Hey, that's better!
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pphaneufI'm doing better, this last little while... I'm actually doing decent stuff at work, even though I'm finding the academic roots of the software grating at times.
In the past, I was under the impression that academics weren't as good as the engineers at getting stuff done, but I thought it was because they spent too much time getting things all just right, finding "100% solutions". It's not entirely wrong, but is somewhat mischaracterized. When they do start coding, they do get stuff done. The trick is that their "100% solutions" aren't for the system, but usually just focused on a particular problem. Also, they tend to stop when they solved that particular problem to their satisfaction, having proven their point. So they're shoddy as well, but in a different way than the engineers. Instead of having an overall shoddy, but complete product, they have one aspect quite spectacular, but the rest is all out to lunch, I wouldn't really dare call it a "product".
But that's annoying, as a general concept, it means that I don't really sit well with either engineers nor academics! Damn.
In other good news, I received my bank statement from December, and while I was a bit worried that I had overspent, it turns out that I didn't, being an overall cash-positive month? Oh well, no complaints here!
I checked out a new coffee place that had a, hmm, let's say "slightly less French" air to it, which sounded promising, as far as getting non-burnt coffee. I had moccacino, which is a first around here (and contributed to the "less French" feeling), was somewhat weird, but still tasty.
On the way back, I stopped by a used CD stored called OCD.net, finding the relationship between OCD and record collectors, ahem, telling. Picked up some Placebo must-haves ("Without You I'm Nothing" and "Sleeping With Ghosts"). Yum, Placebo...
In the past, I was under the impression that academics weren't as good as the engineers at getting stuff done, but I thought it was because they spent too much time getting things all just right, finding "100% solutions". It's not entirely wrong, but is somewhat mischaracterized. When they do start coding, they do get stuff done. The trick is that their "100% solutions" aren't for the system, but usually just focused on a particular problem. Also, they tend to stop when they solved that particular problem to their satisfaction, having proven their point. So they're shoddy as well, but in a different way than the engineers. Instead of having an overall shoddy, but complete product, they have one aspect quite spectacular, but the rest is all out to lunch, I wouldn't really dare call it a "product".
But that's annoying, as a general concept, it means that I don't really sit well with either engineers nor academics! Damn.
In other good news, I received my bank statement from December, and while I was a bit worried that I had overspent, it turns out that I didn't, being an overall cash-positive month? Oh well, no complaints here!
I checked out a new coffee place that had a, hmm, let's say "slightly less French" air to it, which sounded promising, as far as getting non-burnt coffee. I had moccacino, which is a first around here (and contributed to the "less French" feeling), was somewhat weird, but still tasty.
On the way back, I stopped by a used CD stored called OCD.net, finding the relationship between OCD and record collectors, ahem, telling. Picked up some Placebo must-haves ("Without You I'm Nothing" and "Sleeping With Ghosts"). Yum, Placebo...
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Date: 2007-01-17 01:39 am (UTC)I have the whole discography. :)
(what do you mean, ocd? ;)
nice play on words/acronyms there...)
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Date: 2007-01-17 06:26 am (UTC)OCD is the name of the store, officially standing for "Occasions CD", but when I asked the clerk about it, he told me that the owner studied in the US, so it possible he had the play on acronyms on his mind... I thought it clever, myself. :-)
Reminds me of a scene from "High Fidelity", as Dick just entered Rob's apartment:
Dick: I guess it looks as if you're reorganizing your records. What is this though? Chronological?
Rob: No...
Dick: Not alphabetical...
Rob: Nope...
Dick: What?
Rob: Autobiographical.
Dick: No fucking way.
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Date: 2007-01-19 07:22 pm (UTC)I love it.
Soon I will put the errorist-source ftp server online and you will see the extent of my OCDness in regards to music... Eeek.
It lives in a 2tb RAID right now.
It scaaaaaaaaares me. *grins*
What's your favorite placebo song?
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Date: 2007-01-19 08:37 pm (UTC)I haven't learned to the full albums enough to decide of a proper favourite yet. From those I heard before, I really liked "Every Me Every You".
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Date: 2007-01-25 03:33 pm (UTC)But I still need more to tame them, or to let them tame me. It's the same with Einstürzende Neubauten and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: at first, I'm skeptical at best, wondering why I'm wasting my money at worst, but just look at the numbers!
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Date: 2007-01-25 05:55 pm (UTC)...Then again placebo's an almost creepy band for me. I had a very bad breakup on May 2nd, and what do I hear? "We're running out of alibis/From the 2nd of May"....Hah.
I get the last piece of hardware I need for the server to work tomorrow. Musification soon ;)
(and my bass is named Blixa, haha)
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Date: 2007-01-25 06:49 pm (UTC)And I'm sorry, but Grundstück (the one on "Perpetuum Mobile") is perfectly danceable! :-P