My office building, it's still cold

By Todd Stadler · Sunday, December 4, 2005 6:54pm

So the space heaters running in the office next door to ours once again managed to blow the circuit that my computer runs on.

I suppose that it's exciting in a way, never knowing just when my computer will turn off due to the overloaded circuit that magically connects my computer, and only my computer, to the company next door. It certainly adds an edge to the process of modifying a file — will this change be saved to disk? Huh, will it?

And yet, I can't help but project on my computer — it seems to get so dejected sometimes at how cold our office is that it just gives up. But that's not the case. Given the poor state of the wiring and the heating system in the Haseltine Building, it's clearly the building manager that has given up. And my computer just goes on strike occasionally to protest his ineffectiveness.

So while waiting for my computer to reboot, I pondered the situation. It's not that our company has failed to make our problems known to the manager. But since he seems unaffected by both our official complaints and my last post on the matter, it seemed that the situation was calling for a higher level of snark.

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So I made a poster advertising the many qualities of the Haseltine Building, because I noticed at our building's entrance that there's a big "for lease" sign. And I know that any potential leasers would want to know about the building where they might locate their offices.

I made it intentionally ugly, because it was meant to blend in with the "for lease" sign. I haven't actually posted it yet, but we'll see how cold it is next week.