Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20150204202730/@comment-1496755-20150314120408

A true story I heard yesterday - some years ago, the President himself came for the opening of the new academic year at the university. In accordance with standard procedure, his bodyguards came the day before, to sweep the place for possible threats...

...and they got lost inside the building. Imagine a bunch of serious guys with suits and guns who are walking aimlessly arround the corridors in utter confusion. In the end, they were lucky enough to find some Professor who showed them the way out.

Yeah, the elevator says things like "third floor" or "going down". It's rather comical.

The database is very cool thing, but sometimes there are inconsistencies. In order to resolve them, we have to resort to the oldschool ways - opening a large metal cabinet (I could swear this thing is made of Soviet tank armor), getting a bunch of large (and pretty heavy) books, and checking the information inside (which is supposed to be the true record). Luckily, these checks are pretty rare - working with paper archives is not quite my cup of tea.