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What did you learn today?
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TIL that "Black Narcissus" is not about a self-obsessed African American man.
I feel deceived and cheated...
I feel deceived and cheated...
I learned out today that Adam Savage from Mythbusters has a rudimentary measuring tape tattooed on his forearm.
if he needs to measure anything (metric or imperial) he can just hold it against his arm for a pretty accurate guide.
if he needs to measure anything (metric or imperial) he can just hold it against his arm for a pretty accurate guide.
I suppose it means with the naked eye. However, I'm not inclined to believe that. It's fairly common knowledge that all you need to see the Andromeda Galaxy is a pair of binoculars, though that's not exactly the naked eye.
I imagine. I suppose that there's room for technicality in either direction. What I read says that it is easy to distinguish the spiral shape of the galaxy with binoculars. I suppose that there's somebody out there who knows exactly which pinpoint of light it is without other visual aids. However, I don't know if seeing a whole galaxy as a single mass of light counts as seeing a star, singular.
I read somewhere that after the raid they left one of their tommy guns behind to be found so it would be clear it wasn’t an industrial accident but a commando raid which destroyed the facility. Absolute badasses.
I don't have any tattoos and don't intend to get any, but if I ever change my mind, I'm going with the the forearm measuring tape!
Rax had a spokes cartoon called Mr. Delicious... who knew? I find him hy-larious!
The chain went bankrupt within a year of the ad launch.
The chain went bankrupt within a year of the ad launch.
A brief glance at wikipedia indicates that perhaps the advertising campaign was one of the causes of the chapter 11 bankruptcy. It still exists and there are 5 locations.
It was the product of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. And that continued after chapter 11. The trouble with companies that go through these multiple transactions is that they rarely have a strong identity of their own. They get run by professional managers that have no passion for the business and are focused on their own agenda. They get pushed this way and that by the flavour of the quarter management consultants. As a result there is no vision or greater strategy; just a drive to perform well this quarter on the metrics the consultants recommended to maximize management's immediate compensation. And you end up with a bland, rudderless entity that doesn't do so poorly that it gets shot out behind headquarters but not so well that it grows and thrives.
^^^This sounds like two different schools where I taught.
“Rudderless” captures it Perfectly.
“Rudderless” captures it Perfectly.
The trouble with companies that go through these multiple transactions is that they rarely have a strong identity of their own. They get run by professional managers that have no passion for the business and are focused on their own agenda. They get pushed this way and that by the flavour of the quarter management consultants. As a result there is no vision or greater strategy; just a drive to perform well this quarter...
sorry...to flog a dead horse...
Neither of the principals cared about, or even understood, Climate or Morale...neither were elementary school lifers; they were just passing through on their way to being an associate-superintendent of BS at the central office...neither of them liked kids!
Holed up in their offices, 3 computer screens barking at them all day long...a pair of bullies who were unable to see past this semester’s DATA...and, Man! There are very few things an elementary school Teacher despises more than a bully!
The real pity of it was, at one time, for a couple of years, I’d have argued that FSIBWS was the Best elementary school in the state!
I was ridiculously proud to be a part of the effort.
sorry...to flog a dead horse...
Neither of the principals cared about, or even understood, Climate or Morale...neither were elementary school lifers; they were just passing through on their way to being an associate-superintendent of BS at the central office...neither of them liked kids!
Holed up in their offices, 3 computer screens barking at them all day long...a pair of bullies who were unable to see past this semester’s DATA...and, Man! There are very few things an elementary school Teacher despises more than a bully!
The real pity of it was, at one time, for a couple of years, I’d have argued that FSIBWS was the Best elementary school in the state!
I was ridiculously proud to be a part of the effort.
Today I learned that a treatment for Atrial Fibrillation I wrote glowingly almost 20 years ago is proving to be excellent first line therapy (compared to rhythm control drugs).
Cryoablation or Drug Therapy for Initial Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2029980
Cryoballoon Ablation as Initial Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2029554
Cryoablation or Drug Therapy for Initial Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2029980
Cryoballoon Ablation as Initial Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2029554
Be careful what you measure. That is what you will get.The trouble with companies that go through these multiple transactions is that they rarely have a strong identity of their own. They get run by professional managers that have no passion for the business and are focused on their own agenda. They get pushed this way and that by the flavour of the quarter management consultants. As a result there is no vision or greater strategy; just a drive to perform well this quarter...
sorry...to flog a dead horse...
Neither of the principals cared about, or even understood, Climate or Morale...neither were elementary school lifers; they were just passing through on their way to being an associate-superintendent of BS at the central office...neither of them liked kids!
Holed up in their offices, 3 computer screens barking at them all day long...a pair of bullies who were unable to see past this semester’s DATA...and, Man! There are very few things an elementary school Teacher despises more than a bully!
The real pity of it was, at one time, for a couple of years, I’d have argued that FSIBWS was the Best elementary school in the state!
I was ridiculously proud to be a part of the effort.
Today I learned that we are remarkably close to eradicating Polio completely. There were three strains of Polio; Types 1, 2 and 3. Polio Types 2 and 3 no longer occur anywhere in the world, and type 1 is isolated to small pockets of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Once it's gone, it will be the third disease to be eliminated by medical science and vaccines.
