Weekend!
Well, it's not really the weekend, but I'm taking tomorrow and Monday off and going camping.

Where? Who knows. Either TWO or the BRP. i'll make up my mind in Milledgeville.

What else is new? I get to port some really crappy software which hasn't been touched by anyone in about 11 years to Linux. It's using old headers (ieeefp.h for example) which are long since gone. It's now low-priority, but it was dropped in my lap on Tuesday with a "we must have this by the end of the day Thursday."

2 days and 20 hours of wasted time later I explained that it wasn't going to be done in the time period and that next time they should really really really give me more notice. They have an out because at kpno there's a copy which is already compiled for an older version of sunos out there that they can run but since they'll need it again in the future, I'm going to go ahead and finish the port.

At least I got past the problem with their fortran 77 program included in the source. Egads, I don't know fortran!

Oh yeah, I'm officially a:

You are 60% geek

You are a geek. Good for you! Considering the endless complexity of the universe, as well as whatever discipline you happen to be most interested in, you'll never be bored as long as you have a good book store, a net connection, and thousands of dollars worth of expensive equipment. Assuming you're a technical geek, you'll be able to afford it, too. If you're not a technical geek, you're geek enough to mate with a technical geek and thereby get the needed dough. Dating tip: Don't date a geek of the same persuasion as you. You'll constantly try to out-geek the other.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

How I got the picture of Drew Carey is beyond me...

Well, that's it for now. Toodles!

ps - The pics are from spending the afternoon out at RHO. The link's been down since Saturday at 4am (it's still down), and we went out to replace all of the stuff out there. no luck, nuts.

Posted at: 20:27 on 10/04/2003   [ /diary ] #