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A Bit Ripe

June 17th, 2014 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. Blitzkrieg1701
    Blitzkrieg1701
    June 17, 2014 at 12:06 am | # | Reply

    …though, given what the rest of the convention will smell like by that point, I’m sure sure how much it will help.

    • Trae Dorn
      Trae Dorn
      June 17, 2014 at 12:09 am | # | Reply

      It’s important for the staff room to remain a refuge. The VGR is a lost cause

  2. Takchik
    Takchik
    June 17, 2014 at 1:39 am | # | Reply

    Thats why we gave our volunteers traffic cone yellow vests……and named them the bees.

  3. -Thumper-
    -Thumper-
    June 17, 2014 at 1:46 am | # | Reply

    True story, Lynn. True story.

  4. Langland
    Langland
    June 17, 2014 at 5:46 am | # | Reply

    Taking a shower always helps.

  5. EcchiKitty
    EcchiKitty
    June 17, 2014 at 8:31 am | # | Reply

    Showers help, and so do washing machines, which most hotels have. For some reason, they are very seldom used.

    I’d also like to think that while it’s 90 outside, it’s cooler in the convention hall… but I know that’s not always the case.

  6. Kay Shapero
    Kay Shapero
    June 18, 2014 at 9:13 pm | # | Reply

    Basic rule – if you have gofers crashing in the Gofer Hole, make sure the room has showers and lots and lots of towels AND that there’s time for everybody to use them before they get going in the morning. Your sense of smell will love you for it.

  7. Chiaroscuro
    Chiaroscuro
    June 24, 2014 at 2:10 am | # | Reply

    We don’t make our volunteers wear T-shirts.. except for security.

    Sunday night at the staff dinner, there’s a reason I don’t sit with security.. (>_>)

  8. antrik
    antrik
    August 15, 2016 at 10:13 pm | # | Reply

    I once attended the volunteer meeting at a Free Software conference. (These are only *slightly* geeky, so most people do know about showers and changing clothes, plus no cosplay… So not smelly in general.) They said everyone is getting *two* shirts — because the conference lasts more than one day…

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    My current desk

    So every few years I've felt the need to make an update about my ever evolving workspace, and how I (more and more) seem to be cultivating an aesthetic that screams "secondary side character in a cyberpunk story who probably gets killed off in the third act." It's an aesthetic I've been working on on purpose (well, not the getting killed off bit), but every time I declare it's reached "peak cyberpunk" I end up outdoing it soon after anyway.

    Like that 2017 update? I exceeded it in mere months.

    Anyway, since I made some significant changes recently, I thought I'd post an update about my weird hole of many screens where I run The Nerd & Tie Podcast Network from. I'm not going to run through everything, but I will map out the biggest differences from 2017. The first is (obviously) the 32" display up top, which I now use to stream media on instead of the Kindle Fire (though the Kindle Fire is still used for audio bumpers on podcasts). An Apple TV runs that, though I also have a spare Switch dock hooked up sometimes. The Linux laptop is gone (I mean I still have it though), replaced by the late-2011 13" MacBook Pro which used to be my main personal machine. That MacBook Pro is tucked away, but displays on the relocated black monitor in the lower left.

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    It's funny, I bought two computers in 2020, both of which are ARM based. With a good chunk of my desk now on RISC architecture, I'm happy I can just dig out this image without context as I sign off for today...

    RISC is good


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