[opensuse] Re: Hello ???
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 08:57 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 16:11 -0600, Ben Duncan wrote:
has everyone died in this group ?
Still alive after a move to a new Sweden corporate headquarters on the other side of the island. We moved in despite the fact that the place is not finished. All my equipment is in boxes, and no tables or shelves for them are anywhere to be found. We were not allowed to bring our old stuff because it did not match the architects' ideas on how the new place should look. I think they will start the coordinated underwear checks next week...
Lonni shares pictures of his vacations and everyone enjoys them. If you'd prefer not to share your own pictures of the above topic, feel free to refrain. :-)
I'm not sure what the female engineers would make of me doing as you suggest of the checks I suspect will start soon. And the male ones would surely inflict bodily harm. As to the building itself (which is maybe what you meant), it is Scandinavian modern. Not as much as the world-wide corporate headquarters that are soon to open at a location between Copenhagen and Kastrup airport. But they got to start with an empty site. As ours is in central Stockholm, we had to re-furbish an existing building. It has been going on over a year. It was an old county court building. Really, just a brick office block, not some romantic period structure. The style could be called Functional (or funkis, in Swedish). Don't think that means it is functional. The name was surely chosen to fool the unwary. It really means devoid of all humanity and with as much concrete as could be obtained at the time. I think it means that the bare necessity to make it function is all it gets. My wife complains that I am too critical. But I think a little design for the sake of design is never amiss. But Swedes are so very practical... Remember the old box-like Volvos of the 70s and early 80s? This is the architectural equivalent. But, with an architect's enforcement of what we can and cannot have. Someone has told us what color floor mats our city-block sized Volvo must have. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- "On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!), 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage 1791-1871) English computer pioneer, philosopher And remember: It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about large city with all constructions finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Oops... You did not see that. Wrong list. How embarrassing. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- "On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!), 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage 1791-1871) English computer pioneer, philosopher And remember: It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about large city with all constructions finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On November Wednesday 12 2008, Roger Oberholtzer scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
Oops... You did not see that. Wrong list. How embarrassing.
-- Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST
Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden
Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696
--
"On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!), 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage 1791-1871) English computer pioneer, philosopher
And remember:
It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about large city with all constructions finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely.
nonono, to erase memories, you have to use the "flashie" thing from Men in Black... Are the underwear checks contractual? ;P -- j "Its like a song I can hear playing right in my ear That I cant sing I cant help listening" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2008-11-12 17:15, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
<snip> But Swedes are so very practical... Remember the old box-like Volvos of the 70s and early 80s? This is the architectural equivalent. But, with an architect's enforcement of what we can and cannot have. Someone has told us what color floor mats our city-block sized Volvo must have.
Hey! I drive around in one of those. And I can tell you, the floor mats are completely optional ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, November 12, 2008 17:15, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 08:57 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 16:11 -0600, Ben Duncan wrote:
has everyone died in this group ?
Still alive after a move to a new Sweden corporate headquarters on the other side of the island. We moved in despite the fact that the place is not finished. All my equipment is in boxes, and no tables or shelves for them are anywhere to be found. We were not allowed to bring our old stuff because it did not match the architects' ideas on how the new place should look. I think they will start the coordinated underwear checks next week...
Lonni shares pictures of his vacations and everyone enjoys them. If you'd prefer not to share your own pictures of the above topic, feel free to refrain. :-)
I'm not sure what the female engineers would make of me doing as you suggest of the checks I suspect will start soon. And the male ones would surely inflict bodily harm.
As to the building itself (which is maybe what you meant), it is Scandinavian modern. Not as much as the world-wide corporate headquarters that are soon to open at a location between Copenhagen and Kastrup airport. But they got to start with an empty site. As ours is in central Stockholm, we had to re-furbish an existing building. It has been going on over a year. It was an old county court building. Really, just a brick office block, not some romantic period structure. The style could be called Functional (or funkis, in Swedish). Don't think that means it is functional. The name was surely chosen to fool the unwary. It really means devoid of all humanity and with as much concrete as could be obtained at the time. I think it means that the bare necessity to make it function is all it gets. My wife complains that I am too critical. But I think a little design for the sake of design is never amiss. But Swedes are so very practical... Remember the old box-like Volvos of the 70s and early 80s? This is the architectural equivalent. But, with an architect's enforcement of what we can and cannot have. Someone has told us what color floor mats our city-block sized Volvo must have.
-- Roger Oberholtzer
OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST
Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden
Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696
--
"On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!), 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage 1791-1871) English computer pioneer, philosopher
And remember:
It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about large city with all constructions finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely.
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Sounds like a typical IKEA store... :-p -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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