Midaregami

 #!/usr/bin/env ruby -w
 # This tells me in no uncertain terms how many pages I need to 
 # get through in a given day in order to meet a deadline, and 
 # offers a Valentino Rossi-like GO!!!!!! by way of encouragement.

 # Require the fancy-pants linguistics library
 require 'rubygems'
 require 'linguistics'  

 Linguistics::use( :en )

 # Init constants
 SecondsInWeek = 60 * 60 * 24 * 7
 SecondsInDay = 60 * 60 * 24 
 Deadline = Time.gm(2006, "Dec", 15, 12, 00, 1)
 Today = Time.now
 TimeLeft = Deadline - Today
 TimeLeftAdj = TimeLeft - SecondsInWeek
 TotalPages = 403

 unless ARGV[ 0 ]
   puts 'What page are you on?'
   current_page = gets.to_i
 else
   current_page = ARGV[ 0 ].to_i
 end

 pages_left = TotalPages - current_page

 
 puts 'PAGES LEFT: ' + pages_left.en.numwords

 # Could just print the results of evaluation, but
 # that would be harder to write I mean read.

 ppday = pages_left / (TimeLeft / SecondsInDay)
 ppweek = pages_left / (TimeLeft / SecondsInWeek)
 ppweekadj = pages_left / (TimeLeftAdj / SecondsInWeek)

 puts 'AVERAGE PAGES PER DAY: at least ' + ppday.to_i.en.numwords
 puts 'AVERAGE PAGES PER WEEK: at least ' + ppweek.to_i.en.numwords
 puts 'ADJUSTED PAGES PER WEEK: ideally, ' + ppweekadj.to_i.en.numwords
 puts '-------> G O ! ! ! ! ! ! ! <--------'

I’m painfully aware that this is incredibly trivial, but it’s a big deal for me, so you hacker types can keep your derision to yourselves.

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