Apathy Sketchpad

Well, in many ways I’m glad it’s over. On Friday (which we have off university) myself and Adam thought we’d collaborate on some lab work. This, alas we not to be. Instead, I want to see Dave Gorman, and didn’t get to Adam’s until almost eleven. We didn’t get very much done. Even if we’d wanted to, the Absynthe had other ideas. So we met up again on Saturday. But we didn’t get much work done. Lee had invested in a Hungry Hippos set, and until you play it, you have no idea how great a drinking game it is.

On Sunday, we thought we’d better do some actual work. And we did. Well, I did. Adam couldn’t get his results, because the university FTP served wouldn’t work. (My results were on a disk Annie gave me.) This is fairly typical of Adam’s luck at the time. For example, he had to miss the following day at university to wait for hours for someone to bring round a spare set of keys for his hire car, which he had inadvertantly locked his set of keys inside whilst trying to knock a dent out of the boot from the inside, and which he was forced to drive by a walking stereotype who hit the back of his car and very probably wrote it off — except that there is still no reason to assume he had any insurance. Anyway, to be nice, I copied all his files from university onto my disk for him to use that evening.

True to form, it all went wrong. I had forgotten to delete my results from the disk first. We only noticed the error when he showed me his printout and the layout looked very familiar. Eventually, he used our results anyway.