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[geekchick]

I'm not sure if that's my clue phone ringing or not.  If it is and I don't pick up, hopefully they'll leave a message. [Edit: Why yes, that was my phone. Message received.]


On an unrelated note, after today I'm quitting this whole computer thing and am going to go raise goats in the mountains. You can reach me via homing pigeon.

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[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Guh?

[geekchick]

Never mind me, I'm being all mysterious today. ;)

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Ah. A woman of mystery. Intriguing. ;-)

[winterbadger]

(runs out to buy as many pigeons as he can find)

[points.livejournal.com]

This is -my- lonely mountaintop. Go find your own. ;)

[geekchick]

You wouldn't share your mountaintop with me? *pout* Fine, I see how it is.

[points.livejournal.com]

Well, you I don't mind sharing it with. But those blasted goats of yours keep eating my loinclot... wait, you did that on purpose!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Work went that badly today? (hug)

[geekchick]

Not badly, I've just got a script I've been working on all day that's almost done except for one bug that's been introduced somewhere that I just can't seem to find. Plus I've been doing stupid things like not keeping track of where I use a particular variable name and reusing it. D'oh. That can really screw up your results. =)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

It's a trade... use a standard naming scheme, with qualifiers, and every simple variable is 14 characters long with two underscores. Use an intuitive name... and history repeats. Particularly if one returns to a project, oh, a month after putting it down, to finish coding.

[geekchick]

That would require completely rewriting this particular script; it would be a good idea to do someday, but not this week. Turns out that the feature I was working on isn't even needed in this particular set of data, so I commented out the offending block of code and will work on it before the next submissions.