23 February 2016
A small number of us wear similar sweaters for work - similar in that they’re self-coloured and pleasantly form-fitting. Ok, in my case it’s because they’ve shrunk in the wash… (but that’s the subject of a previous, uncomfortable-for-me, blog entry here.)
Yesterday a slightly awkward exchange occurred at the coffee machine, one which I felt an urge to follow up by email. I’d had a brilliant idea - a Eureka moment (but without the nudity and attendant spillages.) Here’s the brief exchange:
“As an engineer I’m bound by a code of professional conduct to suggest a solution to the jumper hue issue; a daily palette based on the colours of the rainbow. In ascending frequency order, and by day.
Unfortunately though, my purple one today falls outside the rigid boundaries of the, it must be said, unfortunately limited scheme. Your flagrant Thursday jumper today merits a red card I’m afraid, though I’m sure you could carry the visible spectrum off better than I were you to try harder.
I’d better start work on version 2.0.
Baz.”
The reply came a little later. I’d honestly not expected one.
“Hi Barrie,
Thank you so much for your email. Well, what can I say? I’m disappointed with myself that I have got off to a bad start on the first day of the week, but I do feel that I need to correct you on something. Your jumper hue is not purple. I do believe it’s a wine/beetroot shade, but definitely not purple.
Whilst I appreciate and do accept the card, I can’t accept a red one. Red is just not my colour. I don’t do red and that’s that. Red is not good for us gingers, I’m afraid and as I am too bound by a professional code of conduct as a ginger, you will simply have to come up with another colour.
I eagerly await your palette…
Have a nice day,”
Me, speechless, though not apoplectically-so:
”*Baz stills sense of outrage, stands sits corrected, starts work on v2.0.1*”
The conciliatory response came an agonising-for-me 50 minutes later:
“I must say that the beetroot/wine colour does suit you though. A warm colour for these Wintery times. I would even go as far to say that it’s perhaps a burgundy. There’s not many who can carry such a shade off.”
Awesome. And, with that, order in my universe was restored.
Which was nice.
23 February 2016
Apologies for my absence from everywhere social for the last week. I haz bean programin stuf!!!2!¡
The 2 shell scripts to take my GitHub blog repo and throw it up at my Web host now work. Automagically. I’m amazed!
Next step: think of something to write, post it at GitHub, and see if I’m full of hot air or not.
Currently the most recent post at git.bt3.com is ‘Engineer’, which is preceded by ‘Nerdity’.
Midnight UK time should prove something - this post should be up round about that time.
21 February 2016
Another short one today; it’s been a ‘nothing’ weekend outside my ongoing Raspberry Pi playtime.
Here’s a repeat link to what I wanted to do with it, what I’ve done, and what I’ve actually accomplished so far - which is actually now 2/3 of the total.
My Raspberry Pi Setup - at GitHub.com.
So, what else have I accomplished?
- Walked Ruby dog,
- Helped with the girls’ homework,
- Bought a pair of walking shoes to replace those that Ruby chomped,
- Washed, dried, put away clothes,
- Changed the cat litter,
- Been shown a paint colour chart; my wife’s chosen a new colour for the hallway…
In-short, underperformed.
20 February 2016
A short one today. My nearly-week-old Raspberry Pi is now behaving, more-or-less.* Here’s a link to what I wanted to do, what I’ve done, and what I’ve actually accomplished so far.
My Raspberry Pi Setup - at GitHub.com.
It’s not overly-technical, nor is it particularly helpful or comprehensive. The plan is to expand a bit, make it more readable.
There are spelling errors sprinkled throughout, and it’s an early draft.
*After 4 complete resets to factory settings I’d be silly to admit I’ve not learned a darn thing about Linux.
18 February 2016
Summary: Meh.
Detail: Feeling crap, like death warmed up.
I was going to write a long piece about how my recent blog posts weren’t necessarily a true reflection of self. The only stuff I’ve mentioned recently is negative, judgmental or at least ambivalent towards ‘things.’
I lead a charmed life though, I’m lucky I’m in a position to be able to moan about first-world problems.
Anyone reading will tire of me mentioning the Raspberry Pi computer. Yesterday’s enforced break from playing with it brought with it a welcome pause; the first day since I bought the thing that I haven’t felt the need to reset it due to my misplaced enthusiasm for moving forward.
We’ll see.
Sideways seems a fair direction to head in, for now.
I had a bit of a play this afteroon, between sitting on [redacted] and made progress; as can build and serve to my computer, can FTP to my web server and have it served from there.
I found a bug in the Jekyll static site generator though; or at least the one on my system. The most recent post ‘No’ fails to display its title when rendered locally. Renaming it to ‘Nope’ works but I’d like to Zzzz…