From a conference call this morning

"... pretty important, as that's a 900-horsepower plant..."

He didn't realize what he'd said, but he pretty obviously meant a 900 megawatt plant. (FWIW, 900hp is only about ~0.7 MW.)

Glad I had my mic muted so he didn't hear me snickering. ;P

I have an IEEE article sitting in my inbox entitled "The Tyranny of the Urgent"

But I haven't had time to read it as I have too many more urgent matters to attend to...

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My boss, at conclusion of impromptu watercooler meeting:

"Well, I'm depressed now. Nice pep talk!"

One of my coworkers introduced me to this video earlier today...thought I'd share.

Electrical enlightenment - the Basic Fundamentals of Electricity by F.N.Genius.

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Paraphrased from an actually serious email today:

"[High voltage equipment failures] cause potential (pun intended) safety concerns"