Posted by christophrejmc on March 7, 2002, at 21:14:43
In reply to Re: Rewriting » christophrejmc, posted by IsoM on March 7, 2002, at 17:58:31
> Chris, excuse for me for being snoopy (I like to think curious),
No need to excuse yourself!
> but why would you have to rewrite the previous message you wrote? What would you do wrong? Or do you simply mean correcting a phrase here & there?
I do a lot of phrase corrections, but I also deleted the entire thing twice... It just didn't look right (then it looked too right -- if that makes any sense at all).
> Do you like to write too, or are you more interested in programming & related topics?I used to love to write, but lately whatever I write ends up sounding bad. I try to blend genres and add silly things like functions or symbolic logic to the story. Sometimes it works -- sometimes it doesn't. I guess I've been reading too much GEB ("Godel, Escher, Bach"). Programming probably contributes to this problem; I often have to rewrite a function several times for certain optimisations.
> BTW, I talked to my son & he says there's lots of programming done without using Window format. Many companies use Linux & Unix. It's the smaller companies that tend to stick with safe Windows stuff.
That's true in a lot of areas, unfortunately not mine. I could probably get an admin job (ick), but I would probably be bored to death. The only places I've seen that appeal to me require at least a B.A. in compsci or a decent amount of experience. One of my former high-school teachers has a tech job now and might be able to get me some work doing db stuff, but I haven't done SQL in a while. It's also quite hard to do any kind of programming when I'm depressed (I haven't done it for months).
Have you seen the "Kids in the Hall" skit where they're looking all over their apartment for something to eat (after not being satisfied by a single pea they split three ways) and they wonder if their college degrees are edible? I feel the same way right now (except w/o B.A.).
-chris
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