2002-02-12 - 1:01 p.m.
Labels, medals, and other important things ...

I was researching permanent labels today for an inventorying project at work. You wouldn't believe how many different ways there are to make your mark on your stuff, and how spendy it can get! There's even a company, called Make Your Mark, that will make a custom template with the logo of your choice and sandblast it into each and every item of equipment you want marked. They don't list prices; gee, I wonder why? It's got to be hideously expensive, since they say it takes upwards of 8 minutes per item, and they do it on-site.

Anyway. I brought this up because I tripped across a site that sells labels to window-makers. Only, they didn't call them "windows". They actually said that their labels are for "tracking performance throughout the life of the fenestration product." Fenestration Product? *choke* Reminds me of all the defenestration jokes I heard at university.

Anyone else watching the Olympics? (No, I don't know why defenestration reminded me of the Olympics; such are the workings of my brain). I nearly turned purple last night when the Russian pairs ice-skating team, Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze, got the gold ahead of the Canadian team, Sale and Pelletier. It was so unfair. The judges are seriously prejudiced towards the ethereal, flowing style that Russia and the other ex-Soviet nations perfected over the years; that must be it, or else there's no way to explain how a Russian team that made four (4) minor errors in their long program kept the lead ahead of a Canadian team whose strong, beautiful, emotionally moving, audience-winning program was error-free. Feh. I hope the North American teams do better in the rest of the ice-skating sports!

Erm, meeting in five. Gotta go. I promise, I'll find a moment to email folks this week; I know I've gotten really lax in that, with such limited on-line time to myself.

--Shell