Perception (1 Viewer)

[Jack]

I just watched a show that films inaccessible places in the UK using drones. It is hosted by Tony Robinson. Quite fascinating. Last night one of the places they visited was the Dyson research facility in the UK. One of their designers mentioned that when the sell vacuum cleaners in the US they make sure they are a bit louder than the ones they sell in Japan. The Americans like to hear their vacuums working hard and the Japanese prefer silence, or close to it. It made me think of the weight discussion concerning armour. Some people do not care about the weight of their models while others equate weight with quality. It is, of course, just perception.

Needless to say, there are ten jobs on my desk waiting to be done. Three of them aren't really my job to do, four are hard so I am putting them off, and the final three wouldn't need to be done if other people had done the right thing!

 

[TomNT]

Marty, I watched the tail end of this show with the bit about the blokes occupying the World War 2 era off shore platform 7km's off the coast of the UK. Interesting to hear the stories of the occupation including when a bunch of Germans invaded the platform (in the 80’s I think) and then took it over. Then the original occupiers re-took the platform and locked the Germans up! The original occupiers wanted to declare the platform as a sovereign nation but the UK Govt didn’t take them seriously (for obvious reasons). One of the main criteria in getting recognition was getting support from another country. Funnily enough they got it from the German Govt as they negotiated with the original occupiers for the release of the German invaders which inadvertently recognised the platform as an independent nation!

Regarding your workload, I think you should employ Dr Sheldon Cooper’s method and employ an intern assistant! ^&grin

Tom