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Smaller cubicles = more knowledge workers per square foot. Privacy and space don't matter, because the office worker's time belongs to the employer, and "collaboration" is key. (Of course no one wants the overhead of moving people, so project turnover quickly evaporates the correlation between project and location, turning audible collaboration into noisy interruptions.) Supporting collaboration by shrinking previously established office conventions to child-like proportions is less expensive and easier to visualize than a purpose-built environment. As long as the HVAC system delivers enough oxygen, it will all work out.
Actually, the natural light is some of the best I've had; so in some respects, I've seen much worse.
The air conditioning also works late, which is a benefit most of the Internet Boom era companies I worked for could not claim. Somehow most of them ended up moving into buildings in which all the other tenants had for some reason always worked bankers' hours.
Update, 4/1/2015:
Most of this was demolished today. We've moved into a new area, with a new furniture scheme that exposes most employees even more. Low-level managers get more space; just not enough privacy to discuss anything confidential.
In a step backward, horizontal surfaces are now covered with plastic that's been printed with wood grain. This was darker than the real wood veneer on the doors, so painters came in last night to cover the fine wood grain with dark brown paint. I have the impression the company actually paid professionals to plan all this.
Plastic's a fine material! Just let it be plastic. And let wood be wood. There's a pattern here. For now, let's summarize it as "not lying."
To be fair, I doubt these professionals were responsible for moving the old plastic potted trees to the new location. I think we committed that esthetic atrocity on our own.
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Underneath the rear of the chair is a convex, curved metal casting. It ends just about directly below the back edge of the chair seat, and it’s the lowest part of the chair suspension. There’s a hole in the casting, with a 3/16” socket head screw that is probably slightly protruding.
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Same idea, different view. You don't really have to tip your chair over on the carpet. Here's what you'll see if you leave it upright.
Now I’ve got my chair tightened up like my kindergarten teacher’s posture lecture. I’ll keep the hex key in my desk for a few days and maybe loosen the screw a bit, until it’s just right.
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To increase tension on the chair back, tighten the socket head screw (turning clockwise) with a 3/16” hex key. Loosening the screw (by turning counterclockwise) should decrease the tension and eventually just let the chair back flop backward, I suppose.
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Une soirée pleine de surprises et exultations musicales avec notre édition RENTRÉE SCOLAIRE jeudi passée! SERENI-T avec DJ SEVEN et LIL V en 1ère partie, DELI SOKOLOW avec la bonne bouffe, énergie en folie, cypher de danse, jam intense.
Photos by Room Full of Mirrors - RFM.
#LECYPHER SEMAINE 43
La meilleure jam session de hip-hop et soul à Montréal!
Tous les jeudis @20h $5 ($4 avant 21h)
Le Bleury-Bar à Vinyle 2109 Bleury
Hosted by URBN SCNC:
Milla Thyme (MC)
Butta Beats (MC, vocals)
Anthony Pageot (drums)
Emile Farley (bass)
Danny McKinnon (guitar)
David Osei-Afrifa (keys)
Vincent Stephen-Ong (sax+keys)
DJ: @Dr. MaD
#hiphop #soul #neosoul #rap #jam #jamsession #montreal #mtl #514 #quebec #canada #music #live #band #liveband #livemusic #dj #thursday #thursdays #thurs #urbanscience #urbsci #urbnscnc #food #dance #bar #drinks #party #nightlife
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Under Pressure. 20 years. Defective Collective. Street dancers galore. Deli Sokolow & Pops Art. Dr. Mad. Mad jammers. Urban Science. Little plastic dinosaurs. It all added up to a dope vibe last Thursday! Merci à tout le monde qui à assister à cette soirée! We hope to see you again next week.
Photos by Jessica VALOISE.
#LECYPHER SEMAINE 38
La meilleure jam session de hip-hop et soul à Montréal!
Tous les jeudis @20h $5 ($4 avant 21h)
Bleury Bar à Vinyle 2109 Bleury
Hosted by URBN SCNC:
Butta Beats (MC, vocals)
Grio Negga (guest MC)
Chris Lepp-Forest (drums)
Danny Dwayne (bass)
Frank O (guitar)
Anomalie (keys)
Vincent Stephen-Ong (sax+keys)
DJ: Dr. Mad
#hiphop #soul #neosoul #rap #jam #jamsession #montreal #mtl #514 #quebec #canada #music #live #band #music #liveband #livemusic #dj #thursday #thursdays #thurs #urbanscience #urbsci #urbnscnc #food #dance #bar #drinks #party #nightlife
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David and Brandon help finish off the roll of Ilford Pan F Plus 50 black and white film. Depth of field didn't do Brandon any favors in this one.
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Une soirée pleine de surprises et exultations musicales avec notre édition RENTRÉE SCOLAIRE jeudi passée! SERENI-T avec DJ SEVEN et LIL V en 1ère partie, DELI SOKOLOW avec la bonne bouffe, énergie en folie, cypher de danse, jam intense.
Photos by Room Full of Mirrors - RFM.
#LECYPHER SEMAINE 43
La meilleure jam session de hip-hop et soul à Montréal!
Tous les jeudis @20h $5 ($4 avant 21h)
Le Bleury-Bar à Vinyle 2109 Bleury
Hosted by URBN SCNC:
Milla Thyme (MC)
Butta Beats (MC, vocals)
Anthony Pageot (drums)
Emile Farley (bass)
Danny McKinnon (guitar)
David Osei-Afrifa (keys)
Vincent Stephen-Ong (sax+keys)
DJ: @Dr. MaD
#hiphop #soul #neosoul #rap #jam #jamsession #montreal #mtl #514 #quebec #canada #music #live #band #liveband #livemusic #dj #thursday #thursdays #thurs #urbanscience #urbsci #urbnscnc #food #dance #bar #drinks #party #nightlife
@urbsci
I retired to my favorite conference room to get deeper into the D3300 instructions. (10 minutes or so vanished before immediately.) This my first more or less intentional photo. It wasn't anything I wanted, but I let my finger linger on the trigger while I thought about it.... (Not the intimate confession of diffidence you want a child to hear when he or she asks "Where did I come from?")
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...or for eating at Trimana, which is much closer to actual sin. I used my lunch break to buy the camera and was improvising. My lust...err, need...was building inexorably and it was time to act.
This is my first (accidental) photo with a new Nikon D3300.
I don't think I'm done with film, but the logistics suddenly became more difficult and expensive. It's a long story (which hasn't concluded, if it ever will). I'll tell some of it online soon, but I'm too pressed for time at the moment.
Seriously, I think some visitors who have discovered my photos like the cranky stubbornness of my attachment to 35mm. And some of these I just feel are friends I haven't met yet. I hope you're not too disappointed.
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Dean catches me manic and unshaven. In my defense, the best way to have any kind of photogenic smile left by the time someone's done fiddling with unfamiliar buttons is to start out with a surplus and hope it doesn't evaporate too soon.
The photo title has been an affectionate greeting of William T. Vollmann's since one of his adventures hanging out with and writing about San Francisco street people.
Photo by Dean Chang.
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Photo by Felicia Lopez. I'm smiling a little too hard after seeing my sons tell poor Felicia that they'd prefer she not photograph them.
The beer was better than the sandwich, but the price was right for both. Oh, and the movie was The Godfather--which, incredibly, I'd never seen. I've seen a lot of pretty weird stuff, but never that. I'm glad that's been taken care of.
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Handheld time exposure of Newport Beach harbor, taken from the Majestic as it cruised slowly back and forth, around and around, and back and forth some more, carrying the Urban Science Christmas party.
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Handheld time exposure of Newport Beach harbor, taken from the Majestic as it cruised slowly back and forth, around and around, and back and forth some more, carrying the Urban Science Christmas party.
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Handheld time exposure of Newport Beach harbor, taken from the Majestic as it cruised slowly back and forth, around and around, and back and forth some more, carrying the Urban Science Christmas party.
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