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Programming comes home

Since I have enough free space on my hard drive now, I finally installed Microsoft Visual Studio. That means I can continue the work I started in Programming class last semester and keep my programming skills sharp in the meantime.

So, remember when I made a note to myself to make a slot machine game when I got the chance? Come on, it wasn’t that long ago. Anyway, this morning I started working on it, and now it’s here for you to download. It’s pretty pathetic, but it’s about the best I could do. The name reflects that, too: CheezySlots. (I intend for future programs to fall in the same area: CheezyCalculator, CheezySpreadsheets, CheezyChess, etc.) You need to have the .NET Framework 1.1 for it to work, so it’s for Windows XP only (most likely). But I think that if you update Windows regularly, you’ll have the right version of .NET. We’ll see, won’t we?

Anyway, if you really want to try it out and poke fun, you can download it here.

Last night I went to a really tiny Italian restaurant with my sister and her friends. I thought I’d bring my TV-B-Gone because I figured I’d kick myself if I didn’t. It turns out there was a multitude of TVs at the place. It was so small that we had to wait outside for our table because there was no room to wait inside. If you stood by the desk thing, you’d be blocking the doorway.

We were standing outside when I saw, through a window, a TV directly in view. I turned it off. When we got to our seats, I saw another. And as I looked around, I could see seven of them. They were all playing a DVD of scenes of Italy (of course). I managed to get a few of the ones that were closer to me (there was a big screen TV across the room, but the remote couldn’t reach it). And when I turned one on that I had previously turned off, the same signal also turned off another TV of the same model. They were a pretty good distance from each other, so I was surprised. But after messing with the TVs, we left with all of them on as they had been.

The food was all right. My dish, Pasta Con Pesto, consisted of ziti with pesto sauce, sun-dried tomatoes, pine nuts, and shrimp. I swear the menu mentioned nothing about shrimp. But I reluctantly ate it anyway. I’ve never liked the stuff; well, I tried it when I was little and I didn’t like it, so I had never tried it since. It doesn’t really have much of a taste. Or those particular ones didn’t, at least.

When you use your credit card, does anyone check the signature on the receipt with the one on your card? John Hargrove decided to find out by pulling his Credit Card Prank in which he experiments with rather creative signatures.