Posted on 10/26/2009 4:32:01 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
I hadn’t thought of it that way ...
It’s kind of funny to be heading into 2010. Like something should have happened by now.
Ash, both catz, and Frank. It’s not safe to leave papers on the floor or the table or the sofa. I caught Shannon shredding a napkin this morning. She was embarassed.
I’m going to make coffee; it’s cold in here!
Good luck, may the pooka of the shears be kind to you this day.
Cats don’t shred papers.
I bought some. It’s not too bad for $2. Better than what I’d get on the boat..but that goes for most things.
Although the boat’s canned fruit salad was exceptional this morning/afternoon (or whenever it was that I got up.)
In my world it has. *\:^(
Ugh. Got myself into a mess with one of my blogs. Trying to create an analogy of a technical situation using a historical situation (because some of the audience are non-technical folks), but finding historical equivalents for one or two operations is proving to be really difficult.
That's not surprising!
Something bad has happened just as 2010 arrives? Not a dreadful haircut, I hope!
Learned it takes 3 days +/- a few hours to get to the East Coast by Greyhound (only a few buses have WiFi yet), but it can be rather less expensive than flying. Now if they only had sleeper berths... *\;-)
OTOH, I think I have my blog solution. Want to run it by LoM before I publish, however.
Big slug of rain coming, might be there already for you. A little further east it’s snow, as Bean Counter has already reported on the state board.
It just started spitting on us while we were out walking to dog. I can see it off in the distance.
Oh well, whatever happens I'm not scheduled to go anywhere until Hogmanay (January 1st Scottish celebrations).
Have you considered the train?
My solution is to stay home, but I guess that’s not an option for you.
Last rode it, oh, around Christmas 1980, I think. We took an overnight sleeper cabin from SF to Kansas for Christmas with my father. Memory says it was a little pricey, diner car service poor quality, and the cabin freakingly narrow.
LoM looked up rates last night. I have forgotten the cost, but it was high enough that I don't think it was worth it. If I lived on the East Coast (most of my meetings are east of the Mississippi) it might be a different matter. OTOH if they now offer WiFi so I could conduct business from my cabin that might be a different matter.
Gimmee a break. The Feds just need to butt out of commercial industry.
I agree. No wonder Amtrak keeps losing money.
And it's taxpayer money they're wasting. Another letter to my congressman... but... this is straying into areas verboten to the Undead Thread.
So hey -- how's the rain there? And the byos? *\;-)
No rain here, at the moment. Supposed to be in the 30s the next several days. They byos are all in bed, and I’m going there myself, now.
Try not to worry, things could get better!
Oddly the radar shows rain should be on us now but it's still dry. Machts nichts, I have no reason (other than fetching the daily copy of the ever-more-liberal WSJ) to venture forth before next year.
G'night!
You, and all the rest of us, need better trains, or better phones.
Since air travel does not seem to be capable of doing what the business traveler needs to have done, train travel in the United States either needs to mature or disappear.
How does the situation appear in Europe and the Orient? Can they organize business meetings around train travel?
Better phones means some kind of virtual meeting. NASA equipment allows one to feel that they are in a different space, seeing in three-D, and being able to track voices.
What’s missing from this technology is the face to face. That can be fixed, too.
Cameras today can track your eye position. For the virtual meeting, when you don your display visor, it should contain facial feature tracking devices. When you smile, your avatar should smile realistically.
If you frown or look puzzled, your avatar should display that expression as well. With proper technology, a table meeting of up to twelve should be relatively simple.
For larger groups, such as your committees, it would be necessary to concentrate on individual presenters, or serial speakers. But it should also be possible to keep multiple faces in view in order to gauge reactions.
Paperwork would also have to be coordinated. All references should be to pages approved and distributed in advance. They could even be virtual, appearing as a screen within a screen in your display visor. Pictures could work the same way, and laser pointers would have to be integrated into the display technology as well.
I don’t see anything prohibitively complex in this scenario, and it would be a great deal easier to bring about than modernizing all the train travel in America.
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