December 10, 2004

Heard in the Sun lab

None of us is thinking too clearly. Today was the last day of classes and the final projects are coming due hour by hour.

A voice rises from one corner of the lab. "Oh no! Oh my God! Oh no! I saved it. I didn't think what I was doing. I cut out all that stuff by accident, but then I saved it! We can't just close it out and reopen it to get it back! Oh no! That whole design! The layout! The entire wafer! Everything!"

And another from across the room, from someone who's done that before. "It's still there. Paste everything into the clipboard. Then open out a new wafer and paste all your stuff onto it. You can get it back."

125 words | December 10, 2004 08:51 PM | Ivory tower