A snippet from last night

[kaberett]

[I am telling my housemate about the meeting with my supervisor, which included supervisor asking me how I'd put together the plot in the mantle sulphides doc. "Erm," I said, "matplotlib? I wrote a Python script?"]

"... and then she gave me a look. It was kind of the look of why the fuck do you think this is easier than just using a pre-built package with a GUI-- oh, never mind, it's clearly working, whatever makes you happy."

"... fucking programmers," said my housemate.

"Only as a hobby," I sleepily replied.

And paused.

"... I think that contained more double entendres than I intended," I said.

"... you're going to have to explain to me," said my housemate. "I am also asleep."


Dear Dreamwidth: I thought you might enjoy laughing at me.

Comments

[kaberett]

:-) (Hello you!)

'course I will use it again, and more than that I'll use the skills I pick up in writing it again -- and as below given that the alternative is faffing about tidying the thing up manually in the GIMP...

[simont]

Urgh, yes, once GIMP gets involved you're almost certainly in the space where it's actually less effort to write the program even if you only needed to run it once!

On this general subject, actually, shortly after I published The Descent to C, I had an email from someone asking about how I'd drawn the diagrams. I replied with several paragraphs of waffling about PostScript, ImageMagick and Perl scripts, and was quite apologetic about that since I expected he'd probably turn out to have been looking for a recommendation of a GUI drawing package. Fortunately, he was a programmer type himself, and it turned out he'd been rather hoping that I hadn't drawn them all by hand in Inkscape or similar, so that he'd get useful scripting tips rather than a GUI recommendation. Phew :-)

[kaberett]

heeeee nicely done :-)