To everyone that says "forget the video's spend time with her now".
Spend time with her now, obviously and make some memories. But later on in life, those video's will become important. She may be too young to appreciate them now, or even in a few years, but as time goes on and her memories fade, they will take on a new importance. What you looked like, how you sounded. Being able to show those to her husband or kids will mean a lot.
When it comes to topics, don't focus on trying to impart "life lessons." Tell her about your life. The good, the bad and the ugly. The time you lost your job. The first/last fight you got into as a child. A fun birthday. The weirdest job you ever had. The girl you had a crush on that never knew you existed. Your first girlfriend. Your first breakup. Things that will help her know you. Those will impart the life lessons.
And the one piece of advice I wish I had listened to, "If you go to college, don't skip class."
Asimov himself stated that the 3 Laws of Robotics were really a plot device that wouldn't work in the real world. In fact, just about every Robot story he wrote that incorporated the 3 Laws were really about how one or more of the laws failed or were inadequate in one situation or another, and the consequences of that failure.
He should have replaced the hard drive with a blank formatted hard drive. Then when the realty office tried to start the system and it wouldn't boot, take the computer back to his office or shop and retrieve the "lost" data.
After I helped my dad manually remove a trojan horse from his computer, I had him uninstall Norton Antivirus (which was completely updated and current) and install AVG Free Edition. The only reason he even found out he had a Trojan Horse to begin with was because Norton crashed every time it tried to fix it. On the first virus scan AVG did, AVG found 4 other viruses that Norton totally missed.
I have used AVG for a couple years now and whenever I get a new computer or work on a family member's computer, the first thing I do is uninstall the commercial Anti-Virus and install AVG Free Edition
The Original HALO. My girlfriend and I burned up many weekends playing HALO together on my Xbox in Co-op mode. If you are a better gamer than her, you just end up killing more bad guys than her, but she can still get her share of kills. By the time we finished the game, she was pretty good and those skills transfer pretty well to other games (the control layout, concepts, etc)
Almost 4 months ago I did exactly that. Worked as a Developer at a small company with a single web application (about 60-75 people total, 15 of whom were developers). It was just an OK job for me, other than the pay. Spent a lot of time working on stuff that ultimately got thrown away as the product changed directions multiple times or priorities shifted, etc. Benefits were ok. Most of the people that were there when I started had left and I didn't really seem to fit in with most of the newer people. Most of all I was just bored. So I left to go to a much smaller company (just three other people, two of whom I already knew) and took a large paycut in the process.
Even though I make less, I am MUCH, MUCH happier as a result. I can see a real difference in the work I produce. It is actually used by our customers. I have personal contact with the customers on the two projects I am working on. I am actually given responsibility (I run some ideas past my boss, but for the most part, I am allowed to decide how to design or implement stuff). I can actually see myself getting more practical experience for managing projects, timelines, etc. But best of all, I don't dread going to work anymore. I don't have to worry about what I am going to do all day, because I am definitely not bored anymore.
Where I used to work (at a university), they had to come up with names for all the workstations in all the labs. Some themes: Football Teams Simpsons Characters Famous Prisons Cities Southpark Characters Candy and Pop the main mail servers were named after famous mailmen from TV (luckily we only had a couple main mail servers, there aren't a lot of famous mailmen from TV) For my home network, we use characters from "The Matrix": Neo Morpheus Nebuchadnezzar (or however it's spelled) WhiteRabbit
Just ran across an articleo nmsnbc about it yesterday, the article is at http://www.msnbc.com/news/327466.asp Also. there is a place here in Cincinnati that does it and they have a pretty informational web site about LASIK at http://www.midwesteyecenter.com/
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To everyone that says "forget the video's spend time with her now".
Spend time with her now, obviously and make some memories. But later on in life, those video's will become important. She may be too young to appreciate them now, or even in a few years, but as time goes on and her memories fade, they will take on a new importance. What you looked like, how you sounded. Being able to show those to her husband or kids will mean a lot.
When it comes to topics, don't focus on trying to impart "life lessons." Tell her about your life. The good, the bad and the ugly. The time you lost your job. The first/last fight you got into as a child. A fun birthday. The weirdest job you ever had. The girl you had a crush on that never knew you existed. Your first girlfriend. Your first breakup. Things that will help her know you. Those will impart the life lessons.
And the one piece of advice I wish I had listened to, "If you go to college, don't skip class."
Asimov himself stated that the 3 Laws of Robotics were really a plot device that wouldn't work in the real world. In fact, just about every Robot story he wrote that incorporated the 3 Laws were really about how one or more of the laws failed or were inadequate in one situation or another, and the consequences of that failure.
He should have replaced the hard drive with a blank formatted hard drive. Then when the realty office tried to start the system and it wouldn't boot, take the computer back to his office or shop and retrieve the "lost" data.
I have used AVG for a couple years now and whenever I get a new computer or work on a family member's computer, the first thing I do is uninstall the commercial Anti-Virus and install AVG Free Edition
The Original HALO. My girlfriend and I burned up many weekends playing HALO together on my Xbox in Co-op mode. If you are a better gamer than her, you just end up killing more bad guys than her, but she can still get her share of kills. By the time we finished the game, she was pretty good and those skills transfer pretty well to other games (the control layout, concepts, etc)
Even though I make less, I am MUCH, MUCH happier as a result. I can see a real difference in the work I produce. It is actually used by our customers. I have personal contact with the customers on the two projects I am working on. I am actually given responsibility (I run some ideas past my boss, but for the most part, I am allowed to decide how to design or implement stuff). I can actually see myself getting more practical experience for managing projects, timelines, etc. But best of all, I don't dread going to work anymore. I don't have to worry about what I am going to do all day, because I am definitely not bored anymore.
"As a part time university teacher"
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Obviously not in English or Grammar
Where I used to work (at a university), they had to come up with names for all the workstations in all the labs. Some themes: Football Teams Simpsons Characters Famous Prisons Cities Southpark Characters Candy and Pop the main mail servers were named after famous mailmen from TV (luckily we only had a couple main mail servers, there aren't a lot of famous mailmen from TV) For my home network, we use characters from "The Matrix": Neo Morpheus Nebuchadnezzar (or however it's spelled) WhiteRabbit
Just ran across an articleo nmsnbc about it yesterday, the article is at http://www.msnbc.com/news/327466.asp Also. there is a place here in Cincinnati that does it and they have a pretty informational web site about LASIK at http://www.midwesteyecenter.com/