Now I feel really dumb
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figmoWe all know the space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry.
We all know by now all seven on board died.
I was doing a little looking up of the astronauts with some local ties and discovered Dr. Kalpana Chawla worked at the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation facility at NASA the same time I did. I wrote the User Guide there; she was one of my users.
I don't remember her. She may have been one of the people working in the trailer in the back doing the cool virtual reality stuff, or she may have been working in one of the groups with which I rarely interacted. Nonetheless, I feel stupid, because in theory I worked in the same facility with her and can't remember her to save my life.
We all know by now all seven on board died.
I was doing a little looking up of the astronauts with some local ties and discovered Dr. Kalpana Chawla worked at the Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation facility at NASA the same time I did. I wrote the User Guide there; she was one of my users.
I don't remember her. She may have been one of the people working in the trailer in the back doing the cool virtual reality stuff, or she may have been working in one of the groups with which I rarely interacted. Nonetheless, I feel stupid, because in theory I worked in the same facility with her and can't remember her to save my life.
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Date: 2003-02-13 07:44 pm (UTC)One of my users -- someone who was a driving force behind a project for which I was doing online help, and who was associated with other projects I'd documented -- died suddenly last October. I went to the sort of shocked aftermath meeting that everyone who knew him attended. I hung out afterwards with some of the other IT people and they were all shocked that I hadn't known something as obvious as the fact that he had been gay. (Since I'm out at work myself.) I ended up feeling... well... really bad that I hadn't taken the time to find out even that much about him.