My work peeps, let me show you them! They're all here from out of town - or most of them were - and it was really really fun. There was mild debauchery - we all crammed into the same bed in an enormous cuddly heap - there was no room to blog, seriously - there was a lot of whiskey - but all reasonably virtuous if flirty - no pole dancing like our last meeting, but it was all just as bad - A bunch of us hot tubbed tonight - and it is easy to face the company meeting with them around. Also, I saw some kind of funny code but I won't say any more about that because it's too mean to blog it. But it was hilarious and awful.
There was a great moment where we were all on the bed and the other guys were on the floor installing bugzilla and cussing (all in about 5 different screens in the same screen session; I watched for a while but could not keep up, though it was fascinating to see the speed of their floundering. It was the same floundering I would do, but much much faster.) So during this moment the door was open and a white haired guy in a suit was going into the room across the hall, and Bill O. politely bowed, stepped back to hold open the door, and gestured while saying "You might as well just come in here." The look on his face!
I think we teased Ingy too much in the hot tub and made him mad. We didn't mean it! I seriously love it when he talks about yaml. It makes me get all flushed. We were just giggling in a girly bonding sort of way. We were not laughing at yaml! NEVER!
I went to the spine clinic today and it was mildly discouraging. I am to go see neurologists. If I get any "ocular symptoms" then alert my doctor immediately (that means, watch for MS... thanks doctors...). I came out feeling wrung out emotionally & again with the physical "does THIS hurt" "YES IT DOES OW OW FUCK OW OW OW" doctor visits from multiple doctors as it is a teaching hospital. It hurts more afterwards, and I had this lingering guilt and feeling it was all my fault and I should work harder, so I walked to lunch 2 blocks or so and back, which then hurt like fuck all the rest of the afternoon. But again, my awesome work homies propped me up and also Zond-7 was very comforting on the phone. And the hot tub fixed me up pretty well along with some wine. Rook massaged my painful haunch.
I'm going to get up early to take Moomin to choir practice! And maybe will sign him up for fencing lessons; he seemed to like the idea.
I saw an extremely nifty thing today, a wikipedia tool:
http://wikidashboard.parc.com/
Which exposes activity on Wikipedia articles over time with the identities of the most active users on a particular page (including discussion pages) and then a different analysis on user pages to show activity patterns. AMAZING AND COOL.
And another more mildly nifty thing:
Which is a vocabulary quiz that claims to donate small amounts of money for every question you get right. For every 3-4 you answer correctly, you go up a level. If you miss one, you go down a level. At level 50, even if you answer them all correctly, after 3 or 4 you go back down to 49 and then go up again if you keep getting them right, which I know because I did it. It was gratifying to my vanity to know that I got higher on it than my friend tmtm at work. Also, it was nice to know I still have all that wordy knowledge rattling round in my head despite age and ossification. Unfortunately it is a skill that has never been of any value to me, and when I'm talking I mostly say vague things like "thingy" and "stuff". Often with unusual words I can remember exactly where I learned them or encountered them, like Treasure Island or fairy tales or articles on intestinal parasites I read years ago.
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I <3 our work peeps.
Posted by: lyssa | October 20, 2007 at 12:23 AM