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I will not be journalling between now and August 22nd. In case you want to read older entries, I modifed linking to go to the previous/next entries, bypassing the need to see everything on one page. In the meantime, feel free to leaves notes here. I probably won't be looking carefully at email or bringing my phone around. So August 22nd. See you then. |
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I noticed that...
I noticed that the faithful are still being faithful in visiting even though it isn't August 22nd yet. Well then, thanks for visiting. My thesis is 78 pages long so far, including everything from figures to code appendices to acknowledgements. As I continue to add to it, working away in my room, I must note that I am being rather annoyed by a sprinkler in the courtyard. Who runs a sprinkler at midnight? Custodians who are very good at keeping bathrooms clean but not at keeping foliage alive. I firmly believe the entire courtyard of grass, flowers, bushes, and trees will be dead within the week due to drowning. Because this sprinkler has not been turned off within the past couple of days. It runs at least the entire day, if not longer. I awake to the sound of the rhythmic spiralling of water colliding with a tiny piece of intrusive plastic as it spreads its liquid refreshment (or death, in this case) to the grass around it, to the sound of the rapid return from the endpoint of the sprinkling arc to the beginning, ad infinitum. Well, actually, there are fifty ticks between the beginning and end point. So ad nauseum, really, because I'm getting pretty sick of this thing.
Now I remember why I was playing music. Music, recommence. I believe I'm going to take a brief break to wander the courtyard, exploring its confines, enjoying the cool of the evening, locating the water spigot, and turning it off. Very off. Very, very off.
Ryan Lee on August 13, 2002 04:10 AM
Only at MIT is...
Only at MIT is a simple water spigot controlled by a "hydrant key." Manufactured by Jay R. Smith. Mr. Smith, I hate you. The only way to turn off the sprinkler cleanly is to either find a Jay R. Smith Mfg. Co. hydrant key, or figure out where the water to the hydrant is coming from and shut that source down (either that or yank the sprinkler off its hose, but that wouldn't be very nice). The key is simple. It just needs to turn a recessed cube 90 degrees, although it would need to be wide enough in the handheld section to generate a large amount of torque. Perhaps I'll go grind out my own sometime. For now, I think I'm going to go to a computer cluster to work. Stupid sprinkler.
Ryan Lee on August 13, 2002 04:31 AM
Yeah, you're d...
Yeah, you're definitely not journaling... you're commenting. And checking your web logs. Get back to work!
Matt Libby on August 17, 2002 03:02 PM
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