Today I heard on the radio the term "Turbo / Ozone style" in relation to a school formal that one of the radio DJ's daughter is going to, and the really sad thing here is that I understood the reference.

"I don't want to see the power and prestige of the United States president put at risk by rushing into meetings with the likes of [Venezuelan president Hugo] Chavez and [Cuban president Fidel] Castro and [Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad," Clinton told CNN Thursday. "I think we have to be absolutely clear that we are going to engage with the world, that we are not afraid to have diplomacy."

'nuff said.

Yoinked from letloverule42 :

Step 1. Put your playlist on random.
Step 2. Post the first a line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrasing.
Step 3. Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly. NO GOOGLING.

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Because I got tagged by pktaxwenchWhat does your username mean?

There is a long story behind it... I guess I have to go into it now...

OK, if we break it down, we have the first three letters "foo", which if you are a computer geek like me you will recognize very quickly as being one of those garbage variables that you use when you don't know what else to call it. "bar" is the other one, and of course together they produce the word "fubar", which any military person will be able to give you a proper definition of.  :)

So, that is where the foo part of my username comes from... now for the rest. Well, for a while I was using Foo as a nickname in some chat channels, but I found that this was entirely too popular and there were a lot of nick collisions. So I add a "z" to the end because other letters just didn't seem to work. Now we have "Fooz".

Now, from here, we go back even further into history.... anyone remember the movie "The Great Santini" with Robert Duvall? Yes? I knew you all would. Well, in once scene in this movie, Robert Duvall says quite grandly, "I... AM... THE GREAT SANTINI!"  This just naturally went over to providing me with an extended nick of Foozini, so that I could go around and say "I....AM.... THE GREAT FOOZINI!"

OK, kind of trite and silly. Whatever. It works, and that is why I have that as a username now.

Oh, and "Wells" was taken at the time. There is a whole other story concerning that username, which I won't go into here because that is NOT what the question asked.  :P

What is your default icon and why?

It's a penguin. Actually, it is a picture of a large statue of a penguin somewhere in New Zealand.

I have a bit of an affinity towards penguins, mainly because the penguin is the mascot of the linux operating system, from which I derive my work and life earnings these days.

The words "Penguin Lust" on the side were just something I came up with one day. It throws people off a bit, perhaps. I dunno. I gave up on coming up with new icons years ago and just stuck with this one. I do have to admit that I have a new icon on another BBS system which is a picture of a MIRV reentry through the clouds, but the only reason I have that is because it is pretty.  :)

Now.... who to tag.... who to tag...

alicia_kembrey, e_heidi_liz, kikipuddie, slingchrist

Actually, I know at least the origins of one of those, but I think it would be fun for others to hear regardless.

So, it looks like Rowling has given her blessing on a theme park concerning Harry Potter...

here is a sketch of it: http://mugglenet.com/viewer/?image_location=/officialpw_poster.jpg

Sad.... so sad.

With thanks to Alicia... ;)

You Belong in Australia

Ace! Sunny, upbeat, and cute You make the perfect surf bum Now stop hogging the vegemite!

'nuff said. :)

So today I got a bit silly with coding. See, right now there is a big push for learning recursion in object oriented programming in this class I am taking, to the point where the professor will not let us use traditional loops in any of our programs... we MUST use recursion. This despite the fact that a for loop comes very naturally to me in its implementation, and doesn't bother me a bit in how it handles things... Oh well...

Anyway, I got so bored with it that I rewrote the multiplication operator so that it uses recursion to multiply two numbers together...

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And then, to get more rediculous, I also implemented some convergence code that the professor told us about a couple of weeks ago. This is something that apparently has not actually been proven by mathemeticians...

The idea is this: Take a positive integer... any positive integer.

If it is even, divide by two.

If it is odd, multiply by three, then add one.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Apparently this always converges on one, though mathemeticians have not yet been able to actually prove this.

So I wrote code that actually implements it:

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