last few days
It's been a hectic week at work, due largely to our
lack of committed, firm process for software releases
-- or rather, the inability of the engineers (thus
far) to prevent requests for a "quick and dirty snapshot
-- just a beta" from going somewhere. We will
discuss this next week. (I think I was finally able
to impress on the right person, on Friday, that we
are not just making accelerated progress -- we are doing
stuff that we will have to undo later, and that
has a cost.) The real answer here is to have frequent
quasi-releases, where we go through the freeze/QA/archive
process even if it never leaves the building. If we do
this every month, then when someone nees the "latest and
greatest" he is at most out of date by a couple weeks.
Part of the problem this week was that it's been too
long since the last release -- but until recently, the
next release was not a priority.
Tuesday night was the D&D game. It was fun. My character is now in negotiations with an intelligent weapon, of all things. This should be fascinating. (Only two party members are even elligble to wield the weapon, due to size and class restrictions. The other one is not interested. In general, if my character, a sorceror, is in melee then something has gone horribly wrong, but if something goes horribly wrong there's something to be said for having a good weapon. But this might not be what the weapon had in mind.)
Wednesday night's West Wing was fun. I think a lot of the quality of that show is in the writing (as with B5); this show seems to be targetting more of a "thinking" crowd than many shows out there. Keep it up, guys.
I'm not sure how I feel about the "Rapture-esque" Twilight Zone this week.
Saturday night we went to a "wine and dessert" party hosted by Sharon and Eliot. It was a very pleasant evening and I got to see some people I don't see often, like Christine, Greg, and Jody. I also met some new people who were interesting to talk with. Ralph and Lori were there, too, as was my co-worker Jake (with his SO Erin -- not sure which of them is the connection to which of Sharon or Eliot). Sharon and Eliot have wide social circles.
Tuesday night was the D&D game. It was fun. My character is now in negotiations with an intelligent weapon, of all things. This should be fascinating. (Only two party members are even elligble to wield the weapon, due to size and class restrictions. The other one is not interested. In general, if my character, a sorceror, is in melee then something has gone horribly wrong, but if something goes horribly wrong there's something to be said for having a good weapon. But this might not be what the weapon had in mind.)
Wednesday night's West Wing was fun. I think a lot of the quality of that show is in the writing (as with B5); this show seems to be targetting more of a "thinking" crowd than many shows out there. Keep it up, guys.
I'm not sure how I feel about the "Rapture-esque" Twilight Zone this week.
Saturday night we went to a "wine and dessert" party hosted by Sharon and Eliot. It was a very pleasant evening and I got to see some people I don't see often, like Christine, Greg, and Jody. I also met some new people who were interesting to talk with. Ralph and Lori were there, too, as was my co-worker Jake (with his SO Erin -- not sure which of them is the connection to which of Sharon or Eliot). Sharon and Eliot have wide social circles.