Four Island

Oh no, Starla's going to rant again. :) Yes, I've come up with another little mini-rant, this time about "Posting for the sake of posting."

The other day, I was reading a Yahoo! Answers topic called "What were typical foods and drinks in the 16th century?". Most of the answers were helpful, but scrolling down, I found one from "Virgina J" that simply said "WINE I DUNNO". ....if you don't know the answer, then why are you posting?

Spamming, or more specifically, post-count ballooning, is annoying. It, by definition, doesn't help the conversation or topic where it's posted. Pointless posting is a nuisance, mainly propagated by people who want a high post count. I is eating cheeze.

This sort of links in with my "Should I disable post incrementing on A Deck Of Cards" debate. Most fourm games are just so you can post and have fun doing so. Can you say "I LUV 2 BALLO0N MI P0ST COUNT"? I thought so.

Anyway, yes, I'm random. And I finally made that "rant" tag. :)

I love how conversations, or even trains of thought, can go off on random tangents that end up somewhere completely different from where you began. For instance, this morning, I was bored and wanted to do something interesting having to do with a microblog (Automattic's new P2 Wordpress theme is really cool :) ), but I ended up writing an obfuscated C program that calculates a value of Phi. :)

First, I randomly searched Google for some interesting specialized themes, like P2, that could be useful. I found some that emulated Tumblelog, something I've wanted to recently. However, I had no clue what to do with my tumblelog, so I searched for it on Wikipedia and found that the name "Tumblelog" was coined by "why the lucky stiff". That name sounded familiar, so I looked into it by clicking on the link to his Wikipedia page.

Okay, maybe I'm easily sidetracked. :) Anyway, it turned out that he wrote "Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby", which I used when I was learning Ruby. I clicked on the link to his website, for some reason, and was instantly greeted by his latest blog post, something to do with Hello World programs.

Being kind of random, I clicked the link in the post and found a collection of Hello World programs in different languages. I searched for some of the languages I knew, and eventually I found PHP's. Near PHP's was a language called Piet, which drew my attention because it was a graphical language, not a text language. By graphical, I mean that the source code is actually an image, not some text. Those are always interesting. :)

Anyway, I looked around and found some more pretty programs written in Piet, one of them called JAPH. It had no explanation of what it did, and it didn't execute properly on my computer, so I clicked on the link and found myself at a Wikipedia page called Just another Perl hacker.

Apparently JAPH is a meme where you obfuscate Perl programs that say "Just another Perl hacker" and put them in your signature. I tested a few examples that were on the page and was astonished that they actually worked. Now, obfuscated code is fascinating, so I clicked on the "Obfuscated Code" Wikipedia page to find more examples, and even found a step-by-step guide to obfuscating code!

So, I just had to write an obfuscated program. I eventually decided on calculating the Fibbinocci sequence up to 100. It came out nicely and obfuscated, but I wanted more, so I changed it to calculate Phi (which was easy because I already had the Fibbinocci sequence).

Happy with my code, I looked at the tabs I had open in Firefox and suddenly realized that I had gone off on a MASSIVE tangent. I had completely forgotten what I had started out looking for, a fun microblog thing to do. Weird.

Anyway, I feel like I should post my obfuscated C program. This is for last week's poll's Phi-lovers. :)

#include <stdio.h>
_(double __,double ___){__+___<(sizeof(int)!=__LINE__
?~(1<<sizeof(int)*8-1):~(1<<15))?_(___,__+___):
printf("%-10.64f\n",1+__/___);}main(){_(1,1);}

The other day, I was contemplating creating a second blog, you know, for personal use. Because I've noticed that blogs like The S Site, Color Pencils, Dream Weaver, Randomness and Bubble Blog are about the owners, unlike Four Island, which is more about the actual website and its projects.

So, I was wondering, should I create a second blog to be my personal blog? Or should they be the same blog, here at fourisland.com? I mean, both options have advantages. If I integrate them, then Four Island will still be my blog and there'll be more posting. If I create a second blog, I'll be able to seperate a website's updates blog from my own personal blog, which could be good, but it would be harder to have a centralized location I call my own website. Yes.

Anyway, I ask you people, what do you think I should do? And yes, OMG STARLA WROTE A POST. :)

YAY PI! I dun have anything else to say this week, so, CATDOG! :)

3.141 yumminess! - 7 vote(s)! No, Phi is teh cooliness - 2 vote(s)! NO, YOU CATDOG - 0 vote(s)! Indifferent - 1 vote(s)!

Anyway, once again, I'm sorry for post procrastinating. I dun know how to say how sorry I am and how stupid I feel. I think I'm starting to write posts again, but you never know. :(

O_O ....I can't believe this. How could this happen???? Dogs won?!?!??!? dies 15 times Um.... Hi? is scared

Cats - 5 vote(s)! Dogs - 6 vote(s)! O_O I can't choose! - 0 vote(s)! .... I hate all animals! - 0 vote(s)!

Um, okay. Anyway, it's Pi day! 3/14 yay! :) And yesterday was Friday the 13th, which, for some scary reason, is always my lucky day. O_O But yay, because since everyone else finds it unlucky and I find it lucky, the luckiness is not spread amongst many people! (Or so is JAL's theory, because he likes the number 13 :) ) Anyway, happy Pi day! And I am a lazy procrastinator! :(

So......... True Falsities? YAY. I like Four Island projects! And I'm happy people like Pillowcase too. It's my fault no one likes the Sabrina FanWiki, I NEVER WRITE FOR IT cries a lot with cheese

The Sabrina FanWiki - 0 vote(s)! True Falsities - 6 vote(s)! Pillowcase - 3 vote(s)! ANYTHING ELSE - 0 vote(s)!

And O_O I still haven't posted! cries I need to, just NAG me some more and I will! I have some drafts, I just need to finish them and post them! NAGGITY NAGGITY NAG I LIKE CHEESECAKE. :) Hi there!

Like OMG YAY! There's a new Four Island blog! Hosted by Four Island! For a Four Islander! That goes on Four Island! You get the point!

This time, it's called "Bubble Blog" and it's Sammi9494's! This post is really short, but anyway, go visit Bubble Blog!

I'm sorry about the iCarly references, I was iCarly-hyper that day. FRED. Um, ok. So, YAY, people like Pillowcase! Let's examine the results!

I DO, I DO!!!! - 7 vote(s)! Ewww, more people! Get it away! - 1 vote(s)! CABBAGES! - 1 vote(s)! Indifferent - 1 vote(s)!

And yes, I'm really sorry about not having written for either Four Island or The Sabrina FanWiki for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssss. I'm sorry sorry sorry sorrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!! :( cries and runs away

Well, TimTam was badgering me for it (read: agreed when I suggested it in the comment thread of Project FourChat), so I finally implemented it. Peoples and more peoples, you can now edit and delete comments. Of course, only your own. Otherwise people would be evil.

There was just one other thing I was wondering. Should I make it that you can only modify your latest comment on a thread or should you be able to modify any of your comments on each thread? I was thinking that because that way, people couldn't modify the past and ruin the fabric of the space-time continuum and I'm insane so I'll just let you decide, kay?

One other thing was, should I add phpBB's idea of showing the last edited time under each edited comment so people know that it was edited? Just wondering.

OMG That was a short post is sad. It seems like I'm just trying to fill up space! That's not good. Anyway, comment! :)

scoffs Does everyone think I'm a stalker? Noooo, I'm a benevolent overperson of Four Island WHO EATS YOU HAHAHAH. :) Sorry, I'm just a tad hyper. It'll cool off. Hi there, would you like potatoes with that?

Yes :) - 0 vote(s)! No, but I'm OK with that - 3 vote(s)! STALKER - 5 vote(s)! Indifferent - 1 vote(s)!

Anyways, happy Valentine's Day people! And I WILL post, I WILL POST! I have a few posts in my drafts pile, but I needs to finish them! :)