Productive day today...
At work, delivered a paper wherein I described how to increase our data in one area by 3500% (not a typo) with two developer-weeks of effort. Also threw in how to derive an entirely new set of data that will correlate with 27% of that new total, in the same two weeks. Then found out that a byproduct of that effort will also feed approximately 12,000 data points per week to a project in another department, so they will owe me one ;) Then got a request to see if we can pinpoint URLs with a specific piece of malware in any significant amount and deliver them to another research project... yup, around 1500 a week on average.
So yeah, work went well :)
Then came home and went to the garage to finish this @#$%@#$ gauge pod mount for the zombiebike. Finished it, test fit was successful, and it's now hanging in the "paint booth" with the first coat drying. I probably have 40 hours into that one part - definitely the most complicated piece I've ever made. Not that it's rocket science or that I'm a master fabricator by any stretch, but when your "precision bending instrument" is a vice and a big hammer and your "measurement tools" are a length of string and some cardboard, it's easy to be impressed with the results haha. So now I won't have to worry anymore about how to attach the speedo/tach/ECU/etc.
I still have a lot to do on it, but that's a significant milestone met.
And the instinctive reaction to catch something you've dropped is no good when what you dropped is still red hot :/
So yeah, work went well :)
Then came home and went to the garage to finish this @#$%@#$ gauge pod mount for the zombiebike. Finished it, test fit was successful, and it's now hanging in the "paint booth" with the first coat drying. I probably have 40 hours into that one part - definitely the most complicated piece I've ever made. Not that it's rocket science or that I'm a master fabricator by any stretch, but when your "precision bending instrument" is a vice and a big hammer and your "measurement tools" are a length of string and some cardboard, it's easy to be impressed with the results haha. So now I won't have to worry anymore about how to attach the speedo/tach/ECU/etc.
I still have a lot to do on it, but that's a significant milestone met.
And the instinctive reaction to catch something you've dropped is no good when what you dropped is still red hot :/