Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Countdown to unemployment

Employment is transient, fortunately. This being my last day, I decided to record some privacy preserving statistics:

Email:
Number of email messages left in my mailbox on my last day: 28
Number of unique authors among those messages: ~10
Number of human authors among the former: ~5
Number of people I know among the human authors: 3
Number of messages that affect me and my work directly: 0

My Documents Folder:
Number of documents in My Documents: 40
Number of documents that I am deleting because they do not pertain to work: 28
Documents pertaining to research: 20

Software:
Additional compilers/interpreters/frameworks not provided by the company: 4
Specifically: Perl, Python, recent version of JDK, .NET
Development environments: 2(Eclipse, SciTE)
Browsers: 1 (Firefox!)
Miscellaneous unauthorize software: putty, python gmail lib, doxygen, graphviz

Office supplies:
Sticky notes(not postits!): 7 blocks, small
Pencils: 2
Pens: 3
Company issued notebooks and scratchpads: 2
Personal notebooks: 1
Thumb tacs: 15
Papers attached to cubicle wall: 7
Boxes of Harrod's tea attached to cubicle wall: 1
Starbucks frappaccino labels glued to computer: 1


Pantry:
Forks, spoons, and plastic knives: MANY
Sugar packets: 4(at 9AM, 0 by 9PM)
Bags of Ahmad tea: 1....last one
Cups: 1
Napkins: more then cutlery

So what do these unimpressive statsitcs show? Nothing. I'm just happy to be done.


PS:
This might be neurotic but I'm very pleased that I managed to finish my tea exactly on the day that I finish working.

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