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[Chocofreak13]

hopefully. xD

[Pitkin]

That's so cute. x)

[Chocofreak13]

when i'm feeling less lazy i might make more for the OSCers. -w-

[Paul]

@Kari: That drawing is so adorable <3

Finally, things at the company are getting huge! Got a look yesterday at the super-secret source code for the client/server apllications that control their robots. A whole day of going through sources, getting explained how everything works together (the head programmer here is terrific, that code is extremely clean written) I can't really tell you anything else about the code since I'm under an NDA, but the language bears enough similarities to Java that I didn't have many problems understanding the syntax.
Also today was quite a surprise. Originally I should've worked another day at the metal factory but when I got there in the morning my cousin told me that the IT guy had called and I should come to the software department.  I mentioned before that I was extremely interested in robots and stuff, turns out that they had two Lego Mindstorms NXT robots for their apprentices. They gave me a laptop, some books and a robot and I could spend the whole day making that robot do things (it's either programmed via a crappy GUI or a pretty standard C dialect - never did C before but still chose it since the book about the language was really well written).

TL;DR. Spent the awesome last two days looking at super-secret source code, studying two new programming languages and making little robots move around

[Nichi]

Sounds nice. I always wanted my own Lego Mindstorms set. Thing is, they cost like $500+ last I checked @_@

But, I always wanted to build and program my own little robots

[Pitkin]

Paul, now that sounds fantastic! I'm aware of at least a handful of people who'd just kill for a job like yours. x)

[Chocofreak13]

i know plenty. what a cool job. :0

thanks, btw. :3

[Paul]

Well, the first two weeks were a lot of hard work (painting stairs, angle-grinding the floor, moving metal parts...) but hey, now I'm even getting free lessons for PLC programming

[Chocofreak13]

you get to program robots. that alone is cool. :3

[Nichi]

Seconded :3

Also, I'd love to have a job like that

[SleepyD]

So, I just read something online that irritates me

Dunkin Donuts has hot apple cider now. Why can't there be a DD closer than the small handful in Dallas? ;_;

At least you have a DD chain. They up and moved out of California, to return in the future or something.

Well, the first two weeks were a lot of hard work (painting stairs, angle-grinding the floor, moving metal parts...) but hey, now I'm even getting free lessons for PLC programming

Oh, I work at a company that deals with PLCs, but I never interact with them. I work on the software that monitors the output values from the PLCs and sends commands to them, so I don't really know how they work on the inside. If you have any handy reference material, I'd be interested.

Or actually, someone recommend me a beginners electronics kit. That might be more useful at this point. haha

[Chocofreak13]

connect potato to wire, wire to lightbulb, lightbulb to wire, wire to battery, battery to wire, wire to potato.

DONE. -w-

as for DD, well, i would imagine that the west coast gets its coffee fix from the native Starbucks. :\

[Bella]

Ahhh! Thank you so much Kari, this has brightened my day. ^.^

I think I know what my next avatar is gonna be... :3

[Chocofreak13]

y-you'd actually use it for that!? i feel so honoured. ;v;

[Nichi]

Yay! ^_^

So, I'm going to ship out Bella's pony posters today