Climatology
To the obvious chagrin of many a short-term climatologist, the traditionally beautifully-warm Valentine’s Day in Norman has been seasonably un-warm; snowing, in fact.
I’m sitting in a case presentation right now in the fabulous downtown Oklahoma City demicampus, where a definition of “do-it-yourself warehouse” has just been requested of the peanut gallery, in which I currently sit. The aprons of silence cover me, a wire and hatch hold my tongue.
Drupal work continues. It’s a temporary Sigma distraction, but it’s an interesting project. Plus, it gives me a reason to SSH into the home server a few times a day. Drupal is one of those applications that requires more time to understand than it does to get it working correctly. So, I settle into the 4:4 time of Read, Think, Agonize, Rejoice.
I have this feeling I’m going to look up at about 9:00 tonight and say, “I have sensed something… as if all the restaurants in this area have cried out, and then closed suddenly.” Needless to say, Valentine’s plans are subjugated to the broader wills of night school.
Plus, the parking garage was charging a 150% premium for us little red-cheeked lovers.
I would say there is one major side-project for Sigma right now, and that’s a Circle-to-Sigma world file parser, which would take the Circle incantations and convert them into user-friendly Sigma XML. At this point, that would also involve inventing some of the future semantic path for the Sigma parser.
I would think GNU Bison would be an excellent tool from this job, but plain ol’ Python might be better even then.