tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post193337037431518395..comments2024-03-28T00:23:01.632-04:00Comments on Lem's Levity: Woof, woof, woof! TwoTrooper Yorkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-75392496529642450482016-04-19T14:57:41.541-04:002016-04-19T14:57:41.541-04:00Guildofcannonballs said...
biggest advantages of ...<i>Guildofcannonballs said...<br /><br />biggest advantages of 4 year Universities/colleges</i><br /><br />I think the idea of going to university for 4 years is a lie now. Due to class impaction, that is being stretched out to 5, 6, or more years. And that's for a bachelors. Graduate, PhD, to Post-Doc is an ungodly amount of time. What kind of masochist wants to be in the collegiate system for that long. Oh wait, leftists. NVM.Methadrashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07828014989470539375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-39629119121467559042016-04-19T14:55:34.823-04:002016-04-19T14:55:34.823-04:00Universities are going to ride the train of cateri...Universities are going to ride the train of catering to out-of-state tuitions and government backed student loans from now until the apocalypse. Universities are now colluding with each other to basically shut out in-state students in favor of out-of-state students by taking more of them than not, so that the other in-state students go out of state because they can't get into the in-state university of their choice.Methadrashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07828014989470539375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-28619250270870973252016-04-19T01:18:39.748-04:002016-04-19T01:18:39.748-04:00Vic has done a lot more than I will ever do, but I...Vic has done a lot more than I will ever do, but I disagree with his tone many times.<br /><br />"by the mythical college experience of physically living in or walking about a beautiful campus,"<br /><br />In fact, networking is one of the biggest advantages of 4 year Universities/colleges. This is why a two year degree at a community college and then transferring to a four year has drawbacks compared to attending the same school 4 years.<br /><br />Of course, because of the voracious greed of anyone near a college campus save the students when entering but almost never upon leaving so indebted as indoctrinated, 4 years easily turns into 5 or 6, yet the point stands that the first two are important because of potential dorm experiences that are not mythic.<br /><br />In fact, using the term mythic here reveals a salesman's approach to observation.<br /><br />Guildofcannonballshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10352588747567045751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-19099762135408958762016-04-19T01:07:59.104-04:002016-04-19T01:07:59.104-04:00I'm kind of waiting for someone to point out t...I'm kind of waiting for someone to point out the cataracts are at the southern Nile but so far nobody has. Chip Ahoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597726289890879627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-76131734388727173832016-04-19T01:05:18.432-04:002016-04-19T01:05:18.432-04:00Today the internet lady said, "The ophthalmol...Today the internet lady said, "The ophthalmologist asked me if I know what cataracts are and I answered that's where the northern Nile get very ripply. He responded with a grimace. By the way, I know why they called cataracts. Do you?"<br /><br />That's a pretty good joke, don't you think? <br /><br />She's asking us all and I'm thinking sure, because waterfalls make clear water appear clouded and the ancients considered clouded water pouring over the eyes. But other people will answer her so I can just watch. Thank you internet. Chip Ahoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597726289890879627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-60403348130675292022016-04-19T00:57:07.115-04:002016-04-19T00:57:07.115-04:00Speaking of gnarly corners, this morning I came ac...Speaking of gnarly corners, this morning I came across "very cold" : _ _ L _ _ and I filled in GELID without pausing to think. Thank you internet. Chip Ahoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597726289890879627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-8404815151617925222016-04-19T00:52:39.457-04:002016-04-19T00:52:39.457-04:00I've become more smarterer after college than ...I've become more smarterer after college than through college. And now I'm intolerably smart. However, I must hasten, college really did teach me to read simply by demanding it. I learned information really does want to be free. People really do want to talk about what they know. It's not so much bragging but people really do like to spill it all out. Not saying people don't hoard proprietary knowledge. Intellectual property whatever. <br /><br />Whatever you want to know is available for free. I bet. Almost. <br /><br />Contrarily, Wolfgang Puck was showing us the world of his mum and how she's a brilliant natural cook. Puck goes, "C'mon, Mum, tell us what you put in there." She can't because it's a deeply held secret, her secret world will collapse, her top secret must not get out, she must be the only woman around that knows how to do this, on a show about cooking instruction *click* Bitch, you're wrecking my theory about people sharing wisdom and being talkative abut the things that they know. <br /><br />She's a knowledge hoarder. Personality flaw. The second rung down is a knowledge seller. Some kind of shortcoming that disallows anything else. The natural state is a knowledge sharer. <br /><br />I can then open YouTube and have fifteen videos of women showing what Puck's mum did, compare recipes of online and decide for myself which way to go, maybe even what that top secret thing is. <br /><br />Chinese were like this. They would not reveal the top secret ingredient that makes their noodles so elastic that from one wad they stretch and double, and double, and double to hundreds rather quickly and impressively. Noodle maker after noodle maker would not tell the white guy their secret until finally some friendly young guy did. Baking soda. Chinese noodle stretchers are knowledge hoarders. YouTube, knowledge sharers. <br /><br />For example I have learned so many words in different languages on my own through the internet it's incredible. Many more than I did in or for or through college. And that's just words. There's so many of them you can't even use them.<br /><br />Except to unravel a gnarly crossword corner effortlessly one lonely time among thousands of those things.<br /><br />I ask it everything. My microwave of 10 years shuts off at 5 minutes. Finally I asked the internet wtf? Other people are having the same problem. And now I have a plan of attack. ding ding ding I can actually take it apart. It could be something so stupid as the fan blade falling off. A problem with that model. Is that muy ridiculoso or what? 10 years! <br /><br />I could end up reading and writing as a proper Egyptologist without even actually wanting that and not trying because all that automatically comes with what I am after. A masters degree-worthy education in Egyptology is the tin-cups on strings attached to the things that I'm after. If I were interested in certification, boink, I could do it easily as taking those CLEP exams during college. Come to think of it, that might be fun. All because of the internet. <br /><br />My signs have doubled at least. Tripled. I know more signs than my deaf friends do. I know all the online dictionaries. See new ones in videos all the time. Study them in different languages. No brag, just fact, I got three signs for the word "rapture" where English has one word. Because of Blondies' song. And the internet. And that's just one example of hundreds if not thousands. Chip Ahoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597726289890879627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-8638006495553209072016-04-18T23:58:02.444-04:002016-04-18T23:58:02.444-04:00Milton Friedman spoke of four ways to spend money....Milton Friedman spoke of four ways to spend money. Spend your money on yourself, spend your money on others, spend other people's money on yourself, and spend other people's money on other people. The last is the most reckless spending of the four. The example he gave was public education. Spot on.windbaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06849477338372901623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-20422951661675781662016-04-18T23:43:29.421-04:002016-04-18T23:43:29.421-04:00I can't recall any of the PJMedia crowd who go...I can't recall any of the PJMedia crowd who goes against the orthodoxy.<br /><br />The closest are Insta (although he's been backsliding the last few times I've gone there) and Roger Simon.edutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15033144261502435196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-45487332532479305982016-04-18T23:39:26.134-04:002016-04-18T23:39:26.134-04:00So is VDH a #nevertrumper? I seem to recall some d...So is VDH a #nevertrumper? I seem to recall some disparaging remarks early on. chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-717986195212622043.post-2985871889824121632016-04-18T23:10:27.983-04:002016-04-18T23:10:27.983-04:00Tell you something else that is already happening....Tell you something else that is already happening.<br /><br />Certifications are replacing degrees in a lot of STEM fields. <br /><br />A BS in Computer Sci will be nice, but anything much beyond that will come from people like Cisco, RedHat, Citrix, or even (gag) Microshaft.edutcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15033144261502435196noreply@blogger.com