Zzz: August 1, 2003

Originally posted to Livejournal.

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Note to self #1: I really must stay away from caffeine, because when I drink any my sleep patterns look like this:

            0h    3h    6h    9h    12h   15h   18h   21h
            |.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....|.....

2003/07/31  :::-##############-:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::  125/87
2003/07/30  ##---######--------:::::::::::::::::::::@@@@@@@@  125/78  180 lbs.
2003/07/29  ---###############-::::::::::::::::::::-########  122/82  182 lbs.
2003/07/28  ::::::::::::-#######-----::::::::::::::::::-----          183 lbs.

2003/07/27  ###-------------------##################--::::::  138/93  180 lbs.
2003/07/26  ::::------------------####-=================-###
2003/07/25  :::@@@@@:::-----####################------::::::  146/87  182 lbs.
2003/07/24  ########--------####--------::::::::::::::::::::  148/91  183 lbs.
2003/07/23  ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::=====::::-########
2003/07/22  :::::-------------------##############-------:::          182 lbs.
2003/07/21  -:::::::::::::::===========:::::@@@@@@@@::::::::  138/92  184 lbs.

And I write things like this.

Note to self #2: Free coke still has caffeine.

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At work, I finally managed not to fall over asleep last night. On the down side, I was at work until midnight, butting my head against a very complicated problem with several confounding factors that took several hours to eliminate. A key method in my approach to modifying other people's code is to determine the rationale behind the operations it carries out, and infer the equation of state that it maintains.

In other words I spend a lot of time clutching my head while saying "What were they thinking?" The truth is, though, that "they" almost always did have something in mind, but it just takes a while to figure it out.

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