At Direct Energy we had Thursday morning meetings for which the sole purpose was to solicit a volunteer to bring breakfast to the next meeting. And, I guess, to eat breakfast together.
Hear you now have a Corner Office ! You should institute such a meeting.
While not on my resume, I was the Beer Club Founder at the Cyclotron. We would meet each Fri at 5:00 on the balcony and have 1 (maybe two on rare occasions) 6 packs. But there were rules:
-- Whoever was next in line to bring beer would have to bring one that we'd never had before. My graduate student, Sergie, kept a bottle or can from each meeting on a growing number of shelves in his office. Now, back in the 90's, before the craft beer movement, after having hundreds of beers, this was NOT an easy task.
-- And we would vote on the beer. If we didn't like it, that person would have to try again next week !
Probably my favorite meeting!
And we would talk some physics or engineering, but not always. That was just a Bonus!
Has anyone (everyone should have) read "I Buried my Heart at Wounded Knee?".
It goes through the Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide of the Native Americans, tribe by tribe, I think hundreds of them. I could only make it halfway through the book.
I'd turn to the next Chapter on the next Tribe to be exterminated, and as usual, it started off:
"Big Chief in Washington wants to talk Peace". And then you knew, they were next scheduled for extermination.
So, when a lawyer, that I'm not paying, asks, "Would like to talk", I can't help but think, "Big Chief in Washington wants to talk Peace".
Well, of course, the only way Substack makes money, is by taking some small percentage of what I charge, to give me this free service. I'm not a money-maker for them (200$/yr for me). People like Glen Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Matt Taibi and others pay (while getting paid) for this service.
Well I HOPE that is only way Substack makes money ...
And, on the Other-Other-Other Hand,
when I was beam dynamics group leader at the IU Cyclotron,
I held weekly meetings!
We would share our discoveries, thoughts, breakthroughs, whatever.
And, they were not a waste of time!
Sometime, I didn't even have an agenda or a goal!
At Direct Energy we had Thursday morning meetings for which the sole purpose was to solicit a volunteer to bring breakfast to the next meeting. And, I guess, to eat breakfast together.
Hey Ski-Bob!
That sounds like a GREAT Meeting !
Hear you now have a Corner Office ! You should institute such a meeting.
While not on my resume, I was the Beer Club Founder at the Cyclotron. We would meet each Fri at 5:00 on the balcony and have 1 (maybe two on rare occasions) 6 packs. But there were rules:
-- Whoever was next in line to bring beer would have to bring one that we'd never had before. My graduate student, Sergie, kept a bottle or can from each meeting on a growing number of shelves in his office. Now, back in the 90's, before the craft beer movement, after having hundreds of beers, this was NOT an easy task.
-- And we would vote on the beer. If we didn't like it, that person would have to try again next week !
Probably my favorite meeting!
And we would talk some physics or engineering, but not always. That was just a Bonus!
A tradesman friend finishes work early and goes to Friday "Health and Safety" meetings.
At the pub.
OK -- I'm buddies with a Ph.D. that was the Safety Officer at a company I worked for.
Think I could join this meeting ? !!
You realise don't you that h&s has got nothing to do with it, it's just a Friday booze up.
Yah !
Why do you think I want to be invited !
Has anyone (everyone should have) read "I Buried my Heart at Wounded Knee?".
It goes through the Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide of the Native Americans, tribe by tribe, I think hundreds of them. I could only make it halfway through the book.
I'd turn to the next Chapter on the next Tribe to be exterminated, and as usual, it started off:
"Big Chief in Washington wants to talk Peace". And then you knew, they were next scheduled for extermination.
So, when a lawyer, that I'm not paying, asks, "Would like to talk", I can't help but think, "Big Chief in Washington wants to talk Peace".
Well, of course, the only way Substack makes money, is by taking some small percentage of what I charge, to give me this free service. I'm not a money-maker for them (200$/yr for me). People like Glen Greenwald, Seymour Hersh, Matt Taibi and others pay (while getting paid) for this service.
Well I HOPE that is only way Substack makes money ...