Depending on where you're at of course. Some have the authority to have it done for you and bill you for it.

[John]

I didn't even know there was a 4, much less a 5 coming.

[John]

That's because your employer is paying to you work. So whatever you do on the company's time belongs to the company. At University, you're paying to go and learn. I would expect to own anything I created while at University.

[John]

I did a bunch of C programming back in the late 80's. I tried to wrap my head around Windows programming (I bought several releases of the Petzold books) but failed, mainly due to lack of interest. I haven't done much C since then. Mostly scripting (ksh is my preference) and lately doing LAMP work. Of course this is from the mid 90's or so. I imagine it would have a bunch of extra stuff if it were updated. For instance, no python code.

BTW, I love the Wee Free Men books and wish there were more :D

[John]

Well, only by accident. He thought it was a rubber bat, not a real bat.

[John]

It's been a while so I had to make a few updates but here's my old Geek Code:

-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
    Version: 3.1
GIT d-- s+:+ a++ C++++ UB++++$ UL++++$ UH++++$ US++++$ U*++++$
P++ L+++ E--- W+++ N++ !o K w+ O M++ V PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5 X++
R+++ tv+ b++++ DI++++ D++ G++ e h+@ r+++(%) r+++(%) y++++(--)
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

[John]

Looks like mostly Geek with some Nerd tendencies (I'm not anti-social, just prefer solitude in general).

[John]

The ones provided by the followup links to your SE post seem pretty good in general (and have given me a few ideas for my site :) ). You're welcome to go take a look at mine if you like:

dga dot shadowrun dot us

Feel free to create an account and let me know; dungeon-master (at) rocketmail dot com

I can escalate your privs and let you poke at the back end.

It was a quick; 3 or 4 week project right after the convention while I got the site up and working as a functioning proof of concept for the convention organizers. So mods can be made or I can even throw it to the wolves over on sourceforge :)

[John]

Of course (see Journal :) ).

[John]

Last time I checked, I was still credited in the nethack credits even though I didn't do a whole lot really. I was mentioned in a StarTrek game article in one of the gaming magazines for a StarTrek game I wrote back in the late 80's. My name was on several PCBoard BBS plugin games.

Over the years I've written a bunch of little utility programs. Several for 3+Share back in the early late 80's for managing the 3+Menu config files and for across domain user and group administration (you had to change domains to manage users and groups in a different domain).

Most of what I write nowadays is either unix scripts for managing hundreds of systems or web sites. After the fiasco that was the most recent gaming convention in town, I whipped up a much better site making it easier to create and manage conventions and events. I offered it to the organizers but they turned it down. Still, it was a fun project :)

[John]

Why not, it's the same reasoning. 'gas' from 'gasoline' vs 'petrol' from 'petroleum'. And 'gas' is one syllable vs 'petrol' which is two.

[John]

For the first, I don't drink. Second, I'm one of those guys who has a hard time functioning in crowds. Too much input and I tend to get headaches and migrate to the edges, then out the door and into the cool, dark night. Even when gaming at the local shop (think loads of kids playing Pokemon, Yu-gi-o, Magic, Warcraft, or Ki-ju-do (sp) depending on the day) and I can only handle a couple of hours and only when concentrating on the game in front of me.

And heck, if you want to go that way I could just find a prostitute. It might even be cheaper :)

[John]

I'm not sure why the guy would care. My comment reflects my[0] experience dealing with the opposite sex, especially when it comes to sex. It's a long complicated process of wooing and courtship just to get to the point where you have the opportunity for sex, then further complexity in the relationship with more courtship and ritual posturing to again have the opportunity for sex.

Honestly, while I do enjoy sex. It's really a complicated and time intensive process that rarely turns out like I'd like. All things being equal, I'd rather be debugging a tcp session (which has been fun, let me say) or crafting a new function on one of my website projects (very satisfying).[1]

[John]

[0] Just to emphasize, this is my experience. Your experience may be totally different. You might have a mind meld with your partner and have glorious, orgasmic sex nightly with no emotional baggage or brain chemistry imbalances. Not everyone is like me, not everyone is like you.
[1] Which might explain why I've been divorced twice ;)

It's the same issue with smartphones. I have an iPhone. I haven't paid a lot for the apps I have, but I'd still have to rebuy them if I went with an Android even assuming the same apps were available.

I've had my xbox360 since Dec 26, 2011 and had no problems even though I play Rocksmith for an hour or two just about every night and most weekends. I don't play any other games though (I do have Battlefield 2 and Doom 3 but have played both one time I think).

[John]

I know I prefer it. Nothing screws up good sex like a second (or more) person.

I do like how you associated not being interested in competing with twitchy 13 year olds with nothing better to do all day with being anti-social. Like being "social" is interacting with someone over the internet. I think you really need to get outside more and be "social" with people and not a disembodied voice over a bluetooth headset.

[John]