StalinsNotDead's Journal: Useful medical condition

Maintenance & Facilities people came by our area today because they had been notified by someone in the business side that lights were out. Most of the developers on our team prefer the dimmer atmosphere, lacking fluorescent lighting, so they've taken it upon themselves to unhook a number of the bulbs to minimize their effect. Evidently, the maintenance people took some shit for not duly keeping up with bulb replacement, and our area is visible from the outside of the building and is visibly dimmer than the rest of the building.

So they came by to replace bulbs. My supervisor said that the team preferred them out, but maintenance was persistent (I could see why. No one likes getting chewed out). Then he used the ace card. "You see that guy with the sunglasses. He has seizures, and the lights bother him to a degree that they may trigger another one. That's why he wears the sunglasses." So the maintenance person says that he'll log that fact and report the information to the business people who complained about the lack of lighting.

So my medical history and broken brain may have made the environment more comfortable for the rest of the team. Yay for neurological dysfunction!

I want to know who the idiot was

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Who decided that a shadow-banning 500 lumens was perfect for everybody. Especially since experiments at the Ford plant back in the 1920s showed that there was *no* performance difference whatsoever in the 3-1000 lumens range.

And all this time...

[Shadow Wrought]

I just thought you were a rock star;-)

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[StalinsNotDead]

Naw! I ain't no rock star. But upper management did have a fit about the sunglasses (dresscode violation unless medically necessary), until I presented them with the doctor's note. I anticipated issues with the sunglasses so asked to doctor for a preemtive note, which is kept in my wallet in case some other manager brings it up.

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[TechnoLust]

I bet you are VERY good at chess, if you play. That's a GREAT example of knowing your opponent's move before he makes it. :-)

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[StalinsNotDead]

Mostly it's a well-developed sense of problem anticipation.

But, yes, I was pretty good at chess back when I played. I rarely lost. It got boring so I devised various ways of making it more interesting. Like instinct-based chess. Never take more than 5 seconds to make my move. I continued to win regularly, much to the chagrin of the people with whom I played. (Some of them even read books on the topic to improve their game)

After a while I made up a system of random move determinations using the dice used to

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[TechnoLust]

Yeah, if you write down your system and post it, if it's at a time when I have free time, I might write a little chess program to use it. That'd be interesting.

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[Shadow Wrought]

Even still, its not everyone who can honestly say, "Bono wants to be me." ;-)