throopw@rtp47.UUCP (Wayne Throop) (09/19/85)
> [when in need of C clarification] > When I was at utzoo I went for Henry Spencer's Office. > Now that I am consulting to Sun I go to Guy Harris's office. > Laura Creighton sun!l5!laura Aha! The truth is out! Henry Spencer's august presense must be housed in an "Office", while Guy Harris's more mundane aura only commands an "office". (How do these rankings get determined anyhow?) -- Wayne Throop at Data General, RTP, NC <the-known-world>!mcnc!rti-sel!rtp47!throopw
dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) (09/24/85)
In article <192@rtp47.UUCP> throopw@rtp47.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes: >> [when in need of C clarification] >> When I was at utzoo I went for Henry Spencer's Office. >> Now that I am consulting to Sun I go to Guy Harris's office. >> Laura Creighton sun!l5!laura > >Aha! The truth is out! Henry Spencer's august presense must be housed >in an "Office", while Guy Harris's more mundane aura only commands an >"office". (How do these rankings get determined anyhow?) Actually, if you saw Henry's Office you'd understand. Henry works in a spacious, grandiose Office with plush mauve carpeting, floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking downtown Toronto from the top floor of the University's tallest building. Expensive art hangs on the walls, he has a gigantic curved solid oak desk delicately decorated with pseudo-high-tech paperweights and the like, and when in the Office (and in the presence of its Occupant), a hush comes over one. Followups to this have been directed out of net.lang.c. Dave Sherman The Law Society of Upper Canada Toronto (Oh yes, I forgot. To get to the Office you have to go through the machine room...) -- { ihnp4!utzoo pesnta utcs hcr decvax!utcsri } !lsuc!dave
seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy) (09/24/85)
In article <192@rtp47.UUCP> throopw@rtp47.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes: >> [when in need of C clarification] >> When I was at utzoo I went for Henry Spencer's Office. >> Now that I am consulting to Sun I go to Guy Harris's office. >> Laura Creighton sun!l5!laura > >Aha! The truth is out! Henry Spencer's august presense must be housed >in an "Office", while Guy Harris's more mundane aura only commands an >"office". (How do these rankings get determined anyhow?) The ranking is by the thickness of the walls. Henry's Office has walls 3 feet (~1 meter) thick, so as to ward off the frigid blast of cold Toronto wind. Guy has a beach towel and a -l-o-n-g- cable for his workstation. Beach towels don't rate a capital 'o'. Roping off the volleyball court with ethernet cable is a nice touch. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to run out to the frisbee golf course and find the local C guru. Snoopy tektronix!hammer!seifert tektronix!tekecs!doghouse.TEK!snoopy The 6205 is dead. Long live the 6130!
laura@l5.uucp (Laura Creighton) (10/02/85)
Okay, gang, I started this, I'll end it! The reason that henry has an Office and Guy has an office is that you have to keep remembering that henry's office is an Office. if you do not keep this fact firmly in mind you might be tempted to call it a closet. Henry's office is about 4 feet square. In it is: henry, a large desk covered with a literal ton of mail, another desk covered with a huge ampex terminal and whatever is on henry's short todo list (the long todo list is online and is probably more than a meg by now) any broekn hardware that henry is looking at, a week supply of science mags and science fiction and whatever else was aquired at the latest bookstore run, clips from magazines to give to people who are interested, 2 or 3 stools, and a tape rack with about 100 tapes in them (zoo's backups). Plus 2 or 3 people who know how to find henry's office and can't get tbl to format their thesis... Can you say crowded? I mean, superman would be hard pressed to do his costume change in there. The average phone booth has much more space. You must keep the word ``Office'' firmly in mind at all times, or the dreaded word ``broom closet'' will slip out, and then your projet on henry's todo list will slip to the bottom of the pile (which at this rate means it won't be seen again until 1990 or so...) Guy Harris, on the other hand, has a relatively spacious office which he only has to share with Doug Cragun, 2 sun workstations (about the same size as henry's ampex terminal) and no backup tapes. Guy doesn't seem to get mail by the garbage bag delivered to Sun, either. On the other hand, Guy does have the largest collection of mechanical toys and gadgets that I have ever seen... But even with them all spread out Guy still has an obvious office while Henry has an broom-ahem-Office. -- Laura Creighton (note new address!) sun!l5!laura (that is ell-five, not fifteen) l5!laura@lll-crg.arpa