is something I’m always afraid of, when I go out to some of these training courses. I am, after all, an old dog, and these are some mighty new tricks.

Thankfully, I adapt pretty well, and the tech I’m learning today is pretty damned cool. I’m sitting next to thatguy, though, so I have to hurry and learn the stuff, and then back off so I can help teach thatguy. The teacher is an indian lady who is patient and articulate, and knows the subject matter.

Classes like these cost a wad of cash, and they are directed at the least common. So the whole class has to move at the speed of the dumbest pupil. THe teacher, on the other hand, hasd given me, from around her very neck, a memory stick that has a simulation of the software on it so i can run it here, on my notebook, in the room.

Damn.

This is inspection software, and the idea is that it drives a piece of equipment to do flexible part inspection. I programmed these machines (CMM’s) years ago, but the language used was complex and cumbersome. Now, the systems fair program themselves, and they do so by manipulating virtual models in virtual space. It helps to understand N dimensional geometry, which any good robot guy does (all six of us) and it helps to understand what you’re trying to do.

One way or the nother, this is as good as it’s gotten for me for a long time. I can’t let on I enjoy this so much or they’ll question why theyre paying me.