I Like This Ship! It's Exciting!
Jun. 8th, 2009 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astroaztecWhile I was at the pub with 50 morris dancers I got e-mail from Hawaii. The folks there were basically saying that the detector we didn't build always crashes -- it's not our fault. I like that attitude. (It reminded me of Doc Bak -- RIP, a displaced Hawaiian who long ago made it clear to me that he could use the word haole without intending injury.) That was a true relief to read, and it made the dancing at the pub much more joyful.
As I was headed home the cell phone rang. My coworkers in California were all upset that the detector we did not build was crashing. Fortunately last week we had already been discussing the difference in attitude between there and here, and I had already accused my coworkers of haole logic. (Maybe it's that I was body surfing with the girls just this month, but the others haven't caught a wave in years.)
The new detector worked just fine. It produced a beautiful image of a galaxy in the Great Bear, and spectra which are better than anyone has seen before. The old detector still works as well as it did, it's just prone to crashing in different ways. (I can make it work better than ever if the Hawaiians indicate that they actually want to work with me to get it fixed, but they haven't done that yet. It's not our job, and I've already fixed decade-old egregious coding bugs in other parts which were not ours and which were seriously degrading performance.)
Hawaii done. Deadline for the new telescope in California looming.
Today my code exposed some serious bugs in the closed-source API from the vendor. Their parser does not recognize comments as comments. Tonite (or is that tomorrow, for some of the vendors are in Australia) they're presumably working on verifying my analysis, and maybe even on giving us a new release. I'm pretty sure my code will be ready if their code conforms to its API.
Artemis has joined Athena in SoCal for the graduation on Saturday. My mom must be packing to join us at Disneyland on Sunday. The US Navy should be at the telescope on Wednesday. Elder daughter's graduation is Thursday.
I love this stuff.
Update @ 23:55
We can talk to the telescope!
silly us, we shoulda known it spoke Strine
As I was headed home the cell phone rang. My coworkers in California were all upset that the detector we did not build was crashing. Fortunately last week we had already been discussing the difference in attitude between there and here, and I had already accused my coworkers of haole logic. (Maybe it's that I was body surfing with the girls just this month, but the others haven't caught a wave in years.)
The new detector worked just fine. It produced a beautiful image of a galaxy in the Great Bear, and spectra which are better than anyone has seen before. The old detector still works as well as it did, it's just prone to crashing in different ways. (I can make it work better than ever if the Hawaiians indicate that they actually want to work with me to get it fixed, but they haven't done that yet. It's not our job, and I've already fixed decade-old egregious coding bugs in other parts which were not ours and which were seriously degrading performance.)
Hawaii done. Deadline for the new telescope in California looming.
Today my code exposed some serious bugs in the closed-source API from the vendor. Their parser does not recognize comments as comments. Tonite (or is that tomorrow, for some of the vendors are in Australia) they're presumably working on verifying my analysis, and maybe even on giving us a new release. I'm pretty sure my code will be ready if their code conforms to its API.
Artemis has joined Athena in SoCal for the graduation on Saturday. My mom must be packing to join us at Disneyland on Sunday. The US Navy should be at the telescope on Wednesday. Elder daughter's graduation is Thursday.
I love this stuff.
Update @ 23:55
We can talk to the telescope!
silly us, we shoulda known it spoke Strine
