Having loads of fun...

[alexpgp]

Every once in a while, one runs across two terms that sound as if they mean the same thing, but don't. A good example of this is the difference between fissile materials (which can sustain a nuclear chain reaction by themselves) and fissionable materials (which can only undergo fission by exposure to fast neutrons).

I ran across another such pair today: out-of-band emissions and spurious emissions, and I'll leave the difference in the meaning of these two terms as something of an exercise for the curious reader.

It was a day to push the limits of my creativity using PowerPoint, to "uncorrupt" an emailed Word file, to help Galina finish painting the adjacent bedroom, and to have "a whole lotta ABM defense going on" in a surprise rush translation.

In between everything else, I managed to figure out how to streamline the task of adding "issues to be addressed" to the current job in org mode ("current" meaning the job for which time is currently being "clocked," which is a feature that I've only recently started using). Now, if only I can remember to log my time properly...

To top it all off, the ostinato known as "the invasion theme" from the first movement of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7—the "Leningrad"—turned into one extraordinary earworm that haunts me still, mostly because I can only replay snippets of it in my head.

And it's only 10 pm!

Cheers...

Comments

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

so how are you having "a whole lotta ABM defense going on?"

anti-ballistic missile I assume? I still fondly remember ABM treaties from my college days (: One of my finer moments was when I was asleep in class, and apparently everyone knew it, but I was just drifting to wakefulness enough to hear things and someone asked the teacher how an ABM works and she actually said she didn't know, so my hand shot up, and I could tell from her and everyone else's reaction that they were shocked I wasn't asleep as she's like "uh Kris?" and I sit up and start talking about "exo-atmospheric kill vehicles" using kinetic energy to just bash right through incoming ICBMS. And everyone is looking at me like "this guy was just asleep wasn't he??" ahahaha.

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Well, in my particular case, I had been given a document to translate that placed pretty heavy emphasis on ABM defense.

"Exo-atmospheric kill vehicles," eh? Nice one!