Programming in the sight of death
I wrote a blog entry a couple of days ago but I deemed it to be too stupid to be postable. See, I have some quality control here after all. And it wasn't a very interesting rant anyway. No rants are interesting when written more because of boredom than anger.
Anyway, my great programming spree is over. A little test from Management is all that remains this week, and as far as I know, it's going to be a piece of cake. A program for my friend was very simple and a joy to write (seriously!), even though the numeric method it implements sucks a lot. Well, that's how it's meant to be after all - easy things don't work well usually. My own program... Well, let's not talk about it. After I wrote a page of its documentation (yes, we are required to provide documentation for our programs), I decided I can't bare it much longer and decided to rather get a zero for it than waste my time and brain cells. Linear algebra was never my forte and writing programs that implement the theorems of linear algebra - even more so. The third program - about concurrent programming using monitors - went fairly well though, which was kind of nice, given that I had only ten minutes to spend on it. Yes, I am fast.
Anyway, fuck the programming. It's not about it. I can't get my mind to programming anyway now.
My cat is quickly fading away. Just this morning she was able to jump up about a meter on a washing machine. Right now she's lying on the ground with her rear legs almost completely paralized. It seems that cancer finally reached the vital organs and nerves, so she has maybe a week to live... if we don't euthanize her, that is. I think we will do it, because it's a really pitiful sight to see her like that. The poor creature... It's a bit early to write all the good memories about the cat. It will quite probably be my next post. Right now I just wish that she will suffer as little as possible.
RIGHT NOW: Trying to make my cat feel comfortable during the last days (hours?) of her life. Death is a terrible terrible thing...
Anyway, my great programming spree is over. A little test from Management is all that remains this week, and as far as I know, it's going to be a piece of cake. A program for my friend was very simple and a joy to write (seriously!), even though the numeric method it implements sucks a lot. Well, that's how it's meant to be after all - easy things don't work well usually. My own program... Well, let's not talk about it. After I wrote a page of its documentation (yes, we are required to provide documentation for our programs), I decided I can't bare it much longer and decided to rather get a zero for it than waste my time and brain cells. Linear algebra was never my forte and writing programs that implement the theorems of linear algebra - even more so. The third program - about concurrent programming using monitors - went fairly well though, which was kind of nice, given that I had only ten minutes to spend on it. Yes, I am fast.
Anyway, fuck the programming. It's not about it. I can't get my mind to programming anyway now.
My cat is quickly fading away. Just this morning she was able to jump up about a meter on a washing machine. Right now she's lying on the ground with her rear legs almost completely paralized. It seems that cancer finally reached the vital organs and nerves, so she has maybe a week to live... if we don't euthanize her, that is. I think we will do it, because it's a really pitiful sight to see her like that. The poor creature... It's a bit early to write all the good memories about the cat. It will quite probably be my next post. Right now I just wish that she will suffer as little as possible.
RIGHT NOW: Trying to make my cat feel comfortable during the last days (hours?) of her life. Death is a terrible terrible thing...
