Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

The difference between learning a language by reading a tutorial, and impatiently diving into it by just looking up a couple of command descriptions in a reference and glancing at some machine-generated code:

(Y'all can probably guess what I was trying for, right?)

Each time I go into a machine-generated PostScript file to tweak something (most recently to make six measures in the middle of a piece of music grey instead of black), the "I should really get off my ass and learn this language like I meant to do a decade ago instead of just poking at it" button gets pressed a little harder. If I weren't in the middle have so many other projects all distracting me from each other, maybe I'd get there.

Let's see how far I get this time. Though a couple of raster graphic formats I noticed are tugging at my attention today as well...

I hope to get around to replying to LJ comments later today, but I might get my head stuck in one of these projects, or I might get to see anniemal, so no promises. By the way, the fan is running. I didn't have axle grease, but I figured petrolatum[*] was closer to that than anything else in the house (and the residue full of hair and dust that I wiped off when I disassembled it supported the axle grease idea). I'm giving it a nice little burn-in to see whether it burns up.

[*] I'll save you the trouble of looking it up: petroleum jelly, Vaseline. Cool word though, innit?