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beautiful day
May. 25th, 2011 12:07 amAll sorts of wonderful things today.
I've been digging into the code, and I'm getting to understand at least the little corner of it that I'll be working on. I'll probably be able to check something in in the next day or two, just minor refactorings to get used to the codebase. And we've come up with a few different things to investigate, once I'm more comfortable.
The code is pretty nice (quite readable, even!), but probably the best part of working on this project is the team -- everybody's really enthusiastic, and super nice. They love translation, and language, and people and culture, and building software and doing computer science. It's like I'm in the right place -- it's seriously beautiful.
One of the senior team members has organized an event called mt_train: Tuesday afternoon group runs. A bunch of us (like... seven, maybe, various ages and speeds) all headed out to go running today, on the trails out to the park just north of the GCampus, by the inlet from the Bay. You can smell the seawater, and there were birds flying overhead, and the wind was whipping by...
One of my coworkers on Translate, John, occasionally teaches classes at Berkeley, because why not? He's working on projects and lesson plans for the Intro CS class in the fall; he's got plans for a Logo interpreter in Python. We've been talking about curricula for Intro CS, and whether what he's doing would be adaptable to Indiana. There's a lot of potential for Extremely Rad here.
On my run back from the office, I could hear footsteps and breathing coming up behind me, gradually, like somebody working fairly hard to catch up. Eventually he caught up, and I laughed and sped up. We had a good conversation about the dumb barefoot shoes (which he was also wearing), and about NASA, where he works, apparently, on an orbital thingy for circling the moon and taking samples of the gasses floating around up there. People are pretty neat.
I've been digging into the code, and I'm getting to understand at least the little corner of it that I'll be working on. I'll probably be able to check something in in the next day or two, just minor refactorings to get used to the codebase. And we've come up with a few different things to investigate, once I'm more comfortable.
The code is pretty nice (quite readable, even!), but probably the best part of working on this project is the team -- everybody's really enthusiastic, and super nice. They love translation, and language, and people and culture, and building software and doing computer science. It's like I'm in the right place -- it's seriously beautiful.
One of the senior team members has organized an event called mt_train: Tuesday afternoon group runs. A bunch of us (like... seven, maybe, various ages and speeds) all headed out to go running today, on the trails out to the park just north of the GCampus, by the inlet from the Bay. You can smell the seawater, and there were birds flying overhead, and the wind was whipping by...
One of my coworkers on Translate, John, occasionally teaches classes at Berkeley, because why not? He's working on projects and lesson plans for the Intro CS class in the fall; he's got plans for a Logo interpreter in Python. We've been talking about curricula for Intro CS, and whether what he's doing would be adaptable to Indiana. There's a lot of potential for Extremely Rad here.
On my run back from the office, I could hear footsteps and breathing coming up behind me, gradually, like somebody working fairly hard to catch up. Eventually he caught up, and I laughed and sped up. We had a good conversation about the dumb barefoot shoes (which he was also wearing), and about NASA, where he works, apparently, on an orbital thingy for circling the moon and taking samples of the gasses floating around up there. People are pretty neat.
