And today, Shaver’s Index (with
And today, Shaver’s Index (with abject apologies to Harper’s):
Number of Blizzard-named friends who came to visit us today: 2
Number of items in the Japan Sushi Dinner Course, excluding beverages: 7
Approximate amount of time spent toiling fruitlessly with various Lustre build scripts before giving up and mailing Gord for help, in minutes: 200
Number of drives in the new erasmus/neon replacement (“bitchcake”) that spewed errors in their default DMA configuration: 2
Number of drives that did not: 0
Number of people, of the three that are setting up bitchcake, who think that Joe Shaw writes some outrageously good software: 3
Number of these people who miss using RPM directly: 0
Average net score for Mike Shaver during office Quake games: -6
Approximate average net score for Fixy during same games: 35
Number of brownie points acquired by picking up Gosford Park on the way home from dinner last night, and setting up video infrastructure for viewing: approximately 50
Number remaining after failing to clean the windows again this morning: 6
Number of times in the past week that the author has failed to publish a diary entry after editing it in a haze of fatigue or distraction, excluding this entry: 3
Including this entry: 4