Journey's End

2004-06-01

Going from design to dead tree is a wonderful process that every one should try once in their life time. Here is how it went, more or less:

• went to print shop at ~3:50pm
• arrived at print shop, clerk takes an age to get it printing properly
• ~4:20pm, finally printed
• discovered after careful trimming, right hand side is too small, scaling is off
• realized there is no way it can be fixed by scaling the print out
• looked at clock, 1/2 hour till closing (5pm)
• race home on bike at record speeds, collected the following:
• swore at for reckless riding: 3x
• almost got hit by car: 2x
• told to get off the bloody footpath: 1x
• almost broke my neck clipping against various structures: 2x
• get home at 4:40pm, ran up stairs, stepping on cat's tail on the way
• fastest pdf creation ever
• burn to cd, run back downstairs, tripping over cat
• hop back on bike
• another world record for getting from my place -> snap printing
• get there with 3 minutes to spare
• printed off left side 1x, right side 2x
• crossed my fingers and hope it works out

Well as you probably guessed, it didn't :-( Somewhere along the pipe line, the right hand side is scaled a tad too small, off by around 4mm. In the end I settled for making sure the words were readable, sacrificing the neatness of the diagram. During application of invisible tape, right side rotated slightly, but by then it was too late to fix! You have no idea how much that drives me up the wall...

Oh, and the lastest and greatest source for soft1901 has been uploaded. This will be the source marked tomorrow!

Here are the line counts:

steve@Geofront::/share/tmp>wc -l *

     184 AntlerCoral.java

     241 BrainCoral.java

     259 Coral.java

      68 Empty.java

      17 Environment.java

     225 GridDisplay.java

     190 GridPanel.java

      74 Logger.java

     756 Ocean.java

     172 Organism.java

      85 Outbreaks.java

     107 Plankton.java

      85 Predator.java

     460 Simulation.java

     204 Sky.java

     447 Starfish.java

     241 SunshineCoral.java

      53 TimerListener.java

     238 TritonShellfish.java

     364 cloudcover.txt

     365 daylighthours.txt

      51 omap.txt

       3 sim.txt

    4889 total

steve@Geofront::/share/tmp>

Any who, sleep calls, tomorrow shall be a busy day! No physics tutorial however, so no table tennis either! (Not going to wait around for 3 hours).

Peace favour your path,
steve