The Hobbit Hole XVIII - Though we pass them by today...

The Freeper Hobbit Hole ^

[osagebowman]

Evening OT; kewl for the pancake breakfast.

You going to get a garden 'dwarf' to keep the flamingo company?

[Ramius]

:-)

Yah. People are pretty sensitive around here too, sometimes with decent reason, but oftentimes without. Seems you can't even move a plant without somebody getting all huffy about it.

[JenB]

hope you survived the Perfesser.

Mwahaha.... we survived. Heh heh heh. We got the plagiariser off our team. The professor said we were absolutely right to bring it to him. And he confirmed what I thought, that we could have been severely penalized if we hadn't found him out...

[RMDupree]

Exactly.

In other news, they've finally gotten around to interviewing for a new payroll rep.

We need more along the lines of 3 new reps, but they only approved one requisition. One's better than none at this point. *grin*

BTW, are you driving down with Hair and ecurbh for ShootMoot or flying alone?

[osagebowman]

Evening - guess we best toss our hats in the ring as well for the Dogwood Ridge Shoot n' Moot. OB & LSA; driving; primarily bent sticks w/strings & pointy sticks w/feathers but in the keeping with the spirit of the 'shoot-moot' my .45 Webley & my .54 flintlock longrifle; we be stayin' off-site (in town)at nite.

[HairOfTheDog]

Good evening everyone! So here's our list so far then:

Headcount	Who	Others in group	Accommodations	Firearms	Other tidbits:
2	Hair and ecurbh		Camping	Handguns .38 - .357 - .22 Long guns: 20 gauge	Will be driving out.
1	Corin		Couch		Heh….
1	Jenb		Camping		Will be driving out.
1	Ruthy		Couch?		Flying out.
1	Ramius		Camping	Handguns .357 - .45 Long guns(?): .22LR - .270 - 12 ga.
1	ExGeeEye		Camping	Long guns: M1903A3 .30.06 - M1 .30 Carbine
4	2J	Steve, 2Jedis	Room at g'nads	Daisy BB gun	Will bring air mattress for the jedis.
1	TalonDj		Camping	Hanguns: .45ACP - .22 LR Long guns: 22LR - 7.62mm - 44winmag
2	Bear and Rose		Hotel		Driving - probably Sat only.
2	Osagebowman and LSAggie		Hotel	Bows and arrows Handgun: .45 Long gun: .54 Flintlock

[RMDupree]

It'll be wonderful to see you and LSA again!

[RMDupree]

Looks good! I'm really looking forward to it.

[osagebowman]

Be good to see you again & to meet our other HH FRiends we just haven't run into yet. :-)

[RMDupree]

I'm still trying to convince trini to come along with me, but she's being stubborn. :-D

[RMDupree]

I killed it good.

Nighty night folks!

[Ramius]

I'm still here... :-( was off someplace for just a bit..

[JenB]

I'm here...

Sigh. I absolutely hate group projects. Now that we've gotten rid of Mr. Plagiarist, it's obvious that another member of our team is incompetent and lazy; my galpal and I are having to scramble to cover his section here...

[Ramius]

I think the reason they always have those interminable group projects in college is twofold: 1) to keep the prof from having to grade so many papers, and 2) to teach that committees are useless as a method to actually get anything done.

[JenB]

I agree... but this is graduate school, you'd think people would understand "research this topic and write a four-page section for including in the group paper", wouldn't you?

[Ramius]

I dunno... I met a lot of dimwits in grad school. Had to do "team" projects with them too... like anywhere else and like in bidness... a couple of people drive the project and the rest just hang on with the minimum.

So what if there's no "I" in "team". There ain't no "you" or "me" there either. :-)

[ecurbh]

committees are useless as a method to actually get anything done.

[JenB]

There's a "me"... for "this is my grade we're talking about".

It's just not nice that some people have four hard-working members, while we effectively have two.

[Ramius]

hehehe... love those. They're so terrifyingly true.

[Ramius]

Yah. I guess the only thing to do is work for your own grade. Sometimes that means other team members ride for free... so be it.

It's a pretty safe bet that all the other groups have the same issues.

One thing I've noticed about committees... is they get set up whenever there's a project that the groupthink suggests might be important, but nobody really wants to do-- and for sure nobody wants to "own" it. They're great for putting stuff off until next year's budget. :-)