Woo for New Toys
My Blitzafe Auxiliary Input Converter arrived today and was promptely installed. For those confused, it is a little box that pretends to be the optional 5 disc changer that can be installed as part of a Civic head unit, providing RCA inputs so that I can hook my iPod up to the stereo while I’m driving around. Thankfully, I managed not to have to remove the entire dash to install the thing. I still have to clean up the installation as there is currently a cable running out the bottom that needs to be turned into a jack. But I need the soldering iron to build the little piece and it is in Indiana. So that part will have to wait for my return to Indiana for a couple of days.
Inspiration strikes again
We had a meeting this morning on the rti/mesh router integration plans. I had spent some time thinking about this over the last month and had a couple of ideas. Well, yesterday I came up with an even better plan of attack that involved some slightly wasteful but probably not performance damaging wrapper functions in non-critical sections of the code base. In particular, we are going to repack interest messages to allow us to leave multi_emulate in the data path. I think this has great promise for giving us the code reuse we are looking for. Everyone at the meeting thought the idea would work, so now I’m off to do the implementation. woo!
Theme Song
I need a theme song. You know, every time I walk into a meeting, a song should play that inspires fear in the hearts of all that are present. It works on TV, why can’t it work for me?
Informatics student theme song
There is a student I used to work with. He would always say, “If I only had X, I could do Y.” He was completely useless to work with. Whenever he came to talk to me, I could barely hear his words over the theme song I gave him in my head, “If I only had a brain….”