There is something wonderfully therapeutic about stacking a load of 7ml bottles in a large glass jar and then pouring weak acid over them. Okay so maybe it is not the most enthralling work but ideal for Monday morning.
The afternoon was devoted to playing with LaTex. Not the stuff that gloves (and other things) are often made of, but the typesetting program. Various people over the years (well at uni basically) have tried to convince me of its value. I did try it, but my main problem was with emacs as I did not find it particularly intuitive. It is probably good if you do a lot of programming and use scary things like FORTRAN etc. The version of LaTex I downloaded today included TeXnicCenter as a front end or what ever it is called. I liked it a lot better; I am not saying it is the be all and the end all but I find it easier to work with so I'm going to stick with it.
Now to conquer Matlab (which should be easier as I have been taught the stuff officially....hmm).
I thought of a really bad joke today:
What sport do sheep like?
Baaa-asketball
(see I told you it was bad)
1 comments:
LaTex is nice, just the right amount of fiddlyness to let you distract yourself when you can't think what to write next. It can quickly become nasty when you have to layout equations or diagrams, then again, I suppose that applies just as much to the alternatives.
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