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Working a lot on the same old ICCB project. Left a page of sample output in Dara's mailbox before going home. I'm at the fiddliest part now, trying to tune the output so that it matches what the researchers expect to see, and I have been discovering that their expectations are rather removed from the program's concept of reality, unfortunately.

Friday will be my six-month anniversary in the group. Without any projects done, I still feel like a newbie. Boss hints that I should feel grateful about working on a project with no set deadline or budget. Yeah, but.



This coming weekend has interesting bits in it... I'm allegedly going to stop blowing off [livejournal.com profile] magid's coming over to teach me to cook things, and I'm seeing old friend jjohn again. He is a fine example of a friend whose friendship I've been rather delinquent in my end of the maintenance contract. A recent conversation with another friend has reminded me that the other people in my life are actually complex critters and not dancing automata who live in a state of suspended animation through the days, months or years since I last spoke with them.



Last weekend I went to Cthulhia's epiphany thing, and got a little crazy with the presents, as was previously implied. Everyone who got something from me got either a word game or a math book, except for the fellow who got an O'Reilly book. (I feel a little silly about the ORA book gift, since they give a fort-building amount of free books to anyone with any sort of relationship with them, more or less. Also I feel silly for feeling silly.) I think that I chose wisely all around.



I'm a fair ways into the Wiki-for-one project. Its working title is BrainDump, which is OK, but I've also been entertaining names which more emphasize its focus around hyperlinks, names like HyperNotes or LinkLetter. The latter I've been leaning towards in my musing, bizarrely.
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So long as you hold fast to the assumption that all your intended recipients have the exact same tastes in everything as you do, shopping becomes much, much easier.

(Yes, there are still gift-exchanging holidays in the immediate future. If you know the right people.)
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Melissa asked if I wanted to do dinner on Thursday, which I thought was pretty random, but it turns out that it was also pretense for her to present to me a little bag filled with orange, purple and blue Sculpy stones, all subtly sparkly. There were enough to serve as Zendo stones throughout our Arisia adventures.

We ate at the Diva Indian Bistro in Davis Square, where I actually hadn't eaten before. It was very good, and I knowingly had naan bread for the first time. Go eat there.

I finally called Melissa "Michelle" in front of her face at some point over the weekend (she and Noah dropped into Arisia together at least a couple of times). I knew this would happen sooner or later. So who is Michelle? I don't know, really, but I find the names very collision-prone. That's all.

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