Doc Brown or Creepy Guy from work???

As soon as I saw him, I started laughing. He seemed like he was wandering the halls looking for his next victim.

I spoke to him and his face brightened up! This is what he said…

A guy walked into a store and asked them if they had any t-shirts.
The store worker said no.
So the guy asked him if they had any coffee shirts.

I actually gave him a chuckle at that one. This time, he walked away pleased instead of sad and mumbling to himself like I usually prefer he does.

A guy goes into a restaurant and orders a club sandwich. They give him two slices of bread and a baseball bat.

(mumbles) So much for that one.

He was talking to some lady in front of me in the cafeteria line. He walked up out of nowhere and started telling her the joke. He kinda glanced back at me while he was telling it. I was dumbfounded that he was telling another corny joke. It seems like that’s his thing.

I knew I should look away but I couldn’t help but stare. Until he got to the very end and the lady he was talking to did her nervous laugh. Then he started looking for someone else to share in his glory. I stared at the ceiling until he walked away mumbling to himself.

I haven’t programmed in C++ in a good while. Life was good. I was using Visual Basic .NET and a smidge of C# and SQL stuff. Sounds like fun huh???

If your eyes are glazing over and your brain is shutting down already, you can skip to the end of this post and check out an update.

With this new team, I have to program in C++ on a Ubuntu Linux machine. I haven’t used Linux or Solaris since college. It sucked then. Surprisingly, it still sucks.

Anyway, I haven’t programmed in C++ in forever. I forgot how to use it. I had to google search the syntax for an “if statement” (one of the simplest things ever).

So I was trying to do a printf on a string. That basically means I was trying to output text to the screen. But apparently printf doesn’t work too well with strings and I was getting a wicked warning that looked like this:
warning: cannot pass objects of non-POD type ‘struct std::string’ through ‘…’; call will abort at runtime

I had no idea what it meant and figured it was just a warning so I could ignore it. But that makes the program not work at all. Hence the mention of abortion.

What I had to do was use the c_str method. Whatever the variable name was, I had to change it to:
variablename.c_str()

Fascinating!!!

***Update on the Cat Piss Plant’s Performance***

My cat piss pot is THRIVING!!! I took these pictures last night.

I saw him in the hall last Thursday as I was walking to the gym at work. He said hey to me. (I wonder if he remembers telling me that horrible joke.) I asked him, “Harya?”, like I say to everyone I see in the hallway that isn’t too scared to make eye contact. He told me that he’s “making progress… I think…”

I wanted to drop to the floor right there in the middle of the hallway. I think I ruptured my spleen trying to hold in the laughter. Most people say I’m alright or good or something generic. He actually told me how something in his life is actually going. I think if I stopped, he would’ve told me his whole life story and how he feels that now, at 85 years old, he thinks he’s finally making progress in his waste of an existence.

Is that evil enough for ya??? I’m working on it.

“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs. … Sentences of this type, although not in such a refined form, have been known for a long time. A classic example is the proverb “Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you”.

wikipedia link

I usually steer clear of him but when I saw him the other day, he was leaning against a wall in the direction that I was going. He was reading a bulletin board and started walking as I turned the corner. He was far enough ahead of me that I figured it would be safe to walk at my current pace.

But NO!

He turned and looked at me with a Gargamel-esque grin. He stopped directly in front of the lab that I was about to infiltrate!

I’ll admit, I did get a bit apprehensive even though the guy probably weighs 57 pounds.

He said to me, “You know, the Romans sure had a lot of gall.”

I said, “Uh… why’s that?”

He said, “You know Gaul… with Caesar… they seized it.”

I said, “Ohh… (nervous laughter because he might rip my throat out of my neck with his toenails).” And I immediately leapt behind him for the lab door.

But I did hear him mumble, “Well, so much for that one.”

He’s going to eat me for lunch one day.

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