{"id":410,"date":"2007-06-23T14:11:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T14:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/taomph\/?p=410"},"modified":"2011-07-16T18:08:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T23:08:42","slug":"test-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/23\/test-53\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve got an albatross &#8217;round my neck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think every physicist should have rules they live by. Today, I am going to start to compile a list that applies to myself. Here is the first principle that I am going to live by from now on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Never do any physics after 5 pm on Friday<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Last night, I wrote a script that was supposed to just submit 30 jobs to the SLAC batch system. I made a mistake in the script, and hundreds of thousands of jobs got submitted. Forget the details &#8211; just know it was a stupid, stupid mistake.<\/p>\n<p>So today, because I made the error of doing some last minute physics crap while tired on a Friday night, I get to stew in my own embarrassment and misery today. It&#8217;s good that the people in charge are largely forgiving, as long as this isn&#8217;t part of a pattern.<\/p>\n<p>For some literary atonement, here&#8217;s a relevant passage from &#8220;The Rime of the Ancient Mariner&#8221; by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks<br \/>\nHad I from old and young !<br \/>\nInstead of the cross, the Albatross<br \/>\nAbout my neck was hung.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"poweredbyperformancing\">Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/scribefire.com\/\">ScribeFire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think every physicist should have rules they live by. Today, I am going to start to compile a list that applies to myself. Here is the first principle that I am going to live by from now on: Never do any physics after 5 pm on Friday Last night, I wrote a script that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[65,102,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rules","7":"tag-computing-2","8":"tag-oops","9":"tag-poem","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}