Oil and pyjamas
Nov. 11th, 2008 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnAmong the really enjoyable bits of writing the new versions of our system for various clients at work, I've somehow landed myself with the task of trawling through a giant 800-line-long colour-coded Excel list and accompanying 36-page 100MB PDF with handwritten notes scrawled across it to attempt to decipher the changes that one of the divisions need to their immense tree of locations. Even ignoring the unintentionally ironic cases like "Quallity Control", I think that the writer of the spreadsheet was going as mad as I was near the end - I felt a compulsion to look over my shoulder before clicking on one called "Heaving Oil Pumper Tankage". I suspect it was meant to be "Heavy" but he got distracted and accidentally made it even more Freudian than the name already was.
I began to suspect that they were making things up when they started throwing in names like "Dehexenizer" and "Wet Gas Scrubber", but fairly late on there was also one labelled "Tank Farm", which put an image in my mind of someone pouring a sack of grain into a trough and a herd of little M4 Shermans trundling frantically over and pushing each other out the way in the rush to snort it up through their barrels. It was at about that moment that I realized I had been looking at the location tree for six straight hours and needed to go and get some fresh air.
Here, by the way, are the collected responses from the question that I posted a few days ago. The replies were in general less definite than my own preference, which made collecting them together a little more difficult than I had imagined, but if I didn't make some sort of effort, then I would have just asked everyone what they wear in bed and it would be weird.
I was actually very surprised when I went through the posts and tried to sort them into two general areas (preference for nothing/minimal against wearing real sort of nightclothing), because even though I thought there was no pattern when they came in, you can tell from that quick Excel job that there's a definite split in the replies - though it may possibly be bias in my categorizing as I skimmed through them. (I was also surprised that so few people wanted to respond anonymously - perhaps I overcompensated for my perceived strangeness of the question.)
In general, from the wider descriptions in the replies, I think that women just tend to feel the cold more. Whether there's any biological reason for this is something I really can't tell you.
I began to suspect that they were making things up when they started throwing in names like "Dehexenizer" and "Wet Gas Scrubber", but fairly late on there was also one labelled "Tank Farm", which put an image in my mind of someone pouring a sack of grain into a trough and a herd of little M4 Shermans trundling frantically over and pushing each other out the way in the rush to snort it up through their barrels. It was at about that moment that I realized I had been looking at the location tree for six straight hours and needed to go and get some fresh air.
Here, by the way, are the collected responses from the question that I posted a few days ago. The replies were in general less definite than my own preference, which made collecting them together a little more difficult than I had imagined, but if I didn't make some sort of effort, then I would have just asked everyone what they wear in bed and it would be weird.
I was actually very surprised when I went through the posts and tried to sort them into two general areas (preference for nothing/minimal against wearing real sort of nightclothing), because even though I thought there was no pattern when they came in, you can tell from that quick Excel job that there's a definite split in the replies - though it may possibly be bias in my categorizing as I skimmed through them. (I was also surprised that so few people wanted to respond anonymously - perhaps I overcompensated for my perceived strangeness of the question.)
In general, from the wider descriptions in the replies, I think that women just tend to feel the cold more. Whether there's any biological reason for this is something I really can't tell you.
