If You're Trying to Find the Margaritaville in Glendale, AZ

Entering the Address they give you (6751 N Sunset Blvd, Suite E109 Glendale, AZ 85305) gets you to the wrong place.. Google is completely wrong. It lands you on W Sunset Dr, approximately 7.3 miles from where you want to be -- the Westgate City Center near W Glendale Ave at 93rd Ave in Glendale. If you use this data to plan a trip by bus, you will waste a lot of time.

For whatever reason, Google does not know that this is N Sunset Blvd .. Or, Margaritaville Glendale made their address up. (Although the mall security agents sure seem to think that it their address.)

Calendar Systems, Respect

(Meeting name blurred to protect the guilty -- although I'm not sure why.)

I'm leaving tomorrow morning on the 6:05 AM flight, so I blocked this afternoon off to get ready and run errands as needed with a meeting that says Getting Ready to Leave Please Ask Before Scheduling. Without so much as an email attached to the invitation asking if it is OK, a 1.5 hour weekly meeting popped on my calendar this morning.

This shows either a complete disregard for the ability of our calendaring system to show available times, or a complete disregard for me. Hopefully the former.

Are Everybody's Hands Broken?

A process at work has been failing for an hour and a half. I can't fix it because I'm on the air and can't get to work machines.

But I guess everybody else getting being paged had a freak accident this morning.

Update: Some people have said that they didn't know what to do, and that there is no documentation. Well, sending an email saying that or calling me is doing something.

Feynman Problem Solving Algorithm

Since a certain someone who is obsessed with drawing everything on a board, even when it isn't needed decided to erase this from my white board, I'm posting this here, because I feel like it.

The Feynman Problem Solving Algorithm:

1. Write down the problem.
2. Think very hard.
3. Write down the answer.

None of these steps may be skipped, especially the first one. Which, BTW, is about the most common mistake I see around here -- often perpetrated by our mysterious white-board eraser.

Has The Boss lost his mind?!?

Per this press release:

Bruce Springsteen's album doesn't hit stores until April 25th but listeners have an exclusive opportunity to listen to the album in its entirety on-demand beginning today. Clear Channel Radio is the only place to catch a "Sneak Peek" of Bruce Springsteen's latest album, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. This online exclusive will be available on 390 Clear Channel Radio station Web sites!

Yes, you're reading that correctly. Bruce Springsteen (the blue collar hero and the working man's friend) has teamed up with 17 folk musicians to put out an album of Pete Seeger (counter-culture icon, blacklisted socialist, anti-war and environmental activist) songs. And it's being released (initially) only to Clear Channel Stations.

It seems clear that The Boss has lost his mind (to say nothing of his working man roots and, perhaps, credibility). I hereby move that we start a fundraising effort to get The Boss the help he so desperately needs.