I gotta tell ya, I hate the Sirius online listening system. If you are using anything other than Internet Explorer, the artist and song will not display. So, are you going to pay oodles a month for a streaming radio station when you can listen online at random places for free…and they display the artist name and the songs?
If you own a Sirius radio and pay for the subscription, you have to pay 3 dollars EXTRA a month to use their internet player as well. WTH!
Get a grip, Sirius. Seriously.
So a guy at work is planning an addition to his house and wanted to buy some nice windows off Craigslist for the addition. The windows go in the gables of the house and he needed to know the angle of the windows to see if they ere the same as the angle of the roofline. We knew the dimensions of the windows, but not the angles. Sounds like a textbook trigonometry example from high school to me. Ya know, the kind that your math teacher claims you’ll need in the real world after somone complains “why do we have to learn this crap?!”
So, here we are. Three intelligent, reasonably educated IT professionals, a white board, and plenty of computing power. After some head scratching we were able to remember “SOHCAHTOA” and what it stood for (Sin = Opposite/Hypotenuse, Cosine = Adjacent/Hypotenuse, Tangent = Opposite/Adjacent), but that was about it…
Next, came the power of Google! A simple search for “tangent triangle” and a click on the second result labeled “right triangles” and we had our answer about two paragraphs down!
The result? 5 minutes of head scratching followed by less than 2 of skimming a Google search result and we had our answer.
So tell me, why did I take 4 years of highs school math (including a year of trigonometry) and then a bunch of classes in college as well? Yea, I know we remembered that we needed tangent, but I’m sure Google would have given us the answer even if we didn’t know what we needed. Just kind of shows how times have changed in the 25 years I’ve been alive (almost 26 as Patti would point out).
So, in one of my classes I no longer need the book. Seriously.
I have only just finished the first half of the semester, and the book is now useless. I am literally thinking of selling it. After tomorrow night I have one grade left for the entire semester for that class. I can literally skip the rest of the year if I wanted to because all I have to turn in is a paper. But yet a month ago I was in a rush about that class because I had all of these things due and a midterm.
C’mon professor, you get paid enough, you think you would be able to write a simple schedule.
Serial monogamy may be more realistic.
What crap.
So we are on our way to the store and for some reason it struck me as strange to have the job title “drive truck.” I mean I get that they have a job that most of us hate doing on a daily basis (myself can be counted for two of those people). But don’t you think they could have come up with a better job title. Something like professional merchandise delivery. Or mobile customer service. A lot of jobs today have the most crap titles (quality assurance…?…to verify, quality…right) so why are truck drivers stuck with just a mediocre title like truck driver? If I were a truck driver I would make myself some little business card and hand it out when I make my deliveries. You want professional services? Call me, I can drive. Although they would never trust me to drive a truck that big. Considering I have a hard time parking a prius.
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