Caught In The Whirlwind
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The Great Lake Tarp Project
Feb 20th 2007
I was having a conversation with a friend last friday about the large amounts of snow we had gotten. This area is right in the line of fire of the lake effect snow coming off of Lake Ontario. It’s getting really, really annoying.
So she says:
I’ve had quite enough of it. I say we put tarps over the Great Lakes to prevent all this lake effect snow. This is the 21st century, we shouldn’t still be living like this!
And it just so happens that I was bored at work that day…so I tried to figure out how much that would cost:
I second this plan! Lets put it into motion immediately
Lets see here…the surface area of the great lakes is roughly 94,270 square miles which comes out to 2,628,096,768,000 square feet.
And according to this athletic tarp manufacturing website I just found with a custom quote option, we could order a single tarp that big for…$415,764,910,615.42 and then cut it down to size…
Or, if we get a whole bunch of 100 square foot tarps… which is roughly $28,882,783,500,000, but it won’t be a custom job and we’d have to include the cost of the kids in china in order to sew all of the tarps together.
I’m just surprised that the custom tarp calculator let me put in a tarp that big.
Oh, and in the interests of full disclosure, I made a mistake when I was calculating out the length of the sides of the big single tarp when I first sent her the message. This is a corrected figure.
It looks like it’ll be cheaper just to get one big tarp and then cut it to fit…
No Power
Oct 30th 2006
I came into work this morning and noticed that the hallway is a little darker than usual. I figure somebody forgot to turn the lights on.
Then I get to my desk and notice that the generator is on (my desk is located directly over the generator, so it’s a little loud when it comes on.) Crap. I needed to switch my laptop from the wireless network (which goes down when there’s no power) to the wired, but for some reason I can’t connect to the database server here while on the wired network. So it’s going to be a productive morning for me, I’m sure.
Friday Afternoon…
Sep 22nd 2006
I’m convinced that there’s some statistical law of the universe that forces Friday afternoon to seem like the equivalent of several years. I guess it doesn’t help that I’m not doing a heck of a lot here at work right now. I’m in the in between projects phase.
I even predicted I was going to be here earlier today, so I went above and beyond what was asked of me on what I was working on this morning. Warning, over simplification incoming! I work in software development, first of all. I had a to add a spell checker to one particular field in one part of our main application and I kinda added it to every field in every section of that part. I figure why wait for them to ask me to add it to another field when I can take care of it now…
That’s one of the moments I really enjoy. When something clicks and I find a cool way of doing a task that I’m really proud of. I can show people my little button and say proudly “Yep. That’s my spell checker!” And they’ll look at me like I’m crazy. “What’s so special about a spell checker?”. Well…they just don’t know what goes on after they click that button…
Geeze, I need to find something to do…
A Very Long Day…
Aug 14th 2006
Well, I’m pretty bored at the moment. I’m currently really the only one here in my department at work. Everyone else has the day off. I’m also currently in one of my slow periods where I don’t really have a specific project to work on. So I’ve just been doing a lot of reading up on stuff (like continuing my quest to learn ruby), as well as tinkering my other site (Hey, it’s PHP work…it’s called practice!).
I’ve been trying out this vox thing…It’s a really nice service, very easy to use, lots of AJAX-y dynamic stuff. The integrated image/video/audio gallery system is very, very nice. I’m not to keen on the google ads at the bottom, or having my personal thoughts and posts walled away in a proprietary service. I’m still debating if I’m going to move over here, simply because of how easy it is to work with, and for the social network aspect of it. It seemed kinda pokey too, which is another negative. It’s got a bunch of positives though. Argh! I can’t decide.
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