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I know I've been a little edgy all week for personal reasons. This morning was the last straw as I was listening to the radio on the way to work. Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar on Me" was playing, and as it ended the DJ said "That was Def Leppard with the title cut to the album, 1988..." and I went nuts. "That was not the title track! It was on fXXking HYSTERIA, dammit!!"

 

Then I finally laughed as I realized how absolutely stupid it was to yell at a DJ over a dumb thing like that. I need a break.

 

 

 

 

 

But seriously, the title cut? Come on!

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  • 2 weeks later...

Sooooo

 

We hired a new IT specialist. Good guy. Gonna help me a lot. 

He started last week

We had a big problem and we figured it out by Friday. Still have some problems potentially but now have breathing room.

 

Today? Someone in our Vancouver office got fired. And someone Quit. And they're all freaked out over there. 

 

We live in interesting times.

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I had forgotten how far one can get in a general introductory class merely with lexical analysis. The proof comes when I ask what the word "differentiation" means in terms of planetary formation, evolution, and interior structure. That word is used in so many contexts with different meanings in each that it renders helpless the people with good language skills that didn't pay attention in class and didn't do the reading. Just an amazing number of complete whiffs on that question.

 

I will have to use it more often in the future.

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If there is another piece of music that with the proper visuals can make you upset than I know of no finer example than Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings Op 11. I remember seeing visuals of World War 1 graves and the music plays over it.

Best version I have found is of the Last Night of the Proms September 15th 2001 when they played it in memorium of those killed four days earlier. Youtube is wonderful some times like that.

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Starting next spring, the MCAT (medical school application standardized exam) will consist of four sections of equal weight.

 

The possible range of scores from each section is 118 to 132, so overall scores will range from 472 to 528.

 

W. T. F. ???!?!???

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