The wacky thing about all that (I was a MN resident until about 3 months ago when I got fed up and left) is that after Jesse got in office, we had a "reported budget windfall" which resulted in all MN taxpayers getting a check (I was at the lower end, but I still got almost $400).
Now they have a budget deficit, which apparently (?) resulted from some of Jesse's administrations policies.
I figured in the last few years that nobody knows what the hell they are doing over there. That isn't exactly why I left - I left because where I was living, on the Iron Range, the economy is tanking very hard. I ended up in Western South Dakota where the economy is in pretty decent shape. South Dakota, AFAICT, seems to have their shit together.
Is that lawsuit over the Iron Range mining grant still going? God, what a mess that was...the new governor pulling the funds after they were mostly spent!
"Why, if they observe you going to the pet store, they could actually figure out that you likely own a pet! Next thing you know, you'll be getting subscription offers for pet magazines. Nobody needs that.""
That post was damned funny, and had a lot of common sense, but I'd like to point out that the procedure in the above sentence you wrote is akin to sending me spam. I am a pet lover, and have posted to some of the alt.*.*.pet newsgroups, and get spam on that subject....fucking spam. Targeted marketing can range from useful, to annoying, to downright bloody infuriating! for the "target".
What, and you wouldn't want to follow the dwindling career of McBride as he loses all, is forced to work at a McDonalds, hounded by the SEC and hoards of hairy linux geeks?
3200 online students.....a large majority of whom have laptops. Unfortunately I have little faith in the local univ admins. Recently nailed with code red...small infection, but it should'nt have happened at all!
Shit.
Well, at least I can't say that I wasn't forewarned:) I was *so* enjoying my quiet summer doing carpentry work. Hey, WTF, job security....but I was hoping to cut my 50 hour weeks to something lower to enjoy fall out here. I'll be getting a lot of calls starting about Sept. 6th or so....
That's the funniest thing I've heard in weeks. Thanks!
(I'm going to have a hard time getting rid of that mental picture when I go to work tomorrow and have to deal with SCO openserver vs. 5.2...over and over and over.....can't wait for the switchover)
Analogies are mostly pointless. They are nothing more than a teaching mechanism. The point is to use the analogy to go somewhere else, and move on... having shown the students a brief path to your point which may or may not give them insight (note that for every student, there is a most effective analogy, depending on their viewpoint).
In and of themselves, analogies serve no more useful purpose than as a stepping stone to what you are trying to teach.
As a teaching mechanism, they are invaluable...but have to be tailored to the mind in which they are meant to reach.
To any students of philosophy/grammar/pedantic assholes out there, I'm very aware that using the word "pointless" in this context is self-contradictory. Look at my statement as a whole, don't nitpick my semantics.
Sorry autopr0n, I'm not disagreeing with you, just had to throw my own couple grams of bs in:)
My diet has actually gotten worse (yeah, I know) over the two decades since I graduated high school, but my acne cleared up by the time I was twenty. I've been acne free since about age 24 (1987).
The weird part about that is, and it's contrary to everything I've read, is that I'm one of those people who sweats a lot. A LOT. I'm not overweight, nor in poor physical shape, I simply sweat. Yet still I have no acne problems nor oily skin problems (I have to apply moisturizers to my skin every day simply to keep from feeling too dry - and I don't live in that dry a climate).
The wonderful diversity of the human genome never ceases to amaze me.
I was replacing a deck on someone's house once about 4 years ago. After I was done with the deck, he asked me to replace the door leading to it, which was an old steel storm door from the 60s.
I agreed, and the next day came to do the door. It was raining that day. By the time I got done setting up I was pretty thoroughly soaked. So I walk up to the door, put my hand on the metal, and got a "mosquito bite" (it was enough to make me jump backwards about 8 feet or so!:)
After tearing the entire door frame apart, it turned out that some friccin moron back whenever had run 3" screws thru the hinge/frame to secure the door - which incidentally had run thru some of the old cloth wiring running thru the doorframe (!!!!!) which it turns out, the local electrician had not noticed was still connected to a breaker in the box, and was live./main breaker off / snip snip / problem solved (the old wiring was NOT SUPPLYING ANYTHING ANYMORE and probably hadn't been since the last rewiring in the 70s)
Sheesh. It's incredible that nobody ever noticed that before. That was a serious clusterfuck. It was only about 300ma or so, but very, *very* noticeable when wet (I'd been thru that door a lot while installing the deck, but never felt the current before then)
Moral is: people have different sensitivies to current. From what I've read, the skin is the primary conductor in the human body. Makes sense that some people with different skin chemistry/dampness will have different experiences. Dunno tho, I'm no doc...but here's an experiment for you (safe, really). Eat a bunch of jalepenos (or whatever spices make you sweat) then see if you get a little more shock off of that 9v battery:)
Which is fine if you are one of those people with very dry skin, which I am not:)
I've been shocked with 110, 220, and once 600v off a welder (very briefly; fuck that hurt, I was out of work for four days while the 4 inch long burn healed up). 110 can, if you are grounded decently, hold you long enough to hurt you badly or kill you. Arcing at 110v can burn you rather severely. It mostly depends on what path it has. I've had a couple of "mosquito bites" off of 110, but the other experiences have made me much more careful. I'm not young anymore:)
If those electricians were allowing you to do this (or teaching by example) then personally I think that their worker's compensation should be pulled. It's foolish. I have never, *ever* put my employees at risk knowingly.
BTW, I love your sig. Too true. I find myself educating the local Radio Shack id10ts everytime I go in.
I do have to say this tho: About twenty years ago I took 110 at about 8 amps from hand to shoulder (and some across the feet, I felt it) and it didn't cook me. It hurt like hell, yes - and I have a burn scar from the arc to my hand that is permanent - but it didn't cremate me. It takes quite a bit more current+voltage for cremation. There are plenty of instances of people taking a lot more without ending up ashes. Just a little exaggeration, I know:)
Otherwise, like most posts here, right on target.
Although I do wonder if the arrythmia I've developed in the last couple years had a possible beginning...but then again, maybe I'm just getting old.
aren't spark plug cables wonderful? I once got a beautiful shock from one simply by brushing my arm against it while leaning over the engine trying to adjust the distributor.... in the rain. God, that hurt. I'd take a dry 110v over that any day.
and if you don't have the meter pulled, make GODDAMN SURE that whoever wired it last didn't reverse any connections (black/white in 110v I've seen done quite a bit, even by licensed electricians).
An non-contact probe is cheap and one of the most useful tools in a toolbox.
Ah, thanks. Sorry for the delay in replying, slashdot's reply notification system seems to be broken...
One does have to admire Israel for not using their nuclear capability as a political threat, despite what they face. If only India and Pakistan could be so nice...
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The wacky thing about all that (I was a MN resident until about 3 months ago when I got fed up and left) is that after Jesse got in office, we had a "reported budget windfall" which resulted in all MN taxpayers getting a check (I was at the lower end, but I still got almost $400).
Now they have a budget deficit, which apparently (?) resulted from some of Jesse's administrations policies.
I figured in the last few years that nobody knows what the hell they are doing over there. That isn't exactly why I left - I left because where I was living, on the Iron Range, the economy is tanking very hard. I ended up in Western South Dakota where the economy is in pretty decent shape. South Dakota, AFAICT, seems to have their shit together.
Is that lawsuit over the Iron Range mining grant still going? God, what a mess that was...the new governor pulling the funds after they were mostly spent!
sigh.
realityshunt
Stability? In government?
When was this? I seemed to have missed it in the last four decades.
realityshunt
Mine too.....
:)
I just might have to move there if she's single....oh, damn, no, none of my geek friends (nor my SO) would approve.
Ah, well.
Smart, witty, ambitious, and cute. Good qualifications (for governor! Really!
In all seriousness, she probably doesn't have much of a chance, and if she did win it'd be hell for her....but GO GEORGY!
realityshunt
"Why, if they observe you going to the pet store, they could actually figure out that you likely own a pet! Next thing you know, you'll be getting subscription offers for pet magazines. Nobody needs that.""
That post was damned funny, and had a lot of common sense, but I'd like to point out that the procedure in the above sentence you wrote is akin to sending me spam. I am a pet lover, and have posted to some of the alt.*.*.pet newsgroups, and get spam on that subject....fucking spam. Targeted marketing can range from useful, to annoying, to downright bloody infuriating! for the "target".
anyway, thanks for the laugh.
realityshunt
What, and you wouldn't want to follow the dwindling career of McBride as he loses all, is forced to work at a McDonalds, hounded by the SEC and hoards of hairy linux geeks?
:)
I'm tempted...
realityshunt
My God! It's full of Voids!
SCO's evidence?
realityshunt
Nah, they'll just send IBM a letter saying that IBM owes them $50G in license fees.
:)
The response will be: "Hahahahahahahaha! See you in court, guys!
realityshunt
I'm out of coffee and donuts you insensitive clod! ;)
Mmmm.....SCO.....
Here's hoping IBM finds them a tasty morsel in court.
realityshunt
Digital Pants Management
realityshunt
Oh, fuck. Good point.
:)
:) I was *so* enjoying my quiet summer doing carpentry work. Hey, WTF, job security....but I was hoping to cut my 50 hour weeks to something lower to enjoy fall out here. I'll be getting a lot of calls starting about Sept. 6th or so....
My evening just got immeasurably worse. Thanks
3200 online students.....a large majority of whom have laptops. Unfortunately I have little faith in the local univ admins. Recently nailed with code red...small infection, but it should'nt have happened at all!
Shit.
Well, at least I can't say that I wasn't forewarned
realityshunt
That's the funniest thing I've heard in weeks. Thanks!
(I'm going to have a hard time getting rid of that mental picture when I go to work tomorrow and have to deal with SCO openserver vs. 5.2...over and over and over.....can't wait for the switchover)
Talk about enuchs!
realityshunt
Moooo.
Oh, wait....
realityshunt
You make good points, but...
Anyone who thinks this will not become an accepted (or at least common) method of operation in the future has blinders on.
Gibson was pretty prophetic in that, I think.
realityshunt
Analogies are mostly pointless. They are nothing more than a teaching mechanism. The point is to use the analogy to go somewhere else, and move on... having shown the students a brief path to your point which may or may not give them insight (note that for every student, there is a most effective analogy, depending on their viewpoint).
:)
In and of themselves, analogies serve no more useful purpose than as a stepping stone to what you are trying to teach.
As a teaching mechanism, they are invaluable...but have to be tailored to the mind in which they are meant to reach.
To any students of philosophy/grammar/pedantic assholes out there, I'm very aware that using the word "pointless" in this context is self-contradictory. Look at my statement as a whole, don't nitpick my semantics.
Sorry autopr0n, I'm not disagreeing with you, just had to throw my own couple grams of bs in
realityshunt
"here are less vulnerable machines out there, so it will lose its ability to spread."
and that would be one of the points of *any* white-hat worm. Once it's work is done, it dies out.
realityshunt
Are you implying that the worm is laughing at Microsoft's ability to secure their operating system?
:)
Well, in that case, I'd like to invite this worm over for steaks on the grill and free beer....but I run linux, so it probably won't come.
Damn, it's hard to find friends these days
realityshunt
YMMV.
My diet has actually gotten worse (yeah, I know) over the two decades since I graduated high school, but my acne cleared up by the time I was twenty. I've been acne free since about age 24 (1987).
The weird part about that is, and it's contrary to everything I've read, is that I'm one of those people who sweats a lot. A LOT. I'm not overweight, nor in poor physical shape, I simply sweat. Yet still I have no acne problems nor oily skin problems (I have to apply moisturizers to my skin every day simply to keep from feeling too dry - and I don't live in that dry a climate).
The wonderful diversity of the human genome never ceases to amaze me.
realityshunt
Heh.
:)
/main breaker off / snip snip / problem solved (the old wiring was NOT SUPPLYING ANYTHING ANYMORE and probably hadn't been since the last rewiring in the 70s)
:)
Reminds me of a story....
I was replacing a deck on someone's house once about 4 years ago. After I was done with the deck, he asked me to replace the door leading to it, which was an old steel storm door from the 60s.
I agreed, and the next day came to do the door. It was raining that day. By the time I got done setting up I was pretty thoroughly soaked. So I walk up to the door, put my hand on the metal, and got a "mosquito bite" (it was enough to make me jump backwards about 8 feet or so!
After tearing the entire door frame apart, it turned out that some friccin moron back whenever had run 3" screws thru the hinge/frame to secure the door - which incidentally had run thru some of the old cloth wiring running thru the doorframe (!!!!!) which it turns out, the local electrician had not noticed was still connected to a breaker in the box, and was live.
Sheesh. It's incredible that nobody ever noticed that before. That was a serious clusterfuck. It was only about 300ma or so, but very, *very* noticeable when wet (I'd been thru that door a lot while installing the deck, but never felt the current before then)
Moral is: people have different sensitivies to current. From what I've read, the skin is the primary conductor in the human body. Makes sense that some people with different skin chemistry/dampness will have different experiences. Dunno tho, I'm no doc...but here's an experiment for you (safe, really). Eat a bunch of jalepenos (or whatever spices make you sweat) then see if you get a little more shock off of that 9v battery
realityshunt
Which is fine if you are one of those people with very dry skin, which I am not :)
:)
I've been shocked with 110, 220, and once 600v off a welder (very briefly; fuck that hurt, I was out of work for four days while the 4 inch long burn healed up). 110 can, if you are grounded decently, hold you long enough to hurt you badly or kill you. Arcing at 110v can burn you rather severely. It mostly depends on what path it has. I've had a couple of "mosquito bites" off of 110, but the other experiences have made me much more careful. I'm not young anymore
If those electricians were allowing you to do this (or teaching by example) then personally I think that their worker's compensation should be pulled. It's foolish. I have never, *ever* put my employees at risk knowingly.
BTW, I love your sig. Too true. I find myself educating the local Radio Shack id10ts everytime I go in.
realityshunt
Excellent points!
:)
I do have to say this tho: About twenty years ago I took 110 at about 8 amps from hand to shoulder (and some across the feet, I felt it) and it didn't cook me. It hurt like hell, yes - and I have a burn scar from the arc to my hand that is permanent - but it didn't cremate me. It takes quite a bit more current+voltage for cremation. There are plenty of instances of people taking a lot more without ending up ashes. Just a little exaggeration, I know
Otherwise, like most posts here, right on target.
Although I do wonder if the arrythmia I've developed in the last couple years had a possible beginning...but then again, maybe I'm just getting old.
realityshunt
11. Worship thou frequently at the instruction books, for they art insightful and we art forgetful.
:)
12. Spend not frugally at the altar of thy Tools, for they can protect you from the wrath of the God of Current. (see also, #11 and #10)
realityshunt
Actually the tools are not all that expensive - a couple hundred bucks for a low-end setup. (I know, I sell them)
The knowledge is expensive. It can be *very* expensive. Agree on hiring a professional!
realityshunt
*winces*
aren't spark plug cables wonderful? I once got a beautiful shock from one simply by brushing my arm against it while leaning over the engine trying to adjust the distributor.... in the rain. God, that hurt. I'd take a dry 110v over that any day.
realityshunt
and if you don't have the meter pulled, make GODDAMN SURE that whoever wired it last didn't reverse any connections (black/white in 110v I've seen done quite a bit, even by licensed electricians).
An non-contact probe is cheap and one of the most useful tools in a toolbox.
realityshunt
Ah, thanks. Sorry for the delay in replying, slashdot's reply notification system seems to be broken...
One does have to admire Israel for not using their nuclear capability as a political threat, despite what they face. If only India and Pakistan could be so nice...
sigh.
realityshunt