Re: Office Mates
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Originally Posted by Ironguy
Yogyakarta neglected to mention that he and I were office mates! It is cool when you're both PPC afficionados! We actually talked other people into getting PPCs. The buildings we worked in are part of what is called ATC or Advanced Technical Center. If you're not a geek or nerd, don't bother showing up to work!
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Yeah, we even got one guy (who has a distinctly reptilian nickname :wink: ) to part with his 8 year-old Palm and get a PPC. I don't think he's ever regretted that decision. There was another guy who sometimes brought his radio controlled 1/16 scale M4 Sherman tank into work. He even equipped it with a camera. He'd drive it around the hallways of one of the ATC buildings and occasionally venture into someone's office to bug them. Unfortunately, he stopped doing that after one guy picked up the tank and accidentally dropped it on the floor! Yes, geekiness was a prerequisite for joining that crew.
PPCs came in very handy during those looooong, overnight shifts when Gravity Probe B was in thermal-vacuum testing, or whenever we had to update the flight software on the vehicle. Trouble is, we couldn't just walk away from the workstation at times like that. So, we'd fire up an e-book or a game on our PPCs and while away the time.
PPCs are great because you can use them at work and make-believe that you're actually doing something productive. Little do the management know that we're breezing through a novel :way to go:
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