Frenzied activity and idle moochery

A morning of frantically trying to fit work around a long and rather dispiriting meeting during which I was moved to quote from NASA's delightfully wonderful report on the (non-)acceptance of their ETA10 in the late 1980s:

Attachment 12 shows that during the first nine days of this test many Fortran codes failed to compile; of those that compiled, many ran very slowly, and of those that completed, many gave incorrect results.

Barton, J.T., (1991), A History of the ETA-10Q Acceptance Tests at NAS, NASA, 3

With the morning over, I met up with H&P&J for lunch at St George's and a pleasant afternoon's mooch around town in search of belts and climbing shoes and other obvious essentials.