A Rant A Day Keep The Trolls At Play
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jackofallgeeksSo, here's my day, in a nutshell. Perhapse a rather large nutshell, true, but a nutshell none the less.
Databases
I woke up around 9:00, I believe, reasonably rested. I had a Databases test at 10:30, which was reasonable simple. He had one question on there, though, that he and I had disagreed on in class. I answered in the same way anyways; inprudent, perhapse, but today seems to have been a day to stick to one's guns.
Inbetween Stuff
After getting ot of there, I walked over to Leahy to print off my store, TheRealWorld. Unfortunately, secho.mine.nu was down, so I had to have Zach get on my computer and email the file to me. Secho seems to be up and running, now, but then it wasn't.
I came back here and played some Unreal Tournament 2004 online. Contrary to John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, I've found most players on there to be mostly-human. Today I wound up playing 1-on-1 with a gy when he and I showed up and no one else did. He was obviously better than me -- I could give him resistance, but it wasn't a fair fight -- and we ended up just dancing around and shooting each other for fun while he gave me some pointers about the game. It was cool, bt it was 1:40 before I realized, and i was late for me Creative Writing course at 1:35. I love that course.
Creative Writing
I ran all the way there, and ended up being very winded and coughing quite a bit through class. *cries* I'm out of shape. This is really disappointing to a guy who used to run Cross Country. I really need to start running again. Get in shape, build up stamina, that sort of thing.
Anyways, class went well. We did my story again, which is now twice the length it was the last time. They liked it -- Jess thought Chapter Zero was really 1984-ish, which is cool. I liked the tone of that chapter, and i'd like to keep ahold of it. A few of the were disappointed with the shift to college-life in Chapter One; it's really mundane for all of us. I hope to change that. They agreed that the scene in Chapter Zero gave them enough to latch onto to keep reading through Chapter One, so that's a good thing. And Amy was convinced that Chapter Zero was a dream-sequence -- her reaction when Ms. H. said quite bluntly that it was real was great! "He actually did that?!" It changed her whole perspective on the piece. I loved it. I've tried to revise a few things, in particular trying to assure that the reader knows Chapter Zero is not a dream.
The Rant
After coming back here, I laid down for a bit of a nap, listened to some music... I'd set my alarm for 6:00, so I could get two hours of sleep and be up and ready in plenty of time for my job interview at 7:15. But after one hour, I got up and started putzing around LiveJournal, hoping to find something to occupy myself with. And find it I did. In the Pro-Life community I'm in, there was a girl, alia_mchugh, who posted a locked entry which said rather simply: "i am so SICK of pro-choicers getting mad at me and then attacking my child and my ability to be a mother. at least i'm giving it LIFE.", and then she linked to a post at the AbortionDebate community, presumably where the offense had occurred. Always wanting to say something pertinent, I checked it out, and This is what I found.
I was rather surprised -- apparently, Alia had gotten upset because TechieGuru had pointed her toward fetal-development information. Alia snaps at Techie, Techie tells her to cool it, Alia pushed, Techie pushes back. I read it two or three times trying to find the alleged slight, and found nothing. So, I made My Response to Alia's post in the Prol-Life community. I sided with Techie; Alia had gone offensive first, threw the first insult, and generally over reacted because Techie offered her information, while Techie did her part to try and remain civil about it until the end.
Alia, in her defense against me, did make one good point -- I was the only who saw a problem with her post, particularly that it had nothing to do with the Prol-life topic other than that she was Pro-life and Techie was Pro-choice. It was just an excuse to bad-mouth someone she felt slighted by, and resumably get support for doing so. Which she got. Are we so blid that we can only see those who are on our side? Are we so deluded as to think that anything and everything one of Them does is by necessity malicious and filled with ill-will? It's a rather scary thought. True, only two others in the group replied to the post. I would want to say "maybe they didn't follow the link," but that's not the case -- they both referenced the other post, and I can't believe how blind they were -- Techie did not start the immaturity, Alia most certainly did, and did so from the very start! And it had nothing to do with Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice -- nothing Techie said even had a hint of the subject! I donno... Any thoughts from the LJ-world at large?
To quote a friend: "she's a kid trying to be an adult and she thinks she is because she's married and pregnant"
Update: Explative, if you do the math, she's not even 18 yet! No wonder she sounds like such a child, she is one!
The Interview
After that, I walked over to Johnny K's, a local bar where my prospective employers wanted to meet me for an interview. I showed up early, and heard about half of the other guy's interview on accident -- and it turns out the other guy was my buddy Dave! The interview went pretty well, though I fear it may have come over that I'm more interested in working with code... I'd really would like to work with hardware... They said they were going to try and get things sorted out by the end of the weekend, and let us know one way or the other by Monday or Tuesday. So, whee.
And now, I am starving, so I think I'm going to get food. Probably pasta or something. Whee.
Quote of the Day: If money grew on trees, you'd have to spend all your time raking. And no one likes raking.
Databases
I woke up around 9:00, I believe, reasonably rested. I had a Databases test at 10:30, which was reasonable simple. He had one question on there, though, that he and I had disagreed on in class. I answered in the same way anyways; inprudent, perhapse, but today seems to have been a day to stick to one's guns.
Inbetween Stuff
After getting ot of there, I walked over to Leahy to print off my store, TheRealWorld. Unfortunately, secho.mine.nu was down, so I had to have Zach get on my computer and email the file to me. Secho seems to be up and running, now, but then it wasn't.
I came back here and played some Unreal Tournament 2004 online. Contrary to John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, I've found most players on there to be mostly-human. Today I wound up playing 1-on-1 with a gy when he and I showed up and no one else did. He was obviously better than me -- I could give him resistance, but it wasn't a fair fight -- and we ended up just dancing around and shooting each other for fun while he gave me some pointers about the game. It was cool, bt it was 1:40 before I realized, and i was late for me Creative Writing course at 1:35. I love that course.
Creative Writing
I ran all the way there, and ended up being very winded and coughing quite a bit through class. *cries* I'm out of shape. This is really disappointing to a guy who used to run Cross Country. I really need to start running again. Get in shape, build up stamina, that sort of thing.
Anyways, class went well. We did my story again, which is now twice the length it was the last time. They liked it -- Jess thought Chapter Zero was really 1984-ish, which is cool. I liked the tone of that chapter, and i'd like to keep ahold of it. A few of the were disappointed with the shift to college-life in Chapter One; it's really mundane for all of us. I hope to change that. They agreed that the scene in Chapter Zero gave them enough to latch onto to keep reading through Chapter One, so that's a good thing. And Amy was convinced that Chapter Zero was a dream-sequence -- her reaction when Ms. H. said quite bluntly that it was real was great! "He actually did that?!" It changed her whole perspective on the piece. I loved it. I've tried to revise a few things, in particular trying to assure that the reader knows Chapter Zero is not a dream.
The Rant
After coming back here, I laid down for a bit of a nap, listened to some music... I'd set my alarm for 6:00, so I could get two hours of sleep and be up and ready in plenty of time for my job interview at 7:15. But after one hour, I got up and started putzing around LiveJournal, hoping to find something to occupy myself with. And find it I did. In the Pro-Life community I'm in, there was a girl, alia_mchugh, who posted a locked entry which said rather simply: "i am so SICK of pro-choicers getting mad at me and then attacking my child and my ability to be a mother. at least i'm giving it LIFE.", and then she linked to a post at the AbortionDebate community, presumably where the offense had occurred. Always wanting to say something pertinent, I checked it out, and This is what I found.
I was rather surprised -- apparently, Alia had gotten upset because TechieGuru had pointed her toward fetal-development information. Alia snaps at Techie, Techie tells her to cool it, Alia pushed, Techie pushes back. I read it two or three times trying to find the alleged slight, and found nothing. So, I made My Response to Alia's post in the Prol-Life community. I sided with Techie; Alia had gone offensive first, threw the first insult, and generally over reacted because Techie offered her information, while Techie did her part to try and remain civil about it until the end.
Alia, in her defense against me, did make one good point -- I was the only who saw a problem with her post, particularly that it had nothing to do with the Prol-life topic other than that she was Pro-life and Techie was Pro-choice. It was just an excuse to bad-mouth someone she felt slighted by, and resumably get support for doing so. Which she got. Are we so blid that we can only see those who are on our side? Are we so deluded as to think that anything and everything one of Them does is by necessity malicious and filled with ill-will? It's a rather scary thought. True, only two others in the group replied to the post. I would want to say "maybe they didn't follow the link," but that's not the case -- they both referenced the other post, and I can't believe how blind they were -- Techie did not start the immaturity, Alia most certainly did, and did so from the very start! And it had nothing to do with Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice -- nothing Techie said even had a hint of the subject! I donno... Any thoughts from the LJ-world at large?
To quote a friend: "she's a kid trying to be an adult and she thinks she is because she's married and pregnant"
Update: Explative, if you do the math, she's not even 18 yet! No wonder she sounds like such a child, she is one!
The Interview
After that, I walked over to Johnny K's, a local bar where my prospective employers wanted to meet me for an interview. I showed up early, and heard about half of the other guy's interview on accident -- and it turns out the other guy was my buddy Dave! The interview went pretty well, though I fear it may have come over that I'm more interested in working with code... I'd really would like to work with hardware... They said they were going to try and get things sorted out by the end of the weekend, and let us know one way or the other by Monday or Tuesday. So, whee.
And now, I am starving, so I think I'm going to get food. Probably pasta or something. Whee.
Quote of the Day: If money grew on trees, you'd have to spend all your time raking. And no one likes raking.
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Date: 2004-03-25 08:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-25 09:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-25 09:13 pm (UTC)PATIENTS
patient_id
[other fields]
DOCTORS
doctor_id
[other fields]
EXAMS
exam_id
doctor_id
patient_id
[other fields]
Having set them up as such, you allow easy access by doctor, or by patient. Additionally, you avoid replicating patient and doctor data. Makes perfect sense to me...for whatever that is worth. If he marks it wrong, what are you going to do?
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Date: 2004-03-25 09:34 pm (UTC)Anyways, I already argued with him on it before; if he marks it wrong, I'll probably argue with him again. I won't really expect to get much out of it, but... -shrugs- I'm stubborn.
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Date: 2004-03-26 07:23 am (UTC)I had a C# teacher that I plastered every other class. I beat her up so bad on the Midterm that she re-collected them to re-grade.
My Assembly teacher was so incompetent, I often found myself teaching the class, standing at the whiteboard and all.
Some teachers are so dumb.
Holding my scathing tounge
Date: 2004-03-26 10:16 am (UTC)What made me the most angry about the whole thing is the girl-woman Alia's stance that everything was an attack because the other person was pro-life. She was jumping to paranoid conclusions similar to Dave Sim and his creepy strange view that everyone but him is a rampant "feminist" and they're all out to do him in in one way or another. It just made me very, very, very sad.
I agree that she's young and foolishly proud, but I think the outbursts are just an outcry against her inner fears that the (supposed)critics might be right about her abilities. Not that *I* am doubting them, but that she may on some level doubt them. I've never met someone who so stridently argued to be in the right that didn't deep down know that they'd made an error somewhere. They would rather argue the point to foolishness than to concede that they'd made even the slightest and most innocent of mistakes.
I have endless things I could say about the whole thing, but since you asked for "livejournal's opinion, I'll add just this: I'm pro-choice, and very much so, but I have no problems accepting the fact that other people are pro-life. I don't think of myself as an indiscriminate babykiller. I don't generally think of pro-lifers as homicidal maniacs who kill other people to defend their veiws. Both views are a little silly, in my book, even though there are people who fit into both categories.
I am very passionate about my stance, but I try not to actively push it on other people, nor do I judge people based on the fact that they don't agree with me on this point. I am open to serious debate using real-world examples in order to clarify the situation for all debating parties, but that's where I draw the line.
I have no respect and no patience for those who blame and generalize and jump to conclusions in this matter.
And that *is* all, because I'll be here all evening if I don't stop now.
P.S. I like your quote!!
Re: Holding my scathing tounge
Date: 2004-03-26 10:57 am (UTC)One point, Alia was the pro-life party, Techie was the pro-choice. I myself am rather strongly pro-life, but the issue wasn't abortion, it was just Alia being immature and inflamatory, and trying to bite Techie where (a) Techie couldn't get her back and (b) she might get support. And what bothers me even still is that she did get support...
Re: Holding my scathing tounge
Date: 2004-03-26 11:44 am (UTC)