All-in-all a pretty good day

[mdlbear]

A nice walk at lunchtime, and it looks as though $BOSS is going to buy off on my latest idea for a "research" project. I put "research" in quotes because what I actually seem to do is come up with ideas and build infrastructure that my coworkers can use to do things more traditionally thought of as research. Sort of like the people who design particle accelerators and electron microscopes.

My title is "chief software scientist". It really means "ageing hacker"; I figure that if you have to put "scientist" in the name of your field, you probably aren't one. Dad was a chemist. (On the other hand, his sub-field was spectroscopy, so he was primarily an instrument-builder too. Family tradition, along with folk music, computers and science fiction. *Sigh* -- he would have enjoyed the wedding.)

Left work a little early so that I could meet Colleen and the kids at Kobe, our usual sushi boat place. Emmy's grades came in over the weekend and weren't anywhere near good enough to earn a reward, but we were already planning on sushi for her 16th birthday, so that took precedence.

I'll be leaving shortly to take the Wolfling to school for her HTML final - it was a self-paced class, but there's a written final tonight. I'll be back 9:30-ish; there's no reason to spend 40 extra minutes driving when I could be spending it reading.

Comments

[mr-kurt.livejournal.com]

I am feeling rather variable today.

[mdlbear]

$p=`tail -1 log`
$d=`date +%C%Y-%M-%d`
$v="BOSS=$BOSS DATE=$d"
$h=`echo $p-$v|sha1sum|awk '{print \$1}'`
echo " $v" >> log
echo -n $h- >> log

Better now?

[mr-kurt.livejournal.com]

More than words can say. Apparently.