Hello ???

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 08:57 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 16:11 -0600, Ben Duncan wrote:
> >> has everyone died in this group ?
> > 
> > Still alive after a move to a new Sweden corporate headquarters on the
> > other side of the island. We moved in despite the fact that the place is
> > not finished. All my equipment is in boxes, and no tables or shelves for
> > them are anywhere to be found. We were not allowed to bring our old
> > stuff because it did not match the architects' ideas on how the new
> > place should look. I think they will start the coordinated underwear
> > checks next week...
> 
> Lonni shares pictures of his vacations and everyone enjoys them. If you'd 
> prefer not to share your own pictures of the above topic, feel free to 
> refrain. :-)

I'm not sure what the female engineers would make of me doing as you
suggest of the checks I suspect will start soon. And the male ones would
surely inflict bodily harm.

As to the building itself (which is maybe what you meant), it is
Scandinavian modern. Not as much as the world-wide corporate
headquarters that are soon to open at a location between Copenhagen and
Kastrup airport. But they got to start with an empty site. As ours is in
central Stockholm, we had to re-furbish an existing building. It has
been going on over a year. It was an old county court building. Really,
just a brick office block, not some romantic period structure. The style
could be called Functional (or funkis, in Swedish). Don't think that
means it is functional. The name was surely chosen to fool the unwary.
It really means devoid of all humanity and with as much concrete as
could be obtained at the time. I think it means that the bare necessity
to make it function is all it gets. My wife complains that I am too
critical. But I think a little design for the sake of design is never
amiss. But Swedes are so very practical... Remember the old box-like
Volvos of the 70s and early 80s? This is the architectural equivalent.
But, with an architect's enforcement of what we can and cannot have.
Someone has told us what color floor mats our city-block sized Volvo
must have.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST

Ramböll Sverige AB
Krukmakargatan 21
P.O. Box 17009
SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden

Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20
Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696

--

"On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!),
'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures,
will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend
the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
  - Charles Babbage 1791-1871)
    English computer pioneer, philosopher

And remember:

It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. 
It is like talking about large city with all constructions finished. 
Not impossible, but very unlikely.