An advantage to picking something you know next to nothing about to do your thesis project about is how much new stuff you get to learn. Today I had to teach myself enough Fortran and awk to create something that would take a number of unformatted output files from COAMPS (Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System) and make something readable out of them. Fun fun fun.

Listening to: Melt-Banana - Speak Squeak Creak (for those of you in Japan, check their website to catch them live)