jay: (sunglasses)
jay ([personal profile] jay) wrote2005-06-01 06:26 pm

slight turbulence

Things are still overall looking well, with a bit of turbulence... despite my car refusing to start this morning and having to be towed to the shop. Which then meant being late to meet LH, then (after LH dropped me at home) had to miss a meeting with SD. OTOH, my NASA Headquarters program manager called me this morning and innocently asked if I'd received the extra $180K in project funds, yet... a pleasant surprise. :)

And we're being asked to bring cardboard and Legos and pieces of wood to the project kick-off meeting next week in Vermont... to make mockups of possible instrument combinations. That sounds like fun... A room full of Army Corps of Engineers folks and NASA and JPL scientists, in a room playing with Legos to make lunar lander models. Heh.

[identity profile] dawnd.livejournal.com 2005-06-02 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
A room full of Army Corps of Engineers folks and NASA and JPL scientists, in a room playing with Legos to make lunar lander models. Heh.

But just wait till you try to sort out the Legos at the end!! Seriously, though, I can SO see this. *chuckle* Have fun!

[identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com 2005-06-02 08:01 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks... I'm trying to figure out how to represent control flow diagrams using lego-blocks.

[identity profile] dawnd.livejournal.com 2005-06-02 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
You need a lot of those really skinny ones.

[identity profile] tenacious-snail.livejournal.com 2005-06-02 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
AKD has ones that remind me of train tracks. Those might work.

[identity profile] dawnd.livejournal.com 2005-06-02 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Some of those ARE train tracks!

[identity profile] brian1789.livejournal.com 2005-06-03 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Lego train tracks? Hmmm...

[identity profile] datagoddess.livejournal.com 2005-06-03 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Tinker toys!