Bella Martha (2001; English title: Mostly Martha), which is ten times better than the American remake (No Reservations, which should have been better given the cast).
You may want to rethink that strategy. This study (pdf) found that people who vented their anger on a punching bag were more angry and acted more aggressively afterward than those who didn't. In fact, the best results (less anger and less aggression) were for those who did nothing.
In his job, my dad (an engineer) works with ranchers doing things like building drainage ponds and restoring grasslands. He says that every well he's ever worked on has been witched. His perspective is that there isn't really a reliable scientific method for finding the best place to drill a well anyway, so it doesn't really matter that the ranchers have their wells witched.
people impersonating other users (especially Bruce Perens)
Oh, the ambiguity of language. I haven't been here long enough to know if you mean that people were impersonating Bruce Perens or that Bruce Perens was impersonating other users.
My tenth-grade PE teacher got it. When we played things like badminton or pickleball (things that didn't have the whole class involved in one game), she would have us self-select into one of three groups: competitive, semi-competitive, and non-competitive. That really let those of us who weren't very athletically inclined just play without worrying about all the competitive stuff while also letting the athletic types play competitively.
On rainy days when everyone (several classes worth of students) had to play basketball in the gym, she would let my best friend and me walk up and down under the overhang outside the gym instead. (We actually probably got more exercise that way - we would walk and talk for the whole hour while everyone else had to cycle in and out of games.) She always told me that it was important for me to find something I liked doing that I could make a part of my life - quite a different attitude from that of most PE teachers I had!
In my job, I often need to know what county a given city is in. I haven't memorized what county every city in California is in. There's a website I can use that will tell me, but it's a lot faster to just put [city name] CA county into Google. (Especially since I can do it all in a new tab using only the keyboard.)
Huh. I think the key words in what I said were "occasional" and "haphazard." It does look like there are more prebuilt MythTV boxes now than the last time I did some research. I'll have to do the research again.
I don't know about 2007, but F12 is the shortcut for save as for other versions of Office. It's annoyingly not shown in the menu; I found it by accident.
You hit the nail on the head. I would love, love, love to have a DVR. But I don't want a subscription fee. I also don't want to rely on some kind of programming guide that may or may not be there forever, I don't want something that's going to listen to the broadcast flag and delete things I've recorded, and I don't want to mess around with building my own. In my occasional haphazard research, I've yet to find anything that fits the bill, so I'm still relying on my good old VCR for the shows I absolutely refuse to miss, Netflix for the shows I think might be interesting but I don't need to see right away, and plain old TV watching for the shows I want to see sometimes and the times when I need some visual noise that I don't want to pay too much attention to.
Doing favors for people shouldn't involve keeping score.
Yep. It reminds me of something my yoga teacher told us: "There are three kinds of people in the world. The thief takes without ever giving back. The businessperson looks at everything as a transaction - equal for equal. The yogi gives without expectation of anything in return." When I do someone a favor, I'm attempting to be the yogi, not the businessperson.
Or the highway has design flaws. The offramp on the freeway exit I take to get home is too short for the amount of traffic that now flows on it, especially at rush hour. You have to start braking on the freeway or you'll run into a whole line of cars all the way down the offramp.
My biggest fear would be that the system works, and we start getting messages from 5 years from now 8 years from now, but ten years from now...nothing.
The premise of Kage Baker's Novels of the Company is somewhat similar. Immortals created by the Company travel through time. The trick is that nothing can travel forward in time (aside from the usual one day at a time way), only backward. They rely on the Company's information about the future; that information ends at 2355. The books are slowly bringing us toward that time.
Overall, it's an excellent series, and I highly recommend it. I've been the first person to check out the last two books from my library by the simple expedient of putting in my hold request before the book even comes out.
I do a two-hour PowerPoint/presentation best practices training. The question I like to ask to get people to move away from designing their PowerPoint as a book on the screen (which they do so that they can hand out the slides and be done with handouts) is, "If I can get the whole content of your presentation just by reading your PowerPoint slides, then why are you there?" I like to emphasize the PowerPoint as atmosphere not sole content idea, and I really encourage people not to hand out the PowerPoint slides, but instead to create separate handouts with the information on them that people can use as reference later.
Arr, matey, our whole crew dressed up for the occasion. The Cap'n of Cap'ns (our Executive Director) served as judge to award special pirate booty for the best o' six categories: Best Pirate, Best Wench, Best Arrr!, Best Pirate Joke, Best Sea Chantey, and Best Eyepatch.
One point about number 1: I work for a training organization, and we've heard from more than one person on our evaluation forms that plain white backgrounds can cause headaches/migraines. We've gone to recommending a very pale color instead of pure white for light backgrounds.
I went to college on the opposite side of the country from where I grew up. On long breaks, I would take the hard drive from my desktop home with me - in a cardboard box in my carry-on backpack. I continued to do this even after 9/11. The most scrutiny this ever resulted in was that they often, but not always, swiped the outside of my backpack for explosive residue.
One particularly striking CBS News/New York Times poll, taken last year, asked respondents if they would favor or oppose "a law that would allow homosexual couples to marry, giving them the same legal rights as other married couples." Among adults under age thirty, 61 per cent said they would favor such a law and 35 per cent said they would oppose it; among sixty-five-year-olds and up, 18 per cent were in favor and 73 per cent opposed. The numbers vary from poll to poll, but the huge age gap is always there.
Arbitrarily ranking the queue (which I understand Netflix allows) is handy if you know you're going to watch things
I'm confused. Why would you have something in your queue if you're not going to watch it?
My queue management strategy is that I have a kajillion (really about 480; I once hit the 500-item limit) things in my queue, and when I put one disc in the mail, I go to my queue and put whatever I feel like watching next at the top. I don't want them sending me whatever they want; I want them to send me what I want to watch next, and I know I'm going to get the next disc in 2 days or so, so I can judge fairly accurately what I'm going to want to watch.
That's exactly why I didn't go to grad school--there wasn't any subject I loved enough that studying it would be worth more school, which I was sick of by the end of four years of college.
Except that sometimes I do. Checking popularity of two-word versus one hyphenated word constructions is difficult. For example, is the adjective "low income" or "low-income" and who uses which one?
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Bella Martha (2001; English title: Mostly Martha), which is ten times better than the American remake (No Reservations, which should have been better given the cast).
You may want to rethink that strategy. This study (pdf) found that people who vented their anger on a punching bag were more angry and acted more aggressively afterward than those who didn't. In fact, the best results (less anger and less aggression) were for those who did nothing.
In his job, my dad (an engineer) works with ranchers doing things like building drainage ponds and restoring grasslands. He says that every well he's ever worked on has been witched. His perspective is that there isn't really a reliable scientific method for finding the best place to drill a well anyway, so it doesn't really matter that the ranchers have their wells witched.
My tenth-grade PE teacher got it. When we played things like badminton or pickleball (things that didn't have the whole class involved in one game), she would have us self-select into one of three groups: competitive, semi-competitive, and non-competitive. That really let those of us who weren't very athletically inclined just play without worrying about all the competitive stuff while also letting the athletic types play competitively.
On rainy days when everyone (several classes worth of students) had to play basketball in the gym, she would let my best friend and me walk up and down under the overhang outside the gym instead. (We actually probably got more exercise that way - we would walk and talk for the whole hour while everyone else had to cycle in and out of games.) She always told me that it was important for me to find something I liked doing that I could make a part of my life - quite a different attitude from that of most PE teachers I had!
In my job, I often need to know what county a given city is in. I haven't memorized what county every city in California is in. There's a website I can use that will tell me, but it's a lot faster to just put [city name] CA county into Google. (Especially since I can do it all in a new tab using only the keyboard.)
Yeah, right. He'd never fit!
Huh. I think the key words in what I said were "occasional" and "haphazard." It does look like there are more prebuilt MythTV boxes now than the last time I did some research. I'll have to do the research again.
I don't know about 2007, but F12 is the shortcut for save as for other versions of Office. It's annoyingly not shown in the menu; I found it by accident.
You hit the nail on the head. I would love, love, love to have a DVR. But I don't want a subscription fee. I also don't want to rely on some kind of programming guide that may or may not be there forever, I don't want something that's going to listen to the broadcast flag and delete things I've recorded, and I don't want to mess around with building my own. In my occasional haphazard research, I've yet to find anything that fits the bill, so I'm still relying on my good old VCR for the shows I absolutely refuse to miss, Netflix for the shows I think might be interesting but I don't need to see right away, and plain old TV watching for the shows I want to see sometimes and the times when I need some visual noise that I don't want to pay too much attention to.
Or the highway has design flaws. The offramp on the freeway exit I take to get home is too short for the amount of traffic that now flows on it, especially at rush hour. You have to start braking on the freeway or you'll run into a whole line of cars all the way down the offramp.
The premise of Kage Baker's Novels of the Company is somewhat similar. Immortals created by the Company travel through time. The trick is that nothing can travel forward in time (aside from the usual one day at a time way), only backward. They rely on the Company's information about the future; that information ends at 2355. The books are slowly bringing us toward that time.
Overall, it's an excellent series, and I highly recommend it. I've been the first person to check out the last two books from my library by the simple expedient of putting in my hold request before the book even comes out.
You can't talk about Charlie Brown without mentioning that the incumbent's name is Doolittle.
It's quite possibly the best race ever for funny names.
Amen!
I do a two-hour PowerPoint/presentation best practices training. The question I like to ask to get people to move away from designing their PowerPoint as a book on the screen (which they do so that they can hand out the slides and be done with handouts) is, "If I can get the whole content of your presentation just by reading your PowerPoint slides, then why are you there?" I like to emphasize the PowerPoint as atmosphere not sole content idea, and I really encourage people not to hand out the PowerPoint slides, but instead to create separate handouts with the information on them that people can use as reference later.
Arr, matey, our whole crew dressed up for the occasion. The Cap'n of Cap'ns (our Executive Director) served as judge to award special pirate booty for the best o' six categories: Best Pirate, Best Wench, Best Arrr!, Best Pirate Joke, Best Sea Chantey, and Best Eyepatch.
One point about number 1: I work for a training organization, and we've heard from more than one person on our evaluation forms that plain white backgrounds can cause headaches/migraines. We've gone to recommending a very pale color instead of pure white for light backgrounds.
I went to college on the opposite side of the country from where I grew up. On long breaks, I would take the hard drive from my desktop home with me - in a cardboard box in my carry-on backpack. I continued to do this even after 9/11. The most scrutiny this ever resulted in was that they often, but not always, swiped the outside of my backpack for explosive residue.
My queue management strategy is that I have a kajillion (really about 480; I once hit the 500-item limit) things in my queue, and when I put one disc in the mail, I go to my queue and put whatever I feel like watching next at the top. I don't want them sending me whatever they want; I want them to send me what I want to watch next, and I know I'm going to get the next disc in 2 days or so, so I can judge fairly accurately what I'm going to want to watch.
That's exactly why I didn't go to grad school--there wasn't any subject I loved enough that studying it would be worth more school, which I was sick of by the end of four years of college.
And could you use the nifty gray lines to the left of the quotes instead of italics? The italics are hard on the eyes.
You don't need to be that precise.
Except that sometimes I do. Checking popularity of two-word versus one hyphenated word constructions is difficult. For example, is the adjective "low income" or "low-income" and who uses which one?