I attended a meeting of the Knowledge Management Society today. Lame, but I don't blame the poor participants, after all they are living and working in Tulsa and are suffering from desperation. I never understood while Minor ranted so passionately against this place - I was never close enough to it to fully understand the situation until now. The thing about desperate professors is that they end up trying to pimp themselves out to anything that comes along... They trying to do too much and end up doing nothing. This is a path that I have already been down, and it will be difficult to prevent them from dragging me into their self-defeating game. Great scientist don't pimp themselves, they focus. They focus on one thing, and they understand their focus so intensely that others begin to understand the importance of their focus also. I want this focus - on something, anything.
Another disheartening blow: on the way into the meeting Dr. Thomas stopped me to complain that I blew away some of his servers in the lab. I didn't even know that he had machines in the lab; had he marked his machines, I wouldn't have touched them. It is sickening that he would try to blame me for their lack of organization and communication. Three professors trying to share is a recipe for disaster.
