I would say I have fairly advanced knowledge of HTML and CSS. Learned some Visual Basic (though now mostly forgotten), Java (ish), and Turing in school. Done a lot of PHP and MySQL this summer, and I know a little Javascript.
But if I want to write a program — a real program — how do I go about doing this? I mean, I'm just lost. What language am I writing in? And what… compile? Like, it's not a web application. That would be so much easier.
But I've been thinking, there are a lot of little things I wish I could do, and currently use a bunch of programs to do it. Like sorting my music files. I have a bajillion programs, each one to do one little thing. Why can't I just write my own program that does all of it? Displaying files and attributes or whatever shouldn't be all that hard, right?
Learning the language isn't too hard, that all comes easily for me. I know how to use Google so if I run into problems, I can work it out. Not that hard. But where do I start?
On a completely unrelated topic, my phrase of the week is "is that even a question?". I've found myself asking myself this question several times over the past few days. I like to write about these random phrases I come up with, because then it's not so lame, because it's not really an in-joke with myself, it's an in-joke with the entire internet!
The proper time to use this phrase occurs when someone (sometimes yourself, in my case) poses a question with a ridiculously obvious answer, such as "do you think David Lee Roth is hot?", to which you then reply, "what? is that even a question?". Shyeah! And really, Eddie Van Halen is much cuter, but I find that lead singers are just so much easier to, like, objectify, you know? I'm like that with Roger a lot, even though he's really like my least favourite. It's easy with him to be all "zomg chest", you know?
The following exchange occurred between me and Dave today:
Me: Okay Dave, where are you going with this little tirade?… Oh, sex.
Okay, so it was actually a little one-sided. But a little "was that even a question?" could also have gone nicely in there somewhere.
Also, I wanted to note that I find it strange I call David Lee Roth "Dave". Like, I feel like I can't call Steven Tyler "Steve", but I can shorten his name to "David".
Like, Pete Townshend, I wouldn't usually call him "Peter" because most people call him "Pete" anyway. For Peter Tork, he is known as "Peter Tork", but I'd still feel comfortable referring to him as "Pete". Lennon and Entwistle are occasionally Johnny, if I'm in a fangirlish mood. Georgie and Paulie fit in there as well, and Richie sometimes too. Keith may be "Moonie" and Roger may be "Rog", but Pete would never be "Petey". Mike Nesmith is usually just "Mike", "Michael" when I'm angry with him, and "Nez" occasionally. Jim Morrison may be "Jimmy", but Jimmy Page just isn't a "Jim". I quickly adapted the "Sav" moniker for Rick Savage and Vivian Campbell is usually just "Viv".
So what is it with certain people that I feel I can call them by a nickname or a cutesy name, but others must be referred to by their full name? I suppose because in some of Van Halen's songs, David is referred to as "Dave", like on "The Monkees", Micky will sometimes call Peter "Pete", so it's okay for me to do it too. I don't know if I've actually heard Monsieur Tallarico (aka Tyler) referred to as "Steve", so I can't actually call him that. Or is it as simple as the name just doesn't fit the man? I don't know. Moving on…
In case you couldn't tell, I've been in a Van Halen mood recently. And zomg (my current favourite word), I loved the dancing bit in the "Hot For Teacher" video. BWHAHA. Also, it is going to be tough for me to not purposely be late for class, so I have an excuse to say "I don't feel tardy". But really, teachers don't say "tardy" anymore, so it would kind of just be a waste.
Or the start of a life as a rebel! Oh yes! Fun!