I was running late this morning, and when I walked into the office it was completely empty. Crap, I thought, today must be the off-site meeting. I looked up the address and raced off, in gross violation of the speed limit. Arrived at the meeting site to find an empty parking lot there, too.
I headed back to work to doublecheck the address and time, wondering if my boss would write me up for this one. I run into Dean, who works in the cube across from me, and in a half-panic ask him where the off-site meeting is. “That’s tomorrow,” he says. “Then where is everyone?” I gasp. “It’s MLK Day,” he says. “I’m just here to drop off a photo someone ordered.”
Whew. I seriously had no idea that my new company took Martin Luther King Jr. Day off. Well, now I’m just annoyed that I drove all this way needlessly. (When your commute is as long as mine, it’s not a trip to make lightly.) Guess I’ll spend some time coding on Zyps, since I have a nice quiet office to do it in.
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That’s my top score thus far on Geometry Wars (XBox, not XBox 360). My thumbs are about ready to fall off, but God, I love this game. Thanks go to “yakamoto” for the recommendation!
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> From: Me > To: Gary > Subject: Holy crap… > > $ rm -r /cvs > rm: remove write-protected regular file > ‘/cvs/foobar/Attic/DateComparator.java,v’? > ^C > > Can you help me figure out how much damage I did? > > -Jay
For those who don’t know, CVS is a program used for storing source code. An entire development department’s source code is usually stored in a single directory. And “rm -r” nukes entire directories (and all subdirectories).
Someone up there must like me, because that “write-protected file” was the very first thing it hit, and I cancelled it immediately. Otherwise, it would have nuked the entire department’s work (for the day, at least). In Gary’s words, they would have had to string me up.
Read more...Currently researching how to convert all the old SCCS projects to CVS. Gary H. has already blazed a trail in that direction, and is being a considerable help. I’ll be a much happier coder once this is complete.
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I just accidentally keyed “homer” (I meant to type “home”) into my Windows XP Run menu, and it took me to http://www.thesimpsons.com/. Did I just find an easter egg?
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