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Quiet Wednesday
2005-01-27 06:52 amNot many people last night; some may be recovering from post-Furcon colds. I did get in a fair amount of singing, though.
2005-01-27
At some point today I will undoubtedly attempt a Rabbit Hole Day post, but when the real world contains things like the Hello Kitty MP3 player (from Engadget by way of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sbisson and electronic scoring for cockfights (from the US Patent Office by way of rowanf), I'm not entirely certain it's necessary.
( You don't want to see. Really. )
sbisson and electronic scoring for cockfights (from the US Patent Office by way of rowanf), I'm not entirely certain it's necessary.( You don't want to see. Really. )
Sufficiently advanced?
2005-01-27 09:05 pmA pretty typical day at the Research Center today. Catching up on the mail and other reading, of course. Good talk from one of our Japanese colleagues from the environmental research group; they're having some success training demons to inspect copier drums.
Then back to work on the second of the two technical reports I have to finish by the end of next week. This one, on the Mini-Servant, actually involved a couple of minor cantrips that I'll have to run through the spell-checker tomorrow. A couple of good conversations with coworkers, mainly about names. Most of my work recently involves deriving obscure use-names for objects from their true names; you can conjure the thing up by its use-name, but you can only use it if you happen to know the true name. Just the Law of Names, of course, except that the true names we construct are random so there's no way to know them unless you're told. All done with standard, off-the-shelf spells and some minor hand-waving.
On the home front, the Younger Daughter seems to be doing fairly well in Metamagics; I'm going to try steering her toward something Magical. If only I could interest the older one! It's true, De Anza is no Massachusetts Institute of Thaumaturgy, but even being a hedge magician would pay better than page illumination, apprentice merchant, or some the other things she's looked at.
Well, I'd better go; the household demons are demanding some attention.
(A Rabbit Hole post...)
Then back to work on the second of the two technical reports I have to finish by the end of next week. This one, on the Mini-Servant, actually involved a couple of minor cantrips that I'll have to run through the spell-checker tomorrow. A couple of good conversations with coworkers, mainly about names. Most of my work recently involves deriving obscure use-names for objects from their true names; you can conjure the thing up by its use-name, but you can only use it if you happen to know the true name. Just the Law of Names, of course, except that the true names we construct are random so there's no way to know them unless you're told. All done with standard, off-the-shelf spells and some minor hand-waving.
On the home front, the Younger Daughter seems to be doing fairly well in Metamagics; I'm going to try steering her toward something Magical. If only I could interest the older one! It's true, De Anza is no Massachusetts Institute of Thaumaturgy, but even being a hedge magician would pay better than page illumination, apprentice merchant, or some the other things she's looked at.
Well, I'd better go; the household demons are demanding some attention.
(A Rabbit Hole post...)