Comments on a geocentric view: Solving the World's Problems, One Plot at a Time

Y'know. These blog things?It's customary to updat...

2008-07-06T08:14:00.000-04:00

Y'know. These blog things?

It's customary to update them once in a while...

Just sayin'.

:)

Kisses Mollishka

You're lucky the Powers care enough to keep you co...

2008-06-07T00:13:00.000-04:00

You're lucky the Powers care enough to keep you comfortable. I've worked at more than one place where I explained that I would not be in the building during the warmer months if the ventilation system wasn't running, and if that was bad for productivity, then too bad. And it was, and it was.

Oooh yeah power outtages would be way worse, funct...

2008-06-01T11:31:00.000-04:00

Oooh yeah power outtages would be way worse, functionally. But easier to convince people that they actually happened ....

A few years ago at Vanderbilt, they were doing maj...

2008-06-01T11:16:00.000-04:00

A few years ago at Vanderbilt, they were doing major construction for a nano institute in the Physics building. They had this idea that they could do power outages on weekends with only minimal notice because, after all, it's the **weekend**, and people don't work then. Never mind that, say, the person who is able to rescue his few computers will be in Chile doing observations and depending on those computers, or that, say, there might be HST time scheduled over the weekend.... (Particle physicists had the same deal.) Eventually we managed to convince people that just shutting down our computers was **bad**, and that if you needed to do it you had to not only warn us, but talk to us ahead of time and actually plan for it.