One of the coworkers keeps finding ants in his cubes.
All work has ceased.
It must be a Monday 🙂
Awesome article: “The unspoken truth about managing geeks.”
It pretty much covers where a lot of IT stereotypes come from: reactions to poor organizational treatment. A very sharp article I wish I could get more than a few managers to read.
A vital meme about health care:
No one should die because they cannot afford healthcare. No one should go broke because they get sick, and no one should be tied to a job because of pre-existing condition. If you agree, please post this to your journal.
And a vital meme about health care:
No one should be frozen in carbonite, or be slowly digested for a thousand years in the bowels of a sarlaac, just because they couldn’t pay Jabba the Hutt protection kickbacks. If you agree, please post this to your journal.
This is a great way of illustrating many of the common problems that software developers run into on a daily basis. A wonderful read:
If Architects had to work like software developers
And this is something I’m going to try to clean up my handwriting. Retune what I learned from cursive to print quickly in italics:
Hey you frikking maker science geeks!
I’m sitting at the base of a 3,000 foot tall granite wall.
How strong of a laser projector would one need to play a game of pong with this as the backboard?
And how hard is it to get a laser projector that powerful?
It is accessible by car. So power can be brought in on battery or generator.
A hundreds-of-years-known problem in pipe organ building provides breakthrough insight into the physics of noise cancellation:
http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2009/09/surprising-physics-of-pipe-organs.html
It’s related to the same physics of why 5 metronomes, out of sequence, will synchronize when placed on a surface that reacts to motion:
So I’m in my computing containment device this morning (the cube) and am playing Mozart’s requiem as a polite signal for people to leave me the hell alone. I wonder if it will work.
Why Mozart’s requiem? Mostly for one verse of the Dies Irae:
Confutatis maledictis, flammis accribus addictis
Depending on how flowery your Latin is, a rough translation is: “After the accursed have been silenced and given up to the bitter flames.” The music for this section, of course, is bad-ass.
I find this quote and music wholly appropriate to system administration.
I installed a new corporate firewall at work. Traffic has already been reduced.
