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solarbirdHere, have some Dork Nation Funnies.
How can I be so busy and have so little to say? I guess that's school for you. The garden seems fine so far - the broccoli isn't sending up any food yet, but everything's leafy and the carrots seem to have carroty leaf-like things and such. I cleared the other raised bed, and need to fertilise and get it ready for the second winter crop of stuff. Next year, I'll swap bed purposes, and the smaller bed will be the cool-weather bed, and the larger one can be for summer.
Maybe I'll put in a few stalks of corn or something, just for the hell of it.
Merry Go Round
I installed Excel on my Powerbook, but it crashes at startup 100% of the time. Very annoying. This is the older Office X Excel. Word X loads fine, which means it's not in any of the office-wide shared code. This is particularly annoying since the post-lab reports (which is what really get graded) are all .xls files. So far, I've just been doing them at school, and I can keep doing that - I only have three more to write up - but it still peeves me.
In somewhat more geeky news, I wrote a programme for my calculator. Well, specifically, I ported a programme, but it was pretty much a complete rewrite because the languages weren't compatible. It determines the limiting chemical in a two-chemical reaction and does some math. It's not that much, but it's 73 lines of code, which is as much as I've written in one go since I left MIcrosoft. Alvin, our class's TA, saw me working on it and said I should show it to Dr. Callis, our lecturer, whose original I started with and tried to get to work and figured out I needed to rewrite since TI has multiple calculator languages and ours aren't very compatible. So I did, and he thought it was kinda neat, and I'm going to test it some more, and once it passes that, it can be put up on the class's website. OooooooOOooo.
Regardless, now he's talking to me about writing up a general equation balancer, the hardest part of which will be the string parsing, and that shouldn't be a big deal either, really. I could maybe even get a little credit for it via a Chem199 (undergraduate research) assignment if I actually did it and had it working and stuff. That might be cool.
Anyway. No updates in two days, three updates in one day. It averages out, I suppose.
How can I be so busy and have so little to say? I guess that's school for you. The garden seems fine so far - the broccoli isn't sending up any food yet, but everything's leafy and the carrots seem to have carroty leaf-like things and such. I cleared the other raised bed, and need to fertilise and get it ready for the second winter crop of stuff. Next year, I'll swap bed purposes, and the smaller bed will be the cool-weather bed, and the larger one can be for summer.
Maybe I'll put in a few stalks of corn or something, just for the hell of it.
Merry Go Round
I installed Excel on my Powerbook, but it crashes at startup 100% of the time. Very annoying. This is the older Office X Excel. Word X loads fine, which means it's not in any of the office-wide shared code. This is particularly annoying since the post-lab reports (which is what really get graded) are all .xls files. So far, I've just been doing them at school, and I can keep doing that - I only have three more to write up - but it still peeves me.
In somewhat more geeky news, I wrote a programme for my calculator. Well, specifically, I ported a programme, but it was pretty much a complete rewrite because the languages weren't compatible. It determines the limiting chemical in a two-chemical reaction and does some math. It's not that much, but it's 73 lines of code, which is as much as I've written in one go since I left MIcrosoft. Alvin, our class's TA, saw me working on it and said I should show it to Dr. Callis, our lecturer, whose original I started with and tried to get to work and figured out I needed to rewrite since TI has multiple calculator languages and ours aren't very compatible. So I did, and he thought it was kinda neat, and I'm going to test it some more, and once it passes that, it can be put up on the class's website. OooooooOOooo.
Regardless, now he's talking to me about writing up a general equation balancer, the hardest part of which will be the string parsing, and that shouldn't be a big deal either, really. I could maybe even get a little credit for it via a Chem199 (undergraduate research) assignment if I actually did it and had it working and stuff. That might be cool.
Anyway. No updates in two days, three updates in one day. It averages out, I suppose.
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Date: 2006-07-20 12:19 pm (UTC)This is how I feel during the school year too. I write about accounting principles, but I don't expect anyone else to want to read it!
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Date: 2006-07-23 06:06 am (UTC)