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1.21 Gigawatts is not actually capable of time travel through the use of Plutonium, common household waste, or even steam trains - although he is working on it.

However, he is capable and has written software to automate the manufacture of prescription drugs for the pharmaceutical industry and currently for offshore Oil and Gas platforms.

This makes him a DCS Engineer, which he has been lucky enough to have been doing for the past 10 years. In this position he has been able to tune the temperature control of Reactors and facilitate the shut down of a few installations (although he asserts that this was a requested feature rather than a bug).

He studied more mainstream software development at college but doesn't use .net technology day-to-day. When he does get the chance to dabble with C# he uses it to develop tools to run the next generation of Flux Capacitors, which will be available on Amazon this spring.

If he does ask a n00b question that's C# related he asks that you cut him a bit of slack, he doesn't do it full time

Wink | ;)

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RantLotus Notes. Pin
1.21 Gigawatts12-Feb-10 21:32
1.21 Gigawatts12-Feb-10 21:32 
RantThings I hate about airports and flying... Pin
1.21 Gigawatts8-Dec-09 23:48
1.21 Gigawatts8-Dec-09 23:48 
I have to fly to a different county to work [EDIT]Haha, not for much longer! But hey ho, it's still true![/Edit], so I'm in an airport every week. Flying quickly becomes exceedingly boring and tedious after a few weeks. My gripes with airports/the whole flying deelio are:

1) Getting there.

I.E. Cab drivers (mostly as you cannot rely on public transport to get you to the airport on time, plus I have taken a suitcase with me to London to get on a train before and it wasn't much fun) who always bleat on and on about how they aren't really a cab driver and that they actually run a multi-national super company and are really very rich.

Whatever, just shut the f**k up and drive me to the airport driving b*tch.

And no, I don't want to talk to you in detail about what I do as every c**t asks me that and I'm sick of repeating myself, and sick of the replies like "Oh yeah? I programmed my VCR I could do what you're doing..." bollox.
No you couldn't, so just f**k off.

2) Checking in.

What is with it with some people? Can't they understand the checking in process? How hard is it to provide the check-in clerk your passport and your ticket??

Get the f**king thing out ready before you get to the desk - don't fumble about in your bloody handbag looking for it when you get to the desk, don't stand there having a conversation with the desk clerk or another member of your bloody entourage, don't piss about looking for something in your suit case, don't re-organise your luggage contents.

Get there with your passport and tickets in hand, get checked in, and f**k off.

It's not hard.

3) Not enough check-in clerks.

The current airline I fly with (who are actually very good apart from this point) have around 5 flights all leaving within an hour of each other.

They know this, so why the f**k do they never have enough check-in clerks at this 'peak' time. I have to leave my house at 5pm to get an 8:30pm flight, and the airport is only a ~35 minute drive away. If I leave any later than that I WILL be stuck in a queue for the next hour and a half waiting to check in because of idiots (see above).

One time I joined the queue at 6:15pm for an 8:30pm flight and finally got through security at 7:50pm. The rest of the time I was standing up in a queue.

4) Security.

Yes we need it. Yes I wouldn't like it if no-one got searched. Yes yes yes.

But I still hate effectively getting undressed every time I go through.
Belt off, coat off, pockets emptied, big shoes off, no liquids, blah blah blah.

And even though there are about one million signs posted about the place, people STILL don't know what to do when they are faced with the security section.

Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

5) The Lounge.

Yawn.

Because of point 3, if I arrive 2 hours before my flight I stand up in a queue until I get on the plane. If I arrive early I go sailing through and have to sit in a lounge for hours. Great! So I go sit in a pub and read a book.

But trust me, after a few weeks of doing this you'll get pissed off and very very bored.

6) Flying.

Boring.

Sit down in a tiny seat, breathing in other peoples farts, watch a loud and crap safety video, listen to crying babies, get some fat person sitting next to you taking up all the available space and arm rests - try to lean the other way and get a flight attendants (male) arse in your face, try to read a book with the bloody reading light on that points everywhere except where you find it comfortable to read, try to go to sleep but get bashed about from the person behind you rams his knees into your seat to get up for a piss.

Raaaaarrrraaaarrrggghhhhhhhh!!!

God I hate flying.

7) Then through passport control, collect bag, and get another taxi to your 'destination'.

None of it is fun.

Plus you have the added bonus of smelling like a dead cat when you get off a plane - how lovely.


The sooner they invent teleportation the better.

Mad | :mad:

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Now reading: 'The Third Reich', by Michael Burleigh

modified on Monday, December 14, 2009 10:57 AM
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1.21 Gigawatts24-Oct-09 21:28
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