Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • Beautiful women should take up chess

    December 8, 2010
    Psychology, Sports

    This mention reminded me of a study where men experienced difficulties remembering the news when the speaker was a beautiful woman. Beautiful women should take up chess. Anna Dreber, Christer Gerdes and Patrik Gransmark wrote a Stockholm University working paper in which they found that male chess players pursue riskier strategies when they’re facing attractive…

  • Meeting With Blackboard Tomorrow

    December 7, 2010
    Blackboard Vista

    What are the questions you would bring up to Ray?

  • Competitive Edge

    December 1, 2010
    Creativity

    Found a Backupify blog on controlling employee access to social media odd. Preventing employees from discussing work on social media may help, but really you need to operate like the Manhattan Project. Sequester them in a town you build in the middle of nowhere, go through all of their correspondence paper or electronic, and control…

  • Special Characters Are Meaningful Too

    November 24, 2010
    Algorithm, Unix / Comp Languages

    Dear Google, When you treat special characters such as underscores, colons, and hyphens as a space, you corrupt my search for a single term into multiple terms, aka not what I sought, so I get too many useless results. Function names, class names, or file  names ought to be treated as a single word not…

  • If you won a $1,000 shopping spree for any store, which store would you pick?

    November 20, 2010
    Uncategorized

    http://www.bhphotovideo.com/ to get one decent camera lens. Ask me anything

  • If you could have a super power, what would it be?

    November 20, 2010
    Uncategorized

    Control the minds of others. Ask me anything

  • formspring.me

    November 20, 2010
    Uncategorized

    Ask me anything http://formspring.me/sneezypb

  • Communication

    November 16, 2010
    Communication

    A while ago, there was some kind of difficulty understanding why we (the DBAs) and another group were unable to read the same words yet not draw the same conclusion. The words in bold are what I wrote on my white board explaining why there was a difficulty. Communication Vocabulary Standards: Words have agreed upon…

  • LMS Non-Negotiables

    November 15, 2010
    Blackboard Vista

    I listened in on the first town hall meeting for our USG LMS Transition Task Force on Thursday. There are 3 more town halls this week and a final one December 9th. It sounds like the task force is looking for what items are non-negotiable, extremely important, nice to have. Here are the non-negotiable items…

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