My official transfer date, from Old Boss to New Boss, will be first thing Monday morning. The paperwork went through quite a bit faster than I was expecting. I'm also allowed to go public with it at work since we're just waiting out the clock now. I'm torn on that though. I could go ahead and let people know because, honestly, I'm about to bust with keeping my mouth shut. On the other hand, I could wait until the regular meeting Monday morning and just drop a bomb on everyone all at once. I think that would be damned entertaining. To me at least. I mean, it doesn't take a lot to impress me. Anyway, I'm still trying to decide which way to go on it. I'd say there's a good 70% to 80% chance that I won't be able to hold out until Monday.
There's a
movement afoot to name the next SI prefix as "hella". So you've got mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta, and hella. One hellawatt would be 10^27 watts. That's a helluva lot of watts. The other prefixes are all some obscure Greek or Latin thing and they're all based on words that mean, basically, "really big". But "hella" would be a modern all-American prefix. I'd love to see a serious technical article talking about hellagrams or hellajoules. I'd love to buy a hard drive that held a hellabyte. The only downside to this for me is that I think the movement started on Facebook. Sure, it was a real scientist that started it but still - Facebook.
