Legacy

This morning, my friends and I were approached by a Christian handing out fliers inviting people to a meeting where they discuss what happens after you die. I declined the flier due to the fact that I align myself as being an atheist.

A female bystander noticed the topic and invited herself to start a conversation about what happens when you die. My friend simply stated "rot in a grave". The girl, clearly not pleased with his response continued "Do you think, if that's the case, that what you do here is all for nothing?" I decided to offer my two cents on the matter:

Of course, what you do here may account to nothing, but it is up to us to forge our own legacy to leave behind for others to remember us. Consider the following questions:

• Who was President of the United States during its great civil war and abolished slavery?
• Who was one of the first men to walk on the moon?
• Who is the man claimed to have risen from the dead?
• Who commanded the Nazi army in WWII?
• Who was the french girl who inspired the french to revolt against the British?

If you can answer any of these questions, I ask you, why? What is more interesting is what is shared between them. All of these people, Abe Lincoln, Neil Armstrong, Jesus of Nazareth, Adolf Hitler, Joan of Arc, have died, yet their names have not been forgotten. They are still spoken of to this day!

History will remember those who have left their mark on civilisation, for better or for worse. The people around us, our families, friends, will remember us for what we have achieved in life. Keep in mind that the greatest legacy is to continue one's family name.

If you were to die tomorrow, would you be content with what you have left for others as your legacy? If so, are you still afraid of what is to come after death?

TBH

Well I never expected to write another blog post so soon after starting one. I like to let the creative juices flow... woah, wait, f**k.... backtrack... I like to let my imagination run so I don't become stale and my posts on social media (and wherever else it lands) is humorous, insightful or, at the least, not completely lame. But I just so happened to see a TBH just now and thought, "You know what? This is the sort of crap that I should blog about. I've done worse with my vlogs and everyone thinks it, but no one says it."

So here we go with the first of what I am sure is to be many, Rage blogs...

TBH - To Be Honest. To be friggen honest with you, I don't believe you even know the person who you just wrote a TBH for! "I like that we go to the same school" is not, I repeat NOT, a TBH. It quite metaphorically and if it could, literally screams "I have no idea who you are, just your face, just your entity." *does a wavy hand motion in the shape of a body* A TBH should be something that you spend some time thinking about. Think back to at least one memory that you share with that person. And if that fails, go for something like a compliment. A "I like that you are a funny person" at least sounds as if it could be a TBH and not some "Who is this person I have added? Oh yeah, that guy!"

This also applies for "Like for a Like" and whatever else you can think of. If you are so bored - whether it be from taking selfies at work, sitting at home doing nothing but refresh your social media application on your device every five seconds just to see what someone else is doing with their day - GO AND DO SOMETHING! ANYTHING! For the love of all that is great and good, just don't sit there and cry for attention and then show how little you know about the people around you.

...Phew, now that was exhausting. You know that feeling when you need to get something off your chest? Yeah, that one. Now you're probably thinking, "But Tyler, you're rage-blogging about s**t". Well highly observant and intellectual individual, you came here, you made it to -->here<--, so clearly you wanted to see how this turned out. It's time for you to turn back. I make no promises when I blog that things will be full of fluffy Furbies and candy. This is a place of cursing, observing the truth, and black magic through the medium of software. If you can't handle the truth.... well then... <insert witty comeback>.

This public announcement is brought to you by the Underground Nazi Movement... but not really...

A little about me...

Hi stranger,
If you're reading this then I have either obviously conned you into reading my blog or you have stumbled into a dark and dangerous corner of the Internet that was never meant to see the light of day and clearly not meant for you...I'll leave that for you to decide.

But whilst I have your attention, I'd like to introduce you to my blog. No, this wont be a tumblr blog where I post junk (my own, others or rehashed internet images). This should aim to give you some insight into what the life of someone who is studying a Bachelor of Computer Science is like. Over the next... oh let's say forever... I'll give you more or less irregular updates on Uni life, assignments, new ideas and techniques that I learn on the way and maybe even some tutorials. If you're lucky, and read these blogs often enough, you may even start to add ellipses to the end of your statements... See what I did there?

So back to me, because let's face it, this is MY blog, not yours, go and get your own. My name is Tyler Haigh and I am studying a Bachelor of Computer Science at the University of Newcastle in... yep, you guessed it,  Newcastle, Australia. I've already completed my first year with a Distinction average so it's obvious I can bluff my way through things...

I began down the long road to Computer Scientist many years ago, when I was 14 and I was introduced to Game Maker. Whilst my early endeavors at game development were a flop, I soon started to grasp the basic concepts of the engine (if you would like to call it that) and I expanded my skill set to dabble in 3D games development and isometric games development(something that is fascinating, but my experience with it spawned a small hatred of developing such games). By the age of 16, I had graduated from the drag-and-drop interface and moved on to writing scripts.

When I was 17, I was urged to take Software Design and Development as a course and I excelled in it, learning far more techniques that I have ever imagines and got a taste for what real programming was like. Moving to Newcastle and attending the Uni here, I was exposed to even more programming concepts, particularly the Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concept.

Since my early days of dragging-and-dropping actions in Game Maker, I have learned Visual Basic, Java, C++, C#, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and a range of other languages. Things can only look up from here!

Now that you have been brought up to speed on my life so far, continue reading for more adventures in the realm of software development...I really need to think of something better to call it. It just doesn't have the same ring to it as "Realm of Dark and Dangerous Secrets", which is also applicable.