but I have to tell you, this video clinches it.
Wow! I found myself agreeing with nearly everything he said. He seems to embody the kind of ideals and policy Americans need to be pursuing. It's like Ronald Reagan is back.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
I am not intellectually lazy, am I?
Definition
A group of liberals refers to one or more liberals thought of collectively.
Premises
All liberals are in a group of liberals.
A group of liberals (like any group of people) always contains one idiot or, if made up of more than one liberal, an idiot and a group of liberals.
Wait a few minutes...
Conclusion
All liberals are idiots.
QED (Latin for "I love recursive definitions.")
A group of liberals refers to one or more liberals thought of collectively.
Premises
All liberals are in a group of liberals.
A group of liberals (like any group of people) always contains one idiot or, if made up of more than one liberal, an idiot and a group of liberals.
Wait a few minutes...
Conclusion
All liberals are idiots.
QED (Latin for "I love recursive definitions.")
Monday, June 6, 2011
Software #2
When you read Proverbs enough, you get to the point, where for a particular situation, you can begin to quote an apt proverb... but then not be able to finish it correctly.
Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest
Is a faithful messenger to those who send him,
For he refreshes the soul of his masters.
(Proverbs 25:11)
So, I was getting LeTourneau's online course software Blackboard up and checking out the class discussion board in preparation to starting work on some reading and then taking a quiz this evening, when...
What! Somebody is asking on the discussion board whether the second part of an assignment was really due on June 20th or June 6th--today. The instructor replied with something like the following: "Oh, you didn't get the new schedule? A few things have changed."
Looking at the changed schedule, I saw that, yes, this massive part B of the present assignment was due today. I had to read a chapter and take a quiz already today. Furthermore, I had wanted to do some other reading I had never finished yet and polish up Part A that I had never really finished before I even started on Part B.
It turns out, if you ask, and lay out the situation, some professors (and I suppose managers) will re-evaluate the milestones you have to make. So, after emailing the professor to say that, I would probably not be able to make this deal go through and I also doubted the capability of my classmates to do the same, especially when the schedule change was unannounced... after all this, I got an email that was basically cold snow.
Two more days for Component B of Assignment 3.
Phew. Now as far as I have observed in software engineering, this also happens in the work world. But, seriously, it is a lot easier for a professor presiding over a summer class which he facilitates in an open-ended, uncertain fashion to move back a due date, than it is for a customer to move back a delivery on a multi-million dollar product.
Note to self: When it comes to software creation, think ahead and plan for the worst.
Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest
Is a faithful messenger to those who send him,
For he refreshes the soul of his masters.
(Proverbs 25:11)
So, I was getting LeTourneau's online course software Blackboard up and checking out the class discussion board in preparation to starting work on some reading and then taking a quiz this evening, when...
What! Somebody is asking on the discussion board whether the second part of an assignment was really due on June 20th or June 6th--today. The instructor replied with something like the following: "Oh, you didn't get the new schedule? A few things have changed."
Looking at the changed schedule, I saw that, yes, this massive part B of the present assignment was due today. I had to read a chapter and take a quiz already today. Furthermore, I had wanted to do some other reading I had never finished yet and polish up Part A that I had never really finished before I even started on Part B.
It turns out, if you ask, and lay out the situation, some professors (and I suppose managers) will re-evaluate the milestones you have to make. So, after emailing the professor to say that, I would probably not be able to make this deal go through and I also doubted the capability of my classmates to do the same, especially when the schedule change was unannounced... after all this, I got an email that was basically cold snow.
Two more days for Component B of Assignment 3.
Phew. Now as far as I have observed in software engineering, this also happens in the work world. But, seriously, it is a lot easier for a professor presiding over a summer class which he facilitates in an open-ended, uncertain fashion to move back a due date, than it is for a customer to move back a delivery on a multi-million dollar product.
Note to self: When it comes to software creation, think ahead and plan for the worst.
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