15 Mar 2001 (updated 15 Mar 2001 at 18:55 UTC)
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Last night we discovered that I'd left the car door open
when we parked the car. I parked the car on Sunday, four
days earlier. So I pushed the car back and forth on the 30
feet of flat pavement we had in the parking garage while Amy
tried to pop the clutch and get it running. Unfortunately,
I'd decided to park at the very bottom, so it was a uphill
on one end, and a wall on the other. Finally, a dude in a
jeep showed up and gave me a jump start. Today I'm sore.
After pushing the car around for a while, we went back to
UW. I went to Bill's room and checked out this system he's
got rigged up to measure gas flow with some kind of Data
Acquisition board he's got hooked up to the parallel port of
an old laptop. They're doing it in DOS, and I talked to the
guy writing the code about writing an interrupt handler for
the timer interrupt to do hard realtime sampling of this
port (you have to poll it, which makes me wonder why they
didn't just go straight into the parallel port). It brought
back fond memories of writing 8086 assembly code when I
explaied to the dude what AH and AL were, and how they were
the same as AX. He was a junior CS student and didn't know
what a union was. C++
is evil.
A guy on thunk was
bugging me to add "last article posted on..." text to the
article overview functionailty of mod_virgule, so I did, and
sent the diff in to raph. Does
that mean I
get to register myself as a Helper on mod_virgule? There's
no option for "know the code fairly well, sent in a diff,
feel free to ask me questions" :-)
When she requested last week I put Linux on her computer, I
asked Amy if she felt like she knew it well enough to use it
as her primary OS. Her response was, "what exactly is it
I'm supposed to learn how to do?" I think that speaks well
of where things have come. I guess most people need an
email client, web browser, mp3 player, and word processor,
in that order. KDE gives her all of that in a nice package.
Waldo: don't just drop your
idea, dude,
it's cool. I already volunteered my company, I'm sure other
people are excited. Flesh it out and start a project on
sourceforge. We don't care if you don't know how to do it
technically, just be glue and provide architectural oversight.