Why HVAC Is Important

I'm in training this week. It's a nice classroom in San Mateo, with excellent internet connectivity and good tables and chairs. This is career-defining training, so I'm excited to be here. But I'm having trouble concentrating because the air conditioning has the temperature hovering around 55 degrees. That leads to a vicious cycle...

1) I'm drinking a lot of warm drinks.
2) I'm not able to focus because I'm shivering...even in my jacket.
3) The drinking and the cold leads to a shrunken and full bladder.
4) Even more trouble focusing because of the bladder.
5) Frequent visits to the bathroom, missing even more class.

They have a technician here trying to fix the problem, but it probably won't be done until the end of the day. Marvelous.

Get a Brain Morans, Part Two

From the morans file...

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True Patriots Hang Jack-Booted Census Worker

Idiocy...sheer idiocy:

When Bill Sparkman told retired trooper Gilbert Acciardo that he was going door-to-door collecting census data in rural Kentucky, the former cop drawing on years of experience warned: "Be careful."

The 51-year-old Sparkman was found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery and had the word "fed" scrawled on his chest, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment.

Next up in Kentucky: lynching people because they file tax returns.

Microsoft OneNote: Handy, But Annoying

I've taken to using Microsoft OneNote to take notes...especially during the multiple training courses I've been taking during my ramp-up at work. It's very useful and pretty well put-together, but I've had some major annoyances that are impeding my productivity:

Screen Clips
Screen clips are essential in software. OneNote gives you a handy button to clip something from the last window you were in. You just press this button:

This leads to a screen where you can select the section of the page to clip...you select that section, and it magically inserts the clip into OneNote. Unfortunately, it includes extra whitespace and text on when the screen clipping was taken:


As far as I can tell, there's no way to get rid of this. It's frustrating. I've been Googling for the answer, but no dice so far.

Migrating and Organizing Notes
I've had reason to switch computers a few times lately. OneNote notebooks are kept in your user profile (My Documents >> OneNote Notebooks) by default, but migrating them with their structure isn't as simple as moving the files from one machine to another. OneNote seems to treat all migrated notebooks as new notebooks, instead of placing them within the Personal Notebook or the Work Notebook hierarchies. And short of buying Sharepoint, forget about storing them in a centralized repository like a SAN or NAS...

Make It a Hierarchy, Damnit
OneNote tries hard to give you tabs and buttons to organize your notebooks. Why not give people the familiar folder-based hierarchy?

I'll keep using OneNote, but damn...I'd like to find a way around these.

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