11-VI-2009.
The echinacea on the street is in full blossom, shot a few good ones, and posted one on ppp. Then njalter picked it and published it on the front page of the enigmatics magazine where he's the glodur (glavni i odgovorni urednik - the main and resposible editor, i.e. chief), and moreover, asked for my address to send me a copy. And that even arrived.
This shot, made today.
In the firm, on the big platoon chat (where practically everyone is)... various stuff all day. Oliver is the first, appologizing for being away, probably another visit to the doctor and then lunch. He's already on New Zealand (was previously in Brittany or Ireland). George found a trick how to send SMSes to patients, because someone studied the problem and found out this is the best way to remind them to take their meds. The trick is in sending it via email, where the phone number goes for username, and then one needs to know what goes after the @. He found a site with a list of those, at least for US and Canada, which is what we'll use. Jan agrees, this is what we wanted since long ago, and it's good that it popped up now. Tried it myself, sent one to self, it works, one just needs to know how to make the address.
In Feds I added a new class, Fedspaths.prg, to put in one place all the possible cunteries we had so far spread in dozens of places, first of all about handling various files which go with a patient (reports churned into document in word and peedyeff format, photos from the little cameras, shots or videos from ultrasound an who knows what else), and then for a few purposes for the app's own use. A bit more of introduction of order and codectomy - why would the same problem be solved in twenty places?
More tricky little things in validations for agency export, australian version of it. Is there an end to it. Hundredsome fields, some of them with up to three-four rules which need checking.
News in the kitchen: she's now making square mufljuzi (v. house dictionary), because why fuck around with them cups, this way she makes much more in one go, only the cut pieces don't have the crust all around, but only on top at bottom. But the crust isn't the main feature anyway.
The next day I even found time to muck with some code for sGradlj.com - the starting routine and GENSAJT08.PRG, the generator for Customs of aborigines.
In the afternoon I took Lena to one of the graduation parties... With her attending advanced subjects, namely advanced courses on regular subjects, she's usually grouped with older guys. This is how she spent most of the last year sitting with the seniors, and celebrated the graduation with the group which went to Blacksburg (serbian Blegzburg) in the fall, attending their parties all summer, so I got acquainted with these richer parts of town a lot. Virginia Beach was built in a huge pine forest, and got somehow divided into the part north of highway, to the rivermouth, and south of it, almost to the swamps on the North Carolina border. The north part is for the richer, which meant a different method of construction. In the south they'd just raze the forest, put the houses where planned, plant some trees later where they meant to. The north part has no townhouses or snugly lined up mcmansions, they took out only those trees which they had to, the fewer the better, so those huge houses have shade, look quite pretty overall, except they are still the same slat and clapboard, padded with thin brick or fake stone, not plastic sheeting. The place I took her this time even had a waterfront view, into one of the bays.
Of course, some time around midnight I went to pick her up.
At dusk I made shots of the fireflies on the lawn, there was a whole carousel around the magnolia, but no matter how intriguing it may be to watch it, it's more screwy to make shots of. I have some mediocre video and not a single good image. If I didn't know that I should see fireflies, I wouldn't know these were fireflies.
The day after, one of those summer storms with huge clouds, lightnings*, almost no thunder, and not a single raindrop. Weather, actually, muggy. We weren't seeing these before, but truth be told, we smoked inside and didn't get out every now and then.
The cloudburst came only** on thirteenth, again some fifteensome millimeters if not twenty. And it kept dripping the following day-two.
At school, Lena was declared the student of the generation for english too, not just the [natual] sciences. Said the folks at the sciences consider her almost a member of the crew and not a student. She's more of an assistant.
On the western front, just when Go thought to make peace with the destiny and find a way to thread herself into the existing situation (which changes day to day, the reorganizations are taking their courses and it's still not visible what will sit where, as if they're making already third schedule now), she got a message from m$. They're putting together a team for something completely new, interactive play with the computer without holding any piece of electronics in your hand - no switches, no mice nor other greenery, it rather has a few small cameras on top of monitor and that is then looking at what you're doing and from that it tries to guess what you want. Now what this was supposed to display for the player, and what would it be able to do, is where they're rather empty, content is sought.
In the team for that project there are a couple of them who know her from before, one used to work in Orlando and asked „would you move from Orlando to Seattle?“. „I'm already in Seattle, year and a half now“. „Yippeee great!“... this will now be a few exciting weeks until the pros and cons of going and staying emerge. Of course, if they pay significantly better than brothers Warner, because she says she's okay where she is. If this may be a chance to do something completely new for good money, be it even at m$, then why not. She actually doesn't like the content they are making now - they insist a lot on weapons, dancers, hookers, bouncers and the rest of that greenery, there's nothing for the female audience. Fingers crossed („holding thumbs“ in serbian).
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* in serbian there's a separate word for cloud-to-cloud lightning (munja) and cloud-to-earth (grom). This was the former.
** 'only' feels completely wrong here - as if it never came before or after, only that one time. serbian 'tek' I find appropriate, it means 'at last at'.
Mentions: Feds, George Whiteley, Gorana Sredljević (Go), house dictionary, Jan Brenkelen, Jelena Sredljević (Lena), Majkrosoft (m$), njalter, Oliver Byford, ppp, sGradlj.com, in serbian