Entries by Pat d'Entremont

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Being Productive in Spite of the Weather

In the middle of our last winter storm, one of our customers called in a panic that they could not get in the office and wanted to know if we could do an important update for them. Which of course we did. But here’s the interesting part: our office was also empty on account of the storm.

Of Technology and Gilligan’s Island

Some of you will remember Gilligan’s Island. Stranded on a remote island for three years, the Professor figured out how to communicate with an orbiting Apollo spacecraft, how to build a two-way radio out of coconut shells and seawater, and how to establish an irrigation system using bamboo poles. Yet he wasn’t able to patch a hole on the side of the boat that brought them there.

2015

I think there has to be an acknowledgement that as the world changes, so must we. Some things, however, don’t change and sometimes those are the ones that matter.