[Noisebridge-discuss] 10 minute hate

[Dr. Jesus]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:32 PM, quinn <quinn at quinnnorton.com> wrote:
> back when i was trying to be married (hi danny!) we instituted something
> for a while that seemed to work pretty well. someone would yell HATE! and
> we'd set a 10 minute timer, and everyone would stop what they were doing
> and just spend 10 minutes cleaning like demons. when it was over we'd stop
> what we were doing, some of us in mid-whatever, walk back to what we were
> doing and act like nothing happened.
>
> you'd be amazed how much cleaning could get done in ten minutes. i have no
> idea if this would work at NB, but it might be fun to try. (maybe with an i
> can ignore you if i want to caveat.)

I always wanted the touch panel system to have an alert function, and
I suppose I could implement a "cleaning mode" feature that would clamp
the Internet bandwidth to 100 kbps (or whatever) and put the panels
into cleaning mode until someone acknowledges that it has been done.

I'm also sure someone's going to think of a clever objection to this
that I overlooked...