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Article: Over-engineering: where is the cat?(laboratory information management systems)(Column)
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- Scientific Computing
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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MY HOUSEGUEST DISCRETELY EXCUSED HIMSELF AND WENT INTO THE BATHroom near the living room. I glanced at the door as it closed behind him, and waited for the fun to begin. Moments later, I heard the hurricane-like howl. He came out, white as a ghost, and still zipping and tucking.
"What the hell was that?" he asked.
"That's the Power Potty. How do you like it?"
"It scared me. I thought a tornado was coming through the bathroom window."
The Power Potty is Hice vernacular for a "pressure-assisted toilet." When we started building offices in the basement area of our house, one of the first things I did was banish the heavily-used powder ...