I like to learn. I like to think. There are no boundaries with regard to what my spongy brain is willing to soak up. Everything from better understanding what motivates people, to how the cosmos was born absolutely fascinates me. I’ll probably never work at a conventional job again, as I’ll likely spend the rest of my life in college. Any course counts as earned credits, so why not learn? Alzheimer’s finds a home in an unused brain, don’t give it a place to live! Live, Love, Learn, Laugh!
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Murphy's Laws for Techs: If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.
If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totaled correctly after 4:30 p.m. on Friday. The correct total will become self-evident at 8:15 a.m. on Monday.
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong. Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most.
The degree of technical competence is inversely proportional to the level of management. Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.
Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.
Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.
If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable and three parts which are still under development.
Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner.
A failure will not appear till a unit has passed final inspection.
Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way. When all else fails, read the instructions.
Peripheral drift illusion. When the image is viewed in the peripheral vision (indirectly, whilst looking outside of the pattern) it appears to rotate. When observed directly the movement stops. This phenomenon is not fully understood but it is believed that it may be partially a result of rapid intermittent eye movement, or saccade.
Hering illusion. This illusion was created by the physiologist Edward Hering in the 19th century. It exploits the brain's understanding of perspective to fool it into thinking that the two horizontal red lines bow outwards. In fact they are straight and parallel.
Who was Alexander the Great?
The Lion's Share: AesopThe Lion went once a-hunting along with the Fox, the Jackal, and the Wolf. They hunted and they hunted till at last they surprised a Stag, and soon took its life. Then came the question how the spoil should be divided. "Quarter me this Stag," roared the Lion; so the other animals skinned it and cut it into four parts. Then the Lion took his stand in front of the carcass and pronounced judgment: The first quarter is for me in my capacity as King of Beasts; the second is mine as arbiter; another share comes to me for my part in the chase; and as for the fourth quarter, well, as for that, I should like to see which of you will dare to lay a paw upon it.""Humph," grumbled the Fox as he walked away with his tail between his legs; but he spoke in a low growl.
Moral: You may share the labours of the great, but you will not share the spoil. Male
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