21 10 2002
Whoa. I’m a week older and don’t really have anything to show for it.
Last week was a total waste - whether it was at work or at home, I didn’t really accomplish much of anything. Work had very little for me to do, no serious running projects. Much of the week was me bugging people (in and out of my department) and asking if they had any work that could use a couple extra hands. At home, I’ve got to arrange my finances for the month and I never really got around to it. I didn’t even get around to watching the Japanese Ring movies.
Friday, returned a bunch of burned CDs to Hwan’s place and lent him my plentiful collection. I have somewhere between 150-200 discs of downloaded Hollywood movies and Anime series on CD-ROM. I love peer-to-peer, especially since one of the best animes to come out of Japan in the last few years costs about $40-45 per DVD. What a rip-off. Luckily, there’s a solid fan-subbing service out there.
After I returned the discs, Hwan, Simone, Paul and I all braved the horrible rain and drove out to Club Abstract. More details in Hwan’s entry, including our discussion on cannibalism. Well, I didn’t say that we were closer to pigs ‘evolutionarily’(is that a word?). But genetically, we’re similar enough that the medical world keeps using pig parts to test how drugs will work in humans, and as a breeding ground for transplants.
Since pork is “The Other White Meat“, my belief is that we could be yet another. Doing a quick surf on the ‘Net hasn’t yielded any concrete answer - only off-handed comments by non-experts.
Anyway, back at work, my duty this week is to solve the problem of our labeling system. All the information for all media (beta, VHS, DV Cam, CD-ROM, etc.) are all stored in an Excel document. It’s really kind of messy, so I’m seeing if I can fix it by writing an application to open the comma-delimited version text file, and write out a new file properly cleaned. If I get it done, it’ll be the first full-fledged application I’ve written professionally since my days of VBA and Fortran on co-op at Environment Canada in 1996 (gawd, that was a long time ago).
