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Colbert is awesome because he gets to be in character and do ridiculous things like run for president or just be an insensitive megalomaniac.

I have no doubt that he will be good once he takes over for Letterman, but I cringe to think about him having to make smalltalk about someone's new action movie.

I hate small-talk primarily because the people who use it don't actually give a shit what you think or what you have to say. When trying to talk to these people I find that they have absolutely no substance and are incapable of having an actual conversation.

Next time someone asks "Hey, how's it going" or "how are you", etc.. try answering by telling them how things are actually going... note how they have nothing to say in response and how quickly they want to stop talking to you. And I don't mean tell them something creepy. All you have to do is say things are well (or any response that honest and isn't as empty-headed as their question) and you'll see just how much they don't care and can't continue the conversation.

Some people enjoy smalltalk because that's as deep as they get personality-wise.

Introvert that pretends to be an extrovert here, I have a love hate thing with smalltalk. When it comes to people I know, usually its just a way to grease social wheels to get onto something real so smalltalk is quite pleasant, wheras with more outer circle people, it can get exhausting and if not done while charged can lead to socially awkward moments. Usually the only times I have trouble with this is when people try to persist with social interactions I'm not interested in and eventually it burns me out or when trying to maintain relations with people that arent necessarily inner circle.

Tried the mysterious enigmatic loner thing. Wasn't much fun, because everybody knows that the mysterious kid that hangs out alone is either shy and wants to hide it, or a possible serial killer waiting to happen.

Its also my dating strategy. Brood in some dark corner, look deep and thoughtful. Attract a girl that wants a puzzle project "I wonder what is under that strangers multiple shells/walls/defences". This has worked about twice in all my years.

Anywai, I have a lot of social anxiety. I really care what people I've just met and might never see again think of me. And its stupid. I actually like being with people though. I discovered this after an extended period of solitude and I went pretty stir crazy. The trouble is being with people I dont already know very well is exhausting. Maybe everybody is like that and they just do a better hiding it, but needless to say I am jealous of those that seem to be able to swan around socialising effortlessly.

ps. Does anybody actually enjoy smalltalk? I was under the impression that the whole world accepted it as some sort of necessary evil. It never occurred to me that some might actually like it. Its just probing for a commonality and once you get there its like bam, now we can start a real conversation.

Excellent post, pretty much exactly what I was thinking as I watched.

I put all the Python tools on my son's laptop so he could play around with command-line programming. I'll have to check out squeak.

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wow. just wow. He needs 8-cores, 12 GB ram, 64-bit OS, to do what a 12MHz 286 running DOS could do 25 years ago ?

Seriously, why did he make a whole OS ? (or half OS, because it doesn't support multiple users, like unix did in 1970). He could have just made a custom shell for "recreational programming" that has all the same features, but would just run in user mode on top of linux/unix/windows (under cygwin at least).

If his goal was to create an RTOS, he certainly didn't show off any real-time features.

This could quite possibly be the most insecure OS ever, everything running in kernel mode, and everything can see all areas of memory. Although doesn't look like he has network support, so no big deal

If you want to do recreational programming, or teach a kid how to program I recommend Squeak (based on SmallTalk)
http://www.squeak.org/About/

If you want to learn x86 assembly, get a DOS virtual machine and use NASM.

wow. just wow. He needs 8-cores, 12 GB ram, 64-bit OS, to do what a 12MHz 286 running DOS could do 25 years ago ?

Seriously, why did he make a whole OS ? (or half OS, because it doesn't support multiple users, like unix did in 1970). He could have just made a custom shell for "recreational programming" that has all the same features, but would just run in user mode on top of linux/unix/windows (under cygwin at least).

If his goal was to create an RTOS, he certainly didn't show off any real-time features.

This could quite possibly be the most insecure OS ever, everything running in kernel mode, and everything can see all areas of memory. Although doesn't look like he has network support, so no big deal

If you want to do recreational programming, or teach a kid how to program I recommend Squeak (based on SmallTalk)
http://www.squeak.org/About/

If you want to learn x86 assembly, get a DOS virtual machine and use NASM.

"Awkward smalltalk, the motion picture." <-- Just about sums it up perfectly.

It's impressive how you can just let any random group of British comedians make smalltalk for a while, and it's ten times as funny as any American comedy with dozens of writers and million-dollar-salaried stars.

Crim,
"lucasgreen, are you stupid? If I am to judge you based soley on your above post then I would say you are disorderly, and if you conduct yourself in such a disorderly manner then you can expect to get arrested for that.

Common courtesy regardless of whether someone is an officer or not should be your default behavior. Perhaps you would get arrested less often if you weren't so aggressive."

I didn't tell the whole story and now you seem to have imagined a scenario where I was out in public, saw a police officer and was just immediately berating him with cusses on the foul.
That would be quite a sight.
But alas, no, that was not the case. The latest example involves me being pulled over by a traffic cop. I've been pulled over a few times for various things like broken headlight, expired inspection sticker and even one time when I was moving and the officer just wanted to make sure that I had all my stuff safely secured in the bed of my truck. All of those instances went without incident. I helped the officer inspect my cargo, I took a warning for the broken headlight, and a violation fine for an expired inspection sticker. In each of those instances the officer was very polite and professional and I was friendly and compliant. There was even smalltalk and joking around on each of those times. The latest one, however, was different. I was pulled over before I'd even left the parking lot at work because I hadn't turned my headlights on yet. Which would have been just fine the officer would have let me know my lights were off and I would have thanked him very much for the information and turned my lights on but he was a total prick. He was yelling at me and insulting. That is an example of what I am talking about. I am not going to let anyone get away with being a total ass simply because they are wearing a badge.