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Morale, shaken not stirred...
Oct. 28th, 2006 11:52 pmThe big news of import to those who work for ILS has been the recent sale of the company to new owners, and the general mood among the campaigners has been one of a brooding, dark, Dilbert-like humor, based on recent developments. The end result may be fairly unpleasant as far as prospects for future campaigns are concerned for me, but I had my fill of cynical pessimism when I worked at Borland; indeed, it has occurred to me from time to time that "public" manifestations of that cynicism may have been a key factor in my being laid off from Borland.
Pessimism just plain doesn't pay off, in the end, no matter how you slice it.
Work continues apace, and I'm getting a real workout in French (to my great delight).
I took a series of pictures of the fall foliage in the Fili garden a couple of days ago and finally got around to processing them in Photomatix Basic, the free version of a program that's supposed to help in creating High Dynamic Range images. One of the first things I learned is that the resulting image has a dynamic range that is far beyond the power of my laptop's screen to display (we're talking 32 bits of information for each pixel, for each color, i.e. 96 bits per pixel. I've posted the "normally" exposed image and the HDR image on my account on Flickr.
There was a poker game this evening, and I finally got a few good beats to make up for some really bad beats in previous sessions. That was good, because otherwise, I got the feeling I wasn't playing to my best advantage.
Tomorrow's plan is to support work at the launch pad, followed by a trip to town. It won't be entirely a joy ride, as I have been tasked by some folks to pick up essential supplies for the rest of the campaign. I just hope the operations I'm slated to support at the launch pad don't bog down the way today's operation didi to install battery cooling ducts in the fairing. Somehow, I'm sure they won't.
Time to get to sleep. It's been a long day.
Cheers...
Pessimism just plain doesn't pay off, in the end, no matter how you slice it.
Work continues apace, and I'm getting a real workout in French (to my great delight).
I took a series of pictures of the fall foliage in the Fili garden a couple of days ago and finally got around to processing them in Photomatix Basic, the free version of a program that's supposed to help in creating High Dynamic Range images. One of the first things I learned is that the resulting image has a dynamic range that is far beyond the power of my laptop's screen to display (we're talking 32 bits of information for each pixel, for each color, i.e. 96 bits per pixel. I've posted the "normally" exposed image and the HDR image on my account on Flickr.
There was a poker game this evening, and I finally got a few good beats to make up for some really bad beats in previous sessions. That was good, because otherwise, I got the feeling I wasn't playing to my best advantage.
Tomorrow's plan is to support work at the launch pad, followed by a trip to town. It won't be entirely a joy ride, as I have been tasked by some folks to pick up essential supplies for the rest of the campaign. I just hope the operations I'm slated to support at the launch pad don't bog down the way today's operation didi to install battery cooling ducts in the fairing. Somehow, I'm sure they won't.
Time to get to sleep. It's been a long day.
Cheers...
