Google Data Centres

[Andy_Bangle]

Wow - it's a total geekfest! Google Data centers

Showing what we're made of—inside and out

For the first time, we're giving everyone a glimpse into where we run our products. Now you can take a virtual tour of one of our data centers in Street View. Or browse photo albums of the technology, people, and places that keep Google's products running.

[m4ttm4son]

Streetview... turn left and the first thing I see is a Storm Trooper

Geekfest is putting it lightly I love all the colour coding etc. I bet their cafeteria is full of coasters and anti-bacterial hand wipes.

[Andy_Bangle]

[NewNiceMrMe]

bet their cafeteria is full of coasters and anti-bacterial hand wipes.

I have a bottle of anti-bacterial gel on my desk, right now. I use it because most people in this world are dirty feckers who never wash their hands when they go to the loo.

So, whenever I go anywhere and get back - I use the gel. Door handles carry such a ridiculous amount of germs I've done this for a few years now. It's amazing how many colds and afflictions others will get who don't use it.

The BBC recently published an article (Monday just gone) highlighting what a filthy nation we are when it comes to washing our hands. You can read it here.

I also have a small container of it in the car so I can wash my hands with it when I've been to a fuel station and touched a petrol pump etc - again because they're so open to germs from people. It's the self-drying stuff so you just rub it on your hands and in seconds they're dry and free of germs from other dirty buggers in society. We use the same stuff at home.

it's just a pet hate of mine and a programme about it a few years ago horrified me so I'm religious in my use of it nowadays.

I reckon I probably use it about 25-30 times a day....it's just become habit now.

Here...

[stooH]

I used to do the same but haven't for some reason for the last year or more. Your comment about the dirty feckers is an interesting one, I was washing my hands in the loos at fratton park last weekend and was genuinely surprised how many people washed their hands after having a piss, i'd have thought that all the dirty feckers would be at the football but apparently not.

[NewNiceMrMe]

The programme I watched showed how ineffective washing hands before you leave public toilets is.

What's the first thing you do.....open the door to come out - the door that the dirty feckers who didn't wash their hands have put their germs on.

Hence I keep the gel in the office, the car, at home and I might have been known to take a little packet of it with me when we go to restaurants, out shopping etc.....(okay, so I make a point of doing so all the time.).

[Scotty]

I reckon I probably use it about 25-30 times a day....it's just become habit now.

It's a thin line between "habit" and OCD.

You're also lowering your resistance to germs etc.

Do you have the battery powered no touch dispensers at home? My Mrs bought them for all the toilets/bathrooms/sinks etc. It's much more than a habit for her now :-/

[NewNiceMrMe]

Nah, we don't use the battery dispensers, just the ones that you squeeze or have a hand pump on top.

I would admit I'm quite fussy about it. If I'm somewhere that I know I won't have access to the gel for a while, I'll use a jacket cuff or anything on a door handle so I don't actually have to touch it - but it varies depending on where I am.

I don't think I've lowered my resistance to germs. Not at 44 (having done this for 2 years now). Or if I have, it's not had any impact on me at all so far.

[Mac]

It astonishes me how many people use public toilets and don't wash their hands. I always avoid trying to touch anything in them.

I could *kind of* understand not washing your hands going for a wee at home. It's your environment, it'll be clean, and in general I don't tend to piss on myself (I've a lot of practice not pissing on myself), but in a public loo? Just ick.

I always take bog roll on the way out for any handles, and then bin it.

[NewNiceMrMe]

Scotty has given me a complex now, so I've counted how many times I've used the handwash since he posted. So in an hour and a half, it's 4 times.

That's because I've been to the loo once, had a cigarette (hence touching door handles on my way), been to make a coffee (hence touching door handles and our using a communal business centre kitchen) and the other time was when I took the coffee cup to the kitchen to wash it...

Hmm.

However, I don't use agents with Triclosan as I'm aware of its link with cancer (albeit tenuous). I only use the Cuticura gel because it's main active ingredient is TEOA (Triethanolamine) and its links to cancer are with female mice only. So I've done my research in the time I've been using anti-bacterial cleaning agents but the way I look at it is that the risks are very low compared to the likelihood of picking up all manner of other germs from people.

[Milo]

There is a lad who goes to the gym with an obvious OCD problem. It shouldn't amuse me I know, but watching someone constantly fretting over where he is sitting and touching, cleaning the equipment with his wipes and sprays before, during and after using it and then repeatedly using gel on his hands makes me wonder why he bothers. He could save his money and buy some gear of his own so he can sweat all over it in peace.

[m4ttm4son]

The trouble with that hand gel stuff is that it doesn't kill stuff like cold bacteria IIRC. You have to physically wash those guys off your hands

I don't understand not washing your hands after using the toilet. If I ever have to (facilities are broken or something) I feel dirty until I manage to somewhere else. Also have to wash my hands about three or four times as I'm in and out of the office at building sites and handling cash in the office which I'm pretty sure is the dirtiest stuff known to man.

At the same time, though, it is important not to be a complete clean freak. That'll always end in tears as it's good to keep your body fighting a few bacteria here and there.

My mum bought one of those battery soap dispensers The most ridiculous invention ever. You don't touch it after you've washed your hands :confused:

[patently]

A Para officer and an RAF officer both go to the gents at the same time, and finishing their task at the urinals both start to leave at the same time. The Para stops at the basins and starts to wash his hands, and notices the RAF officer leaving.

"Hey, in the Parachute Regiment we're taught to wash our hands when we're finished. Does that not apply in the RAF, then?"

To which the RAF officer replies;

"Certainly not, old chap, in the RAF we're taught not to piss all over our fingers".

[m4ttm4son]

It's not the p1ss that's dirty, it's your nether regions themselves Your liquid gold is perfectly sterile, but as with most moisture, it's a great breeding ground for nasty stuff

Google's really good for all this useless info

[Scotty]

My mum bought one of those battery soap dispensers The most ridiculous invention ever. You don't touch it after you've washed your hands :confused:

I'm not a fan but I understand it :

Dirty hands could pass germs to a soap dispenser (I wonder if MrMe cleans his hand cleaner where he touches it with dirty hands!! tee hee) so a non touch one means you don't spread germs before you kill them... assumming you can turn the tap on without touching it ... which without kitchen one you can and the Mrs wipes the other taps after use!

MrMe - I hope my posts are helping hahahaha

[NewNiceMrMe]

I wonder if MrMe cleans his hand cleaner where he touches it with dirty hands!!

I smear a bit of gel on it from my hands each time I've used it, so the next time I pick it up, it should be clean.

It's a matter of reducing the odds more than absolute coverage, otherwise I'd just never come out.

[patently]

It's not the p1ss that's dirty, it's your nether regions themselves Your liquid gold is perfectly sterile, but as with most moisture, it's a great breeding ground for nasty stuff

OK, if you're going to point that out, then there's the one about the waiter and the spoon.

A couple visit a new restaurant, and while being served they notice that the waiter has a spoon in his shirt pocket. That seemed a little strange, so they looked around at the other staff and saw that they all had a spoon in their shirt pocket.

When the waiter came back to serve the soup course, they asked, “Why the spoon?”

“Well,” he explained, “the restaurants’ owners hired Andersen Consulting to revamp all our processes. After several months of analysis, they concluded that the spoon was the most frequently dropped utensil. It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour. If our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift.”

As luck would have it, the husband dropped his spoon at that point, and the waiter was able to replace it immediately with his spare.

“I’ll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen, instead of making an extra trip to get it right now.”

The couple were impressed. The wife then noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter’s fly. Looking around, she noticed that all the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies. So before he walked off, she asked the waiter, “Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?”

“Oh, certainly!” Then he lowered his voice. “Not everyone is so observant.”

"That consulting firm I mentioned also found out that we can save time in the rest-room. By tying this string to the tip of ‘you know what’, we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands, shortening the time spent in the rest-room by 76.39 percent.”

“After you get it out, how do you put it back?”, she asked.

“Well,” he whispered, “I don’t know about the others, but I use the spoon.”

Seriously (for a brief moment), it's not good to think too carefully about these things. I know someone who did, who started down the MrMe road and progressed a little further than MrMe has, and developed a skin condition from the repeated washings. Take care...

[Tipex]

MrMe, I want to take the piss and call you that bloke who became a hermit, the American business man, they made a film about him, can't remember his name though, did something with planes...

[Booster]

Back on topic:

Maybe google released the pics as a distraction from the very surprisingly poor results.

Shares dropped 11% on the news and were promptly suspended!!!!!

[eldavo69]

"Up in the air" with George Clooney?

[NewNiceMrMe]

Back on topic:

Maybe google released the pics as a distraction from the very surprisingly poor results.

Shares dropped 11% on the news and were promptly suspended!!!!!

No, it was a collosal mistake by their PR company. They released draft results early. The shares have since been freed and are climbing again.

If you've got some spare cash you'd do worse than to throw it at Google. Their acquisitions have hit them this year - but you can be assured that's going to change next...

[Booster]

I'm still not taking share tips from you!

[NewNiceMrMe]

You'll still lose that bet.

[NewNiceMrMe]

..and if you'd bought Petra Diamonds shares when I said a few weeks back you'd be a very happy bunny right now.

[m4ttm4son]

MrMe, I want to take the piss and call you that bloke who became a hermit, the American business man, they made a film about him, can't remember his name though, did something with planes...

Howard Hughes

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