In preparing for Y2K my boss and company arranged many contingency plans not only within business centers, but to the point where I had a complete development environmet set up at home. When 9/11 occured and access to NYC was restricted we were all told to stay home until further notice unless critical customer facing support required us to return to the office. My entire department covered their jobs from home. Several hurricanes and nor'easters and snowstorms have limited access to our offices. Even last weeks Republican National Convention was considered a severe enough inconvenience that policy was "work from home if you can" and I did. I put in at least 2 12 hour days because without the commute I had no reason to get up from the computer. We have reached a point where everything possible we can do from home instead of the office has already been arranged thanks to broadband, VPN, instant messaging, VOIP, and VNC. We are at the point where it is a simple question "Will I get more accomplished if I work from home today?" You live in Florida, Hurricane country, but the same would apply to wildfires, earthquakes, tornados, flooding, and any of the newsworthy weather that comes from the Atlantic Ocean. If local, regional, state or federal authorities have ever restricted travel or access in your area for any weather or "act of god" reason, or really anywhere for Homeland Security reasons, your company should have a stated policy about those possible events. The company should also have business contingency plans for such events. Remember, your family and their safety and comfort is your real first priority job. Where you go to work is just what you do to pay for it. Let your fight or flight reflex guide you. As I have been composing this I have received an e-mail notice for "National Emergency Preparedness Month". Check the Homeland Security web page for details.
I remember Captain Kool and the Kongs, Sigmund the Sea monster, Liddsville, Thunderbirds, Wacky Racers, H. R. Puffinstuff, etc. All those Sid and Marty Kroft Productions with Witchypoo and Charles Nelson Riley were not really cartoons but they were wrappers around the cartoons. Yogi's Ark, Birdman, Superfriends, spiderfriends, Space Ghost (before the talk show) Banana Splits, Jabberjaw (blatant Scooby Doo rip off), Atom Ant, and lots more. I have always been happy with my bowl of Cheerios and my saturday morning cartoons. Now 30 years later I am happy to spend the morning with my 2 sons and Kids WB, Jackie Chan, YuGiOh, Pokemon, Batman, Batman Beyond, Superman, Justice League, Static Shock, The Zeta Project, and the upcomming Teen Titans cartoon look interesting, the Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain are quite enjoyable. Over on ABC One Saturday Morning kind of fizzled out, but Recess and Doug were funny enough. On Fox the X-Men: Evolution and another dose of Pokemon make a nice balance. I hate Transformers Armada although my kids like it and have almost all the toys, I much prefered the CGI Beast Wars and Beast machines incarnations of Transformers. A few years ago ReBoot was an excellent series on ABC and I expect the occasional movie spinnoff on Cartoon Network. Courage the Cowardly Dog and Catdog is more fodder my kids like and I don't. I draw the line at any series with 2 animals, 2 stupid Dogs, 2 angry beavers, Ren and Stimpy, Grim and Evil are banned. Samuri Jack, Dexters labratory, and the Powderpuff Girls I find stimulating enough to allow. I actually watch Futurama and Inuyasha and will let them when they are teenagers. I tell them when something is a blatant pitch for merchandizing and I think they are starting to get it. Luckily there are enough creative people out there to counteract the people just trying to push merchandise. Be selective, vote with your dollar and your remote control. If you know a Neilson family, watch tv with them and be very critical of their choices. Hopefully TiVo, ReplayTv, and cable companies are mining the data they collect about what actually gets watched and selling that information, it has to be more accurate than the tiny number of Neilson households.
I remember christmas when I was 3, my sister would have been 10 months and I remember playing with a fisher price farmhouse with her, then I remember going outside to play in the snow and the grown ups not putting her down because she couldn't walk yet. (not that either one of us really could walk trussed up like the michelin man in our home made knit winter clothes) I also remember my fourth birthday, mainly because I was showing off pretending I was snoopy lying on top of the back of the couch, I fell and broke my collar bone. I remember the first day of kindergarden. I remember reading somewhere that thinking is done on the surface of your brain and memories are store within, and that the more you think about thing while they are short term memories the stronger the long term memories will be. I try to reinforce memories by consiously thinking about the sights, smells, sounds, textures, other persons perspectives and how an outside observer would describe it. These tricks seem to work, things I pay attention to like that make much more vivid memories.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. My job is developing and maintaining a database engine as part of the head end of one of my companies products. One of my first thoughts when I heard about the national ID card plan was "I could track them all in real time." It struck me as a technical problem, only later did I even consider the rights violations.
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In preparing for Y2K my boss and company arranged many contingency plans not only within business centers, but to the point where I had a complete development environmet set up at home. When 9/11 occured and access to NYC was restricted we were all told to stay home until further notice unless critical customer facing support required us to return to the office. My entire department covered their jobs from home.
Several hurricanes and nor'easters and snowstorms have limited access to our offices. Even last weeks Republican National Convention was considered a severe enough inconvenience that policy was "work from home if you can" and I did. I put in at least 2 12 hour days because without the commute I had no reason to get up from the computer.
We have reached a point where everything possible we can do from home instead of the office has already been arranged thanks to broadband, VPN, instant messaging, VOIP, and VNC. We are at the point where it is a simple question "Will I get more accomplished if I work from home today?"
You live in Florida, Hurricane country, but the same would apply to wildfires, earthquakes, tornados, flooding, and any of the newsworthy weather that comes from the Atlantic Ocean.
If local, regional, state or federal authorities have ever restricted travel or access in your area for any weather or "act of god" reason, or really anywhere for Homeland Security reasons, your company should have a stated policy about those possible events. The company should also have business contingency plans for such events.
Remember, your family and their safety and comfort is your real first priority job. Where you go to work is just what you do to pay for it. Let your fight or flight reflex guide you.
As I have been composing this I have received an e-mail notice for "National Emergency Preparedness Month". Check the Homeland Security web page for details.
I remember Captain Kool and the Kongs, Sigmund the Sea monster, Liddsville, Thunderbirds, Wacky Racers, H. R. Puffinstuff, etc. All those Sid and Marty Kroft Productions with Witchypoo and Charles Nelson Riley were not really cartoons but they were wrappers around the cartoons. Yogi's Ark, Birdman, Superfriends, spiderfriends, Space Ghost (before the talk show) Banana Splits, Jabberjaw (blatant Scooby Doo rip off), Atom Ant, and lots more.
I have always been happy with my bowl of Cheerios and my saturday morning cartoons. Now 30 years later I am happy to spend the morning with my 2 sons and Kids WB, Jackie Chan, YuGiOh, Pokemon, Batman, Batman Beyond, Superman, Justice League, Static Shock, The Zeta Project, and the upcomming Teen Titans cartoon look interesting, the Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain are quite enjoyable. Over on ABC One Saturday Morning kind of fizzled out, but Recess and Doug were funny enough. On Fox the X-Men: Evolution and another dose of Pokemon make a nice balance.
I hate Transformers Armada although my kids like it and have almost all the toys, I much prefered the CGI Beast Wars and Beast machines incarnations of Transformers.
A few years ago ReBoot was an excellent series on ABC and I expect the occasional movie spinnoff on Cartoon Network.
Courage the Cowardly Dog and Catdog is more fodder my kids like and I don't. I draw the line at any series with 2 animals, 2 stupid Dogs, 2 angry beavers, Ren and Stimpy, Grim and Evil are banned. Samuri Jack, Dexters labratory, and the Powderpuff Girls I find stimulating enough to allow. I actually watch Futurama and Inuyasha and will let them when they are teenagers. I tell them when something is a blatant pitch for merchandizing and I think they are starting to get it. Luckily there are enough creative people out there to counteract the people just trying to push merchandise.
Be selective, vote with your dollar and your remote control.
If you know a Neilson family, watch tv with them and be very critical of their choices.
Hopefully TiVo, ReplayTv, and cable companies are mining the data they collect about what actually gets watched and selling that information, it has to be more accurate than the tiny number of Neilson households.
I remember christmas when I was 3, my sister would have been 10 months and I remember playing with a fisher price farmhouse with her, then I remember going outside to play in the snow and the grown ups not putting her down because she couldn't walk yet. (not that either one of us really could walk trussed up like the michelin man in our home made knit winter clothes) I also remember my fourth birthday, mainly because I was showing off pretending I was snoopy lying on top of the back of the couch, I fell and broke my collar bone. I remember the first day of kindergarden.
I remember reading somewhere that thinking is done on the surface of your brain and memories are store within, and that the more you think about thing while they are short term memories the stronger the long term memories will be. I try to reinforce memories by consiously thinking about the sights, smells, sounds, textures, other persons perspectives and how an outside observer would describe it.
These tricks seem to work, things I pay attention to like that make much more vivid memories.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. My job is developing and maintaining a database engine as part of the head end of one of my companies products. One of my first thoughts when I heard about the national ID card plan was "I could track them all in real time." It struck me as a technical problem, only later did I even consider the rights violations.
I like IBMs Performance Toolbox.