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Why I don't like meetings
Dec. 5th, 2008 04:33 pmSo today I attended the astrophysics group meeting. I won't bore you with the details of their programming efforts, I'm not that cruel. However I will share with you the various details of the meeting that directly illustrate my point.
I will start with the one amusing, and high, note. I'm sitting next to Austin, and Dr. Mezzacappa walks in.
"New faces! ... Ah! Austin, hello!" And he came around the table, "And you are," he says, extending his hand.
I reach out to shake his hand. "Elisha Feger."
He has a moment of surprise cross his face as he shakes my hand. "I know you."
Apparently my reputation precedes me.
After that, people filed in, and I spent 20, 30 minutes listening to back and forth about their Equation of State research. It was dry, and I was very un-interested in it, since it runs inside of a code I'm not involved with, and is a project I'm not involved with. But honestly it wasn't that bad, so far.
This next section, I'll write in the appropriate color to convey events. Some other people talked about their research (using Chimera, I think, I kinda have a mental block in place now) and showed graphs. Two of them showed up at 1:30, and they started talking about 10-15 minutes later.
There was a hardware problem, wherein the cable to connect laptops to the projector was simply put wrong. The screen was very magenta and the image was quite ghosted, as in double-vision, and it remained this way for a half-hour as the magnetic field energy generation curve and its features were discussed in great detail, one might say it was unrelenting in its nature and continued on for a half-hour at the least, and so therefore I hope this paragraph conveys the nature of the experience in its sublime and transformant nature. It is my believe that this experience will lead to the uplifting of mankind into a new super-race, which will rise to the challenge of this universe and in its wisdom and infinite glory become everlasting and wise, surviving until the stars burn out, black holes evaporate, and a strange chemistry of positronium atoms which span multiple empty lightyears emerges.
After my transmigratory experience there was more of people crawling under the table - Oh I forgot to mention that earlier. We had someone crawl under the table in an attempt to gently cradle and caress the video cable into not being purple square stupid. So more scientists went under the table to fool around, and there was more discussion of the magnetic energy production, vector fields, and so on. The art show had ended, and only delicate perching to provide optimal picture quality remained.
10 minutes before 3 PM, when one group had a conference call and one person had a talk to give, we received a whirlwind tour of new visualization tools available for use inside of VisIt. Which made everyone 5 minutes late for things they needed to go do.
I fled.
I will start with the one amusing, and high, note. I'm sitting next to Austin, and Dr. Mezzacappa walks in.
"New faces! ... Ah! Austin, hello!" And he came around the table, "And you are," he says, extending his hand.
I reach out to shake his hand. "Elisha Feger."
He has a moment of surprise cross his face as he shakes my hand. "I know you."
Apparently my reputation precedes me.
After that, people filed in, and I spent 20, 30 minutes listening to back and forth about their Equation of State research. It was dry, and I was very un-interested in it, since it runs inside of a code I'm not involved with, and is a project I'm not involved with. But honestly it wasn't that bad, so far.
This next section, I'll write in the appropriate color to convey events. Some other people talked about their research (using Chimera, I think, I kinda have a mental block in place now) and showed graphs. Two of them showed up at 1:30, and they started talking about 10-15 minutes later.
There was a hardware problem, wherein the cable to connect laptops to the projector was simply put wrong. The screen was very magenta and the image was quite ghosted, as in double-vision, and it remained this way for a half-hour as the magnetic field energy generation curve and its features were discussed in great detail, one might say it was unrelenting in its nature and continued on for a half-hour at the least, and so therefore I hope this paragraph conveys the nature of the experience in its sublime and transformant nature. It is my believe that this experience will lead to the uplifting of mankind into a new super-race, which will rise to the challenge of this universe and in its wisdom and infinite glory become everlasting and wise, surviving until the stars burn out, black holes evaporate, and a strange chemistry of positronium atoms which span multiple empty lightyears emerges.
After my transmigratory experience there was more of people crawling under the table - Oh I forgot to mention that earlier. We had someone crawl under the table in an attempt to gently cradle and caress the video cable into not being purple square stupid. So more scientists went under the table to fool around, and there was more discussion of the magnetic energy production, vector fields, and so on. The art show had ended, and only delicate perching to provide optimal picture quality remained.
10 minutes before 3 PM, when one group had a conference call and one person had a talk to give, we received a whirlwind tour of new visualization tools available for use inside of VisIt. Which made everyone 5 minutes late for things they needed to go do.
I fled.