Sooooo boooooored....

[jethrien]

So I'm out in the far depths of the E-Quad. Counting every single tooth on every single gear on my clock. I've been working for well over three hours, and I probably have at least another hour to go. Do you have any idea how amazingly boring it is to count gear teeth? And how hard it is to keep track of how many teeth you've counted on one gear once you're past 50?

Arrgh. So bored. Going to pass out and bonk head on table from boredom.

Comments

[shnayder.livejournal.com]

Something tells me this is a job for a digital camera and a computer program. But then, I'm a CS major.

Also, if it's symmetric, can't you just count half or a quarter and multiply?

Asking silly questions because I'm still at work myself... with no hope of leaving anytime soon.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Eh. It would probably have taken longer for me to write the program than count them by hand. I'm not a very good programmer.

And some of them have even and some of them have odd numbers of teeth. If there are 84 teeth on the gear, it's difficult to figure out whether there are an even or odd number, or exactly where the halfway point is without just counting them all. Again, it's doable, but it would probably take less time and effort to simply count them.

And I also needed to take all the diameters and proportions and everything anyway. It was going to take awhile one way or another.