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(COOLLIST) Bad karma
Occasionally, we all have moments where we think everything is wonderful,
that life has been conquered. Usually, life then retaliates, knocking
us off our ego-filled seats.
This happened last night. As of 9PM, May 31st, I proclaimed myself DONE!
OVER! FIN! I had just returned from a group meeting for a report due today.
I had done my share, and I had left. Not only was I done for the quarter,
I was done for all of undergraduate college. It felt great!
Then, about 3AM, I'm woken up, right as I'm finally drifting to sleep,
by a phone call from my two group members. They had discovered a
discrepancy in the numbers produced by my program and our earlier
results. Could I please look at the programs and see if I could get them
to agree?
Of course, I agree. It takes me an hour. I find a bug that affected the
numerical accuracy of BOTH programs, making each programs results
incorrect. At 4:30, we agree to turn in with the old data, explaining
the discrepancy only in a sidenote to the professor.
Karma is repaid. Combee out.
--
"A heart, a heart that hurts, | Benjamin L. Combee
is a heart, a heart that works." | combee@techwood.org
-- Juliana Hatfield | http://www.yak.net/combee/