Markey assures me I can blog about anything, not just amaroK stuff. So I'll take advantage of this and get this new blog thing rolling with one of those boring entries blogs are famous for.
To make a not-so-long story short, I've taken a year off my Computer Science degree at
Truman (was getting burned out), failed to find a job in anything IT related, so I'm working in a textbook warehouse. Today I was assigned to 'corner', my first thought being "WTF is that?". It is the person who shuffles all the books as they come down on the conveyor belt into one of three lines, depending on which floor of the warehouse the books will end up.
So, I was doing this. Having a good time, its one of the few jobs where you get to sit down. But I was sucking at it pretty bad. Despite being very simple (book marked three, put on the belt for line 3) I was having a hard time at it. Partly I was thinking about amaroK. In adding .ram file support yesterday, its apparent that amaroK deals with playlists in too simple a matter, making the decision solely on file extension. So
BBC World Service plays fine, but not the stuff at real.com. This is what I was thinking about. So whole quantities of 3 were going into 2. So then I decided that I could pretend to be the one logic operations that gives ==, > and < results as 0, 1, and -1 respectively. Comparing with '2', line 2 became line 0, line 3 became line 1 and line 1 became line -1. For some reason this increased my accuracy quite a bit, I'm guessing because it forced me to pause an extra 100 milliseconds. Later I assigned the lines based on their cubes. I guess the moral of the story is simple doesn't always means easiest. Or that I get distracted too easily.
But now, I need to get to bed (I'm at -6 UTC). I'm debating whether to watch the
Daily Show that I just finished downloading.
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