I grew up in Hillsdale County, but haven't lived there for a few years so I don't know what the exact plans are for the network. But if they're going to concentrate on providing access to the "most populated areas," a transmitter on one water tower oughta do it. There's really only about a 10-mile radius with all that many people in it.
I've been looking for a geeky writing job in Ann Arbor for six weeks. Trust me, there aren't any right now.
In the meantime, I'll stick with being a geek in Ann Arbor with a low-paying writing job through a Canadian company. It's better than nothing.
Bizarre analogies -- it's a Brooklyn thing
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I'm beginning to think that people in Brooklyn just don't know how to accurately describe anything.
Exhibit A: A quote from an article about a news helicopter that crashed in Brooklyn earlier this morning. Brooklyn resident Roger Green describes the sound of the crash:
"I could hear boop, boop, boop, like the sound of a motorcycle, but real loud," said Roger Green, who lives about a block from the crash site.
Boop? What the frick kind of motorcycle goes boop!? And the fact that this guy says it was like a motorcycle "but real loud" means that he thinks most motorcycles go boop really quietly!
Although come to think of it, that could explain why I've never heard a motorcycle go boop before... it does it quietly! Of course!
People have to *read* these documents! Subjecting them to the ugliness, the aesthetic horror, that is Times New Roman, is either depravity or at the very least, an incidence of putting pennies before dollars.
Hmm... incredibly bothered by bad aesthetics... trying to justify spending more money for something attractive and tasteful... You're a Mac user, aren't you?:->
I'm a newspaper reporter and I cover the local school board as part of my beat. One of the biggest problems with this, according to the administration, is that the state is purchasing these laptops on a two-year lease. Nobody knows what's supposed to happen to these computers once the lease is up and the computers are obsolete. Will schools have the option to buy them (even though they're outdated) so that 6th graders don't have to give them up before they're finished with middle school, or will the state just reclaim them? And nobody knows where the money will come from two years from now when it's time to upgrade. The state has all kinds of money for this initiative now, but next time they might say, "Okay, public schools! It's your turn to foot the bill this year!"
Oh, and to answer the main question in this thread... they'll probably run whatever OS a majority of Michigan schools are already running. If the kids are learning how to use XP in the computer labs, it's the most practical (though not necessarily the best) solution to stick XP on the laptops too, for consistancy's sake. As beneficial as it would be for kids to leave middle school knowing how to use both XP and OSX or Linux, it ain't gonna happen.
Last weekend, my family cleaned out 40+ years worth of stuff from my grandma's house to have a moving sale.
We found a box of records (those flat black discs that play music when you scratch them with a needle) that hadn't been listened to in years. Some of them were still in the original wrapping. One of them had a 1961 copyright on the package, with a price tag of $1.69.
According to the inflation calculator located here, that would cost $10.38 today.
's close to $12.98, I guess. Not bad for 42 years of progress.
I'd still rather pay $7 or under for a CD, though, 'cuz I'm cheap.
My earliest memory is from sometime before I was two years old, though I can't pinpoint exactly when. A few years ago, my parents rearranged their bedroom after having it laid out the same way for as long as I could remember. Or so I thought.
When I saw how they had rearranged their furniture, I remembered seeing their bed positioned that way before. I asked them if they'd ever arranged their room like that before.
MOM: "Um, yeah, when you were a baby." ME: "My crib was over there, where you just moved the bed from, wasn't it?" MOM: "Um... yeah... how'd you know?" ME: "Because I remember lying in a crib, looking out the door of your room and watching you come toward me from down the hall. I remember your bed being where it is now, too."
So that's my story. Now here's my question. Is there a correlation between the age at which a person's memory began to develop and that person's intelligence (or academic performance, for that matter)?
I was probably just a shade over a year old when I formed that memory (though I said two to be safe). All through elementary and high school, I was always way ahead of my grade level. And now that I'm almost through with college, people are still saying that I'm above average. I wonder if developing a long-term memory early is related to above-average intelligence.
What do you guys think?
(DISCLAIMER: I am by no means saying that people who can't remember anything before they were seven are not intelligent. I just didn't think about that when I was writing this post, until now. And I'm too lazy to go back and work it in.)
Voice(offscreen): "Whatever you say, Traditional."::cymbal crash::
Anyway, I'm the editor-in-chief of my university's newspaper, and on the day we do all the final layout and copy editing, I'm the last person to go to bed. As the paper's "captain," I have to go down with the ship and stay awake until everyone else's job is finished and I've checked things over. Then I drive the proofs into the printer on my way home (a half-hour drive). I'm often up until after four in the morning on these days.
My method is fairly old-fashioned (circa the 1990s). I start downing Pepsi at suppertime, when the night's just getting started. The school's snack bar sells soft drinks for a penny an ounce on the night I do the paper... nothing like a bucket o' pop for fifty cents once or twice to keep you going.
Later on, when the going gets tougher, it's coffee and sugar. The way I do it, it's more like sugar and coffee, but still.
I usually finish up the night with a 20-ounce Mountain Dew from the vending machine down the hall. I like the extra wired-and-twitchy feeling it gives me for the drive home.
There you have it. No fancy energy drinks, just the old sugar and caffeine routine. And really, really weird-colored urine the next morning. But you prolly didn't need to know that.
Copied directly from the first line of the privacy.txt file that comes bundled with Windows Media Player:
"Microsoft respects your privacy and designed Windows Media Player to give you control over the transfer of your personal data."
I won't even try to point out the obvious flaws with this statement. I nearly wet myself from laughing after reading just the first four words of that thing out loud.
I have a 486 DX4/100 Toshiba with a 500 meg hard drive and 8 meg of RAM running DOS 6.2 and Win 3.1. I snagged it for 200 bucks a few years ago. It's great for word processing and working on the road, and that's all I really need in a portable. Windows almost never crashes, which I love, especially considering how much trouble I've had with Word tripping over itself in Win9x and eating important documents as soon as I hit the "save" button.
Plus, the DOS/Win combination lets me play all the games in my abandonware collection...
Let's see here: "Forrest Gump" - Gary Sinise is in command of a small Army unit. "Apollo 13" - Gary Sinise is an astronaut. "Mission to Mars" - Gary Sinise is an astronaut in command of a small rescue unit. Are things getting just a tad too predictable here? (Incidentally, no, I haven't seen the movie yet, but then again, I'm so lazy that I probably wouldn't muster up the energy to go see it even if someone paid me...)
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Technically speaking, aren't the Amish already wireless?
I grew up in Hillsdale County, but haven't lived there for a few years so I don't know what the exact plans are for the network. But if they're going to concentrate on providing access to the "most populated areas," a transmitter on one water tower oughta do it. There's really only about a 10-mile radius with all that many people in it.
I've been looking for a geeky writing job in Ann Arbor for six weeks. Trust me, there aren't any right now.
In the meantime, I'll stick with being a geek in Ann Arbor with a low-paying writing job through a Canadian company. It's better than nothing.
I'm beginning to think that people in Brooklyn just don't know how to accurately describe anything.
Exhibit A: A quote from an article about a news helicopter that crashed in Brooklyn earlier this morning. Brooklyn resident Roger Green describes the sound of the crash:
"I could hear boop, boop, boop, like the sound of a motorcycle, but real loud," said Roger Green, who lives about a block from the crash site.
Boop? What the frick kind of motorcycle goes boop!? And the fact that this guy says it was like a motorcycle "but real loud" means that he thinks most motorcycles go boop really quietly!
Although come to think of it, that could explain why I've never heard a motorcycle go boop before... it does it quietly! Of course!
Not that it matters, but it goes like this in the song "Acid Head" by Tourniquet:
Johnny was a chemist's son
But Johnny is no more
'Cause what he thought was H20
Was H2SO4
People have to *read* these documents! Subjecting them to the ugliness, the aesthetic horror, that is Times New Roman, is either depravity or at the very least, an incidence of putting pennies before dollars.
:->
Hmm... incredibly bothered by bad aesthetics... trying to justify spending more money for something attractive and tasteful... You're a Mac user, aren't you?
I'm a newspaper reporter and I cover the local school board as part of my beat. One of the biggest problems with this, according to the administration, is that the state is purchasing these laptops on a two-year lease. Nobody knows what's supposed to happen to these computers once the lease is up and the computers are obsolete. Will schools have the option to buy them (even though they're outdated) so that 6th graders don't have to give them up before they're finished with middle school, or will the state just reclaim them? And nobody knows where the money will come from two years from now when it's time to upgrade. The state has all kinds of money for this initiative now, but next time they might say, "Okay, public schools! It's your turn to foot the bill this year!"
Oh, and to answer the main question in this thread... they'll probably run whatever OS a majority of Michigan schools are already running. If the kids are learning how to use XP in the computer labs, it's the most practical (though not necessarily the best) solution to stick XP on the laptops too, for consistancy's sake. As beneficial as it would be for kids to leave middle school knowing how to use both XP and OSX or Linux, it ain't gonna happen.
We found a box of records (those flat black discs that play music when you scratch them with a needle) that hadn't been listened to in years. Some of them were still in the original wrapping. One of them had a 1961 copyright on the package, with a price tag of $1.69.
According to the inflation calculator located here, that would cost $10.38 today.
's close to $12.98, I guess. Not bad for 42 years of progress. I'd still rather pay $7 or under for a CD, though, 'cuz I'm cheap.
My earliest memory is from sometime before I was two years old, though I can't pinpoint exactly when. A few years ago, my parents rearranged their bedroom after having it laid out the same way for as long as I could remember. Or so I thought.
When I saw how they had rearranged their furniture, I remembered seeing their bed positioned that way before. I asked them if they'd ever arranged their room like that before.
MOM: "Um, yeah, when you were a baby."
ME: "My crib was over there, where you just moved the bed from, wasn't it?"
MOM: "Um... yeah... how'd you know?"
ME: "Because I remember lying in a crib, looking out the door of your room and watching you come toward me from down the hall. I remember your bed being where it is now, too."
So that's my story. Now here's my question. Is there a correlation between the age at which a person's memory began to develop and that person's intelligence (or academic performance, for that matter)?
I was probably just a shade over a year old when I formed that memory (though I said two to be safe). All through elementary and high school, I was always way ahead of my grade level. And now that I'm almost through with college, people are still saying that I'm above average. I wonder if developing a long-term memory early is related to above-average intelligence.
What do you guys think?
(DISCLAIMER: I am by no means saying that people who can't remember anything before they were seven are not intelligent. I just didn't think about that when I was writing this post, until now. And I'm too lazy to go back and work it in.)
Call me traditional.
Voice (offscreen): "Whatever you say, Traditional." ::cymbal crash::
Anyway, I'm the editor-in-chief of my university's newspaper, and on the day we do all the final layout and copy editing, I'm the last person to go to bed. As the paper's "captain," I have to go down with the ship and stay awake until everyone else's job is finished and I've checked things over. Then I drive the proofs into the printer on my way home (a half-hour drive). I'm often up until after four in the morning on these days.
My method is fairly old-fashioned (circa the 1990s). I start downing Pepsi at suppertime, when the night's just getting started. The school's snack bar sells soft drinks for a penny an ounce on the night I do the paper... nothing like a bucket o' pop for fifty cents once or twice to keep you going.
Later on, when the going gets tougher, it's coffee and sugar. The way I do it, it's more like sugar and coffee, but still.
I usually finish up the night with a 20-ounce Mountain Dew from the vending machine down the hall. I like the extra wired-and-twitchy feeling it gives me for the drive home.
There you have it. No fancy energy drinks, just the old sugar and caffeine routine. And really, really weird-colored urine the next morning. But you prolly didn't need to know that.
Why do you think we're making bigger and bigger SUVs? We need all that extra room to hold our Buckets o' Pop.
Copied directly from the first line of the privacy.txt file that comes bundled with Windows Media Player:
"Microsoft respects your privacy and designed Windows Media Player to give you control over the transfer of your personal data."
I won't even try to point out the obvious flaws with this statement. I nearly wet myself from laughing after reading just the first four words of that thing out loud.
Plus, the DOS/Win combination lets me play all the games in my abandonware collection...
Let's see here: "Forrest Gump" - Gary Sinise is in command of a small Army unit. "Apollo 13" - Gary Sinise is an astronaut. "Mission to Mars" - Gary Sinise is an astronaut in command of a small rescue unit. Are things getting just a tad too predictable here? (Incidentally, no, I haven't seen the movie yet, but then again, I'm so lazy that I probably wouldn't muster up the energy to go see it even if someone paid me...)