Watching the Aurora Australis - Kind of glad for that commute

Kind of glad for that commute

Jul. 10th, 2008 at 6:43 PM

Today is one of the days I drive one & a half hours to my internship. It's not great, but it's doable. I was rather glad to make the drive today because some idiots were doing construction and accidentally hit the chilled water pipe that feeds all of campus. What this boils down to is there was no AC on campus all day long in the middle of summer.

From what I understand, it was sweltering in the buildings.

Also, there's been a slight glitch in my summer research. Seems that the DNR has decided to foist the collection of the plants off onto a graduate student. Meaning that if I want to go out and see for myself what's going on in some of the satellite photos, I have to coordinate with him. Add to this that my internship is making noises about me going up to Northern Indiana to help with getting data for their project, and the last half of summer just got busier. Sigh. I can't believe school start on August 20th.

At least this means that I get to play with one of the departments very nice GPS units. Technology is shiiiiiny.

Mood: okay

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mechante_fille wrote:

Jul. 10th, 2008 10:53 pm (UTC)

DNR=Do Not Resuscitate. Clearly it also means something else, but I found that mildly amusing and decided to share. It would be more amusing if there was some sort of irony involved...

Good luck with the busy, and have fun with the shiny.^___^

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tsaiko wrote:

Jul. 10th, 2008 11:15 pm (UTC)

LOL. Sometimes the DNR really is like that. In this case, DNR = Dept. of Natural Resources.

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oneiric22 wrote:

Jul. 12th, 2008 03:31 am (UTC)

We have a weird cooling problem in the building we are currently using in Nebraska. Half the building is cool, and the other half is so humid that it reminds me of the office in Baton Rouge on days when the water cooling unit on the roof wasn't working. It sucks. I'm so glad that you get to enjoy your a/c at home. x.x

On a completely different note, yay for GPS! Did you get to play with a Trimble? I gave a very basic class to about 30 people last week on how to use the cheap units they have been given for their field work. I've barely had any need to use GPS, so it was a learning experience for me when I put my materials together. ^^ I have another small group to teach tomorrow.

I'm currently trying to figure out how I'm going to teach 30-40 people ArcReader. It'll take me a week just to put instructions together. It drives me crazy that ESRI doesn't provide an actual use guide. The tutorial is crap. x.x

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tsaiko wrote:

Jul. 12th, 2008 12:57 pm (UTC)

Actually, this is a Garmin. When I say it's shiny, it is shiny. I need to sit down this weekend and go through the manual just to figure out how to convince it that I'm in Indiana and not St. Louis. I've used a few GPS units but it was more "Here is GPS. Look! You can have it track your movements. Isn't it awesome?" rather than anything useful. Always fun to have to learn and teach something at the same time. I've been down that road a time or two.

ESRI's tutorials and manuals are a steaming pile of poo. I was trying to figure out how to trim a line to another line in Arc the other day and their instructions were wrong. How the hell do you get your own damn instructions wrong? It's insane. I wouldn't trust them even if they did have a user guide.

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