@joeo10 Huh. I draw circles clockwise starting at the top. Apparently most Americans draw them counterclockwise (also starting at the top). I also draw triangles clockwise starting at the top. A little less than half of Americans draw them clockwise but most of those start at the lower left. Strange! I like the theory Blau had that my tendency wrt drawing circles might mean I'm at risk for schizophrenia! :-)
@kyle I'm glad you're not giving up and are working to get to where you want to me. I wish you all kinds of luck in that effort.
Re. my FORTRAN project, it's a simulator my research group uses. It's been under development for about 30 years. As new graduate students come into our program, they add additional capability to the simulator based on the research they're doing. So a lot of people have worked on the project over the years. We share it with some of the folks in the industry that support our research so the documentation needs to be updated each time we release a new version. And, I'm the lucky person who gets to step through the input section and try to explain all the new things and all the changes. It's a very boring but necessary job.
@matigo It says at the bottom that it's proudly powered by WordPress. :-)
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@kdfrawg I don't mind it but I found the realization that I'm rarely actually ever in actual darkness to be rather striking. I could not see anything in my house at all. I take the dark I'm usually in—which turns out to be far from dark!—for granted. It was a weird sensation.
@indigo I don't like it either but it doesn't bother me as much as it bothers lots of other people. I just spent 20 minutes or so outside. It's 90 and I found it quite pleasant in the shade. :-) If I'd been walking or working in the sun, I would not have found it the least bit pleasant, though!
// @kdfrawg
@indigo No it's not. We are at 87 and it feels downright cool after the high 90s we hit on Friday and the 100s the weekend before. :-)
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@kdfrawg I was honestly astounded by how dark it was. Since there were no street lights on there wasn't even any light sneaking in from outside. I looked out and it was light enough to see the outlines of the nearby houses but that was it and as soon as I closed the blinds again, it was jet black inside. Kind of spooky in a way.
@kdfrawg No lights came on but the A/C did and all the hard drives in DVRs and computers start spinning up. It was sooooooo dark when I fell asleep and even though no overhead/lamp lights came on, all the blinking/glowing "yes, I'm alive" indicators from the electronics keep the place more lit up than I ever realize.