so i have been good, i have worked and stuff. but i needed a reward, there there whatta good lizard here's a biscuit. or in this case, gathering much of my various poem--type things in one place, one of those multitudinous extra URLs i have laying around.
liz2
alrighty then back to actual work.
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oh but i have to majorly update this. after the ... refreshing drive, i came back to the same thing that was kicking my ass all afternoon -- i set up liz2 to reject any $id not specifically intended for display, but there was a bit of beastly if this and either that or the other unless of course involved in getting it to kick back a smartass answer to people deliberately trying to snoop, while being polite and welcoming to those who were behaving themselves. it was an afternoon of thump thump thump (head vs. brickwall).
and i came home, and i gave the code a couple of quick twists, things i swear to you i tried already a million times this afternoon, it just ... worked.
besides drives in the country, there's just nothing finer than a nice smartass algorithm.
You really really really should get some more URLs.
Good lizard. Good lizard. Back away from Dotster now. That's it. Slowly. Slowly.
Oh, to hell with it.
oh my
and liz� has a favicon. which works all sucky in IE of course unless you bookmark it and even then (it helps that it's a one page site) -- opera, ns and mozilla all love the favicons. i would say ie sucks ass, but that's just too nice a compliment.
Now you're talking my language young'an, algorithyms thats reall programmer talk that is.
back when we had codemechs, and code crunchers, i was a maintenance programmer, we fixed the grandfather and fathercodes, while the code mechs worked on the daughter code(running on the offline machine) and the crunchers made new code for us to break.
anywhoo good job, when you gonna register that thing anyway.
well, it's a small matter of [insert amount of overdraft] vs [smog check, registration, past due fees]. i'm just now getting to the point on my personal projects where i can send out bills, and otherwise i have a part time job and full time expenses.
so, um, soon i hope? if they pull it over it goes byebye to the impound yard forever and ever, amen.
luckily it's a 7 year old grey buick gramma car and as such virtually invisible. not only is it stealth, but with 205 horsepower, as soon as i'm out of sight i'm out of mind, too. mmhmm. believe me that does help. also i use the force. not the police force, the other force. these aren't the droids you're looking for. move along.
I'm a tidarian, your jedi mid trick will not work with me only money, no money no smog check. no smog check no registration, no registration ..... I have no idea where I'm going with this...Hmm over here 7 years old aint that old, we still have cars on the road here pre war, thats ww1 bub. The hun and all that. how much does all that rego stuff cost over there in the land of the free and the brave? over this side of the pacific ocean, the smog costs about 150 per test and the rego on a 205 hp engine would cost 650 and then theres the insurance and road tax etc... So we just dump them beside the road and let the local boys tow em away. Most of our cars/automobiles now come from japan second hand, you can get a V8 toyota with 450 hp for about US$12000, or a 1800cc twin turbo mazda capella for US$4500. they would be all about three years old.
Was that the 118? or was it another?
the 118 is a highway. the buick is a regal custom, leather power air premium sound cruise tilt aluminum rims little remote gadget to open stuff and she might be a bit long in the tooth as far as GM cars go at ≈ 120K miles, but her 6 cylinder 3.8 will get up and straight up boogie. she drives like a rock'n'roll car but if i leave the turn signal on and don't turn, she understands and reminds me. oh the surprised looks on the upscale performance sedan drivers' faces when we're both zoomin' up the onramp and i kick in the afterburner and whoosh and byebye bimmer.
i appreciate the hell out of my nondescript little grannycar.
zoom zoom zoom
'cause it ain't just the horses, it's the torque and the gear ratios and she's got those, she makes some v8s i've known look positively sluggish.
except my camaro. [moment of silence for 85 berlinetta 5 liter with a 4 bbl rochester carb and a 4 speed automatic with a shift kit got scratch in the first three] oh my god there is nothing like the sound of a healthy smallblock chevy when it's pressing you back in the seat like that.
So you went and tried out the 'beam me up scottie machine' and came out as jeff, you sound just like a petrolhead. my fav. is a 302 windsor, with dual twin barrell hollies, crager cam and c4 box in a vauxhall viva, it fitted uner the bonnet so snug, there was no way of knowing it was a v8 until you lit it up, oh and i did have a little bit of nitrous too, just for the drag strip mind you , officer. 9.975 quarters. nice. then we had kids. it got sold as parts yep yep yep, i'd just kill myself today in a thing like that, and you'd never geta compliance certificate anyway, it had over 600 hp at peak rpm. the poor wee engine ended up in a truck hauling potatoes, got me money back for most of the rest. camaro's were just too difficult to get here, we drive on the other side of the road don't you know. sounds a nice machine, We must play in the cybertraffic again with jeff/nancy come some quiet weekend.
memories: a 352 cleveland in a 71 torino holyfuckingshit. almsot terrifying.
1973 cougar xr7 with a 400. mercury therapy = driving down the freeway 125mph screaming at the top of my lungs. i miss that car.
first car i ever drove was a 1968 LTD wagon (i was 12) (i convinced my parents if they ever both had heart attacks in the desert i ought to know how to drive, so they let me) with a 389. second car i ever drove a 1976 econoline van with a 460. then it was a chevy cheyenne (also 1976, the ford caught fire) with a 454. that right there is why i dropped out of college. hello? cruise past the strip and go to school and not cruise in this huge shiny new parentmobile? please. then i had a chevy 70 nova with a ... ok it wasn't a 302. 289? it was ... it didn't last long.
the ford van was named bluebird. i wrote it a poem when it passed away. the truck was named green goddess. i once had sex with my boyfriend in the back of it on the freeway with my parents driving.
i have a car thing. auto-erotic = auto. erotic.
oh lordy and the 76 vette. goodgod. oh man. she was 25 when i drove her. i ... i ... that car and i were meant to be together. but i'll settle for another camaro. it's the midlife crisis car plan, at this time.
You are indeed, an auto erotic number, wow. my thing was really bikes, although i kinda gave up on the need for speed one day going 120mph on a long straight road, looked in the mirror, road clear for a mile looked ahead clear for 5 then a little yellow car went by like i was standing still. it pissed me off so much i just throttled back and looked at the scenery. when i go to the ferry there it was a lotus espirit, cosworth 2litre engine twin turbos and shiny yellow paint. kinda puts you off. so i took up flying, and now i can go 300mph and no tickets.
Awww, now thats a nice collection.
I especially liked the love sonnet.
you are such a sweet thing.
i didn't go there, i've been trying to work and the microtime post turned about fivehundred words and quite linear at that so ... i've been um, distracted? i'll go look.
So far, "myth and women" is it. I wish it had a tune
i have pictures too.
yeah, the things i do while driving. making those people talking on cell phones look like pikers.
i don't drive fast, i fly low. and i'm fine with that, i mean, airplanes are cool and all but i can fly in my dreams, and no aircraft could ever compare to that. didn't start being able to fly in dreams till i turned 40. i'm so random tonight. all that code's got me seeding the random generator with microtime, or something.
shit there's a whole post just in that phrase. the microtime one. huh.
shit girl you better patent that one, before Micros0ft tm wants to use it. The microtime language by Liz, just short, sharp, posts, thank, you, sir. all in microtime. tm Liz(ard) the fabulous.
I say that flying is better than sex, and cheaper, and the plane never has a headache for ten years....i love doing it upsidedown and vertical. actually that goes for both... did you see my comment in the on above this one ie the pix of highway 118?