Author Archives: Alan V

Work, day 6 (and Student Wars, and masks)

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Student Wars: Loose Ends has been finished and uploaded for your viewing/playing pleasure. There are probably a lot of typos, so please be kind.

Also, there are now people masks in Junk, including a Tom mask (happy, Tyler?).

Work today went decently. I finally got admin rights, and so was able to do all the installs needed to actually do my job. Huzzah! I set up and tested some peer code review programs, and hopefully they won’t break horribly. So yeah.

Wheee!

Edit:People wearing the masks!

Me as 8.

Greg as Zach.

8 as 8… backwards.

Work, day 5

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I really should update this more often…

Work on Friday was good. I got my first task done, and the higher-ups seemed mostly happy with the results, so huzzah!
Work today wasn’t nearly as exciting. My advisor peoples and/or boss are in all-day classes until Thursday, and I still don’t have admin access to my machine. This combination means I don’t really have much to do except read the documentation for various code review software packages that they want me to set up and test (which I can’t do until I have admin to my computer). Bleh. Tomorrow will likely be the same, unless I can somehow expedite the admin process.

Student Wars Loose Ends is 13 cards away from completion. I’ll probably finish it tomorrow evening if I feel up to it.

There was an electrical fire in front of Joe Mamas when we went for all-you-can-eat pasta.





Work, day 3

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Today went a little more productively… I got assigned my first task. It’s really difficult, not because of the complexity of what I’m supposed to do, but because the data I need to do it is so hard to find. I spent all of today googling various terms to try and find what I needed… with no luck. Instead, I’m going to adapt some similar data (by making up random values for certain fields) into the needed data instead.

Besides that, not much happening.
Mrrrrr.
I want to go to bed…

Work, day 2

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I probably should have updated yesterday. Meh.
My first two days of work were mostly uneventful. I haven’t really done much beyond the basic training and learning about the systems.
I’m going to be working on CoMotion, the infrastructure that powers basically everything that Viz does, so I’ve spent some time reading over the documentation of the software. I hope I’ll get to start poking around the code soon. They use Preforce for source control, which will be a little weird to get used to, but it seems kinda awesome.

The environment is really weird… since Viz was originally a part of Maya and then was bought by General Dynamics and integrated into its C4 Systems department, it has the feel of a very small startup where everyone is friendly and approachable, but there are huge hurdles to even the most basic things that make you realize it’s part of a huge, scary corporation.
For example, I needed to install the Java Development Kit and an IDE today, but I don’t have admin rights to my computer. I had to fill out a 4 page form that will get reviewed by my manager and his boss and his boss and the IT department at GD before I will get those rights. In the meantime, I had to call the corporate helpdesk and convince them to install the software for me. What a pain.

Besides work, not much has been happening. I really should work more on Student Wars, but between work and certain personal commitments, I have no time to do much of anything else. Maybe this weekend.

Alisa, Greg, and I went photoing yesterday.




Randomness

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I wonder how many people remember the “I want a standing ovation” thing from freshman orientation. Meh.
I was browsing through photos for Student Wars and came across some orientation pictures, and it reminded me of that.
In any case, Loose Ends is slightly more than half done. If I’m not lazy this upcoming weekend, I can probably have it out by Monday… not that anyone really cares anyway.

The flight yesterday was mostly uneventful. There was an interesting kid behind me in line at the security checkpoint, but I’ve already written about this in my LJ, and I don’t really want to repost it here.

Super-special bonux thank you points go to Klipper for picking me up from the airport yesterday. Really, you made things a lot easier for me, and made it so I had time to do cluster games and everything. Thanks :D

Alan playing Starcraft.

According to Facebook, I now know 6 Alans (besides myself; plus one Allan). Interesting, especially given that 4 of them have been in this past year.

Tonight should be good. In fact, most of today should be good if I manage to actually contact all the people I’ve been wanting to contact and who have been wanting to contact me.