Friday, April 6, 2007

Dr. Nano vs The Blog!


It was the end of 2004, after a long and costly, but generally inappropriate and unnecessary shutdown and the decision to put the Laboratory on the Auction block to be sold to the highest bidder in the military industrial complex was set in concrete.

Doug Roberts got fed up with the lack of a forum to discuss the egregious conditions and events at his workplace, Los Alamos National Laboratory. So he did what any modern, self-respecting computer scientist would do:
  • He started a Blog.
  • He named it LANL-THE-REAL-STORY
  • He built it and many came
    • The downtrodden employees
    • The UC/Nanos apologists
    • The disgruntled ex-employees
    • The local anti-nuclear campaigners
    • The local press
    • The national press
    • The congressional oversight committees
    • The Lab administration
    • The corporate bidders
    • The blog cartoonist Sean Gleeson
Admiral Pete Nanos, sent by someone, nobody knows for sure, left ignominiously just before the lab was handed over to an unholy alliance (LANS) which was essentially a front for Bechtel (which rhymes with Hell).

Nobody really knows how much effect Doug's blog had on Nanos ungraceful but timely exit, but many of us had a good, long laugh when this Blog Comic came out. It was even immortalized as a coffee mug which you are likely to see discretely placed on any number of desks around LANL.

Gotta love it!
- Doctor Strange

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Doug's finest hour, even if there was a bit of hyperbole involved in this image.

When does Doctor Strangelove get to throw someone down the well? And whom?

Anonymous said...

I remember when that came out.

I wanted a T-shirt!

The guy making the cups said he needed permission from the artist and like a minimum order of a gross (12 dozen)...

That could be part of the new dress code. Or maybe the image of Doc with his red-eyed Bechtel glasses on.

Thanks for all the comic relief Doc!

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