Done yesterday (20100624 Th)

[mdlbear]

0624 Th
  * up 7:30; W=194.2; drugs, nose, teeth; dishes, coffee
  * Don't listen to Le Corbusier--or Jakob Nielsen : Cheerful
    @snipeyhead
  @ The iPad, and the Staggering Work of Obviousness : Cheerful
  ~ pick up fish for date night on the way home. ->(move date night to Sat?)
  * call Westercon hotel; drop back to Fr-Mo (3 nights) 626-577-1000
    no laundry; accessible unlikely.
  ~ check on whether it has guest laundry; try to get accessible
  @ HOW TO: Use QR Codes for Small Business Marketing
  @ PerlUnit: unit testing framework for Perl
  * walk: to the middle of DeAnza and back.
  ->will definitely be in a cubicle in the new building
    ! it's mild, but I'm definitely grieving.  Would retire if I could.
  $ HSX: $15 for CD from Terry B.
  * more pantsu
  & pick up shrimp, lettuce, thousand island dressing at Safeway
  * shrimp louis
  @ wcg on blog comment etiquette; noted by ysabetwordsmith
  @ Foreign flagging of offshore rigs skirts some U.S. safety rules
    (via wcg's  Daily Dose of BP Outrage)
  * bug: transpose: F#m -2 -> E#m rather than Em
  * PAY BILLS
  * 11ish bath, bed, snuggle

On the good side, I made shrimp Louis for dinner, sold a CD, and actually fixed a couple of long-standing bugs in my transpose.pl program at home. And took a good walk -- I'm finally learning my around the DeAnza campus.

Just in time to be moving a week from Tuesday. On the bad side, it's been confirmed that I'll be in a cubicle again, for the first time in nearly 18 years. I half-way expected it, but it definitely cast a pall over the afternoon; I got very little done, and realized later in the evening that I was grieving, though only mildly. I think.

I Do Not Like cubicles. It could easily have a huge negative affect on my productivity, and so on the probability that I'll stay as opposed to going back to research. If the half-megabuck I need fell into my lap, I'd retire at the end of the year. It won't, and I know better than to wish for it.

On the gripping hand, there are several good links up there under the cut. Especially Don't listen to Le Corbusier--or Jakob Nielsen (@snipeyhead).

Comments

[egoldberg.livejournal.com]

Great link -- love how it makes the connection between soulless experiences physical and virtual.

I could quibble w/some of the details (my team has likely dug into this topic much deeper than the author), but it's still well-written IMHO.