Here is a good answer to the question I have been asked a lot:
"So what are you going to be doing at your new job?"
DirtyBen13: contracting with NASA.
DirtyBen13: working on the document management syste for them
DirtyBen13: they need a pretty strict process
DirtyBen13: for making their selection on the next launch vehicle
DirtyBen13: (the next space shuttle)
DirtyBen13: so we are writting a custom framework (with a web interface) to help them with that
DirtyBen13: and the company also did some custom tool integration work
DirtyBen13: for them... to integrate all of their engineering / aerospace tools into the framework
DirtyBen13: and then the company has another division that handles the visualation of the data
DirtyBen13: so it is a good cross sectional of the company
DirtyBen13: www.ama-inc.com
DirtyBen13: sounds cooler then it is
DirtyBen13: mainly just a framework for covering their ass
DirtyBen13: when the losing concept companie's lawyers come after nasa saying that their selection process was flawed
Ok... this is about the scariest thing I have ever seen... Biniki Fashions Home Page
Holy Cow!!! This is just amazing... Aparently Reebok is trying to outdo Lebron with this 3 year old, Mark Walker. Check it out!
Once again... I love Google
Even though this isn't really Google, but their "I Feel lucky" button still takes you there.
If you type in "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and then click "I Feel Lucky" you will get this.
More is Better
Eating more often is healthier? This is what I have been doing lately... having a snack at 3:00 after eating my lunch... which I guess is only 4 meals but still more on the lines of this.
Take it to the grave
Only for the hard corps!!! When you love your school a little too much!!
Opps I did it again
Looks like the truth about Britney can now be know. Justin is a pimp!
CNN.com - Britney acknowledges she's not a virgin - Jul. 8, 2003
THE STRING
A timeless lesson on how consultants can make a difference for an organization...
Last week, we took some friends out to a newrestaurant, and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket. It seemed a little strange. When the busboy brought our water and utensils, I noticed he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket. Then I looked around saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets.When the waiter came back to serve our soup I asked, "Why the spoon?"
"Well," he explained, "the restaurant's owners hired Andersen Consulting to revamp all our processes. After several months of analysis, they concluded that the spoon was the most frequently dropped utensil. It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour. If our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift."
As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and he was able to replace it with his spare. "I'll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now."
I was impressed. And I also noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter's fly. Looking around, I noticed that all the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies. So before he walked off, I asked the waiter, "Excuse me, but can you tell me why
you have that string right there?"
"Oh, certainly!" Then he lowered his voice. "Not everyone is so observant.That consulting firm I mentioned also found out that we can save time in the restroom. By tying this string to the tip of you know what, we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands, shortening the time spent in the restroom by 76.39 percent."
"After you get it out, how do you put it back?"
"Well," he whispered, "I don't know about the others, but I use the spoon."
