Have we discussed Amber Benson's upcoming movie that seems to be about keeping cabana boys? [link]

No mention of pneumatic tubes, but it's still in production after all.

In my office, we write most of our decisions and save them on a shared drive. They are then reviewed and printed by a supervisor. There is a few weeks backlog between when we write the decisions and when they are printed. Literally hours of work are saved on the shared drive.

Today, after receiving an email to delete our *own* personal stuff off the drive, someone went in and deleted all the stuff that was *not his*. Supposedly IT can restore as of Friday, but if not, there will be some stressed out people around here, including me. Hours and hours of work just gone.

Can I have my tiny cabana boy come to my office now, please?

If only you had been sending your work to your supervisor via pneumatic tube! Yikes.

I know - with a pneumatic tube, it would still be around. All the luddites around here are going "I told you so!"

Yikes, that is not good, Stephanie.

There's an awesome story on NPR right now about online communities in relation to the V. Tech story.

I heard some of that. It sounded very familiar. The part I heard was discussing the reality of comfort provided by our online community friends. It should be up on their site. I'll look for the link.

I heard on NPR this morning how Facebook communities are being set up.

Today, after receiving an email to delete our *own* personal stuff off the drive, someone went in and deleted all the stuff that was *not his*.

That's just... that's moronic on an epic scale. I'm so sorry.

Pneumatic tubes are boss! We still have a pneumatic tube system here at work, mostly for transporting lab orders and (in very, very padded tubes) bodily fluid samples. The elevators here are so crappy that tubing the stuff is usually faster than hand-delivering it.

I eagerly await the first major metropolitan area brave enough to institute a Futurama-style public transit by pneumatic tube system. I don't care where it is, once the thing is up and running I'm moving there.

I bet it'll be Portland, OR. It just seems like a very Portland thing to do.

I was 200 messages behind, so everything else I was going to say or comment on has been said and commented by people smarter and more caught-up than me. Except that I have to wave fondly and sadly at the pixels of Nilly, whom I apparently totally missed. Phooey.

I want to create a superhero - Pneumatic Tube Man! He travels from office to office nearly instantaneously via the city's old system of pneumatic tubes. The only person who knows his secret identity is the crotchety old man who maintains the city's pneumatic tubes.

But wait - I suppose he should have some superpower in addition to being able to travel nearly instantaneously from office to office....

Oh, I know - he reshapes himself into the shape of one of the things that goes through the pneumatic tubes, and shoots rapidly towards his foe! while he makes cool pneumatic tube noises!

The NPR link on online communities offering condolences. [link]

Also, I need both a cabana boy and multiple pnematic tubes.