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Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the Earth Yet?

Yeppers.

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Tags: Politics, Things that Grow Rapidly, Abstract, TeenLUG, News, Computers, Inter-tubes by Tuna
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Political posts ain’t my thing, but…

This was just too good. Quote from IRC channel #teensonlinux

* AlgorithmicContr is feeling sorry for John McCain. He’s matching wits with Paris Hilton, and it’s a draw.
<Vargstierna> that totally doesn’t make sense, wits is a plural but two halves only add up to one

Tags: Politics, Things that Grow Rapidly, Teens on Linux, Computers, News, Linux, Inter-tubes by Tuna
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Oh, yeah, this thing.

Figured I should post an actual update, so here it is.

OSCON was friggin awesome!

Oh, and I went to OSCON.

“But Mr. Tuna, your McAwesomeness, what the cactaur is an OSCON?”

Well, OSCON is a very special event where nerds and geeks and hackers like me from around the world get together in Portland and talk about Open Source Software. I just happened to be a speaker there. My topic was about how FOSS can appeal to teenagers. Here is the O’Reilly page for the talk and here is my talk on Google Video. Yes, I wear that hat everywhere.

Tags: Open Source/Free Software, Religion, Programming, Computers, Linux, My Life, News by Tuna
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Trivial Christmas-themed Item of the Week

So I just had my Visual Basic semester Final. That’s right. I take Visual Basic classes. REALLY wish it was Python. I mean, will Visual Basic be useful to me in 10 years? It’s not even useful to me now.

Anyway, my teacher (who is pretty awesome, I mean nothing against him) wanted us to create a Christmas-themed program. But not just any Christmas-themed program–it must use EVERY feature of VB 6 in the known world. This means multiple forms, countless controls, and an IF statement that could frighten a child.

I finished late at night and was like, “This would make a great * of the Week!” Unfortunately, seven days had not passed between that and my last * of the Week.

So here is the program. That .zip file includes the executable and Visual Basic source code. Chances are that if you read my blog, you don’t need/want the source. But since I am distributing it under the GPL V3, because I am a nice guy, I’ll just include it for those who are curious.