What a morning… We come in to the office to smoke and the smell of burning electronics. Our huge A/C unit had died a horrible death… With no A/C, working in a glass building with no insulation (but its a hip/cool looking building and THAT is what matters), horrible smell and servers screaming for cool air, it might be time to cut my losses and go home. No VPN since we’ll probably have to shut the servers down despite the portable A/C unit on them since they are too hot.
And the National Weather Service isn’t helping!
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 354 AM MST MON JUL 2 2007
HOTTEST WEATHER OF THE YEAR EXPECTED BY TUESDAY AND THE FOURTH OF JULY.
…HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM THIS MORNING TO 8 PM MST THIS EVENING..
…EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING..
Why does this never happen on Fridays? 
8 responses so far ↓
1
Cellulose
// Jul 2, 2007 at 11:46 am
Sounds like a lazy-day to me…
If only that were the only problems to worry about at my workplace. Feds decided that it’s time to restructure our contract and now that it’s time to start releasing “details”, it’s going about as well as the Hindenburg’s last voyage.
On the plus side, the new corporate overlords are demonstrating quite well that the private sector can be just as inefficient, corrupt, and bloated as the government.
2
matt
// Jul 2, 2007 at 1:54 pm
sounds like it’s time to stop living in an extremely unsustainable area.
3
Justin
// Jul 2, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Which city anywhere is sustainable?
4
Cellulose
// Jul 2, 2007 at 3:01 pm
This goes back to my favorite saying… Just because people live there doesn’t mean its habitable.
5
KoS
// Jul 2, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Justin……Biotown, IN
(snicker)
KoS
6
Carlos Silva
// Jul 2, 2007 at 6:11 pm
No backup AC systems for the servers? I guess someone could make the cost/benefit argument now!
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James Fee
// Jul 2, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Carlos: They are running, but are overwhelmed. The size of backup A/C we have is for temporary needs. In a perfect world we’d have a bigger backup, but space requirements limit that.
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J Wallis
// Jul 3, 2007 at 7:12 am
@Cellulose
you beat me to it.
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