Praise wine when it is drunk, ice when it is crossed, ...

[fivemack]

and a contract once the cheque's in the bank - but I have finished writing the fruit-fly distorter; should be presenting it to the customer tomorrow or Friday.

I have bought plane tickets to Belgium (the train was no quicker and cost rather more), and booked a place in a central-Brussels youth hostel for FOSDEM 2006 the weekend after next.

This Friday evening I go to see The Libertine with mobbsy, beckyc and all; tomorrow, my cousin is coming to visit.

These should give you some idea of the exciting tenor of my days; and until I find myself another contract, I won't even have the joy that writing 1200 lines of computational geometry and image processing code in Java and ImageJ Macro Language, neither of which I could write a fortnight ago, plus three pages of descriptive prose has brought to me this last fortnight.

On the other hand, if you have any fruit fly embryos you want orthogonalised ...

Comments

[darcydodo]

In the vein of dealing with fruit flies, have you come across Peter Lawrence?