Umm, what day is today?
Sep. 4th, 2010 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoI know vacation has finally set in when I'm having trouble remembering what day it is. Yesterday I kept thinking it was Sunday, and today I'm totally confused.
Stopped by work to return books that were due and pick up my paycheck. Then we had lunch at a new place, got the week's groceries, and returned home to work on chores etc.
The walnuts are stewing nicely in the water I added. In fact, it looks as if that water would dye all by itself, but I'll go ahead and simmer them for a couple of hours as advised by the books. Then the liquid gets strained off to form the actual dye bath. I got a small hotplate for $12 to use so I can do the cooking outside the house in case it makes ghastly odors. As I recall from childhood, the black walnuts only smell strongly of iodine when boiled, but others seem to think they smell quite rotten.
I also finally ran an identical performance test on each of the two Alphas and on the VAX emulation I have running on my Linux machine. It's a Fortran program that performs several million calculations. On the VAX emulator it took 29 hours to complete (and I think that emulation on this machine actually runs somewhat faster than a real MicroVAX would. On the DEC Personal Workstation, an Alpha EV56 processor at 433 MHz, the same program ran in 3 minutes.
On the Compaq DS10 at work, an Alpha EV6 processor at 617 MHz, the same program runs in 1 minute.
Stopped by work to return books that were due and pick up my paycheck. Then we had lunch at a new place, got the week's groceries, and returned home to work on chores etc.
The walnuts are stewing nicely in the water I added. In fact, it looks as if that water would dye all by itself, but I'll go ahead and simmer them for a couple of hours as advised by the books. Then the liquid gets strained off to form the actual dye bath. I got a small hotplate for $12 to use so I can do the cooking outside the house in case it makes ghastly odors. As I recall from childhood, the black walnuts only smell strongly of iodine when boiled, but others seem to think they smell quite rotten.
I also finally ran an identical performance test on each of the two Alphas and on the VAX emulation I have running on my Linux machine. It's a Fortran program that performs several million calculations. On the VAX emulator it took 29 hours to complete (and I think that emulation on this machine actually runs somewhat faster than a real MicroVAX would. On the DEC Personal Workstation, an Alpha EV56 processor at 433 MHz, the same program ran in 3 minutes.
On the Compaq DS10 at work, an Alpha EV6 processor at 617 MHz, the same program runs in 1 minute.
