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First full week begins tomorrow.
Jan. 9th, 2006 12:10 amAlthough I don't think I actually have a course on Monday, it being a discussion before the lecture, but I'm going to go out and get books for it. And other such things - might continue to amass objects for the first paper I have in a different class - not starting to write it yet, necessarily, just amassing the content I need.
Ran across a lesson on entrepreneurship that I think might be applicable to a lot of other places, too, especially philosophical and religious thought. Namely, that sitting around and trying to think up the Big Idea is something likely to fail. But paying attention to the world around you and working in the world you want could very well produce the Idea you're looking for, so long as you know how to listen to it.
More Zero Tolerance in schools. Admittedly, making a joke out of crashing the school server is definitely not a bright idea, but I'm not sure it requires filing charges. (Although if you think of it as inciting a DoS attack, there might be better grounds for it.) Perhaps I'm a bit more lenient because it appears there wasn't permanent damage. Still, these are the sorts of things that somehow manage to cause problems later on in life, because now there's a mark on the kid's record that he was arrested and spent time in jail. I wonder how employment and government loan/grant programs will look at him now. Maybe he'll develop something like this Tesla Gun (although tagged as a "Klingon Disruptor" to be built) and wreak his revenge.
A second odd thought - a small lesson on the idea of entrainment which is followed by a suggestion that tapping and advertising in the "alternative thought" market isn't too hard, and that you could make money off your own alternative thought. Something doesn't quite jive here with those two halves. I'm not entirely sure what it is, but it feels just off enough to be jarring.
In terms of technical ability, I can, indeed, watch television and by extension, play games on the computer in Linux. The TV's grainy, but it'll service. Hopefully, the console games will be not grainy and quite crisp. Might just be the way things are wired up here. Still, it's nice. I can watch programming in peace. Aaaah.... (yeah, yeah, I know. More TV addiction.)
But I also make profuse thanks, for I also burnt a gift card completely and got me lots of books. Yay! Vices satisfied or something like that.
But I must make your eyes burn. Thus, I subject you to the Jack Chick movie. Just when you thought it couldn't get any funnier...Although I don't think I actually have a course on Monday, it being a discussion before the lecture, but I'm going to go out and get books for it. And other such things - might continue to amass objects for the first paper I have in a different class - not starting to write it yet, necessarily, just amassing the content I need.
Ran across a lesson on entrepreneurship that I think might be applicable to a lot of other places, too, especially philosophical and religious thought. Namely, that sitting around and trying to think up the Big Idea is something likely to fail. But paying attention to the world around you and working in the world you want could very well produce the Idea you're looking for, so long as you know how to listen to it.
More Zero Tolerance in schools. Admittedly, making a joke out of crashing the school server is definitely not a bright idea, but I'm not sure it requires filing charges. (Although if you think of it as inciting a DoS attack, there might be better grounds for it.) Perhaps I'm a bit more lenient because it appears there wasn't permanent damage. Still, these are the sorts of things that somehow manage to cause problems later on in life, because now there's a mark on the kid's record that he was arrested and spent time in jail. I wonder how employment and government loan/grant programs will look at him now. Maybe he'll develop something like this Tesla Gun (although tagged as a "Klingon Disruptor" to be built) and wreak his revenge.
A second odd thought - a small lesson on the idea of entrainment which is followed by a suggestion that tapping and advertising in the "alternative thought" market isn't too hard, and that you could make money off your own alternative thought. Something doesn't quite jive here with those two halves. I'm not entirely sure what it is, but it feels just off enough to be jarring.
In terms of technical ability, I can, indeed, watch television and by extension, play games on the computer in Linux. The TV's grainy, but it'll service. Hopefully, the console games will be not grainy and quite crisp. Might just be the way things are wired up here. Still, it's nice. I can watch programming in peace. Aaaah.... (yeah, yeah, I know. More TV addiction.)
But I also make profuse thanks, for I also burnt a gift card completely and got me lots of books. Yay! Vices satisfied or something like that.
But I must make your eyes burn. Thus, I subject you to the Jack Chick movie. Just when you thought it couldn't get any funnier...Although I don't think I actually have a course on Monday, it being a discussion before the lecture, but I'm going to go out and get books for it. And other such things - might continue to amass objects for the first paper I have in a different class - not starting to write it yet, necessarily, just amassing the content I need.
