The new name sounds like SciFi got a henna tattoo and a spice rack and renamed itself Ravyn Kyrie Moondancer, and has scheduled an interpretive-dance-cum-poetry-reading in the quad at 8am on Sunday. It only likes Pro Wrestling ironically, like, WHATEVER.
Totally agree with you on this. When I was in high school in the early 80's, there was really only one track pushed: college. I had read about some of the trade/apprenticeship programs in Germany and really wished we had something like this in the states. I've come across a couple programs around the country that do this but are usually single experimental high school setups.
Will be interesting to see if new administration, with a mandate for 'change' will really look at this level of education or if it'll be more test scores and merit pay at the public school level.
I do tech support at a national research lab. This is one of the places that may crack practical fusion (ya'll have seen the iconic picture from here). Besides the main mission of the lab, in support of U.S. DOE stuff, there's a lot of really cool smaller energy/computer/robotic research going on here. I've been lucky enough to visit some really cool labs and engineering areas and you know what? Even head researchers, the ones getting their hands dirty, they all complain about all the rest of the stuff they have to do at work, that takes them away from the fun stuff. There's always meetings, budget reports, status reports, mandatory training (high security/safety stuff), and PR stuff. There's a few prima donna's who bitch and moan about every last little bump in their lives (I don't care if the email server's down, I want my Outlook working now!) but for the most part, my users are adults. Much easier to deal with than college profs (my last job).
As for younger folks in my workplace, we're in a situation where we can afford to hire experienced folk, usually age 30 on up. But every summer, when the college interns show up (grad students, not undergrads), there's usually a few special snow flakes that get their underwear in a wad, because, after calling in a ticket to get their computer/printer set up, it's been 20 minutes and they haven't heard from anyone yet and they need stuff working NOW! They have no idea they've gone from top of the heap (almost) at college to bottom rung, here's an old Pentium M with a desk in a trailer and now go organize these 20 year old filing cabinets. If you're lucky, we'll take you over to a real building before you head back to school and show you a Van de Graaff generator.
In whiskies, I prefer differences that stand out, to a general 'perfect' flavor. So, at home, I have High Ten and Jim Beam white label next to Bushmill's Black, and Highland Park 12 year. Am a fan of Bulleit Bourbon and Knob Creek as well. All are different but all are good after a nice dinner. Just depends on what 'flavor' I want that night.
Is like arguing over which flavor of pudding pop is best.
I like the NYTimes blind vodka review, of top shelf stuff, with a bottle of Smirnof thrown in for fun. Smirnof came out on top. By absenting the price/brand response, they got an unexpected result.
Fresh roasted and fresh ground (burr grinder, not blade), using a Chemex and it's lab filter paper cones, with distilled water and beer brewing water salts added, poured over the grounds at 192.4Â F, into a carafe heated to 93Â F, that is how you make coffee. I'm sure ya'll know the correct type of mug and how to prepare it for coffee containment so I'll skip that part here.
This is more akin to folks preferring their porn in gif format 'cause that's what they first experienced on AoL all those years ago. Who cares if the original photoshop file contained an airbrushed model; the kids like the blockiness and reduced color pallet of the gif version.
'Course, no one really prefers their porn like that, right?
I wonder if anyone's done a study where they looked at preferences of compressed mastering of modern pop/rock compared to early (60's-70's) recording procedures?
Our old PowerBook G3 (bronze) still runs and can play DVDs. It's our travel computer when we head out to DW in June. Figure, once we're there, just chuck it in the trunk. Is just for the kiddling to watch stuff on the plane.
I would love to have a touch tablet Mac, about the size of my Wacom Intuos 3 4"x6" tablet: Tablet Dimensions: 10.6" x 8.5" x.5".
Is easy to hold and would make nice web interface to have around the house. Wouldn't want to do too much real work on it but as an internet/AV file display/communication device, that'd be cool!
I was about to counter coolness of this with decade old pic of Sandia Z-Machine but I see the BBC story (with Pics!) included it. Man, I love living in the future.
One question, why does Professor Cox look like some guy from Sliders?
The fact that Shatner is so iconic shows that, bad acting aside, he has presence. Sometimes, that's all you need. Will be interesting to see how the new guy plays Kirk.
Eventually, the original Star Trek roles could become a kind of entrenched character set, similar to Shakespeare characters. A hundred years from now, folks will be arguing over different actor's interpretations of Kirk and Spock in Amok Time.
And then there will be the inevitable Star Trek in the park productions and the all nude/gender swapped productions.
First Contact coulda' been really good, if they'd played up the distrust/hatred between Sisko and Picard. With everyone not trusting Picard and Sisko hating him but being thrown together, having to work together to defeat the Borg, coulda' been a cool character driven movie.
Instead, they went with standard Star Trek plotting and cardboard characters.
When my daughter came home from first day of computer class in kindergarten, she sat down at her computer (iMac G4) she poked around for a few minutes and then burst in to tears. She had a new website she wanted to show us but couldn't find the 'blue e' to get to it. I explained how web sites could be viewed by any web browser. She already had Firefox and Safari in the dock and once I showed her how to type in the web addy, she was good to go. Only have to explain a concept once to a kid, if you catch them early enough. She now (2nd grade) totally gets application/instruction file/data file concept.
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The new name sounds like SciFi got a henna tattoo and a spice rack and renamed itself Ravyn Kyrie Moondancer, and has scheduled an interpretive-dance-cum-poetry-reading in the quad at 8am on Sunday. It only likes Pro Wrestling ironically, like, WHATEVER.
Totally agree with you on this. When I was in high school in the early 80's, there was really only one track pushed: college. I had read about some of the trade/apprenticeship programs in Germany and really wished we had something like this in the states. I've come across a couple programs around the country that do this but are usually single experimental high school setups.
Will be interesting to see if new administration, with a mandate for 'change' will really look at this level of education or if it'll be more test scores and merit pay at the public school level.
I do tech support at a national research lab. This is one of the places that may crack practical fusion (ya'll have seen the iconic picture from here). Besides the main mission of the lab, in support of U.S. DOE stuff, there's a lot of really cool smaller energy/computer/robotic research going on here. I've been lucky enough to visit some really cool labs and engineering areas and you know what? Even head researchers, the ones getting their hands dirty, they all complain about all the rest of the stuff they have to do at work, that takes them away from the fun stuff. There's always meetings, budget reports, status reports, mandatory training (high security/safety stuff), and PR stuff. There's a few prima donna's who bitch and moan about every last little bump in their lives (I don't care if the email server's down, I want my Outlook working now!) but for the most part, my users are adults. Much easier to deal with than college profs (my last job).
As for younger folks in my workplace, we're in a situation where we can afford to hire experienced folk, usually age 30 on up. But every summer, when the college interns show up (grad students, not undergrads), there's usually a few special snow flakes that get their underwear in a wad, because, after calling in a ticket to get their computer/printer set up, it's been 20 minutes and they haven't heard from anyone yet and they need stuff working NOW! They have no idea they've gone from top of the heap (almost) at college to bottom rung, here's an old Pentium M with a desk in a trailer and now go organize these 20 year old filing cabinets. If you're lucky, we'll take you over to a real building before you head back to school and show you a Van de Graaff generator.
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Ooh, a directional pipe bomb sat, set up to poison LEO. That would suck.
No, I'm home sick today.
In whiskies, I prefer differences that stand out, to a general 'perfect' flavor. So, at home, I have High Ten and Jim Beam white label next to Bushmill's Black, and Highland Park 12 year. Am a fan of Bulleit Bourbon and Knob Creek as well. All are different but all are good after a nice dinner. Just depends on what 'flavor' I want that night.
Is like arguing over which flavor of pudding pop is best.
I like the NYTimes blind vodka review, of top shelf stuff, with a bottle of Smirnof thrown in for fun. Smirnof came out on top. By absenting the price/brand response, they got an unexpected result.
Fresh roasted and fresh ground (burr grinder, not blade), using a Chemex and it's lab filter paper cones, with distilled water and beer brewing water salts added, poured over the grounds at 192.4Â F, into a carafe heated to 93Â F, that is how you make coffee. I'm sure ya'll know the correct type of mug and how to prepare it for coffee containment so I'll skip that part here.
I guess I need to gold plate my... component.
This is more akin to folks preferring their porn in gif format 'cause that's what they first experienced on AoL all those years ago. Who cares if the original photoshop file contained an airbrushed model; the kids like the blockiness and reduced color pallet of the gif version.
'Course, no one really prefers their porn like that, right?
RIGHT?!!!
I wonder if anyone's done a study where they looked at preferences of compressed mastering of modern pop/rock compared to early (60's-70's) recording procedures?
Our old PowerBook G3 (bronze) still runs and can play DVDs. It's our travel computer when we head out to DW in June. Figure, once we're there, just chuck it in the trunk. Is just for the kiddling to watch stuff on the plane.
Can I by stock in your company?
I would love to have a touch tablet Mac, about the size of my Wacom Intuos 3 4"x6" tablet: Tablet Dimensions: .5".
10.6" x 8.5" x
Is easy to hold and would make nice web interface to have around the house. Wouldn't want to do too much real work on it but as an internet/AV file display/communication device, that'd be cool!
It was still down there. You could see it in his eyes.
I was about to counter coolness of this with decade old pic of Sandia Z-Machine but I see the BBC story (with Pics!) included it. Man, I love living in the future.
One question, why does Professor Cox look like some guy from Sliders?
...a loose cannon mad cow disease old guy.
I so want to see this on YouTube.
So... Capt. Uhura, in Evil Spock outfit, using Chekov as a foot stool in front of the captain's chair?
Already done?
Voyager movie:
Log Day 4,382: crossed the terminal shock boundary. Looking forward to heliopause.
Voyager out.
The fact that Shatner is so iconic shows that, bad acting aside, he has presence. Sometimes, that's all you need. Will be interesting to see how the new guy plays Kirk.
Eventually, the original Star Trek roles could become a kind of entrenched character set, similar to Shakespeare characters. A hundred years from now, folks will be arguing over different actor's interpretations of Kirk and Spock in Amok Time.
And then there will be the inevitable Star Trek in the park productions and the all nude/gender swapped productions.
I weep for the future.
First Contact coulda' been really good, if they'd played up the distrust/hatred between Sisko and Picard. With everyone not trusting Picard and Sisko hating him but being thrown together, having to work together to defeat the Borg, coulda' been a cool character driven movie.
Instead, they went with standard Star Trek plotting and cardboard characters.
When my daughter came home from first day of computer class in kindergarten, she sat down at her computer (iMac G4) she poked around for a few minutes and then burst in to tears. She had a new website she wanted to show us but couldn't find the 'blue e' to get to it. I explained how web sites could be viewed by any web browser. She already had Firefox and Safari in the dock and once I showed her how to type in the web addy, she was good to go. Only have to explain a concept once to a kid, if you catch them early enough. She now (2nd grade) totally gets application/instruction file/data file concept.
Wish more of my users did.