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On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 05:10:10 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 1/12/2017 8:28 PM, wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:54:57 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 1/12/17 5:12 PM, wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:19:14 -0500 (EST), justan wrote: on Harry's queer way of spelling Navy. It is just his way to disrespect the people who serve their country. He managed to dodge the draft and he thinks anyone who served is a fool What the **** did he care? He is a borderline communist and he already speaks russian.. Hey, it's not my fault you were too lazy to find a way to pay for college back then, when it was relatively inexpensive. And, as I have told you any number of times, I went to college to further my formal education. "Dodging" the draft never crossed my mind. Oh, and I speak and read Russian because I studied it. I like the language and there is a lot of great literature written in it. I had a way to pay for college, the GI bill, I just saw it as a 4 year impediment to my career. Once I was working, IBM offered 100% tuition reimbursement but again, there was no advantage in going. I already had the job I wanted and education was included in that job package. I was learning state of the art computer systems and software at a very rapid pace, not sitting in a boring class listening to some out of touch guy who was never actually in the field telling me how important Boolean Algebra was. I also had no interest in hearing about the archaic system he worked on in college. Students at Montgomery College were coming to me because their instructors had no clue about how the operating system on the 360 in their lab worked in spite of teaching it. I said this before and the bet still stands, I bet I have far more hours of classroom instruction than you do and the amount of "distance learning" (computer aided classes) and self taught courses will triple that. In the 60s and early 70s I was averaging 700-800 hours of actual class time a year, not hanging around the student union or working at some bull**** part time job. When my daughter was in college, her BA worked out to about 800 hours of actual class over the whole 4 years. I started doing as much as I could remotely but I was still 300 to 500 a year in class after that (over 30 years) I was also an instructor for a while. Your post caused me to reflect on something that I've come to realize as I get older. Accomplishments in life are important along with the reputation you earn as you pursue them ... at least they were to me. But in the end none of them really matter for the vast majority of us. When your day comes and you kick the bucket, people will have a brief, focused review of who you were, what you did and what kind of a person you were but your legacy of accomplishments will quickly fade and be all but forgotten in a relatively short time. We are all replaceable. That's why you should give each of your grandkids a pocket knife. Then you'll be remembered. Until they lose it. |
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On 1/13/2017 6:06 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 05:10:10 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 1/12/2017 8:28 PM, wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:54:57 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 1/12/17 5:12 PM, wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:19:14 -0500 (EST), justan wrote: on Harry's queer way of spelling Navy. It is just his way to disrespect the people who serve their country. He managed to dodge the draft and he thinks anyone who served is a fool What the **** did he care? He is a borderline communist and he already speaks russian.. Hey, it's not my fault you were too lazy to find a way to pay for college back then, when it was relatively inexpensive. And, as I have told you any number of times, I went to college to further my formal education. "Dodging" the draft never crossed my mind. Oh, and I speak and read Russian because I studied it. I like the language and there is a lot of great literature written in it. I had a way to pay for college, the GI bill, I just saw it as a 4 year impediment to my career. Once I was working, IBM offered 100% tuition reimbursement but again, there was no advantage in going. I already had the job I wanted and education was included in that job package. I was learning state of the art computer systems and software at a very rapid pace, not sitting in a boring class listening to some out of touch guy who was never actually in the field telling me how important Boolean Algebra was. I also had no interest in hearing about the archaic system he worked on in college. Students at Montgomery College were coming to me because their instructors had no clue about how the operating system on the 360 in their lab worked in spite of teaching it. I said this before and the bet still stands, I bet I have far more hours of classroom instruction than you do and the amount of "distance learning" (computer aided classes) and self taught courses will triple that. In the 60s and early 70s I was averaging 700-800 hours of actual class time a year, not hanging around the student union or working at some bull**** part time job. When my daughter was in college, her BA worked out to about 800 hours of actual class over the whole 4 years. I started doing as much as I could remotely but I was still 300 to 500 a year in class after that (over 30 years) I was also an instructor for a while. Your post caused me to reflect on something that I've come to realize as I get older. Accomplishments in life are important along with the reputation you earn as you pursue them ... at least they were to me. But in the end none of them really matter for the vast majority of us. When your day comes and you kick the bucket, people will have a brief, focused review of who you were, what you did and what kind of a person you were but your legacy of accomplishments will quickly fade and be all but forgotten in a relatively short time. We are all replaceable. That's why you should give each of your grandkids a pocket knife. Then you'll be remembered. Until they lose it. My grandfather immigrated from Sweden. In his final years he sat down and wrote an autobiography. He described being raised on a farm in Sweden, attending school and his later life in the USA which included that of an infantryman in WW1. He was a maritime engineer and the bulk of the autobiography focused on the many ships and projects he worked on. He'd describe in great detail the electrical power distribution on a Navy ship and, in the middle of the detailed technical writing, insert a sentence ... "Helen (his wife) gave birth to my second son on Dec 6th". That's it. Then back to the USS Detroit's electrical issues. It is hilarious in many respects with the miss-spellings of words that causes memories of his Swedish accent to arise and sobering in others. I have the original, handwritten document. I scanned it all (which took a while) and distributed digital copies to the rest of the family who knew him. I have his penknife that he brought with him from Sweden along with an old fashioned pocket watch made in 1912. |
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On 1/13/17 9:55 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 1/13/2017 6:06 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 05:10:10 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 1/12/2017 8:28 PM, wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:54:57 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 1/12/17 5:12 PM, wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:19:14 -0500 (EST), justan wrote: on Harry's queer way of spelling Navy. It is just his way to disrespect the people who serve their country. He managed to dodge the draft and he thinks anyone who served is a fool What the **** did he care? He is a borderline communist and he already speaks russian.. Hey, it's not my fault you were too lazy to find a way to pay for college back then, when it was relatively inexpensive. And, as I have told you any number of times, I went to college to further my formal education. "Dodging" the draft never crossed my mind. Oh, and I speak and read Russian because I studied it. I like the language and there is a lot of great literature written in it. I had a way to pay for college, the GI bill, I just saw it as a 4 year impediment to my career. Once I was working, IBM offered 100% tuition reimbursement but again, there was no advantage in going. I already had the job I wanted and education was included in that job package. I was learning state of the art computer systems and software at a very rapid pace, not sitting in a boring class listening to some out of touch guy who was never actually in the field telling me how important Boolean Algebra was. I also had no interest in hearing about the archaic system he worked on in college. Students at Montgomery College were coming to me because their instructors had no clue about how the operating system on the 360 in their lab worked in spite of teaching it. I said this before and the bet still stands, I bet I have far more hours of classroom instruction than you do and the amount of "distance learning" (computer aided classes) and self taught courses will triple that. In the 60s and early 70s I was averaging 700-800 hours of actual class time a year, not hanging around the student union or working at some bull**** part time job. When my daughter was in college, her BA worked out to about 800 hours of actual class over the whole 4 years. I started doing as much as I could remotely but I was still 300 to 500 a year in class after that (over 30 years) I was also an instructor for a while. Your post caused me to reflect on something that I've come to realize as I get older. Accomplishments in life are important along with the reputation you earn as you pursue them ... at least they were to me. But in the end none of them really matter for the vast majority of us. When your day comes and you kick the bucket, people will have a brief, focused review of who you were, what you did and what kind of a person you were but your legacy of accomplishments will quickly fade and be all but forgotten in a relatively short time. We are all replaceable. That's why you should give each of your grandkids a pocket knife. Then you'll be remembered. Until they lose it. My grandfather immigrated from Sweden. In his final years he sat down and wrote an autobiography. He described being raised on a farm in Sweden, attending school and his later life in the USA which included that of an infantryman in WW1. He was a maritime engineer and the bulk of the autobiography focused on the many ships and projects he worked on. He'd describe in great detail the electrical power distribution on a Navy ship and, in the middle of the detailed technical writing, insert a sentence ... "Helen (his wife) gave birth to my second son on Dec 6th". That's it. Then back to the USS Detroit's electrical issues. It is hilarious in many respects with the miss-spellings of words that causes memories of his Swedish accent to arise and sobering in others. I have the original, handwritten document. I scanned it all (which took a while) and distributed digital copies to the rest of the family who knew him. I have his penknife that he brought with him from Sweden along with an old fashioned pocket watch made in 1912. My maternal grandfather was a journeyman saddlemaker in "the old country," traveling from village to village and farm to farm making and repairing saddles and farm gear. When he came to America, he got work at a butcher shop and in a few years opened his own butcher shop. I have some of his tools from Europe and a couple of his knives from his butcher shop. |
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Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 1/13/2017 6:06 AM, Poco Loco wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 05:10:10 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 1/12/2017 8:28 PM, wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 18:54:57 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 1/12/17 5:12 PM, wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 16:19:14 -0500 (EST), justan wrote: on Harry's queer way of spelling Navy. It is just his way to disrespect the people who serve their country. He managed to dodge the draft and he thinks anyone who served is a fool What the **** did he care? He is a borderline communist and he already speaks russian.. Hey, it's not my fault you were too lazy to find a way to pay for college back then, when it was relatively inexpensive. And, as I have told you any number of times, I went to college to further my formal education. "Dodging" the draft never crossed my mind. Oh, and I speak and read Russian because I studied it. I like the language and there is a lot of great literature written in it. I had a way to pay for college, the GI bill, I just saw it as a 4 year impediment to my career. Once I was working, IBM offered 100% tuition reimbursement but again, there was no advantage in going. I already had the job I wanted and education was included in that job package. I was learning state of the art computer systems and software at a very rapid pace, not sitting in a boring class listening to some out of touch guy who was never actually in the field telling me how important Boolean Algebra was. I also had no interest in hearing about the archaic system he worked on in college. Students at Montgomery College were coming to me because their instructors had no clue about how the operating system on the 360 in their lab worked in spite of teaching it. I said this before and the bet still stands, I bet I have far more hours of classroom instruction than you do and the amount of "distance learning" (computer aided classes) and self taught courses will triple that. In the 60s and early 70s I was averaging 700-800 hours of actual class time a year, not hanging around the student union or working at some bull**** part time job. When my daughter was in college, her BA worked out to about 800 hours of actual class over the whole 4 years. I started doing as much as I could remotely but I was still 300 to 500 a year in class after that (over 30 years) I was also an instructor for a while. Your post caused me to reflect on something that I've come to realize as I get older. Accomplishments in life are important along with the reputation you earn as you pursue them ... at least they were to me. But in the end none of them really matter for the vast majority of us. When your day comes and you kick the bucket, people will have a brief, focused review of who you were, what you did and what kind of a person you were but your legacy of accomplishments will quickly fade and be all but forgotten in a relatively short time. We are all replaceable. That's why you should give each of your grandkids a pocket knife. Then you'll be remembered. Until they lose it. My grandfather immigrated from Sweden. In his final years he sat down and wrote an autobiography. He described being raised on a farm in Sweden, attending school and his later life in the USA which included that of an infantryman in WW1. He was a maritime engineer and the bulk of the autobiography focused on the many ships and projects he worked on. He'd describe in great detail the electrical power distribution on a Navy ship and, in the middle of the detailed technical writing, insert a sentence ... "Helen (his wife) gave birth to my second son on Dec 6th". That's it. Then back to the USS Detroit's electrical issues. It is hilarious in many respects with the miss-spellings of words that causes memories of his Swedish accent to arise and sobering in others. I have the original, handwritten document. I scanned it all (which took a while) and distributed digital copies to the rest of the family who knew him. I have his penknife that he brought with him from Sweden along with an old fashioned pocket watch made in 1912. Very nice! --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus |
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