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Top-25 Reasons for Continuous Simulation
The following top-eleven list was presented
at the International Conference on Stormwater and Urban Water Systems Modeling
held in Toronto on February 21-22, 2002.
Note that all but one of these are for entertainment. Hope you can find the one with an “educational”
value.
11. You are Bill’s best
friend.
10. Your girl friend
works for the National Weather Service.
9. Set the Guinness World
Record for the longest hardcopy printout.
8. Burn excess calories
and tighten abs rocking in office chair while waiting for simulation to end.
7. Guaranteed to improve
your time of concentration or your money back!
6. Your significant other
has forbidden you from participating in any kind of single events.
5. No offence, but the
Rational Method really sucks.
4. If single event is
bungee jumping, continuous simulation is sky diving.
3. Bigger is better and
size does matter.
2. Makes "60-minute
men" look like amateurs.
1. Because it's not
dishonest!
The remaining reasons are listed below.
12. 1000 MHz PCs no longer justify your usual 2000-hour budget
for single-event simulation.
13. You want to take a break, but appear that you're still
working very hard.
14. It's the cure for simulatus interruptus.
15. Sensational ratings for "reality-based" TV - why
not runoff models too?
16. Doing buildup-washoff simulations reminds me to do the
laundry that's piled up in my basement.
17. Snowmelt, snowmelt, snowmelt!
18. I can go run some errands and still "honestly" say
to the boss that "I'm working on those CSO calculations".
19. I enjoy the change in seasons.
20. It's the "BFG" of modeling!
21. Can make a career out of one stinkin' model!
22. Set Guinness World Record in '85 for longest continuous
tractor-feed hardcopy printout (now on display in Smithsonian next to Dorothy's
ruby slippers).
23. Continuous simulation gives someone at the national weather
service a job compiling the data.
Always request data for a
discontinued station and spice up the poor bastard's life by asking for an
unusual time step, such as 3 minute intervals.
24. Single is okay, double is better, but continuous rocks.
25. Adrenaline rush.
Disclaimer: These reasons are based on the responses provided by the members of the SWMM-USERS discussion group. I am simply passing them on without comment.
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This page was last updated on 03 March, 2002.