This is not a place of honor

Re:This is not a place of honor by amk_ on Monday June 06, 2016 @11:12PM (#11852134)

Holy shit. Dieter Ast was my landlord in college. This explains so much about my basement.

To those who haven't read the article yet, the real title is Judgment on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Prof Ast was the material scientist on one of the multidisciplinary teams tasked to design warning symbols for 10,000 year nuclear waste storage sites. He used to go around collecting old lab computers that were going to be thrown out and resurrect them with Windows 2000 or Puppy Linux installs.

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Re:This is not a place of honor by colanderman on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @12:02AM (#11852310)

… your basement was plastered with iconographic warnings against entering due to interminable life-ending substances contained within?

… did you enter?

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Re:This is not a place of honor by 2bitencryption on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @12:05AM (#11852316)

>This place is not a place of honor.

>No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.

>Nothing valued is here.

"But I just need to use the laundry machines."

>...Fine.

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Re:This is not a place of honor by jean- on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @12:40PM (#11855661)

Brilliant. This just reads like a conversation with Death in a Terry Pratchett novel.

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Re:This is not a place of honor by willvarfar on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @03:51AM (#11853023)

And was there one saying "beware of the leopard"?

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Re:This is not a place of honor by turkeybone on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @12:03PM (#11855383)

Hello, fellow Dieter tenant!

I was one of his last tenants in 2013. I always enjoyed conversing with him.

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