Every Wednesday....

I've noticed a pattern.... every Wednesday, I start to go a little loopy around 1-2:00p in the afternoon. I can't concentrate, I get restless, circus music plays louder in my head than normal.... So it should come as no surprise that, when trying to execute a file that just wouldn't work on one partition, I started literally banging my head off the wall. However, when I looked back at my progress up to this point, it was almost like the command-line history was telling some sort of story.... this is actually taken from my log a few minutes ago. [dan@office adventure]$ ./adv bash: adv: cannot execute binary file [dan@office adventure]$ ./adv bash: adv: cannot execute binary file [dan@office adventure]$ ./adv bash: adv: cannot execute binary file [dan@office adventure]$ vi /alaska/research/calc/calc.c [dan@office adventure]$ gcc -o calc /alaska/research/calc/calc.c [dan@office adventure]$ ./calc MONEY_REMAINING There is an estimated $2,120 remaining as of 9 May, 2007, at 13:53 EDT. [dan@office adventure]$ echo "So I can run binary...." So I can run binary.... [dan@office adventure]$ #Talking to myself gets me nowhere. This is pissing me off! I'll try a new program written on this partition. [dan@office adventure]$ vi whore.c [dan@office adventure]$ gcc -o whore whore.c [dan@office adventure]$ ./whore MONEY_REMAINING There is an estimated $2,120 remaining as of 9 May, 2007, at 13:59 EDT. [dan@office adventure]$ strip whore [dan@office adventure]$ ./whore MONEY_REMAINING There is an estimated $2,020 remaining as of 9 May, 2007, at 14:00 EDT. At the end there, it just so happened that in the course of less than 60 seconds, a transfer for $100 went out on an automated payment at 2:00p local time from one account to the next (checking to savings, which I have set to do at 2:00p every Wednesday afternoon automatically). The moral of the story? It's better to do this: [dan@office adventure]$ file adv adv: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (ZMAGIC), stripped .... than to strip whore -- Daniel P. Brown [office] (570-) 587-7080 Ext. 272 [mobile] (570-) 766-8107