The Big Room is the extremely large room with the blue ceiling and intensely bright light during the day, and the black ceiling with lots of tiny night-lights during the night. It is found outside all computer installations. (From the Jargon File.) It is one aspect of the Real World.
That's the normal definition. I live in Scotland, where the big room has a grey ceiling and fairly bright light during the day. -- Neil Gall
Ah, that must be near Portland Oregon ;-)
Reminds me of that Billy Connolly joke in which he takes his (LA-reared) kids on a visit home to Glasgow - "Daddy, why's the sky so low?"
And when are they going to do something about that draught?
Big Room? What Big Room? I'm trapped in a box (see us.imdb.com 
)! -- Andrew Migliore
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