Down here at the US sales office of a computer hardware manufacturer

[Griff]

*sigh* flash crashes every time I try to play that.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Guess whose gear was adding an almost-imperceptible black vertical line to one of these displays:

http://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregio...k-skyline.html

It doesn't do that any more... just in time for the opening

I was involved in fixing it, but only phase one support (basically saying, "oh this will be one for the engineers...")

I thought about you when they were showing the "glass floor" which was really screens 5 inches below the glass floor with real time cameras showing what was going on below.

[Undertoad]

You know what, it probably was that! They didn't tell me which display had the issue, but it was a capture device that introduced the problem, so it had to have been real-time video.

I can't wait to see it... not because of my tiny involvement!

[xoxoxoBruce]

The did a tour on the Today Show one morning last week. I'd seen the up elevator on the net, but not the down elevator or the glass floor. They said they expect two or three million visitors a year so for $32 you get a lot of assholes and elbows. I guess it won't be long before people start posting the best and worst time to visit. Of course weather can play hell with the best laid plans of mice and tourists.

Maybe you could wear a company hardhat/clipboard and get an off hours visit. When I was working for Westinghouse at a power plant in Centralia, WA, I took a ride out to Grand Coulee Dam where Westinghouse was replacing two turbine/generators. Introduced myself to the boss man and he let me roam at will. Even got to climb the ladders down into the squirrel cage the turbine sets in by just signing the clipboard of some college kid they hired to count the heads going in and out of the hole.