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Posted on 06/26/2004 8:07:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
sex on the beach! ;-)
We didn't do youth groups because for years, there wasn't one at our church; and when there was, I didn't want to be part - it was my choice. I had (surprise, surprise) issues...
Don't know what I wouldn't have got somewhere else, though. We did Sunday School, and home bible studies, and I got to hang out with my peers at homeschool co-ops and chess club and such.
Yawn. Just in from seeing "Arthur". Not too bad, aside from the historical silliness.
Yikers... hang in there.
I told my IT staff in our last all-IT meeting that our profession was still maturing, but that we were still in the dark ages of the IT profession. Much like the dark ages of the medical profession. Nowadays pretty much anybody can be an "IT professional". But that's OK because we don't really expect much more than the "mideaval barber" level of medicine for today's computer systems.
BUT: As computing systems become more complex and more interconnected the diagnosis of problems becomes more and more "biological" in scope. As time goes on, the diagnosis of computing issues will become irreducibly complex and will become much more an issue of "opinion" rather than "fact", and in that way will become in future years much more like practicing medicine than like fixing toasters.
The medical "profession" grew on very similar lines, and one of the first things that the great thinker Hippocrates noticed was that there was a "high duty" to such a profession that required an "Oath" that first consisted of a promise: "First, do no harm."
We're still in the dark ages of IT, and for the time being there's a lot of "mideavel barbers" doing IT without any other sort of license. I'm one of them.
But I do see the future here, and the need for a more medical approach for not just the patients, but the practictioners of the discipline.
Okay, but that's decidedly different than what you said this afternoon.
Look at them fours...
White Russian!
Not that it isn't a fine idea, but one mitigating thought: Sand.
But, is a drink called a "Slow comfortable screw on the beach."
"I got to hang out with my peers at homeschool co-ops and chess club and such."
You play chess? Cool :) I like playing the computer.
"Yawn. Just in from seeing "Arthur". Not too bad, aside from the historical silliness.""
How close was it to the traditional Arthur?
I thought it was up against the wall....
I'm not here ;~D
Typical...you start this and leave...
You just would not believe the amount of damage that was done in my little bitty classroom. It is only a small little classroom. Very minor. But, my work-study and my friend Jim who works in our IT department had it set up very nicely for my purposes of teaching. In only a couple of weeks that one guy has brought me back to where I started 3 years ago. A room with 21 computers. No printers functional. No networking. Inadequate software installation. AND he has removed the files I used to teach with!
I.P.Freeley just made a donation!
No, that was the "old" one. Now it's on the beach.
I'm not saying it is really a good idea (what with the sand and all) I'm just reportin' da facts.
I started this?
Boy... We had more of those drinks than I thought!
~grinning~
~snicker~
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