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Apr. 3rd, 2006 07:52 amNot much new going on in my life lately. The last piles of snow at the shopping mall parking lots are now down to being little more than damp piles of sand, the Red Sox are playing baseball tonight, the sun is shining and I went to work in a short sleeved shirt today, so it must be springtime. yay.
My mom had another suspicious lump of flesh removed from her nose last week, pre-cancerous, rather than actually cancerous, so that's better than it could have been. *crosses fingers*
Work is picking up, but I sent off some more resumes, in hopes of getting off the temping treadmill and getting a full time job again.
I'll be at the Linux World Expo which is happening here in Boston at the new convention center starting tomorrow. See what's new in the world of penguin.
**** Warning, tech geekery ahead, everyone else can stop reading now. *****
Worked a few jobs at the BCEC the last couple weeks. They did the place right from an electrical and data perspective. Every outlet in the function rooms and hallways are on individual circuit breakers. No breaker trips if the catering folks plug in a coffee pot on the other side of the room. There are floor pockets and wall plates all over the place. They contain an assortment of edison plugs, three phase 20 amp twistlocks, and 50 amp dryer plugs for electrical supply. They also contain a selection of cat 5 jacks, BNC, and XLR-3s for audio patching. House lights in the larger function rooms, the big ballroom, and probably the small function rooms are all DMX controllable, just have to plug your lighting console into the wall jack and get the address data sheet from the house electricians for your room to take control.
All the meeting and breakout rooms have at least one 100 amp three phase power feed, the larger ones have more. Lots of nice cable pass-throughs in the walls from the service corridors, so no more blocking doors open for cables. The big ballroom has four 400 amp feeds, and there are also 400 amp feeds scattered around the service hallways.
On the show floor, they have 480 volt feeds and they just roll out a transformer if you want heavy power. Slight nit, the 480 volt feed floor pockets don't have a ground connection, so you have to go to a different floor pocket, one of the 120/208 ones to get a ground connection. Many dozens of Hubbel plug 100 amp feeds on the exhibit hall floor. There is also water, compressed air and drains in other floor pockets on the exhibit hall floor.
The service corridors are fairly well laid out. Wide enough for forklifts to drive in, decent signage in them too, so you can find what you are looking for. Ice machines scattered throughout the back hallways, and there is a coffee concentration camp on the second floor. You know those dual 60 gallon coffee makers you see in the back hallways of hotels and big cafeterias? They have a room with about 20 of them lining the walls. Mind-boggling amounts of coffee available there.
Plenty of freight elevators, and some separate loading docks for AV companies on the other side of the building, so you don't have to deal with the hassles of the main loading dock. The main loading dock has about 50 truck bays, so there should be no trouble with getting trucks in and out. Compare that to the ten or so truck docks that the Hynes has been living with for years.
Aside from them not letting me bring my bicycle to ride in the back hallways, and the lack of decent food nearby, I like the new convention center.
My mom had another suspicious lump of flesh removed from her nose last week, pre-cancerous, rather than actually cancerous, so that's better than it could have been. *crosses fingers*
Work is picking up, but I sent off some more resumes, in hopes of getting off the temping treadmill and getting a full time job again.
I'll be at the Linux World Expo which is happening here in Boston at the new convention center starting tomorrow. See what's new in the world of penguin.
**** Warning, tech geekery ahead, everyone else can stop reading now. *****
Worked a few jobs at the BCEC the last couple weeks. They did the place right from an electrical and data perspective. Every outlet in the function rooms and hallways are on individual circuit breakers. No breaker trips if the catering folks plug in a coffee pot on the other side of the room. There are floor pockets and wall plates all over the place. They contain an assortment of edison plugs, three phase 20 amp twistlocks, and 50 amp dryer plugs for electrical supply. They also contain a selection of cat 5 jacks, BNC, and XLR-3s for audio patching. House lights in the larger function rooms, the big ballroom, and probably the small function rooms are all DMX controllable, just have to plug your lighting console into the wall jack and get the address data sheet from the house electricians for your room to take control.
All the meeting and breakout rooms have at least one 100 amp three phase power feed, the larger ones have more. Lots of nice cable pass-throughs in the walls from the service corridors, so no more blocking doors open for cables. The big ballroom has four 400 amp feeds, and there are also 400 amp feeds scattered around the service hallways.
On the show floor, they have 480 volt feeds and they just roll out a transformer if you want heavy power. Slight nit, the 480 volt feed floor pockets don't have a ground connection, so you have to go to a different floor pocket, one of the 120/208 ones to get a ground connection. Many dozens of Hubbel plug 100 amp feeds on the exhibit hall floor. There is also water, compressed air and drains in other floor pockets on the exhibit hall floor.
The service corridors are fairly well laid out. Wide enough for forklifts to drive in, decent signage in them too, so you can find what you are looking for. Ice machines scattered throughout the back hallways, and there is a coffee concentration camp on the second floor. You know those dual 60 gallon coffee makers you see in the back hallways of hotels and big cafeterias? They have a room with about 20 of them lining the walls. Mind-boggling amounts of coffee available there.
Plenty of freight elevators, and some separate loading docks for AV companies on the other side of the building, so you don't have to deal with the hassles of the main loading dock. The main loading dock has about 50 truck bays, so there should be no trouble with getting trucks in and out. Compare that to the ten or so truck docks that the Hynes has been living with for years.
Aside from them not letting me bring my bicycle to ride in the back hallways, and the lack of decent food nearby, I like the new convention center.
