Going Postal

Remember the bodypaint news I wrote about yesterday? They got approval!!! This is going to be the coolest sight in the Olympic Stadium.

They figured, as long as there's no commercial text or logo's it shouldn't be any different than a tattoo (which is obviously allowed as skin stripping is not an Olympic event).

What a day. Poles (for the pole vaulting) went missing, but luckily only on paper. So at least the athletes can try to break the 6 meter height with something better than a tooth pick.

The athletics desk just became more of a crazy house. The competitions have started and this means that every few minutes we get a stack of 200 copies of a result sheet or start list. With over 35 disciplines and 200 mailboxes, we are trying to fill these so called pigeon holes faster than Hugh Hefner scores blond playmates. Well, nobody can keep up with good ol' Hugh...

It doesn't help very much that the results printing department is slower than myself opening the front door for Rene last night. This basically means we have some 30+ coaches at our desk screaming for these docs, even before we get them. They arrive from the stadium (20 minutes drive) way before the papers (which come from the office next door). I'm sure an IT Architect can design some sort of Message Bus Architecture to solve this issue... ;-)

Oh well, at least now I understand those US Postal workers that went nuts a few years ago, spraying bullets all around in the local shopping mall.

Cheers from a not-yet-so-nuts Roberto.