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from Kermit to crossdressing
Feb. 13th, 2010 08:38 amYesterday was a good day.
Back on September 1, 2009, I had completed the testing of a programming project that was very important to me. Not only was it something I had proposed instead of its being an assignment dropped in my lap, but it'd make our system's overall architecture much simpler. That day turned out to be a disappointment because there was no user available to validate the results, nor could any resources be spared for it for the foreseeable future. Jump forward to the merger our company is going thru and guess what? They finally realized that my project's changes would make things much easier for everybody involved. It was a case of spending a bit extra time now to validate what I've done, or throw all that work away, add merger-related changes to that part of the system, then go thru what I had done all over again.
Woot!
Besides that...
I managed to get my part of yesterday's system changes deployed and validated early enough, that, by the time I got to the local SF club's monthly meeting, I had missed only the first 45 minutes. The originally scheduled guest couldn't make it so people improvised. One engineering student told us about their prototype zero-G toilet and the malfunctions when they tested it on an airplane going up and down to simulate weightlessness. Victor Milàn talked about the novel he had just turned in, and about an upcoming "Wild Cards" story about an American-Italian cop who happens to be a rat. Some of the newer people were asked how they'd gotten into SF, and one lady in her early thirties expained that her first exposure had been thru "Star Trek - The Next Generation". That had a few of us groan at the reminder that you're old when someone's ancient History turns out not to be so ancient. Anyway. After that some of us went to the nearby Applebee's, where conversation went from Kermit the Frog to crossdressing. One new club member was a 21-year-old woman who, in the course of chatting with me, seemed interested in checking out "Forbidden Planet". Since she didn't know about the latter, when she told me there was this movie she loved and was curious about my possibly having seen it, I expected it'd be something fairly recent that old foggies aren't likely to have come across, but she was quite gleeful when I said that, not only had I seen it but I owned it on DVD. The movie? "7 Faces of Dr. Lao". By the way, did you know that, among my generation and among the slightly less decrepit one, there are quite a few fans of "Wizards and Warriors" out there?
So, indeed, yesterday was a good day.
Back on September 1, 2009, I had completed the testing of a programming project that was very important to me. Not only was it something I had proposed instead of its being an assignment dropped in my lap, but it'd make our system's overall architecture much simpler. That day turned out to be a disappointment because there was no user available to validate the results, nor could any resources be spared for it for the foreseeable future. Jump forward to the merger our company is going thru and guess what? They finally realized that my project's changes would make things much easier for everybody involved. It was a case of spending a bit extra time now to validate what I've done, or throw all that work away, add merger-related changes to that part of the system, then go thru what I had done all over again.
Woot!
Besides that...
I managed to get my part of yesterday's system changes deployed and validated early enough, that, by the time I got to the local SF club's monthly meeting, I had missed only the first 45 minutes. The originally scheduled guest couldn't make it so people improvised. One engineering student told us about their prototype zero-G toilet and the malfunctions when they tested it on an airplane going up and down to simulate weightlessness. Victor Milàn talked about the novel he had just turned in, and about an upcoming "Wild Cards" story about an American-Italian cop who happens to be a rat. Some of the newer people were asked how they'd gotten into SF, and one lady in her early thirties expained that her first exposure had been thru "Star Trek - The Next Generation". That had a few of us groan at the reminder that you're old when someone's ancient History turns out not to be so ancient. Anyway. After that some of us went to the nearby Applebee's, where conversation went from Kermit the Frog to crossdressing. One new club member was a 21-year-old woman who, in the course of chatting with me, seemed interested in checking out "Forbidden Planet". Since she didn't know about the latter, when she told me there was this movie she loved and was curious about my possibly having seen it, I expected it'd be something fairly recent that old foggies aren't likely to have come across, but she was quite gleeful when I said that, not only had I seen it but I owned it on DVD. The movie? "7 Faces of Dr. Lao". By the way, did you know that, among my generation and among the slightly less decrepit one, there are quite a few fans of "Wizards and Warriors" out there?
So, indeed, yesterday was a good day.
