Frankly, the first time I read the Bible (well, large parts of it, anyway) without all the little books and verses and labels stuffed in there after the fact, I liked it a lot more. Dissecting it kills the message more than translating it ever did...
I wanted to be a theoretical physicist when I grew up (oh, childhood dreams) and I've got an above average understanding of particle physics just from my general fascination with the subject. Even I have a tough time grasping the nitty gritty details of the Higgs field. The sensationalism stems from 1. The general population not understanding particle physics and 2. The general population not understanding the nature of the announcement. The Higgs wasn't so much discovered as it was confirmed to be exactly where we expected it to be all along. No new technology will come out of this so much as our understanding of the universe has been strengthened considerably - we're on the right track with the Standard Model after all.
This is actually a true story, albeit tongue in cheek from Leon Lederman. Not his fault everyone took it seriously when it was changed to the "God" particle by the publishers. Calling it the "chocolate chip" particle makes just as much sense (as it is a condensed form of chocolate in the sea of the chocolate chip cookie field.)
At least, our office just glances at the current prices and then sets ours a dollar lower. We don't use any fancy third party tools. We find the product, find the price, and undercut it. Our stuff usually sells within 24 hours this way. Then again, we're just selling used IT equipment, one old scanner at a time.
A link from the Family Research Council? I'm sorry I clicked through. Pick better sources. The only lesbian couple I personally know is in their 70s - both sweet gray haired ladies who have a garden that makes me jealous and foster rescue dogs. They've been together for forty years. The only reason they're not married is because the government says they're not allowed to be married.
I also think businesses should stop donating to politicians, either directly or indirectly, but the Supreme Court disagrees with us both on this issue.
The US still has a long way to go for full LGBT equality. I can understand stuff like trying to stop stoning of homosexuals in countries where it is illegal, but as for the same-sex marriage fight, it hasn't even been won on the home front yet. I hate to call it a war... but why expand the territory of a war when you're still losing battles in disputed territory you're trying to occupy?
My master's program is a "hybrid" - half our classes are in the brick and mortar building, for times when we have guest lectures or exercises that need to be done in person. The other half are conducted via an online classroom, where we can just as easily see the powerpoint and hear our professor's voice, but we don't have to leave home. My husband is teaching his summer session classes entirely in asynchronous online time, posting assignments and readings and grading them and hosting forum based discussions of the topics. (Everyone has to make a forum post for participation credit.)
At this point, the only value coming from a fully paid program versus an online program is accreditation (there's a reason that diploma mill degrees are looked down upon) and the contacts that distinguished faculty members have for their students. Also, brick and mortar institutions are better for lab and research oriented classes. I don't think my plant physiology classes back in undergrad days when I minored in botany would have been as fulfilling without the labs, where we got to blend, electrocute, and otherwise torture plants to measure all the stuff their guts were doing. Sure, we could do all the organic chemistry and mathematics online, but those equations need to translate to the real world too.
They just didn't have the terms they needed to describe the spaceships and artificial alien insemination in Aramaic, so all we get are vague descriptions of "wheels with wings within wings and many glowing lights" and sudden miraculous virgin births.
He may have ten times as much money as she does, but she's not exactly coming from poverty street herself. I believe she was valued at twenty five million.
Urgh, just noticed the double pronoun in that title. I'm on my second rum and coke in anticipation of a final exam this evening. Good for programming, bad for English!
My office loves to tinker, and loves to solve mysteries of why stuff is broken, or kludge together temporary and permanent solutions to new problems. Whether it's salvaging a dead server by splicing it with spare parts from a distant relative, or cobbling together a visual basic script to run a strange setting on 300 workstations all at once, or figuring out that we need to turn the coffee pot back on to refill the water tank before brewing the next pot (my own discovery which still earns me accolades from my boss), we all enjoy new challenges. The average age of my office is about 30, skewed a bit by the small numbers, the owner and manager, and myself, but further balanced out by the part time college kids.
My boss often joked that if we screw up too much at our office, we can always find a job with Geek Squad. (A few of the fired part timers had, in the past.) Perhaps not, any more.
Same here. I finished my undergraduate "on time" but I was working 35 hours a week. And I STILL had to take out some loans, because my grants didn't cover summer tuition or books.
The best product should win by virtue of being the best product, not because it's killed all the other competition. I don't use a Samsung phone because it stole all sorts of technology from Apple, I use a Samsung phone because I like it better than the Apple alternatives. I wasn't all, "Oooh this has Apple's curved corners and it can detect a phone number in my email!" No, I went "Oooh, this has a slide out keyboard and it's on sale for $300!"
They do at the strawberry farm a couple of miles down the highway, but they pay for the privilege at $10 a bucket. Win win for everyone - the strawberry farm has people doing the hard part of the labor for free, and the people doing the picking get cheap strawberries, an afternoon out with their kids, and their favorite type of berry (big and juicy or small and flavorful.)
After one rather scary incident driving home from a brewery many many years ago, I made the decision to never have more than one drink outside of the house under any circumstances. Bonus: The money I saved from not buying pricey drinks downtown has permitted me to stock a full bar at home.
Interestingly, I was doing better just after I recovered from jet lag after a week in Japan. For a few weeks, I became quite exhausted right at 11PM and woke up at 6:30 AM without even trying. In the last week or two, however, I've been wide awake until well after midnight. Flipping my sleep schedule upside down and back again over the course of two weeks was a temporary therapy, and I'm sad the results were not permanent.
As much grumbling as there is in the tech sector over the HB1 folks (legal status), the average Joe out on the streets is far more resentful of the uneducated migrant workers picking strawberries than they are the post docs with PhDs filling up the universities. The former ones are lowering the wages at the bottom end of the scale for everyone by providing cheap, illegal labor. The smart, educated ones are a minority - and probably speak English pretty well, too.
My current alarm clock is a fancy "sunrise" clock that gets lighter over the course of 30 minutes and then starts spamming me with gentle birdsong for 15 minutes before the actual alarm goes off. It's the only thing I've ever found that works, and it wasn't cheap.
I'm taking night classes while I get my master's in Internet programming, and doing a lot better. People doing well at 8AM classes doesn't show serious commitment so much as it shows people whose circadian clocks function on what is accepted as the "proper" schedule. Now that I'm not a stupid freshman, I can get up at 7AM pretty regularly, but it was almost impossible for me when I was 18. (That was also due to iron deficiency anemia, but it took another 8 months for me to be diagnosed with that when I finally went to the doctor about not being able to get up, even with the alarm.)
The problem with the noon class is that it was right after lunch, and I get sleepy after I eat. I'm a night owl and a night learner. Had my classes been at 6PM and 10PM, I'd have done a lot better.
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Frankly, the first time I read the Bible (well, large parts of it, anyway) without all the little books and verses and labels stuffed in there after the fact, I liked it a lot more. Dissecting it kills the message more than translating it ever did...
I wanted to be a theoretical physicist when I grew up (oh, childhood dreams) and I've got an above average understanding of particle physics just from my general fascination with the subject. Even I have a tough time grasping the nitty gritty details of the Higgs field. The sensationalism stems from 1. The general population not understanding particle physics and 2. The general population not understanding the nature of the announcement. The Higgs wasn't so much discovered as it was confirmed to be exactly where we expected it to be all along. No new technology will come out of this so much as our understanding of the universe has been strengthened considerably - we're on the right track with the Standard Model after all.
This is actually a true story, albeit tongue in cheek from Leon Lederman. Not his fault everyone took it seriously when it was changed to the "God" particle by the publishers. Calling it the "chocolate chip" particle makes just as much sense (as it is a condensed form of chocolate in the sea of the chocolate chip cookie field.)
At least, our office just glances at the current prices and then sets ours a dollar lower. We don't use any fancy third party tools. We find the product, find the price, and undercut it. Our stuff usually sells within 24 hours this way. Then again, we're just selling used IT equipment, one old scanner at a time.
A link from the Family Research Council? I'm sorry I clicked through. Pick better sources. The only lesbian couple I personally know is in their 70s - both sweet gray haired ladies who have a garden that makes me jealous and foster rescue dogs. They've been together for forty years. The only reason they're not married is because the government says they're not allowed to be married.
I also think businesses should stop donating to politicians, either directly or indirectly, but the Supreme Court disagrees with us both on this issue.
The US still has a long way to go for full LGBT equality. I can understand stuff like trying to stop stoning of homosexuals in countries where it is illegal, but as for the same-sex marriage fight, it hasn't even been won on the home front yet. I hate to call it a war... but why expand the territory of a war when you're still losing battles in disputed territory you're trying to occupy?
My master's program is a "hybrid" - half our classes are in the brick and mortar building, for times when we have guest lectures or exercises that need to be done in person. The other half are conducted via an online classroom, where we can just as easily see the powerpoint and hear our professor's voice, but we don't have to leave home. My husband is teaching his summer session classes entirely in asynchronous online time, posting assignments and readings and grading them and hosting forum based discussions of the topics. (Everyone has to make a forum post for participation credit.)
At this point, the only value coming from a fully paid program versus an online program is accreditation (there's a reason that diploma mill degrees are looked down upon) and the contacts that distinguished faculty members have for their students. Also, brick and mortar institutions are better for lab and research oriented classes. I don't think my plant physiology classes back in undergrad days when I minored in botany would have been as fulfilling without the labs, where we got to blend, electrocute, and otherwise torture plants to measure all the stuff their guts were doing. Sure, we could do all the organic chemistry and mathematics online, but those equations need to translate to the real world too.
They just didn't have the terms they needed to describe the spaceships and artificial alien insemination in Aramaic, so all we get are vague descriptions of "wheels with wings within wings and many glowing lights" and sudden miraculous virgin births.
He may have ten times as much money as she does, but she's not exactly coming from poverty street herself. I believe she was valued at twenty five million.
I'm glad Katie dumped his ass and is doing her best to protect Suri from that cult.
- that the rest of the tech giants don't follow this example and stop feeding the lawyers.
Urgh, just noticed the double pronoun in that title. I'm on my second rum and coke in anticipation of a final exam this evening. Good for programming, bad for English!
Technicians. There really isn't a better term for "lowest rung of the totem pole in a technology company that isn't a retail associate" in English.
My office loves to tinker, and loves to solve mysteries of why stuff is broken, or kludge together temporary and permanent solutions to new problems. Whether it's salvaging a dead server by splicing it with spare parts from a distant relative, or cobbling together a visual basic script to run a strange setting on 300 workstations all at once, or figuring out that we need to turn the coffee pot back on to refill the water tank before brewing the next pot (my own discovery which still earns me accolades from my boss), we all enjoy new challenges. The average age of my office is about 30, skewed a bit by the small numbers, the owner and manager, and myself, but further balanced out by the part time college kids.
My boss often joked that if we screw up too much at our office, we can always find a job with Geek Squad. (A few of the fired part timers had, in the past.) Perhaps not, any more.
Same here. I finished my undergraduate "on time" but I was working 35 hours a week. And I STILL had to take out some loans, because my grants didn't cover summer tuition or books.
The best product should win by virtue of being the best product, not because it's killed all the other competition. I don't use a Samsung phone because it stole all sorts of technology from Apple, I use a Samsung phone because I like it better than the Apple alternatives. I wasn't all, "Oooh this has Apple's curved corners and it can detect a phone number in my email!" No, I went "Oooh, this has a slide out keyboard and it's on sale for $300!"
They do at the strawberry farm a couple of miles down the highway, but they pay for the privilege at $10 a bucket. Win win for everyone - the strawberry farm has people doing the hard part of the labor for free, and the people doing the picking get cheap strawberries, an afternoon out with their kids, and their favorite type of berry (big and juicy or small and flavorful.)
After one rather scary incident driving home from a brewery many many years ago, I made the decision to never have more than one drink outside of the house under any circumstances. Bonus: The money I saved from not buying pricey drinks downtown has permitted me to stock a full bar at home.
Interestingly, I was doing better just after I recovered from jet lag after a week in Japan. For a few weeks, I became quite exhausted right at 11PM and woke up at 6:30 AM without even trying. In the last week or two, however, I've been wide awake until well after midnight. Flipping my sleep schedule upside down and back again over the course of two weeks was a temporary therapy, and I'm sad the results were not permanent.
As much grumbling as there is in the tech sector over the HB1 folks (legal status), the average Joe out on the streets is far more resentful of the uneducated migrant workers picking strawberries than they are the post docs with PhDs filling up the universities. The former ones are lowering the wages at the bottom end of the scale for everyone by providing cheap, illegal labor. The smart, educated ones are a minority - and probably speak English pretty well, too.
My current alarm clock is a fancy "sunrise" clock that gets lighter over the course of 30 minutes and then starts spamming me with gentle birdsong for 15 minutes before the actual alarm goes off. It's the only thing I've ever found that works, and it wasn't cheap.
I'm taking night classes while I get my master's in Internet programming, and doing a lot better. People doing well at 8AM classes doesn't show serious commitment so much as it shows people whose circadian clocks function on what is accepted as the "proper" schedule. Now that I'm not a stupid freshman, I can get up at 7AM pretty regularly, but it was almost impossible for me when I was 18. (That was also due to iron deficiency anemia, but it took another 8 months for me to be diagnosed with that when I finally went to the doctor about not being able to get up, even with the alarm.)
The problem with the noon class is that it was right after lunch, and I get sleepy after I eat. I'm a night owl and a night learner. Had my classes been at 6PM and 10PM, I'd have done a lot better.