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Nature Path
Turns out the Drood & Fug has a pretty nice nature path on the premises. The D&F campus used to be a Naval Research Center, so there's a good buffer zone of woodland around it that used to allow the Navy to do whatever X-Files weirdo testing they wanted to do here without detection.
However, it also turns out that the nature trail is closed due to ( Read more... ) -
Westboro Baptist Church
I think I might be the only person in America that'll miss Fred Phelps. I appreciated him for his one good feature: For the past decade or so, Fred Phelps was the one guy we could all agree on politically. He sucked. Americans of every race, creed, color, and persuasion agreed that he was a loathsome bastard. I have personally stood beside veterans ( Read more... ) -
Guatemala
In case you missed it, I'm leaving for Guatemala on Friday.
http://www.habitat.org/gv/special_interest_builds.aspx
Maybe I can get some ideas for my temple.
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motivation - you're doing it wrong
Manager: Starting this week, we will have a new intern. Her job will be to try to straighten out the GEI device classification. We try to do this every year or so. It never works. It's a mess. We'll try again, and it probably won't work. It's impossible.
Me: You know the new intern is sitting right next to you, right? -
I'd imagine I just made a post doc happy.
Somewhere in Australia, there's a post doc that's researching the possible adverse events of an odd piece of sports medicine equipment ( Read more... ) -
Comedy driving school.
ARGH, ARGH, ARGH ( Read more... ) -
A note to a new correspondent
Dear CORRESPONDENT:
Regarding the rejection letter you recently received from FDA - the only document that this could be referring to would be the letter sent to FDA to confirm that you are the official correspondent for MANUFACTURER. Since you received the notice that the confirmation letter was rejected, it shows that the confirmation letter ( Read more... ) -
Meeting with the head of the Drood & Fug
I just had a meeting with this guy. He's the director of medical devices at my agency, and is at least five levels above me in the organization chart. He called a 1-on-1 meeting with me after I made some suggestions on how to improve our customer service initiative ( Read more... ) -
Style Manual
I'm reviewing the 2nd submission in a row that has important information in the Executive Summary that isn't found anywhere else in the submission ( Read more... ) -
Dr. Bruce Roe
Thanks to a book I'm reading, I've finally learned who Dr. Bruce Roe is.
Years ago, I had this exchange with someone in my company's headquarters:
"When I walked in, he shouted across the entire building, 'The guy from Genetix is finally here to fix our robot! I'm going to jump off this balcony and kill myself now!"
"Oh shit. Someone in Dr. Roe's ( Read more... )
