080708.txt
9:33
I'm mostly moved into my new room. The hall smells like wet mop, there's no screen on my window (is this the room that was burglarized earlier this month?), I can't use the bathroom on my floor because there are still some girls living here (summer orientation?), the water from the second south showers smells.. musty (and thus leaves a musty smell on me.. plus my palms seem really dry, but just my palms, I don't know if that's related). I got all the essential stuff set up yesterday, gotta grab the rest of the miscellaneous stuff today. I wonder how I am going to hold on to two fridges and a TV.. That will be fun..
I am going to be so lonely in here! My roommate comes in in a week and a few days, so I've got a week alone. That'll be fun. Going to/from work from/to an empty room. I'm really not looking forward to moving the rest of my stuff.. I am so lazy...
9:53
I came into work this morning and had a single email: the four o'clock PNN email that I forgot to mark as read the night before.. While testing my script I remembered back to my first couple of weeks here where I would just read cases and outcomes in Jury Verdict to pass the time. I might start doing that again. I wonder if my boss will notice if I start spending half an hour less each day on this stupid automation work request (we have to log our time spent on each Work Request in the timesheet application). I have six (seven including today) days left, that's NOT enough time to start another full-fledged script such as this. I guess I could start another small one and leave it for someone else to finish? I dunno.. It's just that I've spent basically the last.. three? weeks on this. However long it's been since we were on the fifth floor. To do another such script would require maybe a few days shy of the same time frame (the few days were dedicated to learning the software, which was easy as hell to learn).
Last night I went to ask the RA (didn't know he was the RA at the time) whether we could use the bathroom or not while the girls were still on the floor and came out of it twenty minutes later with a potential internship for the.. forseeable future, really (that would also develop into an actual job thing if I do well enough). It would only be about fifteen to twenty hours a week, so that should be doable with school. Though if I get this, I'll probably not be able to work at the reg. office, either at all or very much.. I hope the internship is paid o_O
I am excited. Totally did not expect that. He was all "say, do you know linux?" "I run it on my laptop and desktop.." "ok, how would you make something start up at runtime?" "put it in /etc/init.d/rc.local" "cool cool"
...wat o_o
This would be really cool as it sounds like mostly linux system and server administation and management. Zac, the RA, says that they mostly deal with hardware from Dell and HP (and not IBM), and often have to make special requests for hardware without a framebuffer, as they do all of their stuff on the commandline. I am comfortable on the commandline, but there is still a ton I need to learn.
Oh, there's the ten o'clock PNN getting my hopes up that maybe I have a new WR or something..
But yeah, this is a really cool oppourtunity, I really hope it works out.
10:06
I guess I could make a little script that runs through a bunch of searches and stuff trying to trigger as many billing codes as possible? The only problem with AutoTester is that it can't really pull data from a spreadsheet, which is how Golden32 outputs the SQL data from the server.. :/ The script could just run through the searches and then the tester could load up Golden32 and look for the proper codes at the right times (the script would leave a log file that would tell the tester what to look for). Actually, the script could launch Golden32 and put in the proper query after the search is done so that the tester only has to sit down and compare the log to the SQL output... HMMM! This might work.
I am excited that my last week hear has a chance of not being completely boring.
FLASH! aaahhaaaa Savior of the universe!
FLASH! aaahhaaaa He'll save everyone one of us!
FLASH! aaahhaaaa He's a miracle!
FLASH! aaahhaaaa King of the impossible! (???)
Now I want to watch the 1980s (?) Flash Gordon.
10:26
This makes me laugh.
There doesn't seem to be a way to concatenate text variables in this thing... this will be fun.
10:43
Looks this will provide me with hours of activity. Hopefully a week's worth of hours.
11:39
I just love it when programs freeze while I'm using them and I don't remember the last time I saved my work. Goddamnit.
Why.. do some of these Chrono Trigger remixes sound.. vastly different that I remember them sounding? It's weird...
12:12
So many different lunches smell so good right now.. And here I am stuck with my turkey deli sandwich from Center Court.. I am tempted to go to Chipotle again.. those burritos are delicious AND filling. And lord knows I could go for something filling right about now.
12:29
Or a burger. A burger sounds really good too. Too bad I don't know of any good burger places around here..
13:13
OH THAT BURRITO TOTALLY HIT THE SPOT YUMYUMYUM
13:39
King PoppelDoppelous led the PoppelDoppelonians from PoppelDoppelopolis, the capital of PoppelDoppelonia.
14:52
About an hour after that burrito.. I was hit with a major sleep wave...
15:12
Huh. Major Nelson (Larry Hyrb) is on a late July This Week in Tech. He seems like a pretty cool guy, not trying to sell Microsoft at every word. It's.. kind of refreshing. It's a neat discussion about the recent E3 (which was widely regarded as a failure..).
I put like two hours into this new script and then.. I crashed. Crashed as in lost desire to work on it some more.
16:15
Oh wow.. This new script is already up to about fifteen minutes of runtime... at about 60% the lines of code (including white space) of the other script. That's... scary. Though I guess it makes sense, most of the time is spent on SLJ right now, and SLJ is slow as balls. Searching overall is slow, but especially on SLJ. With some of these apps... I could easily see the script reaching twenty minutes of runtime... Holy crap.. These are probably the longest runtimes of... anything that I've ever built. No, they ARE the longest runtimes of anything I've ever built. Previously the most would've been a minute or two on some poorly code Java app sometime freshman year or maybe during sophomore fall semester...
Ya get your money for nothing
Your chicks for free
(look at that! look at that!)
Ya get your money for nothing
Your chicks for free
(I want my.. I want my.. I want my MTV...)
One good thing about this script is that it dosn't open any extra windows and then alt+f4 them... though when it's supposed to press the search button it seems to press enter while notepad is focused, even though I didn't tell it to press enter to trigger the search... :/
16:30
"Come Down" (The Pillows) started playing as I tilted my head back to look at the ceiling. There are cracks and stuff all up there. I briefly thought it'd be awesome if the ceiling fell. Then I remembered I'm still under it.
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This script is twelve minutes when it fails on the last search. I'm betting that last search will add at least another minute to it... so... wow. This one is going to get huge. That's all I should do on my last day is just run both scripts back to back, all day, "making sure they work."
For some reason this script keeps failing to wait for the page to load on the last search. Whatever, that's tomorrow's quest.
!! I completely forgot! HAHAHA.
..I'm beginning to log into my site with 'alademan' instead of 'satoshi'.. This is bothersome.