Can you please put the Pollock slide back up?
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In college, I had to take an "Art since 1945" course for my major (Studio Art). The instructor's test were divided into 2 parts: a slide identification section, and an essay section. Once everyone had the test, he would show slides of different pieces, and we had to write down the artist and name of the piece. After he had gone through all the slides, the majority of the students would move onto the essays, but some would need another look at the slides, so he would go back to any slide if you asked.
During a somewhat difficult test, after the first run through of the slides, a couple of students were asking for another look at some of the more difficult slides. One student, who apparently had the artist but not the name of a slide, asked "Can you put the Polluck back up, please?" (instead of asking for it by slide #). Without thinking, the instuctor put up the Polluck slide.
There was a moment of silence, and then another student snickered. The instructor realized what he had done (told the class that the slide that was being shown was from Polluck), and turned red. A couple of other students, who had incorrect answers, quickly changed their sheets, and more people were chuckling. Finally, the instructor announced "As some of you have caught on, this piece is from Jackson Polluck. Make sure you have this slide labelled correctly." so that everyone else could benefit from his blunder.
If I remember correctly, someone tried the same thing at the next test, but he didn't fall for it again.
In High School, I had a great Art teacher (Ms Young) who ultimately pointed me to my current carreer (graphic designer). A friend of mine and I took her Art History course one year, and did pretty well. She told us that the final for the year was going to be tough, and covered the whole year's material. But, we could "team up" on the test, and consult in small groups during the test. (I suspect that if the whole class had "teamed up", she would have allowed it, but we didn't think of it back then). My friend and I took the material, divided it in 2, and each studied half. Then we kind of skimmed the other person's half, just in case.
Come test day, we blew through the test pretty quick. It wasn't as hard as we thought, and typically one or both of us knew the answer to the question. One the questions that we were both stumped, we guessed and did pretty well. In the back of the class, about a half-dozen of the "popular" kids, who had screwed around all year, teamed up on their tests, but from what we could hear, weren't doing well.
A few days later, Ms. Young informed us that, if she had graded normally, about 1/3 of the class (including the table of "popular" kids, we found out later) would have failed the test. So, she curved her grading so that only a few people still failed, and the majority passed. My friend and I did very well, with nearly perfect scores, but after the curve, we ended up with 4.5 (out of 4.0) for the test, and ultimately A+ for the year.
Some of us aren't "most people", and would like more/faster thumb drives. Personally, I run Portable Thunderbird off of one of mine, and I wouldn't mind a bit faster transfer speeds...especially when I have to backup 100+megs of email. Not to mention that opening a large pdf file off of a thumb drive can be a slow process.
Just because you use your thumb drive one way, don't assume everyone else uses theirs the same way.
Sort of off topic, but related to rebates: A few years ago, my wife and I decided to get DSL from SBC. The deal at the time was this: it's $150 for the modem, but you'll get a $150 rebate automaticly (I didn't have to do anything). So ok, fine, we signed up.
4-5 months later, it occurs to me that I never got my rebate. So I call SBC. Well, it seems that they "outsourced" their rebate department to some company in NJ. Fine, I call them. Over the course of a week, I call at least 6 times before getting hold of someone. Sometimes the phone rings with no answer; sometimes I get voicemail that is never responded to. But finally, I get hold of someone, who says they sent me a "gift card" (like a debit/credit card), but since I never received it, she'll send me another one.
Two weeks go by....
Hmmm, still no card. Call the company back. After 3-4 tries, I get hold of someone else, who has no record of them sending out another card, so a new-new card is sent out. I am assured that it's going out this time.
3 weeks go by...still no card.
I call the company back, and the phone gets answered right away. I ask for a manager, but the operator didn't want to transfer me. After explaining what has happened (it's been over 6 months now), she says that she can send a new card out to me. No way; I want a manager. So finally, I get a manager, who give me the same song-and-dance about sending a new card out. I tell her point blank that I don't believe her, since I've been told this 3 times before (2 by this company, once by SBC), but she assures me that it will be sent out the next day. Fine.
About a week later, I finally receive my gift card. No idea what happened to the other cards, but I finally got one. My wife and I use it, and forget about it.
About 4 months later, we receive a check from this company for the full $150. No letter or any other info, just a check (hand written, even). We promptly deposit it, and when it's still there a few weeks later, we use the money.
About a year or 2 later, SBC calls me up to try to get me to switch back (we left for cable shortly after getting the check). I tell the (poor) telemarketer that I wont do business with SBC anymore because of the whole rebate deal. When the woman tries to argue that it wasn't her companies fault, I told her that it was; her company promised it to me, so it's their obligation, and they were unwilling to help me when I had problems with their contractor. We both hang up, since the conversation isn't going anywhere.
SBC has never called me back.But, if they do, I'll tell them again why I wont do business with them.
This only costs about $5 +shipping, and works up to 8 meters. It requires 2 ps2 ports, but I'm pretty sure you could get a 2-ps2 to 1 usb adapater, and it should work just fine.
We use a couple of these here at work. They're not perfect, but they have a damn good range, control Powerpoint presentations, Acrobat files, and web browsers (page foreward and back only). I only wish they had a built in laser pointer, though.
Stop to smell the roses, and go BOOM?:)
Actually, this is a pretty smart idea. Maybe they should code it into something really fast growing, like kudzu.
-Ed
On one side, you have things like Levitra, which airs during football games, and shows a guy throwing a football through the hole on a tire swing...repeatedly. With his wife smiling and clearly pleased. Does anyone NOT know what this is for?
Sure, it's for shoulder injuries, and hand-eye-coordination. Right?;)
Actually, the ad has a somewhat different meaning in you take the concepts to their conclusion. If you assume that playing football with his SO == good sex life, then what was he doing before that (when he was throwing the ball through the tire?):) Gives a new meaning to "tossing one off", I guess.
One of the things I did when planning my Firefly game, to get ideas, was to take a look at a bunch of Traveller websites. There's quite a few good sites out there.
I considered just running a Traveller game, but several of my players are Firefly fans (like me), so we went with using the Firefly 'verse.
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In college, I had to take an "Art since 1945" course for my major (Studio Art). The instructor's test were divided into 2 parts: a slide identification section, and an essay section. Once everyone had the test, he would show slides of different pieces, and we had to write down the artist and name of the piece. After he had gone through all the slides, the majority of the students would move onto the essays, but some would need another look at the slides, so he would go back to any slide if you asked.
During a somewhat difficult test, after the first run through of the slides, a couple of students were asking for another look at some of the more difficult slides. One student, who apparently had the artist but not the name of a slide, asked "Can you put the Polluck back up, please?" (instead of asking for it by slide #). Without thinking, the instuctor put up the Polluck slide.
There was a moment of silence, and then another student snickered. The instructor realized what he had done (told the class that the slide that was being shown was from Polluck), and turned red. A couple of other students, who had incorrect answers, quickly changed their sheets, and more people were chuckling. Finally, the instructor announced "As some of you have caught on, this piece is from Jackson Polluck. Make sure you have this slide labelled correctly." so that everyone else could benefit from his blunder.
If I remember correctly, someone tried the same thing at the next test, but he didn't fall for it again.
In High School, I had a great Art teacher (Ms Young) who ultimately pointed me to my current carreer (graphic designer). A friend of mine and I took her Art History course one year, and did pretty well. She told us that the final for the year was going to be tough, and covered the whole year's material. But, we could "team up" on the test, and consult in small groups during the test. (I suspect that if the whole class had "teamed up", she would have allowed it, but we didn't think of it back then). My friend and I took the material, divided it in 2, and each studied half. Then we kind of skimmed the other person's half, just in case.
Come test day, we blew through the test pretty quick. It wasn't as hard as we thought, and typically one or both of us knew the answer to the question. One the questions that we were both stumped, we guessed and did pretty well. In the back of the class, about a half-dozen of the "popular" kids, who had screwed around all year, teamed up on their tests, but from what we could hear, weren't doing well.
A few days later, Ms. Young informed us that, if she had graded normally, about 1/3 of the class (including the table of "popular" kids, we found out later) would have failed the test. So, she curved her grading so that only a few people still failed, and the majority passed. My friend and I did very well, with nearly perfect scores, but after the curve, we ended up with 4.5 (out of 4.0) for the test, and ultimately A+ for the year.
Admittedly, it was a fax and not an rss feed, but the principle is the same.
Some of us aren't "most people", and would like more/faster thumb drives. Personally, I run Portable Thunderbird off of one of mine, and I wouldn't mind a bit faster transfer speeds...especially when I have to backup 100+megs of email. Not to mention that opening a large pdf file off of a thumb drive can be a slow process.
Just because you use your thumb drive one way, don't assume everyone else uses theirs the same way.
...either that, or a empty box.
No, this sucker is electrical. ;)
Sort of off topic, but related to rebates: A few years ago, my wife and I decided to get DSL from SBC. The deal at the time was this: it's $150 for the modem, but you'll get a $150 rebate automaticly (I didn't have to do anything). So ok, fine, we signed up.
4-5 months later, it occurs to me that I never got my rebate. So I call SBC. Well, it seems that they "outsourced" their rebate department to some company in NJ. Fine, I call them. Over the course of a week, I call at least 6 times before getting hold of someone. Sometimes the phone rings with no answer; sometimes I get voicemail that is never responded to. But finally, I get hold of someone, who says they sent me a "gift card" (like a debit/credit card), but since I never received it, she'll send me another one.
Two weeks go by....
Hmmm, still no card. Call the company back. After 3-4 tries, I get hold of someone else, who has no record of them sending out another card, so a new-new card is sent out. I am assured that it's going out this time.
3 weeks go by...still no card.
I call the company back, and the phone gets answered right away. I ask for a manager, but the operator didn't want to transfer me. After explaining what has happened (it's been over 6 months now), she says that she can send a new card out to me. No way; I want a manager. So finally, I get a manager, who give me the same song-and-dance about sending a new card out. I tell her point blank that I don't believe her, since I've been told this 3 times before (2 by this company, once by SBC), but she assures me that it will be sent out the next day. Fine.
About a week later, I finally receive my gift card. No idea what happened to the other cards, but I finally got one. My wife and I use it, and forget about it.
About 4 months later, we receive a check from this company for the full $150. No letter or any other info, just a check (hand written, even). We promptly deposit it, and when it's still there a few weeks later, we use the money.
About a year or 2 later, SBC calls me up to try to get me to switch back (we left for cable shortly after getting the check). I tell the (poor) telemarketer that I wont do business with SBC anymore because of the whole rebate deal. When the woman tries to argue that it wasn't her companies fault, I told her that it was; her company promised it to me, so it's their obligation, and they were unwilling to help me when I had problems with their contractor. We both hang up, since the conversation isn't going anywhere.
SBC has never called me back.But, if they do, I'll tell them again why I wont do business with them.
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This only costs about $5 +shipping, and works up to 8 meters. It requires 2 ps2 ports, but I'm pretty sure you could get a 2-ps2 to 1 usb adapater, and it should work just fine.
We use a couple of these here at work. They're not perfect, but they have a damn good range, control Powerpoint presentations, Acrobat files, and web browsers (page foreward and back only). I only wish they had a built in laser pointer, though.
Can't wait till someone acidentally starts controlling the plane with MS Flight simulator
You mean *Crashing* the plane don't you
Microsoft Windows XP has detected a new device (plane) and is unable to find a driver for it
That's simple to fix. Just click the "Check airport bar" radio button.
Even XP should be able to find a driver/pilot in there!
Screw that. Why not set up a script to click the link every other second, and really make Comcast wonder about you?...
What kind of crazy new flux capacitor do you have that takes you through time AND space?
Version 2.0!
(yea, I'm a geek. Check the username and web address)
My wife gave me the Volume 1 Futurama dvds, along with the Clerks animated series on dvd. And then she left town to visit family.
I wonder if she's trying to tell me something?
Hey, there are plenty of great games for the Mac! Breakout, superbreakout.... photoshop.
Yeah, the end guy is hard.
Stop to smell the roses, and go BOOM? :)
Actually, this is a pretty smart idea. Maybe they should code it into something really fast growing, like kudzu.
-Ed
"Lego" is in fact a Latin word, but it means "I read".
LotR suddenly makes sense. Legolas is latin for "I read women"!
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On one side, you have things like Levitra, which airs during football games, and shows a guy throwing a football through the hole on a tire swing...repeatedly. With his wife smiling and clearly pleased. Does anyone NOT know what this is for?
;)
:) Gives a new meaning to "tossing one off", I guess.
Sure, it's for shoulder injuries, and hand-eye-coordination. Right?
Actually, the ad has a somewhat different meaning in you take the concepts to their conclusion. If you assume that playing football with his SO == good sex life, then what was he doing before that (when he was throwing the ball through the tire?)
One of the things I did when planning my Firefly game, to get ideas, was to take a look at a bunch of Traveller websites. There's quite a few good sites out there.
I considered just running a Traveller game, but several of my players are Firefly fans (like me), so we went with using the Firefly 'verse.
...is to "roll my own" and run a Firefly-based rpg. Notes available here.
I, for one, welcome our new creme-filled overlords!
(Sorry, someone had to say it...)
Rich people and their crazy ideas...
Only poor people are crazy. Rich people are excentric!
9. Have lots of sex. (ok these aren't in order)
/. crowd, that should the #1 priority!
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