Well, we went down the payment type rabbit hole, but thread drift is the natural way of these things.
Embrace it
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We're in trouble
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Na . . .
Well, this isn't exactly funny, but it's relevant and encouraging.
This week, I had a very encouraging event in class,.. lab, actually.
In one class, most everyone is over thirty, all the way to mid-fifties. There is on "kid" who is eighteen or nineteen. You could tell he was uncomfortable and felt outnumbered last semester, but I cross my fingers and abuse the wallflowers just like I do the crusty old salts so they feel "included."
This week, the "kid" was working on a basic circuit - one which I have explained is the primordial ooze of logic - the seed of "artificial intelligence," and that if you can wrap your mind around it (which is tough because it's so simple that it's easy to not "get it"), you can do ANY logic, either in creating, interpreting or trouble-shooting it!
I was working on my computer during this lab exercise when - I kid you not - the left side of the room seemed to get slightly brighter. I looked over and the kid was standing there with a huge gape-mouthed grin and eyes the size of softballs. He didn't actually have a golden aura emanating aroiund his body, but it was close.
I hollered for the rest of the class to "look quick and you'll see the look of a genuine epiphany!" Everyone looked and got a good chuckle. It hit the kid like a falling brick - he broke through the bubble and GOT IT! He didn't just memorize the "right answer, patronize the old guy by agreeing or accepting based on faith - he GOT it.
We're in trouble alright, I won't argue that, but it just takes extra work these days and we have slimmer pickings. There are some real gems out there and they are our hope.
This week, I had a very encouraging event in class,.. lab, actually.
In one class, most everyone is over thirty, all the way to mid-fifties. There is on "kid" who is eighteen or nineteen. You could tell he was uncomfortable and felt outnumbered last semester, but I cross my fingers and abuse the wallflowers just like I do the crusty old salts so they feel "included."
This week, the "kid" was working on a basic circuit - one which I have explained is the primordial ooze of logic - the seed of "artificial intelligence," and that if you can wrap your mind around it (which is tough because it's so simple that it's easy to not "get it"), you can do ANY logic, either in creating, interpreting or trouble-shooting it!
I was working on my computer during this lab exercise when - I kid you not - the left side of the room seemed to get slightly brighter. I looked over and the kid was standing there with a huge gape-mouthed grin and eyes the size of softballs. He didn't actually have a golden aura emanating aroiund his body, but it was close.
I hollered for the rest of the class to "look quick and you'll see the look of a genuine epiphany!" Everyone looked and got a good chuckle. It hit the kid like a falling brick - he broke through the bubble and GOT IT! He didn't just memorize the "right answer, patronize the old guy by agreeing or accepting based on faith - he GOT it.
We're in trouble alright, I won't argue that, but it just takes extra work these days and we have slimmer pickings. There are some real gems out there and they are our hope.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Jeeze Rick, thread drift is our #1 skill here!!! Take that away and it gets real boring real fast.This thread was started strictly as humor. Sure isn't very funny lately.
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Brads been spending too much time alone in his company car again.
Brad, make them fix the radio. Please?
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Oh, boy, hearing. What is it all about when I respond to what I heard my wife say, but she says she said something entirely different, that she always fails to understand? I have to take my wife's word for it that she actually said what she said she said, rather than what I heard her say. I can't always be wrong, can I?
Hearing aids aren't all they're advertized to be, and now they'll be available over the counter. I've endured the frustration of working with the V. A. to get me to understand what my wife says she said, so I can imagine what Brad's going to have to endure getting aids to work for those who buy them from him.
The older I get, the less embarrassed I am about laughing at stupid puns.
Be careful with that one. There are people out there who could legally take offense to that.
Tom
Well-Known Member
So you think you like puns, eh?
An elderly Buddhist monk goes to the local dentist. The dentist tells him that abscess is beyond his abilities and directs him to a dental surgeon in a city 80 miles away. He refuses a ride as he's always walked and has good callouses on his feet.
He became known as the super calloused fragile mystic vexed by halitosis.
He refused novocaine because he wanted to transcend dental medication.
An elderly Buddhist monk goes to the local dentist. The dentist tells him that abscess is beyond his abilities and directs him to a dental surgeon in a city 80 miles away. He refuses a ride as he's always walked and has good callouses on his feet.
He became known as the super calloused fragile mystic vexed by halitosis.
He refused novocaine because he wanted to transcend dental medication.