I'm amused by the lownsess of the price which says: professors don't know how to price, their lecures aren't worth much, or maybe it says something else?
I was teaching an introductory computer class to students with no previous exposure to computers in a community college. It was the beginning of the 2nd or 3rd class when a new student turned up, brought in by a college admissions counsellor. This guy had just left the military, an elite front line airborne unit which had recently been disbanded in Canada due to reports of excessive agressiveness / violence. This guy was huge, massively muscular and quiet. I'm sure he was a natural at his last job. I handed out the 3.5" disks which we had been using in the last class to all the students and said something along the lines of "open up the file and we'll carry on from where we were last time". As I was preparing to say the next thing something goes flying by the side of my head. I turnaround towards the direction the object had come from. I saw my new student with the outer case of the 3.5" ripped open with his powerful arms holding the outer casing open, it being the innards of the disk that had flown by my head. He said it a completely matter of fact voice: "You said open it". Clearly, I had taken much for granted. Sadly, the guy left and never came back so I was never able to reveiw the basics.
Those from the UK will know what this is - a saying used wrt to Guy Fawlkes Day (the 5th of November). In 1605 Guy Fawlkes decided he wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Unfortunately for him he was caught by the Government who found him gulity of treason and sentenced him to be hung, drawn and quartered. Now I'd like to make a modest proposal...
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I'm amused by the lownsess of the price which says: professors don't know how to price, their lecures aren't worth much, or maybe it says something else?
I was teaching an introductory computer class to students with no previous exposure to computers in a community college. It was the beginning of the 2nd or 3rd class when a new student turned up, brought in by a college admissions counsellor. This guy had just left the military, an elite front line airborne unit which had recently been disbanded in Canada due to reports of excessive agressiveness / violence. This guy was huge, massively muscular and quiet. I'm sure he was a natural at his last job. I handed out the 3.5" disks which we had been using in the last class to all the students and said something along the lines of "open up the file and we'll carry on from where we were last time". As I was preparing to say the next thing something goes flying by the side of my head. I turnaround towards the direction the object had come from. I saw my new student with the outer case of the 3.5" ripped open with his powerful arms holding the outer casing open, it being the innards of the disk that had flown by my head. He said it a completely matter of fact voice: "You said open it". Clearly, I had taken much for granted. Sadly, the guy left and never came back so I was never able to reveiw the basics.
Remember remember the 5th of November....
Those from the UK will know what this is - a saying used wrt to Guy Fawlkes Day (the 5th of November). In 1605 Guy Fawlkes decided he wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Unfortunately for him he was caught by the Government who found him gulity of treason and sentenced him to be hung, drawn and quartered. Now I'd like to make a modest proposal...