hats!

Oo! Lookit the cute leaf hat!



being_angyl was looking at the kitty hat, and I like the foxy one too, but I think forestdweller needs to have a leaf sprouting out of her head like that. ^_^

hats!

Oo! Lookit the cute leaf hat!



being_angyl was looking at the kitty hat, and I like the foxy one too, but I think forestdweller needs to have a leaf sprouting out of her head like that. ^_^

silent evangelism

I'm not really sure what the purpose is of the Christian "vending tables" in the campus centre. By this I mean tables where someone is sitting behind a lot of books and literature, presumably there to hand it out and/or sell it, answer questions and whenever possible, convert someone. Every so often I see Muslims instead, which I can understand. Islam has never been the dominant, mainstream religion in this country, and though I imagine most Americans have heard of it by now, it's probably still something of a mystery to most of them. Someone who wasn't too shy or embarrassed might actually walk up and want to learn something about Islam. But who is going to look at the Christian table and go "what's all this, then? And here I was looking for a religion, too!"

silent evangelism

I'm not really sure what the purpose is of the Christian "vending tables" in the campus centre. By this I mean tables where someone is sitting behind a lot of books and literature, presumably there to hand it out and/or sell it, answer questions and whenever possible, convert someone. Every so often I see Muslims instead, which I can understand. Islam has never been the dominant, mainstream religion in this country, and though I imagine most Americans have heard of it by now, it's probably still something of a mystery to most of them. Someone who wasn't too shy or embarrassed might actually walk up and want to learn something about Islam. But who is going to look at the Christian table and go "what's all this, then? And here I was looking for a religion, too!"

*fans self*

Ugh. It's 84 degrees in here. This is only sort of a problem with the climate control -- more a problem in the whole design of the thing, than a simple question of "isn't the air conditioning on?" I'm told that the a/c is not controllable room by room in this building; it's at best floor by floor. And in any case it's not something we can turn a dial on a thermostat for. I don't think there even is any thermostat. I'm told the heating/cooling is on a calendar, not actually dependent on how hot or cold it is in the room. Because our 90 computers and people sitting in front of them all day produce so much heat, it gets much hotter much faster in here than anywhere else in the building, especially when the weather outside goes above 70 degrees (it's quicker to get warmer in here than anywhere else).

In other words, the cooling is adequate everywhere else but can't keep up with the heat we generate, yet there's no way to make it try to keep just this room cooler. We have electric fans, but they only help so much. Can't even open a bloody window, since we're in the basement. (Even if we weren't, no modern office-type building -- this one was built in 1996 -- is built with openable windows, anyway. Distance Learning, upstairs, often stands their back door open to get flow-through.) In the summer quarter we leave about half the lab computers off as much as possible, so their CRTs aren't heating up the room, but that's not practical during the academic year, especially two weeks before finals (which is what this week is).

Oh, by the way, apparently OSHA (or whoever) has nothing to say about it until it reaches the hundreds, despite the fact that someone once passed out in similar conditions (~90 degrees) in the main library a number of years ago. So we get to suffer because it doesn't break code. Blerg.

*fans self*

Ugh. It's 84 degrees in here. This is only sort of a problem with the climate control -- more a problem in the whole design of the thing, than a simple question of "isn't the air conditioning on?" I'm told that the a/c is not controllable room by room in this building; it's at best floor by floor. And in any case it's not something we can turn a dial on a thermostat for. I don't think there even is any thermostat. I'm told the heating/cooling is on a calendar, not actually dependent on how hot or cold it is in the room. Because our 90 computers and people sitting in front of them all day produce so much heat, it gets much hotter much faster in here than anywhere else in the building, especially when the weather outside goes above 70 degrees (it's quicker to get warmer in here than anywhere else).

In other words, the cooling is adequate everywhere else but can't keep up with the heat we generate, yet there's no way to make it try to keep just this room cooler. We have electric fans, but they only help so much. Can't even open a bloody window, since we're in the basement. (Even if we weren't, no modern office-type building -- this one was built in 1996 -- is built with openable windows, anyway. Distance Learning, upstairs, often stands their back door open to get flow-through.) In the summer quarter we leave about half the lab computers off as much as possible, so their CRTs aren't heating up the room, but that's not practical during the academic year, especially two weeks before finals (which is what this week is).

Oh, by the way, apparently OSHA (or whoever) has nothing to say about it until it reaches the hundreds, despite the fact that someone once passed out in similar conditions (~90 degrees) in the main library a number of years ago. So we get to suffer because it doesn't break code. Blerg.

psst, <lj user

You left your staff (I forget the fancy Japanese word) leaning against the pillar by the computer where you were sitting. I snagged it and it's sitting in m y cube with your name taped to it. As much as I would like to beat the occasional recalcitrant patron with it, well... I think you'd better come get it. :)

psst, <lj user

You left your staff (I forget the fancy Japanese word) leaning against the pillar by the computer where you were sitting. I snagged it and it's sitting in m y cube with your name taped to it. As much as I would like to beat the occasional recalcitrant patron with it, well... I think you'd better come get it. :)