Wow, why is Bruce Goodwin leaving WCI?
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2013/04/26/lawrence-livermore-shuffles-some-top.html
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Does it ever end...let's triple down on Moses, let's quadruple down on moses....
Ed will never be the head of the weapons program at LLNL or anywhere else.
April 27, 2013 at 2:34 PM
Promise? Signed LANL XTD Division.
Ah, now we're getting to the heart of the matter.
For God's sake, just come right out and tell him you want to sleep with him. That way you can save him and the rest of us reading this blog further embarrassment.
May 1, 2013 at 1:23 PM
Oh come on! The only thing that Tomas got "raw" was his "twig" following the conference he attended. The wild screams could be heard down the hotel corridors.
May 1, 2013 at 1:23 PM
Sounds like you are missing the feel of someone's something somewhere in your body.
May 1, 2013 at 4:54 PM
The screams were when she saw his twig.
Ah, now we're getting to the heart of the matter.
April 29, 2013 at 2:51 PM
Well said. Substitute the name of any other sponsor (or colleague) for "Cook" above, and you can see why he was not effective. Frequent, rabid rampages about how stupid everyone else is, even when it was often his own blunders that caused the problems he would rant about. When someone routinely and viciously criticizes those who are giving him a billion dollars a year, while wasting much of the money, and blaming them for the outcome of the unwise decisions you make, it is amazing that he has been working @ LLNL for so long. It is hard to understand why anyone would want to work so long in a complex for which everyone else is held in such contempt and would not find another career, working with people he could respect more. It is a shame that he could not control his destructive tendencies, because he has some good communication skill. Perhaps he has now identified a position that will not force him to work with so many stupid people with lots of funds, who will not object to vicious personal attacks on them and their staff, while he is wasting government money, acting in his own self-interest instead of the needs of the country, and making false statements.
May 4, 2013 at 12:41 AM
You assume everyone who reads this blog is a Livermoron. How moronic of you. The point is, outside Livermore, no one knows or cares. And I doubt the "American education system" can be considered a failure because it doesn't teach students about who Goodwin is.
LLNL is sick place. It is an unrecoverable zombie. Let's stop pretending that these managers can be reformed or that they provide any value to this nation. Parney is not a turnaround or re-org specialist and even if he was, he cannot undo the institutionalized unprofessionalism in that kleptocracy. Threads insinuating bad analysis or fabricated data by scientists at LLNL? (There is more to this than just insinuations, by the way). That is all enabled by those same kleptocracic managers who only care about "results" and what they need to finesse the situation. To them, honesty and integrity are "optional." Most organizations would never tolerate this out of their management and staff. However, LLNL implicitly encourages it.
Why do you keep referring to these people you detest by their first names, as if they were your close friends? It just seems a little off.
May 7, 2013 at 9:19 AM
You got it right!
May 6, 2013 at 6:19 PM
Nope. Bret Knapp ran him off while Knapp was "at Livermore".