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July 06, 2005
I'm a winner!
Hello Archivas,
A while back we held a lab naming contest. Many valid entries were submitted, but in the end I have to go with one of Russ Neufeld's entries (he submitted a LOT). Therefore, and to wit, the lab areas are now named as follows:
(smaller, old machine room): Skylab, aka "arcsky", aka "sky"
(larger, newer lab space): Sealab, aka "arcsea", aka "sea"
I liked the brevity, the bisyllabic pronunciation, the easy conversion to short familiar forms, and the contextual fit. The smaller lab area is awfully noisy, and feels like you're around jet turbines... there's also a nod to Olympian mythology with our corporate servers being housed in there. The newer and larger space is humid all the time in this weather and from our Liebert cooling unit, so it even feels a bit wet and coastal when you're in there.
Many thanks to all who participated! I will get the rooms labelled right away and see if I can draft Gus to make some cool signs.
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Robert V. Cole
Senior IT System & Network Administrator
Archivas, Inc.
Posted by russellneufeld at July 6, 2005 03:44 PM