Mad Science, Week One

First couple weeks on the job. Impressions? LOUD! Stentor clearly has descendants in this generation, and they all stand around outside my cubicle shouting at each other. Either that, or a business consisting of two guys in a garage expanded rapidly, guy-wise, but the garage stayed the same (I'll stick with the Many Stentorides Theory, as it amuses me). I spent my first week trying to figure out how anyone can concentrate around here. End of first week, I went to the firearms department of Wally World and purchased a pair of ear muffs. 35dB attenuation, makes a rifle going off next to one's ear sound sweet and well-mannered. Just about right for the office. I notice that a lot of the office-mates keep iPods, set permanently to 11 no doubt, on their desks.