They would if they weren't so damn busy.
This morning I modified the code that runs Hamsters such that they are now synchronized most of the time. Not bad for two weeks of work, especially if you consider that they were synchronized exactly none of the time until a few days ago. So the peasants (i.e. me) should be rejoicing, and we would except that we must answer the pressing question of why only most of the time? Which shall likely remain unanswerable until I get the Hamsters synchronized all of the time.
If that weren't enough, there is the ever-growing List of Things To Do: ordering parts, learning a new programming language, analyzing the data to see if it's really synchronized, determining which of the Hamster pins can be run out to LEDs on the new boards (currently being laid out), determining why the Hamster stops working when anything is written to those pins, etc.
Who would have thought that getting something working would be so anticlimactic?
168 words | June 22, 2004 07:55 PM | Rocket science