What's the View Like From My New Place?

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The discussion revolves around a user learning to use their camera phone, sharing photos taken from various locations around their home, and expressing excitement about the local wildlife, particularly a large unidentified bird humorously dubbed "notagoshawk." Participants engage in identifying the bird, suggesting it might be a red-tailed hawk or a ferruginous hawk due to its size and coloration. The conversation also touches on gardening challenges in a shaded patio area, with advice on potential planting solutions. The user shares a personal anecdote about falling near a ravine, which resulted in a broken arm, and humorously mentions that their pet, referred to as the "Fruit Bat," also sustained an injury during the incident. The thread highlights a sense of community as users share their experiences with birds and gardening while providing support and encouragement.
  • #101
Evo said:
What does that have to do with my 3.9GPA daughter that has won National Honors in Chemistry, Biology, Math and English? In high school she took all AP and honors classes. Are you saying my daughter is dumb?

No! Relax mama bear. I don't want to get eaten.

Im just saying that woman was dumb as bricks and was trusted with a multi million dollar airplane and hundreds of peoples lives. If she can do that, anything is possible.
 
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  • #102
Evo said:
Actually, I don't post on facebook or My Space because it is for teens and young 20's mainly. I can see professors posting on facebook to try to keep in touch with students. My Space, I feel, is just for teenagers. I don't think even my kids post there, but maybe so. Yes, I know older people post there, which IMO, is creepy. It's a kid thing, old geezers need to back off. Get a life, you're not 16 anymore, mkay?

I don't think that's true. I have a myspace page, and everyone that I have as "friends" on it is well over 20 (over 30 even). It seems that most of my students have pages on both sites. You should check out Tom's myspace thread. :-p The "kids" are all over at Facebook. I think Myspace has more adults on it.
 
  • #103
Moonbear said:
I don't think that's true. I have a myspace page, and everyone that I have as "friends" on it is well over 20 (over 30 even). It seems that most of my students have pages on both sites. You should check out Tom's myspace thread. :-p The "kids" are all over at Facebook. I think Myspace has more adults on it.

Thats because facebook was originally made for only people with a .edu school account. Its a great way to send out/receive mass invites to parties and events.
 
  • #104
Cyrus said:
No! Relax mama bear. I don't want to get eaten.
And you would get eaten. I finished High School when I was 14. I was one of those bizarre
children that the schools didn't know what to do with. Or with what to do. I fell off the scales. Downside, I was self educated because the public school system couldn't keep up with me and I refused to go to a school for the "Academically Able".

You are lucky that school has not tried to confine you to a lower level of achievement, which was the case back when I was in school. As one teacher told me "I cannot teach two classes, and since the other kids can't keep up with you, you will have to slow down."
 
  • #105
Are you kidding me. I got my A's in high school by doing the minimal amount of work. My high school was HORRIBLE. Boy, college sure did slap me in the face hard first semester. What do you mean I have to do WORK?

I got a big fat D- in calculus 2. I mean, I took AP calclus in high school, so its the same thing right? Errrrrrrrrr, wrong.

I had no study habbits my first semester of college. I went out and rode my bike instead of studying. Mmmm, yeah. Not so smart.
 
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  • #106
Cyrus said:
Are you kidding me. I got my A's in high school by doing the minimal amount of work. My high school was HORRIBLE. Boy, college sure did slap me in the face hard first semester. What do you mean I have to do WORK?
Cyrus, I think you're phenomenal, and hopefully your teachers didn't start taking your schoolbooks away from you when you were in 3rd grade.

Yep, the decision was made to take my schoolbooks away when they discovered that I had completed the 3rd grade on my own in 3 weeks. From then on, I was only allowed to have my books when I needed to do an assignment.

My 9th grade Algebra teacher refused to pass me, I had missed 102 days of school and only showed up for tests and had a 110 average (with bonus questions). She told me that it made her look like she wasn't teaching me anything (she wasn't). She tried to get other teachers to mark me as "incomplete", a grade of "I", although I had straight A's. No other teachers agreed.
 
  • #107
You should have been in one of those universities in paris that has the smart little children. I knew a guy who came from africa. Him and his friend were the top two students at his school. There they learned french, english, calclus I,II,III, diff equations, linear algebra, etc. All, with basic scientific calculators. Really smart guy. He said his friend was number one, and got into a good school in Paris. When he got there, his friend told him some of the classes had 12 year olds doing math at a higher level than he was.

Another friend of mine in Tunisia also said his school (also french based) was as hard as college in America.

American public schools are a sad joke. I graduted from high school learning next to nothing, and I was bitter about it. I wanted to leave and start college at 16 because I knew I was wasting my time by staying in school.

In hind sight, I wasnt ready for college, I just had to be in a better school. With actual teachers and students that cared.

Right now, Id put myself way low on the list of smart people. I just work hard, but I am not smart. I've seen smart people, I am not one of them.
 
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  • #108
Evo said:
Actually, I don't post on facebook or My Space because it is for teens and young 20's mainly. I can see professors posting on facebook to try to keep in touch with students. My Space, I feel, is just for teenagers. I don't think even my kids post there, but maybe so. Yes, I know older people post there, which IMO, is creepy. It's a kid thing, old geezers need to back off. Get a life, you're not 16 anymore, mkay?
I agree, but I have nieces who are teenaged and early twenties, and they all insist on my getting ids on these sites. I feel very out of place most of the time, especially on Facebook, which I usually try to avoid - it's like visiting them in their dorm rooms.
I find more adults on MySpace, but I have to admit I'm kind of slumming there, since I mainly tend to go to the Physics forum to try and chase away the kooks.
 
  • #109
Naw, being self-taught I did not feel I deserved any of that. Although my friends at NASA wanted me to participate in courses at Rice (to which I had won a scholorship).

I want people to learn from what happened to me. I lived in a backwards community (scholastically). It wasn't until I was 11 that special interest was taken in me and the school told my parents that they had nothing to offer me, so they should put me in a private school for children with a minimum 140 IQ. A boarding school hundreds of miles away. I refused.
 
  • #110
First round of first grade for me, I was in a reading program. The second time, I was put in gifted.
 
  • #111
binzing said:
First round of first grade for me, I was in a reading program. The second time, I was put in gifted.
That's good.

I was told to stop getting ahead. Then my books were taken away. :frown:
 
  • #112
As soon as I'm a junior I plan to kick it into high gear with all AP classes (AP classes are only provided to upperclassmen here). My senior year I plan on taking like AP Chem and as an elective to retake it, AP Biology.
 
  • #113
Evo said:
...It wasn't until I was 11 that special interest was taken in me and the school told my parents that they had nothing to offer me, so they should put me in a private school for children with a minimum 140 IQ.
Do you think your long-term visual memory affected your rate of learning?
Btw, great view through your house windows :smile: .. Sure wish i'd seen that notagoshawk!
 
  • #114
Evo said:
...It wasn't until I was 11 that special interest was taken in me and the school told my parents that they had nothing to offer me, so they should put me in a private school for children with a minimum 140 IQ.
Do you think your long-term visual memory affected your rate of learning?
I think my memory played a significant role.

Btw, great view through your house windows :smile: .. Sure wish i'd seen that notagoshawk!
I hope he shows up here again.
 
  • #115
I think I have semi-photographic memory, because when I compete in Geography bees/ knowledge bowls/ etc. often things will come to me as a picture in my memory, especially with geography
 
  • #116
binzing said:
I think I have semi-photographic memory, because when I compete in Geography bees/ knowledge bowls/ etc. often things will come to me as a picture in my memory, especially with geography
Yes, that's how it works for me, anything that required memorization I aced. Anything that required creative thinking, not so hot. I guess my dad ws right when he made me take business in college. :frown:
 
  • #117
I hate how they do class ranking. It goes back to 7th grade (I failed algebra the first semester then, and went back to prealgebra, then then next year I barely squeaked by in algebra) so I currently have a rank of 189 out of 390.
 
  • #118
Evo said:
Naw, being self-taught I did not feel I deserved any of that. Although my friends at NASA wanted me to participate in courses at Rice (to which I had won a scholorship).

I want people to learn from what happened to me. I lived in a backwards community (scholastically). It wasn't until I was 11 that special interest was taken in me and the school told my parents that they had nothing to offer me, so they should put me in a private school for children with a minimum 140 IQ. A boarding school hundreds of miles away. I refused.

I remember in 2nd grade being asked if a certain set of spelling words were hard. Reading at a high school level at that point, I answered truthfully that they were not hard. I was given detention...

I always thought that teachers would want to encourage bright students. Apparently not. My senior year in High School I had three homework assignments the entire year. All from the same class. I passed calculus with 116% average and missed one point the entire year (on the last quiz at that, talk about lame).

It seems like High School exists to be a day care and nothing more. It's really sad :(
 
  • #119
When I was 10, my parents bought a house across the road from where they had rented for years. The owner was a widower with an adult daughter, and he gave my folks a killer deal. He also (Thank you! Thank you, Welman!) left a large library of books, mostly from a subscription service that sent you a classic novel or collection of stories/poems every month. The books were plain-bound and printed on lousy paper, but they were a treasure to me. At 10, I was reading Dickens, Twain, Hawthorn, Verne, and on and on every single night and my parents had to tell me to shut off the light and go to sleep.

I'd pick a book and plow through it from front to back. Later, when I entered college in Engineering, my mentor in the Honors program (Cecil Rhodes - a professor emeritus) noticed my interest in literature and (gently) steered me into a major in English Lit, which I supplemented with a double-major in Philosophy. I gravitated toward poetry of the English Romantic period - though I knew ahead of time that I'd love it due to my childhood exposures to Keats, Byron, Shelly, Coleridge, and Burns.
 
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  • #120
Yeah, as I said before I was in a reading program my first time in 1st grade. By second grade I was reading at a level of 12.9 (twelth grade, ninth month).
 
  • #121
We moved into our new (hopefully temporary) offices today. I have a huge pillar right in the middle of my desk, they had to cut my desk up to fit around the pillar. Our printers aren't set up, no fax machines, no one knows how the phones work. I just paid $2 for two hard boiled eggs that could double as golf balls, but they were the only thing in the cafeteria that wasn't deep fried, and I forgot to bring lunch today.

Here's my pillar, you'd think they'd have painted the scrapes.
 

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  • #122
Thats lovely Evo. At least they gave you a complimentary toast rack.
 
  • #123
Evo said:
Here's my pillar, you'd think they'd have painted the scrapes.

That pillar is just screaming for a mural! :approve:
 
  • #124
Kurdt said:
Thats lovely Evo. At least they gave you a complimentary toast rack.
ahahaha! Yes, the toast rack is a nice touch.

I'll take a picture of someone else's office when I get a chance so you can see what my office should look like.
 
  • #125
Also, you can't tell, but my desk goes behind that pillar and the overhead cabinet is behind it.
 
  • #126
If I decide to invest in a telecom company, I'm going to PM you and ask who you work for so I can avoid them. Looks like some serious lack of planning on your managers' part.
 
  • #127
I have two phones on my desk, they have the same numbers on both and when I pick up a line on one the other picks up and they both ring at the same time. :rolleyes:
 
  • #128
Looks like the second law of [/URL] type of desk. That law goes something like: the viability of a company is inverse proportional to the fanciness of their offices.

Rationale: if the offices are fancy the staff has no priority for important business.
 
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  • #129
Evo said:
We moved into our new (hopefully temporary) offices today. I have a huge pillar right in the middle of my desk, they had to cut my desk up to fit around the pillar. Our printers aren't set up, no fax machines, no one knows how the phones work. I just paid $2 for two hard boiled eggs that could double as golf balls, but they were the only thing in the cafeteria that wasn't deep fried, and I forgot to bring lunch today.

Here's my pillar, you'd think they'd have painted the scrapes.
That's insane!

It looks like they notched the desk to fit it aournd the pillar. And they actually paid some idiot for this plan? Or is there a plan?


So where to Dilbert and Wally work?
 
  • #130
Astronuc said:
That's insane!

It looks like they notched the desk to fit it aournd the pillar. And they actually paid some idiot for this plan? Or is there a plan?
The desk is supposed to be one continuous semi-circle around my office, instead, they cut the desk up and the pillar cuts into my desk in one corner and then there is a small desk to the left of the pillar. Plus, part of my desk is unusable due to it being behind the pillar.
 
  • #131
Evo said:
The desk is supposed to be one continuous semi-circle around my office, instead, they cut the desk up and the pillar cuts into my desk in one corner and then there is a small desk to the left of the pillar. Plus, part of my desk is unusable due to it being behind the pillar.
I can tell that the desk behind the pillar is unusable. The moron that did that layout should have figured it out and the partition should have been centered on the pillar.

I hope it is temporary.
 
  • #132
I stuck some old folders back there, I can't even get into the overhead cabinet at the end.

Everyone is stopping by my office and going wow, that sucks. :frown:
 

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  • #133
Send those pictures to your boss and ask him "What is wrong with this picture?".

Or you ask if the broom/utility closest is available. It's layout makes more sense.

Or decorate the 'cave' with moss and some bats.


Hang in there. :rolleyes: This too shall pass - hopefully not for long.
 
  • #134
that is rather terrible Evo. Its hardly the ideal workspace.
 
  • #135
I love the moss and bats idea. I'm probably stuck here until we move, they're aren't going to want to go through the trouble of moving me since this is supposedly "temporary".
 
  • #136
Wow, Evo, who did you piss off to earn that space? I can't believe they actually went to all the trouble of cutting up your desk to cram it in there instead of just moving over some partitions, or turning around the orientation of your office so the desk was on the other side (that nook next to the pillar would have been a great place for a file cabinet or coat rack, not half your desk).
 
  • #137
Moonbear said:
Wow, Evo, who did you piss off to earn that space?
:smile: My boss swears that he had no idea when he assigned cubes.

I can't believe they actually went to all the trouble of cutting up your desk to cram it in there instead of just moving over some partitions, or turning around the orientation of your office so the desk was on the other side (that nook next to the pillar would have been a great place for a file cabinet or coat rack, not half your desk).
It would have been too easy to move the cubicle wall past the pillar. :rolleyes:
 
  • #138
I guess an upside is that, if/when you next move out of that space, Evo, they'll have to buy a new desk for you because that one is entirely toast.
 
  • #139
Evo's new (but temporary) office...

evos new office.GIF
 
  • #140
lisab said:
Evo's new (but temporary) office...

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:smile: Thanks lisab! That made my day.
 
  • #141
I actually quit a job over a bad office situation. My boss made me share an office with a guy named Farzad (a.k.a. "Fartzad" - guess why).
 
  • #142
lisab said:
Evo's new (but temporary) office...

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Excellent! Reminds me of MAD magazine.
 
  • #143
Ouch.

:frown:

I passed out last night in the bathroom, my temperature had fallen to 93 degrees F, luckily I was on my knees in front of the toilet because I was nauseated, so when I hit my face on the hard stone tiles, my bottom teeth cut completely through the part of my chin just below my bottom lip, but no serious injuries!. Stitches, hurt, swollen, pain.

I'm not taking the blame for this one, being unconscious doesn't count, even if it was just a brief blackout. My best friend at work, (yes, I came in late), has suggested buying me one of those "I've fallen and can't get up" devices. I think it's a good idea at this point.

Maybe I need to hook up a live webcam and let people monitor me over the internet.

Nah.
 
  • #144
Evo, you need to get a job as a receptionist in an emergency room. Then when "stuff" inevitably happens to you, you'll already be in the vicinity of urgent medical care.
 
  • #145
I hope you've been thoroughly checked by the doctor. Its not good to just pass out. Although I suspect your low body temperature probably caused low blood pressure and the resulting black out.
 
  • #146
Evo said:
I passed out last night in the bathroom, my temperature had fallen to 93 degrees F, luckily I was on my knees in front of the toilet because I was nauseated, so when I hit my face on the hard stone tiles, my bottom teeth cut completely through the part of my chin just below my bottom lip, but no serious injuries!. Stitches, hurt, swollen, pain.
That sounds pretty serious. Sounds like low blood pressure, or hypoglycemia, or some cardiac issue. Time to see a physician perhaps.

I'm not taking the blame for this one, being unconscious doesn't count, even if it was just a brief blackout. My best friend at work, (yes, I came in late), has suggested buying me one of those "I've fallen and can't get up" devices. I think it's a good idea at this point.
Maybe an emergency button would be good idea.
 
  • #147
Someone else just walked into my office and started laughing at my pillar.
 
  • #148
Well - I've been thinking of a few more ideas, e.g.

start a list of "1001 things to do with a pillar in my cubicle."

or

put up a sign, Climbing Wall ($10/climb) or $99.99 monthly membership. Maybe you could put a rappelling line around it.

or

decorate it with posters or a mural. I was thinking a tropical beach or rainforest motif, or a maybe some mountain posters.

or

get a model Batman and Batmobile and transform the cave into 'The Batcave'. You'll need a scale 'atomic pile' as well.

or

find a small basketball backboard and net, and offer to exchange with one on the 'guys'.

or

paste a copy of lisab's drawing on the column.

Is you boss aware of how incredibly stupid your office is?
 
  • #149
Evo said:
Ouch.

:frown:

I passed out last night in the bathroom, my temperature had fallen to 93 degrees F, luckily I was on my knees in front of the toilet because I was nauseated, so when I hit my face on the hard stone tiles, my bottom teeth cut completely through the part of my chin just below my bottom lip, but no serious injuries!. Stitches, hurt, swollen, pain.
.

Yikes! That sounds kind of like going into shock or something. Did you get thoroughly checked out when you went in for the stitches? That's not something to mess around with. I hope you mentioned the root canal when you were there, just in case it's some complication of that.
 
  • #150
Moonbear said:
Yikes! That sounds kind of like going into shock or something.
It does, now that you mention it, I wonder why my temperature dropped like that? I felt like ice, which is why I took my temperature, I wanted to verify if I was just imagining feeling that cold.

Did you get thoroughly checked out when you went in for the stitches? That's not something to mess around with. I hope you mentioned the root canal when you were there, just in case it's some complication of that.
:redface: Nope, I guess that might have been a good idea. :rolleyes:
 

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