This post sponsored by the letter 'J'
Wow, it's late. But it is Friday now. And Friday is a good day. For a veritable cornucopia of reasons.
Random: Safari's spell-check in form fields is the greatest thing ever when you are relegated to using the LiveJournal web form to make your posts. But I digress (which will likely with this post prove to be terribly redundant and repetitive).
I was reminded this evening that I haven't posted in a while, and lo, I have not. It's been an interesting month. And yes, for those playing along with the Enigmatic Guide to Jay Home Game it is safe to say that "Wow" is still a rather apt term to describe this month and the one that has inspired many of the days therein. Another "W" word would be "wonderful" - and well, that's all you get.
Jay's Crazy iTunes Super Mix is working overtime tonight - in the last few minutes I have heard Claire Holley, Styx, Pink Floyd, Johnny Cash, and Neil Diamond. Interesting it is.
My REI sales flyer came in the mail recently and I had occasion to look through it this evening and I am completely and utterly mystified by the people over at REI coming up with these colors for men's clothing. e.g. "hawk", "toffee", "swell", "buffalo","flax","alpine tundra", "metal", "nile", "split pea", "loganberry"
SWELL?!? LOGANBERRY?!?!?
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?!?!? and did they not get enough time with the 64 color box of Crayola crayons as a child?
Newsflash - "hawk" "toffee" and "buffalo" are all universally referred to as "brownish" by dudes. This is the extent of our color vocabulary or at least mine - and all my playing with Photoshop has never created in me the desire to use the word "Loganberry"
At work, amongst various other things, we are preparing to deliver a seminar to the faculty next week to begin the kick-off for the next generation of the Engineering computing environment. Do you know that 70%, 70% of our students are bringing laptops to school, with no requirement, or real recommendation. And part of mine and my peers' job is to find a way to incorporate that into the educational experience - with the fervent belief that some understanding of computing is as integral to the Engineering education as the Right Hand Rule, or well, as integral as the Integral (no I will not be making that joke in the speech I have to write by next week).
I learned something about myself again today while putting together an agenda handout. I am a vision person, I tend to think very globally about computing topics and subjects, and don't much care for the specifics and details - my peers could probably accuse me rightly of ignoring some practicality at times.
However, when it comes to some task or work that I personally will do - such as writing a web application, or putting together a flyer - I get incredibly detailed. Today I was drawing out blocks for the various agenda topics for the seminar - which have various times (my speech is 25 minutes, one of my peers' Remote Access presentation is 1 hour 25 minutes). My time blocks are to scale. 1.5 inches == 1 hour and each block is the "size" of the time it takes. I did this subconsciously. It wasn't until about the 4th time I ran the calculator program to figure out how big 1 hour 45 minutes should be that I actively realized I was doing this. I think it's because I get that detailed that I tend to stay out of the details most of the time, otherwise I'd go crazy.
(btw, Mac folks should definitely try out Magic Number Machine a great little calculator with lots of fun toys for the calculator geek in all of us. )
Well, I should definitely retire to the bed by now. Because it's FRIDAY! - and as I finish this, Jay's Crazy iTunes Super Mix brought up a very appropriate song for just a peaceful time for Friday with great North Carolina skies....
No new pictures lately - but here's one from a year ago. I just kind of like it:
Sittin' in the mornin' sun
I'll be sittin' 'till the evening's done
Watchin' the ships roll in
Then I watch 'em roll away again
Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide roll away
Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time...
Random: Safari's spell-check in form fields is the greatest thing ever when you are relegated to using the LiveJournal web form to make your posts. But I digress (which will likely with this post prove to be terribly redundant and repetitive).
I was reminded this evening that I haven't posted in a while, and lo, I have not. It's been an interesting month. And yes, for those playing along with the Enigmatic Guide to Jay Home Game it is safe to say that "Wow" is still a rather apt term to describe this month and the one that has inspired many of the days therein. Another "W" word would be "wonderful" - and well, that's all you get.
Jay's Crazy iTunes Super Mix is working overtime tonight - in the last few minutes I have heard Claire Holley, Styx, Pink Floyd, Johnny Cash, and Neil Diamond. Interesting it is.
My REI sales flyer came in the mail recently and I had occasion to look through it this evening and I am completely and utterly mystified by the people over at REI coming up with these colors for men's clothing. e.g. "hawk", "toffee", "swell", "buffalo","flax","alpine tundra", "metal", "nile", "split pea", "loganberry"
SWELL?!? LOGANBERRY?!?!?
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?!?!? and did they not get enough time with the 64 color box of Crayola crayons as a child?
Newsflash - "hawk" "toffee" and "buffalo" are all universally referred to as "brownish" by dudes. This is the extent of our color vocabulary or at least mine - and all my playing with Photoshop has never created in me the desire to use the word "Loganberry"
At work, amongst various other things, we are preparing to deliver a seminar to the faculty next week to begin the kick-off for the next generation of the Engineering computing environment. Do you know that 70%, 70% of our students are bringing laptops to school, with no requirement, or real recommendation. And part of mine and my peers' job is to find a way to incorporate that into the educational experience - with the fervent belief that some understanding of computing is as integral to the Engineering education as the Right Hand Rule, or well, as integral as the Integral (no I will not be making that joke in the speech I have to write by next week).
I learned something about myself again today while putting together an agenda handout. I am a vision person, I tend to think very globally about computing topics and subjects, and don't much care for the specifics and details - my peers could probably accuse me rightly of ignoring some practicality at times.
However, when it comes to some task or work that I personally will do - such as writing a web application, or putting together a flyer - I get incredibly detailed. Today I was drawing out blocks for the various agenda topics for the seminar - which have various times (my speech is 25 minutes, one of my peers' Remote Access presentation is 1 hour 25 minutes). My time blocks are to scale. 1.5 inches == 1 hour and each block is the "size" of the time it takes. I did this subconsciously. It wasn't until about the 4th time I ran the calculator program to figure out how big 1 hour 45 minutes should be that I actively realized I was doing this. I think it's because I get that detailed that I tend to stay out of the details most of the time, otherwise I'd go crazy.
(btw, Mac folks should definitely try out Magic Number Machine a great little calculator with lots of fun toys for the calculator geek in all of us. )
Well, I should definitely retire to the bed by now. Because it's FRIDAY! - and as I finish this, Jay's Crazy iTunes Super Mix brought up a very appropriate song for just a peaceful time for Friday with great North Carolina skies....
No new pictures lately - but here's one from a year ago. I just kind of like it:
Sittin' in the mornin' sun
I'll be sittin' 'till the evening's done
Watchin' the ships roll in
Then I watch 'em roll away again
Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watchin' the tide roll away
Sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time...