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« Last post by superboyac on October 07, 2011, 10:41 AM »OK, here's the actual thing!
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I have worked night shift for most of my working life, so a busy bathroom was never a concern.Beautiful story!!
However, I do have an interesting bathroom story:
One place I worked at was in an older multi-story office building downtown, the kind with a marble-column facade and brass fittings in the elevators.
One night around break time, a female co-worker came to me and said "come here, I want to show you something".
She was the 'weird' girl on shift that I was on friendly terms with, and had gotten to know her well enough that she actually wanted to show me some curiosity, and not making overtures of fraternization.
She went to the shift manager's office (not unusual, it was sparse,always open, and shared between 3 shift managers and various personnel) and grabbed a key from the top drawer.
She then took me to the elevator and we went up 3 floors.
When the door opened, we got out and she led me around a corner where a women's bathroom was.
"It's ok, there's nobody here" she said and opened the door.
It. was. immaculate.
White marble counters and floors, brightly lit, a modest chandelier hanging from a cathedral ceiling, the whole 9 yards and then some.
Most curious was a wooden door at the other end, marked with a brass plaque as "The Quiet Room".
My co-worker took me to the door and opened it with the key she had purloined.
Inside was a simple carpeted room about 6 feet by 10 with two orange tweed-covered chairs, a couch, two of those old two-tier coffee tables popular in the '70s with a desk lamp and stylish ashtray on each one.
A single large window over the couch offered a heady view of the city northward.
She kneeled on the couch to face the window, opened it, lit a cigarette and said "Isn't this place great? I wish it were on our floor".
I lit one for myself and joined her gazing over the city lights, chit-chatting until break time was over.
One of my best cigarette breaks ever, and we only had opportunity to go there twice again after that before she went back to working on day shift.
A year later, the office closest to that ladies' room expanded their office into the space the "Quiet Room" occupied.
Ah, memories...-Edvard (October 07, 2011, 06:53 AM)
That was the point! Maybe I'll finally get the balls to do an open mic standup: the sad engineer.You are an engineer...Is he? With bathroom sensitivities like that, I'd expect marketing-Shades (October 06, 2011, 01:20 PM)-f0dder (October 06, 2011, 02:29 PM)
(Sorry I'm laughing SB. But that was funny!)-40hz (October 06, 2011, 06:38 PM)
call it The Engineers Log or something...no wonder they complain-nudone (October 06, 2011, 04:26 PM)-f0dder (October 06, 2011, 04:34 PM)
Hay, if all they want a is nicer movement, give it to them.Oh man!! Ultra gross!!!!
Shit in the sink and leave a bow on it.
-Stoic Joker (October 06, 2011, 02:31 PM)
"Steve spoke to me of the illness more recently than a few months ago as something that really did bother him, that he did not like the fact that he had been close to death, and sort of survived," Wozniak told "The Early Show" from his home in Los Gatos, California.
"It kind of surprised," said Wozniak. "He's got a logical mind that understands, you know, as he is quoted as saying, that death is really an affirmation of life as part of the circle, and, you know, once you have a healthy thinking like that, you aren't necessarily bothered by that. But he spoke like he was very bothered by it."
Thought:I agree. I've learned this past year how much people value customer service, and I thank all of the great developers here who make life easier for me, both with their words and actions.
We could have a thread for the "Responsive, Friendly Dozen" (or 25) - "commercial" software where the individual or small team is totally responsive. Thomas for Linkman is nominated, that fellow Jaros from Hard Disk Sentinel. There can be superb software without such daily give-and-take (e.g. Revo Uninstaller) and the is often super-responsive DonationCoderWare and Freeware. I just think the actual biz companies that are really dedicated with products especial can get a nod.-Steven Avery (October 04, 2011, 12:06 PM)
I remember going to a lecture where 'electron spin' got mentioned. The lecturer took pains to point out that what are called particles aren't really what we think of as physical particles. I remember his saying something like " Spin is a way of thinking about it. It's not like there's actually an object that's spinning down there."Man!! I had an eerily similar experience when I first started learning about spin in my quantum physics class in college. I remember that it didn't really quite make any sense to me, like in a special way though. It was like I thought "this is...kind of...bullshit", but I wasn't sure if I just wasn't understanding it or something. It was one of those weird, profound moments in my life. That spin thing was the first time I realized that they created this concept deductively from just the math of it, rather than observing something and then fitting the math to it which is the more usual scientific way of doing stuff.-40hz (October 04, 2011, 08:39 AM)
Spin is a way of thinking about it.Such a bizarre statement. Yet here we are with the result of all of this progress and technology. And at the very core of it, the very most fundamental part...the electron spin...we don't even know what that really is.
About the only games I can say I've really enjoyed seem to be oldies. I even like those tinny 8-bit musical scores playing through the Soundblaster card. Keep a working C64 around for the same reason. That SID chip was...heck, it still is awesome!You just got the old Bruce Lee game's soundtrack playing in my head.-40hz (October 02, 2011, 07:42 AM)
PA's platform is a gem. Especially nice is how it auto discovers new apps you've added.That's definitely a cool feature (not available on LBC). mouser...I'm getting a feature request, don't mind it unless you want to:-40hz (September 26, 2011, 01:51 PM)
Sure, so do a lot of us here because it's kind of a love of ours. But you can't depend on that kind of charity and loving attitude as a business strategy, especially when we are in such the minority. So a shareware author is not going to make a living simply because a few people appreciate his effort. I wish that was the case, but it's not. You basically have to put people in the position where they have to pay for this thing whether they want to or not. Especially with software.To me, it still comes down to this simple thing: people won't pay if they don't HAVE to pay. Ever.-superboyac (September 29, 2011, 09:47 AM)
Not always never...
I do.
Quite often in fact.
(I'm such a boy scout about stuff like that.-40hz (September 29, 2011, 10:15 AM)
SuperboyAC, I use autocad at work and love the freeform drawing capabilities as well... I hate visio and other such "diagramming" software because they take the art out of diagramming!I like that! The art of diagramming, indeed! I also struggle with viso because my mind is so invested in the Autocad way.
BUT, what are your thoughts on the new UI (2010 and later, assuming you're seen/used it)?? To me it is cumbersome and the entire program is getting sluggish.
Sorry if this is OT, by the way.-kfitting (September 29, 2011, 05:37 AM)
No, definitely not. It's obvious that it's a more complicated interface. If you are not a computer person (i.e. you would call someone if you're internet wasn't working, etc.) you will very easily get lost in these Android interfaces. The swiping effects are significantly less fluid than an ipad. All that touch stuff is less responsive than the ipad, which is like uber-responsive. I'm saying it, the touch effects of the ipad is perfect...I really have no complaints about it.Anything you guys would like to know?-superboyac (September 26, 2011, 04:58 PM)
Yeah, do the Samsung and/or Asus feel as 'fluent' as the iPad, in normal use?-Ath (September 26, 2011, 06:02 PM)
Amen brotha!!!All I need an OS for as an end user is to get me to the cloud, to my browser, and from there I can do the rest in HTML5 and beyond.-zridling (September 23, 2011, 02:35 PM)
All I need from an OS is for it to stop shoving the cloud in my face every two minutes, or require a web connection in order to get my work done.
I have no use for the cloud beyond having it provide secondary offsite backup space for non-secure data and possibly some project oriented team sharing functions.-40hz (September 23, 2011, 03:15 PM)
