It's time to take a break from writing about my long weekend. Seriously, five entries so far on a four day vacation? It might seem excessive, but I've done nothing but translate since we got back. Well, that's not exactly true, I've also been doing laundry, washing dishes, and running the vacuum. I managed to hurt my knee while doing laundry (don't ask) and I'm icing it down even as I write.
The material I'm translating right now is fairly interesting, but it kind of bums me out. These are scientific papers about basic research projects related to computer science and logic design. The whole time I'm translating, I'm thinking, Wah! These are the kinds of projects I want to be working on, not reading about! Even so, I realize that I have been very lucky that I was able to start working steadily, at something that I like and am good at, as soon as I finished school.
If only it made decent blog fodder! I spent the day working on an article about a character recognition system for handwritten addresses. I'm up to the experimental method and results part and the authors have begun doing some serious handwaving. Handwaving is hard to translate.
205 words | September 17, 2005 09:28 PM | Lost in translation