I have half a meatball and provolone sandwich for whoever wants it!

I have half a meatball and provolone sandwich for whoever wants it!

Me! Me!

What? I'm hungry.

I would totally give it to you, MM! If only we could transmit sandwiches over the Internets!

Traffic jam mystery solved by mathematicians

Wasn't Nilly working on that?

tommyrot, I saw a really cool thing on the Discovery channel once about how it's not even idiots, it's essentially related to fluid dynamics, but I suspect idiots factor in there anyway.

GC, I'm right down the coast, send to me! (See MM, if you got that transporter thing working, then YOU could have the sandwich... so there!)

OMG - GREAT phone call. The guy definiately wants to work with me but he doesn't have an open position at the moment. BUT the position he is working on creating sounds perfect for me and is a great mix of the skills I already have and the challenges of working on his team. I talked about how I would like to wait until June before any major moves and he said that timing actually worked well with his plans.

I need to send him my resume - which I need to beef up with internal stuff. Right now my resume is more fit for outside companies. I need to add internal training and other lingo that only makes sense to someone who works here.

OMG. So, nothing absolute, but yet a big potential. AND he said the he has had others within the company call him and encourage him to bring me into his group. Accckkkk.

Sorry for preempting the religious commentary. I might have comments, but I have no brain.

Wasn't Nilly working on that?

Yes. Computer simulation of.

tommyrot, I saw a really cool thing on the Discovery channel once about how it's not even idiots, it's essentially related to fluid dynamics, but I suspect idiots factor in there anyway.

Yeah, I've read the fluid dynamics thing. In this case they've apparently shown that a driver who overreacts and brakes too much for a situation can cause a "wave" of drivers slowing behind him. The wave actually moves backwards relative to traffic.

eta: From the article:

The team developed a mathematical model to show the impact of unexpected events such as a lorry pulling out of its lane on a dual carriageway. Their model revealed that slowing down below a critical speed when reacting to such an event, a driver would force the car behind to slow down further and the next car back to reduce its speed further still. The result of this is that several miles back, cars would finally grind to a halt, with drivers oblivious to the reason for their delay. The model predicts that this is a very typical scenario on a busy highway (above 15 vehicles per km). The jam moves backwards through the traffic creating a so-called ‘backward travelling wave’, which drivers may encounter many miles upstream, several minutes after it was triggered.

Frankly, I think it's all because they use lorries and carriageways....

OMG - GREAT phone call

W00t!

The guys and his 3 kids that were lost getting a Christmas tree were found alive and stuff.

YAY for good phone calls!

I haven't had a chance to read in here for a few days--Sean, I'm sorry they have been so rough for you and S. Let me know if there is anything I can do this weekend, if you are still here.