This one's for ohhjuliet

Make a wish! 8-)

Wow, mutant feet

1. For a long time I had Ecco shoes, a bit too big for me in all dimensions.
2. I was told to get something with better support and I got Mephistos. ($ouch$)
3. Those were tight enough to exacerbate my nascent bunions and bunionettes, even after more than a day on the stretcher, so I temporarily switched to my old running shoes. The running shoes are what I wore to surgery and can't get into now.

So hey, maybe the old Eccos, right? With the laces removed completely, of course? And with the orthotics removed and the insole not replaced, just for some extra room?

Nope.

I can get my left foot in one of those, but after about thirty seconds I gotta get back out. And no WAY am I going to attempt to stand up in it.

I'm impressed! :-O

low-level programming geekiness

I don't talk about work details much, 'cause either they're so minor they're meaningless, or they're something my company wants to talk about before I talk about it. But every so often there's a tidbit I can share for my geeky friends.

You know you're a real Embedded Systems Programmer when...

...you find and fix a bug that involves changing this code

var--;

to this:

disable_interrupts();
var--;
reenable_interrupts();

Extra bonus geek points if it doesn't happen reliably, doesn't happen in the debugger, and/or takes a long time to reproduce. More extra bonus geek points for not having been the one to put that bug in there in the first place.

That was late last week, and I was pretty proud of it, actually.