7th Grade Geek Love
Back in the day BASIC programming was all the rage, with "the day" being circa 1990. It's been a long time since I've played with BASIC, but I got to thinking about it today through a very obscure thought process.
While talking about music today to the very lovely woman I'm seeing, I mentioned making her a "mix tape" and how that would be "so 7th grade".
But what was I doing in 7th grade when I liked somebody? While others were making mix tapes, or passing notes around that said "Do you like me? Yes/No - Circle One", I was printing off little professions of love on perforated printer paper like this one I just wrote for the before-mentioned lady in my life:
10 DESTINEY = BEAUTIFULFor the ever curious minds out there, all it will do if you copy and paste it into qBASIC is lock up your computer... but it is a "working" program.
20 DESTINEY = SWEET
25 DESTINEY = FUN
30 WHILE DESTINEY = HAPPY
40 MIKE = HAPPY + LUCKY
50 WEND
The beautiful thing about "love notes" in BASIC is you can show your geeky side and still be understood. Isn't that wonderful?
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Labels: basic, geeks, love, memories, programming
posted by Michael Beck @ 1:01 PM
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50 should actually be:
50 Goto 10
@silentjay Then I'd have to dump line 30, to make the loop work. Er, wait this was just supposed to be a "flash in the pan" showing of my geekyness and now you've got me discussing BASIC programming in detail. Dammit! Just because you have a damn cool medal spork on your blog doesn't mean you can show up here and bust my balls... then again on second thought... maybe it does. I apologize.
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