bloke wrote:
bloke "I believe it is a reasonable assumption that this (youtube video above) is the first anyone here has seen of the rancher's complete (rather than oligarch-media edited soundbite) comments on this topic."
If you're going to downgrade me, at least do it in the right thread. Just because media literacy isn't a requirement for membership on this board doesn't mean individuals are prohibited from pursuing it elsewhere.
I might be an idiot, but I can and will claim a certain level of expertise when it comes to machinations of the oligarch-media, as well as remedies for and circumvention of said machinations.
Biggs "Reasonably assuming that everyone here has interests beyond the tuba"
Students, don't buy tubas with other's money, be it student loans or parent's purse/wallet. I just had to explain the "whys and what for's" of this again. It was like I was from another planet...
Knock on wood... but my journey through the UPS damage claims process is winding to a close. My UPS representative has verbal confirmation that my claim will be paid in full. Written confirmation is expected this week, and a check is expected next week. It's been an up-and-down process, but keeping my fingers crossed as I come down the home stretch!
Curmudgeon wrote:
- graduate students who were being paid/funded through their school and encouraged by their "advisors" to find "something, anything, but just publish it and make sure we all get the credit and include our names on it when you do..."
The secret, I have found, is to write about topics which you know more than your "adviser" - this works particularly well if you declare yourself to be an "interdisciplinary" researcher from the start...
I did most of the research on my m-i-l's masters thesis on Career Education in the Middle School. It took about 5 minutes for me to be ever so grateful that I was not an education major or a teacher (even though I was a convenience store clerk at the time with my BS in Criminology). On the other hand, when my wife was stuck writing papers as she was getting her Ph.D. in Psychology (and by then I was a patrol cop) I would ask what she wanted to say, write about a half dozen sentences, and give her what I wrote. She would add commas and semicolons and make herself an erudite paragraph.
On the bright side, it has rained steadily for two days, lowering the pollen impact.
And for our marching band gig tonight we had one piccolo, two flutes, three each of clarinets, trumpets and percussion, 5 euphoniums, 2 trombones and 2 sousaphones.
I'm headed to Sweden on my companies dime tomorrow for business...though I am also taking a few days to explore Gothenburg. Can anybody suggest anything that I should see while I'm there?
bort wrote:Someone asked me yesterday if I was getting excited about the world cup.
My response of "oh yeah, soccer... Is that this year or next year?" was not well-received. Whoops.
I tend to get a lot more excited about the coffee cup, myself.
I have a cup of Sumatran Coffee next to me right now that I am enjoying. Sumatra is somewhere in the world, it is in my cup, ergo, I like the World Cup at least until it ends up in the biggest receptacle in the smallest room of my house, then it becomes the world's problem after it left my cup. Soccer? Meh.
Chuck Jackson wrote:I have a cup of Sumatran Coffee next to me right now that I am enjoying. Sumatra is somewhere in the world, it is in my cup, ergo, I like the World Cup at least until it ends up in the biggest receptacle in the smallest room of my house, then it becomes the world's problem after it left my cup. Soccer? Meh.
Chuck"Tuba. There I kept it relevant"Jackson
I'm a tuba player. Do you expect me to follow all of that?
