http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammock_activity
Hammock activity
A Hammock activity is a schedule (project management) or project planning term for a grouping of subtasks that "hangs" between two end dates it is tied to. (Or the two end-events it is fixed to.)
A Hammock activity groups subtasks which are not related in the hierarchial sense of a Work Breakdown Structure.
A Hammock activity groups subtasks which are not related in a logical sense of a dependency (project management) where one subtask must wait for another.
Usages:
Group dissimilar activities that lead to an overall capability, such as preparations under a summary label, e.g. "vacation preparation";
Group unrelated items for the purpose of a summary such as a calendar-based reporting period, e.g. "First quarter plans";
Group ongoing or overhead activities that run the length of an effort, e.g. "project management"
The duration of the hammock activity (the size of the hammock) may also be set by the subtasks within it, so that the abstract grouping has a start date of the earliest of any of the subtasks and the finish date is the latest of any of the contents.
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F23.html
You Only Move Twice
Original airdate in U.S.: 3-Nov-96
At work, Homer's wearing his Tom Landry hat and coaching his team, but they're quite exhausted from the work he's asking from them. From experience, Homer knows that fatigue requires only one solution: hammocks. He goes straight to his "boss".
Hank: Uh, hi, Homer. What can I do for you?
Homer: Sir, I need to know where I can get some business hammocks.
Hank: Hammocks? My goodness, what an idea. Why didn't I think of that? Hammocks!
http://www.cswap.com/1982/Star_Trek:_The_Wrath_of_Khan/cap/en/25fps/a/00_36
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
:36:03
I told Starfleet Command all we had
was a boatload of children.
:36:08
But...we're the only ship
in the quadrant.
:36:12
These cadets of yours, how will they
respond under real pressure?
:36:18
As with all living things,
each according to his gifts.
:36:22
Of course, this ship is yours.
:36:26
No, that won't be necessary.
Just get me to Regula One.
:36:30
As a teacher on a training mission,
I'm happy to command the Enterprise.
:36:35
If we are to go on actual duty,
the senior officer must assume command.
:36:41
It may be nothing.
:36:44
Garbled communications.
You take the ship.
:36:49
You proceed from a false assumption.
:36:52
I'm a Vulcan.
I have no ego to bruise.
:36:59
You remind me that logic
dictates your actions?
:37:02
I would not remind you
of that which you know so well.
:37:06
If I may be so bold, it was a mistake
for you to accept promotion.
:37:12
Commanding a Starship
is your first, best destiny.
:37:15
Anything else is a waste of material.
:37:19
I would not presume to debate you.
:37:22
That is wise.
:37:24
In any case...were I to invoke logic,
logic clearly dictates
:37:28
that the needs of the many
outweigh the needs of the few.
:37:33
Or the one.
>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/09/09 5:41 PM
The dialog by the medic is curious because she seems to be willing to die but she is willing to die, it seems, only if everyone else dies. I found myself wondering why she did not just volunteer herself to close the door and to die in the process.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/09/09 5:43 PM
It makes think of how a lot of people, and too many people, are too eager to let other people die for them or how too many people are to eager to kill other people and too kill people for hardly any reason.
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>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/09/09 5:20 PM
the medic tells "Colonel Young" that he would need an MRI and a qualified doctor to read it in the dialog about his head wound and the paralysis in his legs and that reminds me of the doctor at the VA talking to me about the results from the catscan when I was inpatient at the VA. I later mentioned what I thought was something wrong with the top of my skull to the psychiatrist or psychologist or whatever he was and he seemed to look it over but he never gave me any useful information about it.
http://my.excite.com/tv/prog.jsp?id=EP011839820001&sid=58623&sn=SYFYHD&st=200910091600&cn=676
Stargate Universe (Repeat)
676 SYFYHD: Friday, October 9 4:00 PM
Science fiction
Air
During an evacuation, a scientist sends escapees into deep space for an experiment.
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Louis Ferreira, David Blue, Brian J. Smith, Jamil Walker Smith, Elyse Levesque, Alaina Huffman, Ming-Na, Lou Diamond Phillips Executive Producer(s): Robert C. Cooper, Brad Wright
Original Air Date: Oct 02, 2009
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/09/09 5:25 PM
"Senator Armstrong" is very funny.
My favorite thought is that his character in this episode is an abstraction of the notion from the 1981 film "Stripes" about how one of these men may one day save your life, but then again one of them might not.
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http://www.cswap.com/1980/The_Final_Countdown/cap/en/2_Parts/b/00_24
The Final Countdown
:24:02
How dare you talk to me that way!
Captain, tell him who you are.
http://www.cswap.com/1982/Star_Trek:_The_Wrath_of_Khan/cap/en/25fps/a/00_40
Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
:40:01
There's no response
from Regula One.
:40:04
- But no longer jammed?
- No, sir. No nothing!
:40:14
There are two possibilities.
They're unable or unwilling to respond.
:40:20
- How far?
- 12 hours 43 minutes, present speed.
:40:26
Give up Genesis, she said. What does
that mean? Give it up to whom?
:40:31
It might help if I knew what Genesis
was, beyond the biblical reference.
