One Week in One Hour
its odd that my password on this account is so ancient, i keep trying to type in one of my newer passwords, much to my chagrin
so this past week was okay, i don't recall much from work really. it was a bit slow to be honest. i demo'ed my conversion testing of our main software to a new language for him. we've been writing it in VBA in MS Access since the whole thing started and we're starting to grow out of it. So i've been putting around reimplimenting it in VB.NET. my coworker was a bit concerned about how hard it would be to convert over and also for him to learn yet another language. he was greatly relieved to see how similar VB.NET is to VBA. he comes from more of a hardware background so he doesnt have a ton of experience with various computer languages. there are a few fundamental changes between the two however. it wouldnt be all smooth sailing but its do able. given that i've heard grumbling of us growing to 4 times our current size in just as many years it makes me itchy to run all that through an ms access front end. we have 300ish forms and twice as many reports as is! with the itch to implement ISO standards inside our software and our ever increasing requirements and simultaneous users it only makes sense to move to a more robust and secure front end. it'll just take time is all. like a year.
for my free time i spent most of this past week watching old frontline episodes, along with some history channel stuff. we had some friends over a few times this week. they protest their relationship, or i should say they protest to being romantically involved with each other, but every time one comes over the other is in tow. maybe they are just being really friendly or are just unsure if it'll amount to anything? they'd make a good couple, at least i think so.
i played rockband for a good 5 or 6 hours over this past week, but only like a total of 3 times. and one of those times was for 3+ hours. it was fun but damn, i cant imagine realy being on stage and whailing on some drums for that long. and every night!! /boggle mmm well it'd prolly be fun. but drummers dont get groupies. so i'd rather get back into guitar and do that!!
i spent a few hours going through wallpapers for the computer. looking at all of them i couldnt help but be struck by a thought. you see i've watched lostmisery spend hours working on one piece of artwork. even if the end result seems a bit simple its amazing at how much time actually goes into each piece. and then i look at these thousands of wallpapers. each prolly took on average 5 hours. so i was going through hundreds of thousands of hours of human artistic en devour. and then i looked at all the books on my shelves and was struck by how many hundreds of pieces of art there were there. and i started to add it all up. i must be surrounded by millions of hours of work put into art every single day. simply staggering really.
really if you think about all the time that has gone into everything that you use and look at and do every day the amount of time people have put into everything is staggering. we truly do stand on the shoulders of those in the past. it is the only reason why we have come so far.
well thats about it. the only other things that were interesting was some conversations about government and cultural philosophy. but it would be hard to recapture what was said then here.
~Howard
so this past week was okay, i don't recall much from work really. it was a bit slow to be honest. i demo'ed my conversion testing of our main software to a new language for him. we've been writing it in VBA in MS Access since the whole thing started and we're starting to grow out of it. So i've been putting around reimplimenting it in VB.NET. my coworker was a bit concerned about how hard it would be to convert over and also for him to learn yet another language. he was greatly relieved to see how similar VB.NET is to VBA. he comes from more of a hardware background so he doesnt have a ton of experience with various computer languages. there are a few fundamental changes between the two however. it wouldnt be all smooth sailing but its do able. given that i've heard grumbling of us growing to 4 times our current size in just as many years it makes me itchy to run all that through an ms access front end. we have 300ish forms and twice as many reports as is! with the itch to implement ISO standards inside our software and our ever increasing requirements and simultaneous users it only makes sense to move to a more robust and secure front end. it'll just take time is all. like a year.
for my free time i spent most of this past week watching old frontline episodes, along with some history channel stuff. we had some friends over a few times this week. they protest their relationship, or i should say they protest to being romantically involved with each other, but every time one comes over the other is in tow. maybe they are just being really friendly or are just unsure if it'll amount to anything? they'd make a good couple, at least i think so.
i played rockband for a good 5 or 6 hours over this past week, but only like a total of 3 times. and one of those times was for 3+ hours. it was fun but damn, i cant imagine realy being on stage and whailing on some drums for that long. and every night!! /boggle mmm well it'd prolly be fun. but drummers dont get groupies. so i'd rather get back into guitar and do that!!
i spent a few hours going through wallpapers for the computer. looking at all of them i couldnt help but be struck by a thought. you see i've watched lostmisery spend hours working on one piece of artwork. even if the end result seems a bit simple its amazing at how much time actually goes into each piece. and then i look at these thousands of wallpapers. each prolly took on average 5 hours. so i was going through hundreds of thousands of hours of human artistic en devour. and then i looked at all the books on my shelves and was struck by how many hundreds of pieces of art there were there. and i started to add it all up. i must be surrounded by millions of hours of work put into art every single day. simply staggering really.
really if you think about all the time that has gone into everything that you use and look at and do every day the amount of time people have put into everything is staggering. we truly do stand on the shoulders of those in the past. it is the only reason why we have come so far.
well thats about it. the only other things that were interesting was some conversations about government and cultural philosophy. but it would be hard to recapture what was said then here.
~Howard