The line the God throws down to you and me makes a pleasing geometry.

The fun part of shell scripting is writing apparently perfectly Wirth-friendly code of immaculate Algol-like structure, peppered with inline bits of line noise that do the actual work. This is management-friendly because then they think they understand the immaculate structure, and because they don't understand the line noise it must therefore be simple.

( ew. )

Note I've missed my chance to inline even more of the magic. The YY to YYYY conversion can be inlined with nawk and ?: and the script is less than polished in general. But that can be fixed next version. In fact, I'll see if I can get everything from logins on inside the final if.

You strike my side by accident as you go down to your goal.

Text sent to redcountess and arkady half an hour in:

oh ghod. we are not signing today - we are deciding *what* to sign. killll meeee.

Having paid the previous meeting's £74 bar bill last time, I formed Diva's Law of Charities: when forming a nonprofit, be sure to invite enough overpaid IT professionals to get the drinks in. Chartered accountants (e.g. jguk) will do at a pinch.

(And take care what rules of the universe you notice, as the rule may notice you. "On Wikipedia, the reward for a job well done is another three jobs" — I got another two today. jdforrester is currently running at thirty-six.)

I so wish vampwillow had been along last time, as she spent most of the meeting explaining with horrible examples why our carefully hammered-out clauses would be disastrous. I think what we have now will do. Now we run it past the lawyer. Again.

(I swore years ago that I'd never do the nonprofit thing again and this sort of thing is why. VampWillow says she enjoys this stuff. Pervert. Your kink is not OK.)

The Sussex Mild at the Royal Oak sustained me nicely for the afternoon, then Arkady showed up and we all went for a few more pints at a Wetherspoons near Tower Bridge. We worked very hard on the cabalism as well. Then Arkady and I got lost wandering around SE1.