Mal ,'War Stories'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
You know what bugs me? When people keep asking you for more information despite your assurance that you know less than they do, and they know everything you do. That, in fact, if they've had any contact with the sender outside the forwarded e-mail, they are now the experts and to leave me alone.
Also, people should read their e-mails, so I don't have to point out that they haven't in my defense.
But, yay! No migraine!
Yay for no migraine, ita!
Happy Birthday, Aims!!
You know what I hate? Scorecards. Actually, I probably wouldn't hate them if I didn't have to prepare them each period. But since I do, HATE!
You know what bugs me? People not emailing back. I only work at this job Tues/Weds. On last Weds I emailed three people about two different things. I figured when I got in today, there would be responses waiting for me. Yeah, NSM. For another job, I heard through something on Friday through the grapevine that significantly affects what I'm doing. Did anyone contact me directly? No. Have I recieved a response to the email I sent yesterday about it? No.
That would bug me too, Jesse. Maybe you could remind them of your schedule, when you're asking for something via email.
You know what I hate? Scorecards. Actually, I probably wouldn't hate them if I didn't have to prepare them each period. But since I do, HATE!Scorecards, Nicole?
I'm glad you're migraine-free, ita.
How can you tell the players without a scorecard?
I happened to have NPR on as the shuttle was landing this morning, so I got to breath a little sigh of relief when it got down safely. How much do I like the fact that nothing special seems to being made of the fact that the mission commander -- who took the controls for the final descent -- is a woman?
How much do I like the fact that nothing special seems to being made of the fact that the mission commander -- who took the controls for the final descent -- is a woman?
Oh yeah, I noticed that too (that nothing special was made of it). I think she's commanded a shuttle mission before, though.
And yes, the shuttle is a very difficult aircraft to fly.
Scorecards, Nicole?
Oops. Sorry. I prepare the team scorecard for my department at work. It's basically a breakdown of how the team is doing in different areas of responsibility and involves running a gabillion reports every 4 weeks or so to figure out the period performance and year to date performance.
I understand the need for it, I just don't want to be the one that does it. You know? Too. Many. Reports.
I understand the need for it, I just don't want to be the one that does it. You know? Too. Many. Reports.Ugh. Oh, yeah. Reports, and meetings--they're still the work timesuck of all time. The internets only aspire to suck time the way they do, and that's before we consider the soulsucking potential.
A third alternative to evolution and intellignent design:
Yesterday, President Bush endorsed the idea of teaching intelligent design 'theory' alongside evolution and natural selection in schools.
I'd like to propose a third alternative theory. I call it the theory of "Design by Unintelligent Hand," or "DUH" for short. The basic concept? The Creator is an utter dumbass.
Consider the evidence:
1. The dark. One of the big ideas behind Intelligent Design is that there's no way an eye could evolve. My contention? There's no way a Creator who wasn't a goddamn imbecile would create eyes that don't work half the time.
2. Toes. They're just dangling there, off the end of your feet, with a bunch of fragile little bones. Combine these with #1 above, and you've got a recipe for disaster. You think Jonathan Ives would have created something as stupid as toes?
3. Nonspecific urethritis. I can understand a Creator trying to enforce draconian anti-sex measures by punishing people who break them with oozing pustules and fiery pain when they urinate, because, hey, that's what Creators do. But random urinary tract infections? Just, y'know, out of the blue, not being able to take a piss without screaming? That's just stupid.
4. Gravity's acceleration. Stuff breaks when it falls at 32 ft/sec^2. A little gravity's good--you don't want your coffee to go flying off the desk, after all--but why's it got to be so heavy? And don't get me started on what happens when you drop a bowling ball on #2 up there. You think the Creator hasn't done that a time or two and thought to himself, "Good gravy, I'm a fool"?
5. Tiger cubs. They are almost unbearably cute--so cute that if you saw one, you'd want to take it home. But then it grows up and EATS YOU. Good thinkin', there, C!
6. Genetics and natural selection. Anybody who's ever smushed a generation of drosophila melanogaster except the ones born with red eyes and has then seen the next generation born with red eyes understands the principles behind heritable traits and the idea that selecting for those traits makes it more likely the next generation will have them. So we have a Creator who goes to the trouble of making this simple, effective system, and then ignores it completely to create a billion or so species out of thin air. The sharpest tool in the shed? I THINK NOT.
Obviously, this is a theory whose time has come. Please join me in demanding that DUH be taught alongside evolution and intelligent design in our nation's classrooms.