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Had my first-ever code review Wednesday. It went very well, mostly because my boss stepped in to direct it once it was clear that I was pretty clueless about the process, prompting me with what to talk about next. He didn't help for its own sake; when we were done, well over an hour later, I felt that I had a much clearer understanding of the project's overall structure, and why it's all wrong.. No, not really. It just has the UI layer doing way too much work, and chafing against what ought to be the bottommost bit of the backend. Got a lot of cleaning & tightening up to do. I'm looking forward to it.

In preparation for the review I printed out all my code for this project, of which there is a hella lot, and passed around maybe an eighth of it while I followed boss's suggestions. The rest went into the blue bin beside my desk, ker-thump. I felt kind of cranky having to deal with paper handouts at all, really, but I guess it's the best way to let people interact with a code review until we all have SmartPaper or whatever. I'm sure I'll get the hang of it and budget accordingly for my next review.

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I haven't done any book work since Monday morning. Here is a terrible truth: I don't feel like doing anything non-fun after a full day of work, even if it was a satisfying day like today was. I look up at the ceiling and say "Uh-uh" while gestaculating my refusal, and then a little dialogue box with a frowny-face in it says I'm in no mood for book work. I fool myself to think otherwise. I think that I fool myself a lot. I also think I have been more aware of this very lately.

(Sometimes I continue working on ICCB-related stuff at home, if it's sufficiently fun. Today while watchin' Star Trek with M I wrote a short Perl program to solve an interesting puzzle that a colleague handed to me, which will fit into a project she's working on. I feel a little self-conscious for so thoroughly enjoying whitewashing other people's fences, but fooey on you; it's fun. Anyway, I tried to make clear how it worked, since she's trying to get her head around recursive programming, which is what this is, which is why she came to me about it. That she suspected it could be best solved recursively shows that she's probably halfway there, anyway. I enjoy helping smart folks learn Perl.)

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TNN is apparently no longer The Nashville Network, they're just 'TNN' now. I know this because one of the Morgudlians discovered that they show Star Trek: the Next Generation twice a day, so we're all there at 8pm. Every single ad shown during the show is for "Jackass: The Movie", and some other TV show of TNN's that is along the same lines, except that at the end the annoying guy with the Bob's Big Boy hair reminds us to watch "CSI", which is a cop show. Huh?

The only ad about the station's own broadcast of Star Trek (which they show during ST's closing credits, for some reason) depicts a leering rednecky guy asking a flustered nerdy guy "Wouldja do her?" in reference to a picture of a Klingon lady hanging on the wall behind them. I don't understand.