3 Aug 2000 ian   » (Apprentice)

Evening. Work went pretty well today. My opinion is a bit colored as yesterday was a disaster: spent the latter part of the day wrestling with color calibration. I've always been baffled by it, but in the last three or so years, I've had to been actively baffled by it because of work. It speaks volumes that the software industry invented a more anesceptic title for it: color management. Management had such wonderful connotations in my mind before the color iteration.

Had lunch with my business partner (I still laugh a little when I think of him as a business partner--it's so... business-like) to discuss the embedded hardware project I'm working on. I'm not sure how everything's going to pan out, but it's been a lot of fun to plan--unlike anything I've done in the past.

Watched a bit of It's A Wonderful Life to decipher the meaning of "from Adam's off ox". About to watch Instinct, whatever that is. Dunno if it'll be any good, but a friend had a five-day rental, so I got to bum it.

ahosey: you're dead-on right about technology types being perfectionists. It undoubtedly results in frequent job changes. I also think technology workers have low job satisfaction because no one else recognizes this trait (except other perfectionists). No one's perfect, but at least perfectionists strive towards that end, and it sucks when no one sees the effort being put forth.

Morning. And what a beautiful morning it is. Got ~12 hours of sleep last night, which is nine more than my norm. Everything seems a bit more coherent, for some reason.

Iain: I found out a couple weeks ago that one of my cousins, the same age as I am, is pregnant. It's not the same thing by any means, but man is it strange... to think that as I'm getting ready to go to college, she's getting ready to take care of a child (I hope). I still remember going on easter egg hunts and stuff with her at our grandparents' house when we were little...

I'll be damned. Bitch long enough, and he listens. Good to see ya, Cynic.

Hm. It appears that bitrate can be part of a freeform query in nap, but it's not quite the same as being able to say >= x bitrate.

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