about Dredwork. That was really sad. There is a lady on a diet board that I chat with whose husbadn has cancer. He has been fighting it for about a year, and they just quit chemo because it spread to both lungs and to his brain, and they can no longer help him. It's so sad. Makes you take a look at your own mortality.

I will be 30 on May 6th. On June 1st I will celebrate 7 years at Stardock (which, actually, makes me feel older than turning 30), I celebrated my 6 year anniversary with my husband on April 13th (that makes me feel old, too) and I have a 3 1/2 year old daughter (who likes to tell me that I'm old on a daily basis). My husband told my daughter that I will be 10 times her age, so now she has started reminding me of that...*sigh* I think I'll get drunk and stay that way for the weekend. That way, Monday can sneak up on me.

Doreen, i need stress releaf, and this place does the job quite well

as for the problem, progress is slow, but i am getting there.

age?
/me just tells people i am 3

as for moving in the same direction, i was born old (i am assured by my mother), so i have been working on getting younger ever since.