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Sunday, July 09, 2006

frickin' filemaker

Yesterday, I sat here for an hour waiting for my script to run, before giving up and going home. I just got back to the lab today, thinking it would have finished and I could go on with the next step, but instead, I discovered the script didn't work and it was just running aimlessly all that time!
I just fixed my script and wrote a new one, but now I have to wait several hours, it seems, to find out the results. I should really be making slides for tomorrow, but I think they all depend on this data, so I can't do anything useful while I'm waiting.
I have won several rounds of spider solitaire, but I'm so bored!

5 Comments:

At 2:59 PM, Blogger Dr. Brazen Hussy said...

Spider Solitaire, in my opinion, is the only good thing about PC computers. What level are you playing? I do ok sometimes on the medium level, but I totally suck at the hardest level. (Am I seriously excited about a conversation about Spider Solitaire? I am such a loser.)

 
At 3:03 PM, Blogger Lucy said...

You just need a few solid months of procrastination and you'll be an expert at the hardest level :)
When I was supposedly writing my qualifying exam proposal, I could win the hardest level 50% of the time. I've gotten worse, but I think this batch of script running is going to improve my stats again.

 
At 5:19 PM, Blogger Lucy said...

it finally finished running! 5 frickin' hours!

 
At 8:20 PM, Blogger Dr. Brazen Hussy said...

I played it a lot while writing my dissertation... but it's my husband's computer, and he always makes me stop. I guess that's probably a good thing!!

 
At 9:40 PM, Blogger Lucy said...

I bet you were actually writing your dissertation, too, rather than just solely playing the game, as I was :)

 

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