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[dr_tectonic]

At our weekly meeting yesterday, I mentioned that I expected this week to involve a lot of "high-overhead context switching", a phrase my boss found fascinating (she seems to take great interest in the computing-metaphor-infused turns of phrase I sometimes use), and so far it has been. Today was annoyingly unproductive.

Well, it felt unproductive, anyway. I mean, I did have a meeting with our GIS expert that advanced my understanding of map projections enough that I now fully grasp what the modelers need to put into the metadata of their files and why, and I also got a chance to look at some other sample datafiles and see that the metadata currently being providing is totally jacked-up and inconsistent, but that wasn't really what I was planning on doing, and it didn't take all that much time, it was just a set of interactions that really could only happen today. I'm dissatisfied because I didn't get anything done on the things I wanted to get done.

Probably it's spring fever. I feel restless, and I have nervous energy that's hard to focus. I needed to go somewhere that wasn't home and wasn't work this evening, so I went and got bi-bim-bap for dinner. It helped. Still feeling off-wavelength.

Comments

[emramesha.livejournal.com]

There is definitely something in the air today. Personally, that unsettled wavelength is making me feel quite paranoid :-/

oooooo

[boat-of-car.livejournal.com]

"high-overhead context switching"

Very Nice. May I appropriate this? I promise to find at least three opportunities to use this today.

Re: oooooo

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Please do! It's always nice to have a good description of something significant.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Spring here went from 80ºF highs to maybe 50ºF highs. Sigh. Someday it will get warm again.

[metalana.livejournal.com]

hi,
I'm choosing to comment in your (first? only?) metadata-related entry, since it's appropriate to my name/profession. However, my comment is not related to metadata:

melted_snowball tells me that I should contact you about designing a boardgame with a poly-network theme. See http://metalana.livejournal.com/177804.html for the ideas collected so far. This is clearly more for fun than for profit, but oh, the fun that could be had!