Comments on: Local Meet

By: Idaho Joe

Idaho Joe — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:09:02 +0000

An Anti-mine Torpedo? Cool…

Now all the enemy has to do is start making mines that look, on sensors like, oh I don’t know, ships or submarines?

Just trying to be funny, I think a small torpedo that goes looking for mines is a neat idea.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:29:21 +0000

Speaking of really cool weapons that work………..!!!!! One of the guys in my office had an anti-mine torpedo sitting on his desk this afternoon! One of the things I thought would be really cool back in 1988 is “ALIVE!”. Sorry, couldn’t resist.

Move along, nothing to see here.

By: Navig8r

Navig8r — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:02:35 +0000

Absolute death by viewgraph (I confess I wrote a few dozen myself). I at least owe Lex a pint-o, so I will endeavor to drop by. Holding the customer’s hand, so might be a wee bit tardy.

By: MajHarvey

MajHarvey — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:44:01 +0000

I may be able to make it down there for the festivities.

By: Drew C.

Drew C. — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:31:31 +0000

@Curtis,

When I was suffering from a staff infection at my last command, I wound up in a NAVAIR meeting where the following was said:

“We are looking to establish a set of metrics by which we can dynamically examine the rate of expansion of the diameter of the warfighter’s infosphere.”

I turned to the LCDR that was with me (I was the assistant Training O, he was the Tactics and NATOPS O) at the time and said, somewhat perplexed, “dynamically examine?”

He replied, equally confused, “infosphere?”

To this day I have no idea what the heck an “infosphere” is. In the interest of full disclosure, this was the same meeting where I attempted to kick awake (under the table) another LCDR from the same command. NATOPS O notices this, taps me (covertly like) on the shoulder and says “quit it, he ain’t missing anything.”

By: FbL

FbL — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:51:55 +0000

…that work at no sh*t affordable prices as agreed in the contract.

Eek! I’m having a flashback to the Customer Relationship Management proposal I read and discussed with my work team this morning. It was version #8 or 9 our “boss” has worked on, but it has only just now become close enough to what we actually need that it’s necessary to bring into the process mid-range people like me to begin to vet/refine it.

Being that I am only moderately literate on subjects like databases, programming, and business practices in general, it made my head hurt.

As to meeting, I’ll likely leave you boys to your scintillating conversation.