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Nov. 2nd, 2018 06:50 pmThe last two days, I've gone for quick road rides at lunch, as we're in fall gloaming and every day seems like the last chance we'll have to ride.
Both times I've run into enormous flocks of enormous wild turkeys.
I mentally model turkeys as "a bit bigger than a canada goose".
These were "a bit smaller than an emu".
Tomorrow is Veloswap, my version of Christmas, where I go to the world's largest bike swap meet and schmooze and fondle bike parts.
My acquisition list is lamentably soft: gloves, more gloves, a helmet, because my bikes have been rock solid.
However, I am carrying some extra money because my coworker wants a bike and she's flying to a wedding in Arizona, so I'm distance-shopping.
Work is less awful. My manager's wife is due in a week, and he's so worried about that he doesn't have time to get stressed by all the problems at work.
My poor coworker is stuck with a project that involves repeatedly, like dozens of times a day, cut-and-pasting a section of a text file into a window where he can use perl to strip out all the alpha characters in the first column, only print the numbers in the second column, then he takes the output of that, pastes it into another program that collates those into a column of bytes, and then he pastes that into a GUI where it fills an array and gets sent off to the target.
This is what happens when hardware people try to manage software.
There are approximately 30876098345 ways of doing that better than he's doing it.
I chose to write a string replacement function that just operates on the final column of bytes and then feeds it directly into the software underlying the GUI.
My estimate based on observation is this should save him 90 minutes a day for the next three months solid.
awk wept, man, wept.
In other news I am so tired.
Both times I've run into enormous flocks of enormous wild turkeys.
I mentally model turkeys as "a bit bigger than a canada goose".
These were "a bit smaller than an emu".
Tomorrow is Veloswap, my version of Christmas, where I go to the world's largest bike swap meet and schmooze and fondle bike parts.
My acquisition list is lamentably soft: gloves, more gloves, a helmet, because my bikes have been rock solid.
However, I am carrying some extra money because my coworker wants a bike and she's flying to a wedding in Arizona, so I'm distance-shopping.
Work is less awful. My manager's wife is due in a week, and he's so worried about that he doesn't have time to get stressed by all the problems at work.
My poor coworker is stuck with a project that involves repeatedly, like dozens of times a day, cut-and-pasting a section of a text file into a window where he can use perl to strip out all the alpha characters in the first column, only print the numbers in the second column, then he takes the output of that, pastes it into another program that collates those into a column of bytes, and then he pastes that into a GUI where it fills an array and gets sent off to the target.
This is what happens when hardware people try to manage software.
There are approximately 30876098345 ways of doing that better than he's doing it.
I chose to write a string replacement function that just operates on the final column of bytes and then feeds it directly into the software underlying the GUI.
My estimate based on observation is this should save him 90 minutes a day for the next three months solid.
awk wept, man, wept.
In other news I am so tired.
