Man. It is hot around here. Almost 90 degrees today, but way humid.
Yet outside was better than inside. That's mainly 'cause inside Powerflash was busy generating gastric distress, headaches, and these sort of miniature heart attack like feelings. I am pretty sure Robin's heart attack will come first. But I will be right behind her.
So, we sent off two lists today to Scott and Benjamin over at RDS Control and eventually got a new build and new web code that should fix about a dozen or so issues and bugs from the weekend "upgrade." We'll see. We're testing tonight.
In the meantime I want to send a BIG ALERT out to any Powerflash users about to, uh, "upgrade:" The VERIFIER will WIPE OUT all apartment numbers and suite numbers. Now, I realize this may seem upsetting to other, less interesting RDS's out there, but not to us. Unlike other RDS's who have been accumulating all these APT 2's and SUITE 401's and thinking, "the more info we have, the better we are," well, we just don't operate on your little simpleton levels.
I worked all afternoon on the posters that we will be putting in each dispatch center tomorrow. Each one depicts a delivery driver walking up to a building with the fax copy of their order clearly showing an address and apartment number while a smiling dispatch fairy with a Black SHARPIE marker flies in from the heavens and smudge marks out the number of the apartment. The large caption reads, "Complete Information is Socialism."
We truly believe this. Our newfound freedom from the chains of specifics allows us to wander unencumbered; to explore. We had become dependent, call it addicted, to exacting data that led us with tunnel vision to no place other than one particular part of a building or complex. It was an addiction that kept us from seeing the beauty of the whole while we had our noses pressed to its parts. Nasty, nasty parts.
Now, when our delivery drivers radio in and say, "I'm here, now what," we can say, "Fly free little bird, fly free."
By the way, no response yet on how we're gonna get back the apartment and suite numbers.
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ReplyDeleteAND, it appears that with build 5097 which was shipped over tonight... we now have APARTMENTS AND SUITES BACK. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteGlad you got your apartments & suites back!
ReplyDeletePF's Google Address Verifier would have us living in the city of Texas in the new 53rd state, Houston (The 51st and 52nd states are Clear Lake and Sugarland, respectively).