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<div>I would like to remember the LBL staff in the good old days, which i believe Joe was a member. My personal patient mentor was Bruce Birdsall. I had the pleasure of having dinner with him several times and staying at his apartment when visiting LBL. His apartment was one of the first victims of the oakland Hills fire (198 ??).</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Also remember taking my first class in DOE-2 (1982) from Fred Buhl and Jeff Hirsch. I must confess that after the two days, I still had no idea how to perform models in DOE-2. Fortunately, Bruce patiently saved the day.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>And not to forget Fred Winkleman either.</div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Friday, March 8, 2019, 5:12:54 PM PST, Joe Huang via Bldg-sim <bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Me, again, just got done with a personal chore.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Now that we're attempting to make energy simulations funny, I thought <br clear="none">I'd share what I remember from my almost 40 years (:-o) experience that <br clear="none">struck me as amusing. These are true stories, not "fake news" :-) ;-)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">1. We were sitting around the room at LBNL talking about converting a <br clear="none">Fortran program from VAX to Unix. The fellow sitting next to me asked, <br clear="none">"isn't that just changing the extension from *.for to *.f ??<br clear="none"><br clear="none">2. A new hire at LBL told me that he went to a party where someone asked <br clear="none">him what work did he do? So, my colleague said, "I simulate buildings <br clear="none">on a computer". The other person replied, "oh, that's easy. Buildings <br clear="none">don't move!".<br clear="none"><br clear="none">3. I was working with the late Art Rosenfeld in the early 80's writing a <br clear="none">paper on building energy efficiency for Art to present at the first <br clear="none">international energy conference in China in 1982. Art was writing what I <br clear="none">thought was a naive' comment that building energy efficiency will pay <br clear="none">for itself by the savings in coal. I explained to Art the intricacies <br clear="none">of China's fuel pricing system. Art thought for a moment and then <br clear="none">changed the sentence from "We believe that..." to "We are confident <br clear="none">that...". Art then nudged me and said, "frequently wrong, but always <br clear="none">confident!". (I've collected lots of Art Rosenfeld anecdotes over the <br clear="none">years).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">4. I learned DOE-2 for the first time in a class at UC Berkeley in <br clear="none">1980, and had the assignment of modeling a small cabin picked from <br clear="none">Progressive Architecture, using an input file from a previous student as <br clear="none">an example. It all made sense, but I wondered why the file had double <br clear="none">periods at the end each sentence, which I thought was redundant. So, I <br clear="none">wrote my file with single dots! The computer then spat out that the <br clear="none">file had 109 errors! I would never make that mistake again.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">5. I was at ASHRAE in the early 80's listening to Ed Sowell make his <br clear="none">presentation about ASHRAE Weighting Factors, with the title something <br clear="none">like, "32,000 weighting factors for different room configurations". An <br clear="none">acquaintance standing next to me whispered to me, "now that's a really <br clear="none">big building"!<br clear="none"><br clear="none">6. (last one). I was involved in a DOE project in the late 80s to turn <br clear="none">DOE-2 simulation results into a simplified tool for estimating <br clear="none">residential energy use (PEAR), working with an A/E firm Steven Winter in <br clear="none">New York. One time I was talking to Steven Winter staff about some <br clear="none">technical minutae just when the Loma Prieta Earthquake struck (1989). <br clear="none">It felt good in a way to hang on them saying, "I can't talk now. There's <br clear="none">an earthquake"! Standing outside in the parking lot watching plumes of <br clear="none">smoke arise in San Francisco across the Bay felt like being in a movie.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Joe<br clear="none"><div class="yiv4984157279yqt3757707716" id="yiv4984157279yqtfd67290"><br clear="none">On 3/8/2019 4:25 PM, Joe Huang wrote:<br clear="none">> Now, now, Jason.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Some people are quite sensitive about simulation run times. Several <br clear="none">> years ago when EnergyPlus got converted to C and somebody, clearly not <br clear="none">> that knowledgeable, wrote that now you can go get a cup of coffee and <br clear="none">> the run will be done. I questioned that converting Fortran to C would <br clear="none">> have any effect on runtime, and found out later that comment had <br clear="none">> pissed off someone for months.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> The biggest laugh I've had with BLDG-SIM postings were the ones like, <br clear="none">> "I want to learn XXX. Please help me !!".<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Joe<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> On 3/8/2019 1:16 PM, Jason Glazer via Bldg-sim wrote:<br clear="none">>> Continuing the story....<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Right after they finish ordering their coffees, the EnergyPlus user <br clear="none">>> starts walking to the exit.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> The eQUEST user asks: "where are you going?"<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> The EnergyPlus user says: "I think mine should be ready in an hour or <br clear="none">>> two."<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> On 3/8/2019 3:03 PM, Michael J Witte via Bldg-sim wrote:<br clear="none">>>> An EnergyPlus user, an eQUEST user, and an IESVE user walk into a <br clear="none">>>> coffee shop.<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> One orders a tall dark roast with room.<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> The next one orders a venti medium roast with a shot of Irish <br clear="none">>>> whiskey, or make that two shots.<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> The next one orders a grande creme brulee latte, with two extra <br clear="none">>>> shots, half-blonde, half-decaf, long ristretto shots, semi-dry, <br clear="none">>>> nonfat milk, no whip, extra sprinkles, in a mug for here.<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> The other two just roll their eyes and shake their heads.<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> <wait for it><br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> "What? 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