Thursdays are always bad days. I have to wake up at 6 AM, catch the front end of rush hour traffic, survive the deadly crossing of Exit 252, find parking, and arrive at school one hour early when I only have one class. The rest of the day is spent performing teaching assistant duties. The good news is that nothing is ever due on Thursday. I therefore get lots of time to pursue my non-class related interests.

Today, I created a custom Berkeley SPICE Debian package with GNU readline support. Along the way, I also learned a lot about the Debian package management system. SPICE, for those who don’t know, is a general-purpose circuit simulation program. It uses nodal analysis to perform its calculations. After completing the above setup, I installed spice-mode for GNU EMACS, and built a simple DC circuit consisting of resistors and batteries.

If you aren’t using EMACS, you’re missing out on all the fun.