June 10, 2008
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A Productive Day At Work
I brought in toys to work. Yes the boss said it was ok. They help me think sometimes. I just need something to do with my hands. I’m a fidgiter.
At first I started with a weird circular shape and put it on a tower. Then for some reason I decided to knock it over on it’s side. That’s when I started to see it might look better as some sort of a bug or something. So I built out the other “wing”, added some feet or feelers or something so it could stand up and here you have it.
I still had pieces left over so I started messing around first adding antennas and a short tail but then I turned the antennas into a full fledged head piece. I’m not sure what it looks like now.
I tweaked the head a little then my boss suggested I add points to the wings. Doing that almost made the whole creature fall apart since the wings were now too heavy to be supported by the feet. So I removed the feat and used them plus the remaining left over pieces to make the longer club tail. Then I had it rest on one wing. It’s sort of draconic is it not? Yeah in a lame sort of way I know. But it’s a first attempt anyway =]
And so goes another productive day at work.
(ps note the books in the background, those alone should be explanation enough for why I have so much free time on my hand. certain programming languages are so powerful they almost do all your work for you.)
Comments (11)
What sort of programming do you do?
I was into bioinformatics a while back. Picked up a few Perl books towards that end (I love those O’Reilly publications ^_^ ). I never got that deeply into it. Though, I’m hoping to pick up a language before I’m done with school.
@huginn - I did biometrics for a very very brief period in a job I despised. Right now I’m doing web-programming. Basically building database driven websites utilizing cgi scripts in perl and javascript. Nothing overly complicated.
perl’s a good language to learn if you want to get stuff done for yourself, since it’s fast and easy and efficient. So if you’re doing adhoc stuff, definitely learn that.
But it’s not the greatest if you are looking for a job as a programmer. I’d go with mastering javascript and knowing as much as you can about java. From there learning c#, vb, and any other language is a snap. Javascript’s good cuz basically all the major toolkits are javascript based these days and pretty much any site you go to uses it extensively.
Wow, your boss is cool.
@fullmetalbunny - That he definitely is. He’s why I like this job.
dragons rule!
RYC: Hahahah… everyone is nice to you still?
@Vitamin_D -
Yup. I tried to tick people off but it just didn’t work. People are too nice I guess. I haven’t given up yet though. I’ve got one or two more controversial topics to try one of these days.
lol your boss is great!
thanks for the subscription btw. hope i don’t disappoint!
RYC: I call the spam. When someone leaves 12 comments on my site as an argument, it’s spam. Sorry about that. Yep, there are some bad times to being succesful. It goes along with it, I guess.
@Dare2BDiferentt - It’s ok. It’s not your fault. Yeah that guy seems to do that a lot. I’m not going to reply to his comment though. See you around on xanga.
@junshien - you haven’t so far. Thanks for stopping by!