procrastination diagram - August 2003

We have a slight air conditioning problem at work; they ice up, overheat, or whatever, "trip out" and need to be switched off for two minutes to reset them. This is annoying when it happens to your office, but slightly scary when it happens to your machine room.

So, temperature monitors, so we can at least notice it happening. Mark pointed me at this digital weather station with linux support, but it seems like slight overkill (I suppose we could stick the anemometer in the air vent). Some googling turned up DigiTemp, which looks cheaper and promising, and PCMeasure which would look promising except that it appears to be German and expensive. However, it had a link to temperatures.com, which appears to be a community about temperature measuring. I guess people will obsess about anything.

We have a VC wandering around the office verifying that we exist. (They like to do that.)

I always want to say "No, we're a bunch of actors they pulled off the street half an hour ago."

But I'd probably get in trouble.

Congratulations! You've rolled a nine on the wandering relationship events table. You have to go see Legally Blonde 2 with your girlfriend. Lose 20 SAN.

Ok, it was funny. But also cringe-worthy in many places. For me, anyway. She liked it though. Which probably makes it worth it.

I'm looking into getting something new to drag my laptop bag around in, since my Jansport backpack's zippers are starting to fail, and after eight years, it now has obviously inferior shoulder strap technology.

Interesting vendors in this space found so far include RoadWired, manufacturer of the versatile R.A.P.S, and WaterField Designs which makes a variety of slick cases (Mark has one). Unfortunately, I think I want another backpack, especially one that doesn't scream "I HAVE A LAPTOP IN ME! STEAL ME!".