Random Musings (and associated non sequiturs) v. 3.0

Why are they always black?

It goes with everything. According, I think, to Neil Gaiman.

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NOTE: If it’s hot, I won’t be going.

Maryland would be off limits to you for the weekend, then. We’re expecting to break a hundred for the weekend, and it may feel like it’s over 110!

This is one reason I’m becoming more willing to consider moving as the years go by.

My comfort zone is 10C to 20C (low room temperature), and it got to 35C today with a humidex of 41C.
I like it even colder, like 6 months ago at -10C. Bring back the snow. Why you trynna kill me, earth?

Getting a good old fashioned Indiana summer right now. Temps and Humidity in the 90’s, real feel temps above 105.

My sweet spot is the 60’s usually. This whole year’s weather pattern is reminding me of the 1980’s. Freezing winter and simmering summer. And we had an actual Spring this year instead of just going from -10 to 100.

I’m going through some more movies and I come across Frozen. It was a huge success six years ago and still holds the record as the highest-grossing animated film of all time.

So what do you think is the most prominent part of the label on the DVD and Blu-ray discs?
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If you said the title, you’d be wrong. That’s on the left side of both discs and kind of small.

No, the most prominent part of the label is the Disney DVD and Disney Blu-ray logos at the top of the discs, with the Blu-ray logo being larger than the DVD logo.

Kind of sad when the company doesn’t consider the movie that did so much for them to be important enough to put the title front and center.

Disney movie buyers include some of the least tech savvy people out there. I wouldn’t be surprised if that isn’t a design decision.

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Disney seems to go through their packaging design at a pretty rapid clip, too. They may also figure that while a lot of companies are doing fast-follows, knock-offs (or using the same public-domain core stories) that less companies really want to draw the baleful mouse-like eye upon them.

Between $Wife and I there’s several Disney movies in DVD and B-R on our shelves. They seem to usually have an ā€˜open’ release styled to the movie, then there’s multiple re-issues that seem to take on various design styles. For example, we picked up Mary Poppins that had a kind of silver cover design with a logotype, but there’s old animated movies that resemble the earlier run of VHS releases.

Eye o’ Sauron?

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Yes, but with larger ears. :slight_smile:

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The new Space Corps will either use naval fans and structure or be replaced with a space navy when it is feasible.

Colonel Kirk being the least of the issues.

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3761/1

Ah yes, Colonel Kirk and his crew Lt. Colonel Spock, Captain Uhura, and 2nd Lt. Sulu.

I think I’m appalled that the students I have in Server3 (Advanced Windows Server) don’t know how to do the most basic tasks. They’ve been working all mod on a project to create two servers, a client, create an AD structure, do some folder permissions, some group policies and a backup policy.

They don’t know how to do any of it. They did not have me as a teacher for the last two server classes.

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Maybe it’s time to institute entrance exams.

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If this was a beginner class I could see that. But by Advanced Server 3 they should know this stuff.

Exactly my point.

Edit: For the server 1 & 2 class I lecture and give traditional quizzes, but I also give a weekly hands on quiz and the last week of the mod is devoted to a hands on final.

Who did they have? R or M? Cause when i had R, i definitely struggled, but the server 1 class i had with N i still remember most of the stuff.

They had R. Remember that classes have been a bit messed up this year with N passing away, me taking a mod off to travel, and M being brand new.

Ahh true, but I spoke with BillyG, and he also struggles remembering the stuff R was in charge of teaching us, now me and Billy are very similar in our learning styles, (learn by doing) and maybe that is why me and him retained very little. N was an incredible teacher, especially for my learning style.