CRAFT Inefficiency...

We drink a lot in CRAFT (see Figure 1), and since we can't use the CRAFT toilets (see Figure 2), we have to use the toilets outside.

It takes one minute to go to the nearest toilet, and one minute back. This means that effectively, every time a CRAFT member needs to use the toilet, they have to lose 2 minutes. So?

So... There are usually around 20 people in CRAFT on any given day. And on average each person goes to the toilet 2.5 times each day (the 0.5 is because of me) . 2.5 * 2 min * 20 people = 100 minutes / day. Over about 215 days of work per year: that makes 385 hours lost each year!

Now look at our salaries, the lowest earning long-term CRAFT members (PhD students :( ) are paid about 18.5 CHF per hour...

So basically, just having this poster on the toilet in CRAFT is costing 6630.- CHF every year!

Just think of how many aperos we could have with this money! Or better yet, if we were to use all the money on a single apero, think of how cool that apero would be!!

Through the wooden shelves...

Friandises japonaises...

Thanks Fabrice for one of the weirdest afternoon snacks ever...

CRAFT Collection d'Été 2007 (Limited Edition)

A photo dedicated to Gaelle

Maybe there is no point to post this photo here, maybe its not very relevant either. but Well I post it for Gaelle !

I like the name "Mère courage". I would like to call Gaelle Mere courage. Why ? because it's like that. Why do we call Khaled "Khebab" ? because its the way it is ! It's the natural flow of things on earth !

Florence is Godzilla!

Or maybe King Kong...

Vitamin C Flush

In order to determine the maximum level of vitamin C I can consume per day, Robert Cathcart suggested a protocol known as a "vitamin C flush" wherein increasing doses of vitamin C, up to 200 grams per day (i.e. 11,000 of my vitamin C tablets (1 tablet every 7.7 seconds)) are given until diarrhea develops, then choosing the highest dose that does not cause diarrhea.

He has reported clinical successes using massive vitamin C in treating influenza, hepatitis, mononucleosis, bacterial infection, yeast infections, stress, for recovery from burns, surgery and back pain. He also reports success treating herpes, arthritis and scarlet fever. He advocates massive vitamin C as potential treatments for avian flu, ebola virus, polio, irritable bowel syndrome, West Nile virus, Santa Clara flu, encephalitis, SARS, hemorrhagic fever, and cancer.