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serenissima[reposted from DiaryLand]
I had an interview this morning. It's sort of a data entry position for a tiny company that handles medical billing. The interview didn't go glaringly badly, but I felt like I didn't have a chance to show myself off as a good candidate, either. Guess I'll find out in a week or so how it really went.
My mother got braces today, in preparation for having a bridge put in where she had a tooth pulled years ago. It's a little amusing to see someone long past school age with braces on.
I was just thinking about music on stage, because I have a song from a musical running through my head ("You Must Meet My Wife" from "A Little Night Music" by Sondheim, to be specific). Singers must wear microphones, I'm sure -- or do they rely on microphones stuck to the stage or hanging from overhead? Does the audience get a stereophonic effect from the speakers, or is the sound just flat? If it is stereophonic, then probably the microphones are stationary, so that the volume of a singer's voice varies depending on where he is on stage. Or maybe you could have receivers that determine the exact location of a mobile microphone, and then a computer could adjust each singer's volume for the speakers to create a stereo effect. That would be neat. That way you could even have the performance in a separate room, like in recording studios.
Yesterday afternoon I was thinking about something just as random and even more geeky. I was driving home from the mall and it was raining a little bit, not enough to put the windshield wipers on but just a little. In the vehicle I was driving, the wiper switch's setting in between "LO" and "OFF" is "DEF." What does "DEF" mean? Shouldn't it say "INT," for intermittent? And that got me thinking about ints in programming, and doubles and floats and longs. Because of the way floating point numbers are represented in a computer, you get more precision the smaller the absolute value of the number is: extremely large numbers can't have an extremely precise fractional component. I was wondering if you can get around that, for specialized applications that need large numbers with a high level of precision, by representing number as an int-and-float pair.
I was at the mall yesterday to drop off a retail application which I'd picked up the previous day. After I did so, I stopped at B. Dalton and read a book. I was attracted to the book because its title was almost the same as the title of a poem a friend of mine wrote, which I especially liked. The book was a love story which unfortunately had a tragic (and somewhat predictable in retrospect) end. I don't like sad endings. I can appreciate them artistically and see how they may be appropriate to a story, but I feel so bad for the characters. As I was walking away in my suddenly gloomy mood, I noticed a couple kissing in the next store. They looked so ordinary and un-trendy, and their hair colors were about the same as mine and my sweetie's, and I missed him acutely.
And it's his birthday today. Happy birthday, Chris, though you probably won't read this for another month or two. And I still need to purchase another item to send you. Maybe I'll make it to the post office tomorrow.
Note to self: next entry, write about carnivorousness and starting salaries. I just don't feel like continuing. This entry is long enough already.
I had an interview this morning. It's sort of a data entry position for a tiny company that handles medical billing. The interview didn't go glaringly badly, but I felt like I didn't have a chance to show myself off as a good candidate, either. Guess I'll find out in a week or so how it really went.
My mother got braces today, in preparation for having a bridge put in where she had a tooth pulled years ago. It's a little amusing to see someone long past school age with braces on.
I was just thinking about music on stage, because I have a song from a musical running through my head ("You Must Meet My Wife" from "A Little Night Music" by Sondheim, to be specific). Singers must wear microphones, I'm sure -- or do they rely on microphones stuck to the stage or hanging from overhead? Does the audience get a stereophonic effect from the speakers, or is the sound just flat? If it is stereophonic, then probably the microphones are stationary, so that the volume of a singer's voice varies depending on where he is on stage. Or maybe you could have receivers that determine the exact location of a mobile microphone, and then a computer could adjust each singer's volume for the speakers to create a stereo effect. That would be neat. That way you could even have the performance in a separate room, like in recording studios.
Yesterday afternoon I was thinking about something just as random and even more geeky. I was driving home from the mall and it was raining a little bit, not enough to put the windshield wipers on but just a little. In the vehicle I was driving, the wiper switch's setting in between "LO" and "OFF" is "DEF." What does "DEF" mean? Shouldn't it say "INT," for intermittent? And that got me thinking about ints in programming, and doubles and floats and longs. Because of the way floating point numbers are represented in a computer, you get more precision the smaller the absolute value of the number is: extremely large numbers can't have an extremely precise fractional component. I was wondering if you can get around that, for specialized applications that need large numbers with a high level of precision, by representing number as an int-and-float pair.
I was at the mall yesterday to drop off a retail application which I'd picked up the previous day. After I did so, I stopped at B. Dalton and read a book. I was attracted to the book because its title was almost the same as the title of a poem a friend of mine wrote, which I especially liked. The book was a love story which unfortunately had a tragic (and somewhat predictable in retrospect) end. I don't like sad endings. I can appreciate them artistically and see how they may be appropriate to a story, but I feel so bad for the characters. As I was walking away in my suddenly gloomy mood, I noticed a couple kissing in the next store. They looked so ordinary and un-trendy, and their hair colors were about the same as mine and my sweetie's, and I missed him acutely.
And it's his birthday today. Happy birthday, Chris, though you probably won't read this for another month or two. And I still need to purchase another item to send you. Maybe I'll make it to the post office tomorrow.
Note to self: next entry, write about carnivorousness and starting salaries. I just don't feel like continuing. This entry is long enough already.