Thursday, November 30, 2017
All Sorts of Crazy Here
In today's edition of aLl sOrTs oF cRaZy HeRe, we have this article stating that Mary Kay Kusner is also a "Roman Catholic Womanpriest" which is wrong on the following counts:
Read the entire article here.
- I entered can a woman be a catholic priest into Google.com and got a long list - "About 2,330,000 results" - and in just glancing through the links and the lines of text that display on the search results page, I didn't read any that said, "Yes, a woman can be a Roman Catholic priest."
- This is not to say that women should or should NOT be Roman Catholic priests. I can wish they were & I can even believe with all my heart, mind, and soul, that they should be... but at the end of the day, if you are Roman Catholic and you claim to be Roman Catholic, you follow the rules. Just because I don't want it to be the rules doesn't mean I can ignore the rules.
- "Womanpriest" is not a word.
Read the entire article here.
Best Year in 25 ... and Burying a Hatchet
LARS ULRICH: 'We're Having The Best Year For METALLICA In Probably A Quarter Of A Century'
While the players in the latest KISS feud - Vinnie Vincent & Gene Simmons - appear to have buried their hatchet, per this article - VINNIE VINCENT: 'I Love And Respect GENE SIMMONS Like A Brother' - as always, it is fans who won't let it die, as demonstrated in the Comments section below the article. When I read the article, I saw that there had been 40 comments - these three were the most recent:
Build a bridge and get over it.
While the players in the latest KISS feud - Vinnie Vincent & Gene Simmons - appear to have buried their hatchet, per this article - VINNIE VINCENT: 'I Love And Respect GENE SIMMONS Like A Brother' - as always, it is fans who won't let it die, as demonstrated in the Comments section below the article. When I read the article, I saw that there had been 40 comments - these three were the most recent:
Johnny Angel · Works at The Talisman (King & Straub novel)
Pound for pound the best KISS line-up was 82-84 with Vinnie Vincent and the late great Eric Carr...
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Lee Staples · McKinney, Texas
It's amazing how each day this world gets more twisted. Now when someone tells the truth its considered "trash talking"? When has Gene ever trash talked Vinnie? He's always praised his talent and said he was one if the most self destructive people he's ever met. Considering Vinnie hasn't worked in over 20 years, and Gene and Paul have multiple lawsuit victories over him (in fact Vinnie owes them over 80 grand in lawyers fees as dictated by the judge in one lawsuit) Gene has hit the nail on the head concerning him. I guess some people can't handle the truth. And for the record, I love the first Invasion album (except for the garbage solos) and wish he was still in Kiss to this very day.
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Chris Hicklin
Classy response. More than Simmons deserves.
Build a bridge and get over it.
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Sunk
Poor second half sinks Iowa at Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech (6-1) turned a 38-38 tie at halftime into a 79-55 drubbing of the Iowa Hawkeyes men’s basketball team last night, The Gazette reports.
Virginia Tech (6-1) turned a 38-38 tie at halftime into a 79-55 drubbing of the Iowa Hawkeyes men’s basketball team last night, The Gazette reports.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Exception
I'm not sharing this page because I want to break the 'put politics on the "Get Your Political Opinions Here"' rule and I'm not even using the labels I typically use on political posts for this post. Rather, here's the thing I saw on this page - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-michaelson/jesuss-advice-to-the-turn_b_4830870.html -
This is the HTML code that renders the above text in Fireforx that I pasted into a Notepad file:
It just looks odd to have the text repeated twice.
This is the HTML code that renders the above text in Fireforx that I pasted into a Notepad file:
It just looks odd to have the text repeated twice.
EHR Vendors
While I do not work with Epic directly, I am aware of the system. This is a table of Epic's competitors from this site.
It's interesting to look at the way the EHR market shakes out.
Hospitals with at least 1 certified criteria coming from this vendor:
Freq. (%) Epic 393 (27.4) Cerner 360 (25.1) MEDITECH 282 (19.6) McKesson 141 (9.8) MEDHOST 109 (7.6) Healthland 71 (4.9) Allscripts 60 (4.2)
It's interesting to look at the way the EHR market shakes out.
No Shot = No Job
Being "right" can't be cashed or deposited at a bank.
If you don't have a job, you don't have a way to meet your financial responsibilities, including but not limited to paying for mortgages / rents / cell phones / TVs / Christmas presents / food. Yet, the 50ish workers that were fired because they refused to have a flu shot apparently think they can pay for those things because they are "right" about not wanting a flu shot. You can read the article here: Essentia fires about 50 workers over refusal to get flu shots The Duluth-based health system says many employees ultimately got vaccinations, and that patients will be safer. By Jeremy Olson Star Tribune November 21, 2017 — 9:44pm
My opinion? I get a flu shot each year; Karen had an allergic reaction a few years ago and doesn't get one.
If you don't have a job, you don't have a way to meet your financial responsibilities, including but not limited to paying for mortgages / rents / cell phones / TVs / Christmas presents / food. Yet, the 50ish workers that were fired because they refused to have a flu shot apparently think they can pay for those things because they are "right" about not wanting a flu shot. You can read the article here: Essentia fires about 50 workers over refusal to get flu shots The Duluth-based health system says many employees ultimately got vaccinations, and that patients will be safer. By Jeremy Olson Star Tribune November 21, 2017 — 9:44pm
My opinion? I get a flu shot each year; Karen had an allergic reaction a few years ago and doesn't get one.
Monday, November 27, 2017
Where's the Canary?
Of the following Police tunes, I think "Canary in a Coalmine" is the most obvious missing entry.
- Message in a Bottle
- Synchronicity II
- Walking on the Moon
- Voices Inside My Head /When the World Is Running Down
- Don't Stand So Close to Me
- Driven to Tears
- Hole in My Life
- Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
- Wrapped Around Your Finger
- De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
- Invisible Sun
- Can't Stand Losing You / Reggatta de Blanc
- Roxanne
- King of Pain
- So Lonely
- Every Breath You Take
Are You Going to This?!? Answer below
No.
Tool, Avenged Sevenfold + Alice in Chains to Headline 2018 Rock on the Range Chad Childers November 27, 2017
Tool, Avenged Sevenfold + Alice in Chains to Headline 2018 Rock on the Range Chad Childers November 27, 2017
- Tool - HEADLINER
- Avenged Sevenfold - HEADLINER
- Alice in Chains - HEADLINER
And the rest, in alphabetical order.... - 10 Years
- A Perfect Circle
- Andrew WK
- Anti-Flag
- Asking Alexandria
- Atreyu
- Babymetal
- Baroness
- Black Foxxes
- Black Sun Rising
- Black Veil Brides
- Body Count
- Breaking Benjamin
- Bullet for My Valentine
- Cane Hill
- Code Orange
- Dance Gavin Dance
- Emmure
- From Ashes to New
- Godsmack
- Greta Van Fleet
- Hawthorne Heights
- I Prevail
- I See Stars
- Joyous Wolf
- Like a Storm
- Like Moths to Flames and Shim
- Machine Gun Kelly
- Miss May I
- Mutoid Man
- My Ticket Home
- New Years Day
- Power Trip
- Quicksand
- Senses Fail
- Shaman's Harvest
- Spirit Animal
- Stick to Your Guns
- Stitched Up Heart
- Stone Sour
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Tech N9ne
- The Bronx
- The Fever 333
- The Used
- Them Evils
- Three Days Grace
- Trivium
- Turnstile
- Tyler Bryant and the Shakedown
- Underoath
- We Came as Romans
- While She Sleeps
- Wilson
- Yelawolf
NE Looks for a New HC
Oh, poor Mike Riley! While it may seem a reason to be tearful for him - and as someone who has dealt with losing a job I do have sympathy for him but only because he was fired. That's the only reason because, as detailed in this article - After Iowa blowout, Nebraska fires head coach Mike Riley - Mike Riley is not going to need to find a job for a very long time. Why? He had a contract buyout clause. How much?
I need to cease being a technical writer, get hired as a head football coach at Nebraska, have a terrible record, and earn easy money for the rest of my life.
Editor's Note: The "Nebraska Football Curses" is applied because it seems to be a curse to be the Nebraska football coach and adding a label for Nebraska football would be unnecessary clutter.
$6,600,000
- If he doesn't get a coaching job in the next 10 years - from 11/24/2017 until 11/24/2027, the guy is going to make $660000 each year for doing NOTHING!!
- If he doesn't get a coaching job in the next 20 years - from 11/24/2017 until 11/24/2037, the guy is going to make $330000 each year for doing NOTHING!!
- If he doesn't get a coaching job in the next 30 years - from 11/24/2047 until 11/24/2047, the guy is going to make $220000 each year for doing NOTHING!!
- If he doesn't get a coaching job in the next 10 years - from 11/24/2017 until 11/24/2057, the guy is going to make $165000 each year for doing NOTHING!!
I need to cease being a technical writer, get hired as a head football coach at Nebraska, have a terrible record, and earn easy money for the rest of my life.
Editor's Note: The "Nebraska Football Curses" is applied because it seems to be a curse to be the Nebraska football coach and adding a label for Nebraska football would be unnecessary clutter.
Free Programming Classes
While I passed this along to Alex, who told me over Thanksgiving break that he wanted to take an "Introduction to Programming" type class at UNI, I also see value in looking into this link for me:Google Developers Blog: Reminder: Grow with Google scholarship window closes soon
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
The Inconsistency Drives Me NUTS!
Working at Pearson was a good time in my career, but I have zero desire to go back to Pearson. It was a time in my career when I improved my technical writing skills. It heightened my awareness of consistency in headings, which is why I think that is why seeing a table of contents like this irritates me:
The green boxes are general information headings, the red lines indicate that the gerund (-ing) is used in the heading while the purple lines indicate a non-gerund verb is used. And yes, I did not mark every instance of the above categories because I am inconsistent in things related to technical writing too!
I grew to love the way we decided to designate tasks in the PearsonAccess Next documentation, which, in part, looks like this:
I adore the way "Manage [Entity]" is used as the level 1 heading and that each level 2 heading under the level 1 heading is consistent. Each are tasks that the user can do within the software. Specifically, I remember suggesting "Manage" as the first word in each level 1 heading as a way to indicate that there are multiple tasks under the heading. When it came to naming some pages under the level 2 "Manage Students" heading, we used "Manage" again as there are multiple tasks on that page which were so closely related that having a third level didn't make sense. We also consciously decided we would not go to a third level heading, which was a standard until we got to the "Manage Online Tests" section. The tasks needed to be classified into "Before Online Testing" and "During Online Testing" to make sense. An early draft had "After Online Testing" as a heading, but eventually, that went away.
I enjoy working with RoboHelp to write disaster recovery documentation and have constructed my TOC with a keen awareness of consistency in the headings.
The green boxes are general information headings, the red lines indicate that the gerund (-ing) is used in the heading while the purple lines indicate a non-gerund verb is used. And yes, I did not mark every instance of the above categories because I am inconsistent in things related to technical writing too!
I grew to love the way we decided to designate tasks in the PearsonAccess Next documentation, which, in part, looks like this:
I adore the way "Manage [Entity]" is used as the level 1 heading and that each level 2 heading under the level 1 heading is consistent. Each are tasks that the user can do within the software. Specifically, I remember suggesting "Manage" as the first word in each level 1 heading as a way to indicate that there are multiple tasks under the heading. When it came to naming some pages under the level 2 "Manage Students" heading, we used "Manage" again as there are multiple tasks on that page which were so closely related that having a third level didn't make sense. We also consciously decided we would not go to a third level heading, which was a standard until we got to the "Manage Online Tests" section. The tasks needed to be classified into "Before Online Testing" and "During Online Testing" to make sense. An early draft had "After Online Testing" as a heading, but eventually, that went away.
I enjoy working with RoboHelp to write disaster recovery documentation and have constructed my TOC with a keen awareness of consistency in the headings.
Neatest DOS Trick I've Ever Seen
I don't consider myself a DOS expert by any stretch of the imagination. I smile when I tell people I know enough to be dangerous and when I discover something cool - like when I learned that typing "cmd" in the address bar of Windows Explorer will open a DOS window to that specific directory - I smile and feel giddy. I experimented with this command last night:
I learned that it will create a single file with a full path list of all of the files on the b:\ drive AND all of the files on the g:\ drive. What is so AWESOME is that it ought to make consolidating files so much easier. Yes, I have been using commands like this one for many years:
but if I wanted to have a single file with what is created with the first command, I would have to manually combine the two files:
dir b:\*.* /s /b, g:\*.* /s /b>g:\2017_11_22_allofB_allofG_fp.txt
I learned that it will create a single file with a full path list of all of the files on the b:\ drive AND all of the files on the g:\ drive. What is so AWESOME is that it ought to make consolidating files so much easier. Yes, I have been using commands like this one for many years:
dir b:\*.* /s /b>b:\2017_11_22_allofB_allofB_fp.txt
dir g:\*.* /s /b>b:\2017_11_22_allofG_allofB_fp.txt
but if I wanted to have a single file with what is created with the first command, I would have to manually combine the two files:
b:\2017_11_22_allofB_allofB_fp.txtand
b:\2017_11_22_allofB_allofB_fp.txtto get what I wanted. Now, one command does it!
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Screaming SCREAMING for Content Reuse
This is from the same website and it screams at me that there needs to be an editor.
These blurbs are from three separate pages within the same documentation.
Here are my issues:
No.
Of course not.
These blurbs are from three separate pages within the same documentation.
Here are my issues:
- The first two use the phrase "Open the task list and select" while the third one uses the phrase "Click the Select Tasks drop-down and select" phrase instead.
- The first one has the sentence end with "and click Start while the second two have "Click Start" as a separate sentence.
No.
Of course not.
Maybe at Christmas
I asked Alex if he wanted to make a backup of his external hard drive while he was home during Thanksgiving break. He said no, but he would around Christmas. I responded by saying that if his drive stopped working 'today' would he have every thing he needed?
I got a non-answer, as in a shrug of his shoulders.
I mention this because I read, yet again, another story about a PC crash here.
I got a non-answer, as in a shrug of his shoulders.
I mention this because I read, yet again, another story about a PC crash here.
This is MY Knowledge, Not Yours
At work, I am collaborating with many different teams in my department both for the disaster recovery documentation as well as a buzzword I am not certain I've mentioned on my blog. The buzzword is Knowledge Management and it has to do with organizing all the knowledge that a company has within it across the organization. For more information, read this article - https://wiki.en.it-processmaps.com/index.php/Knowledge_Management - which brought me up to speed when I was first dipping my toe into this concept. The idea is rather simple: there should be a single place to go for information and when you search, you should be presented with the information you need to accomplish whatever task you are attempting to complete. The way I am accomplishing this is to link to Word documents as well as the other file types I mentioned on My Answer to the Question that Never is Dumb last month. From the website, there's this useful image:
The challenge is that each team has their own way of doing their own documentation as well as that some teams are very possessive of their information. That challenge is discussed in these articles:
Editor's Note: Part 2 was mentioned in today's UX Matters email newsletter and Part 1 had to be investigated.
The challenge is that each team has their own way of doing their own documentation as well as that some teams are very possessive of their information. That challenge is discussed in these articles:
- Overcoming Common Barriers to Collaboration, Part 1
- Overcoming Common Barriers to Collaboration, Part 2
Editor's Note: Part 2 was mentioned in today's UX Matters email newsletter and Part 1 had to be investigated.
Cold Slap in the Caribbean
From: Iowa hoops drops opener to Louisiana in Caymans:
I'm sure Coach will get them settled down and focused for their next game.
The Iowa men's basketball team flew all the way to the Caribbean, only to face its first cold slap of reality this season.Louisiana went straight at the Hawkeyes from the opening tipoff of their Cayman Islands Classic quarterfinal and never let up in an 80-71 victory...
I'm sure Coach will get them settled down and focused for their next game.
Powerful Sequence
While I really liked this opening sequence, I personally think Triple H always delivers awesome promos. He is not Brock Lesnar, who rarely speaks unless he says, "Suplex City bitch" at the end of a segment. I do think the sequence establishes Braun Strowman as a 'monster among men' and while I await someone - Kane? - to take him down, I believe him.
The 'you're a coward' chants by the crowd towards Triple H are disrespectful and, for whatever reason, Triple H is still silent. It's kind of a waste.
Here's a video of other highlights from the show:
It was a good episode and helped to set up a feud that will go for awhile.
The 'you're a coward' chants by the crowd towards Triple H are disrespectful and, for whatever reason, Triple H is still silent. It's kind of a waste.
Here's a video of other highlights from the show:
It was a good episode and helped to set up a feud that will go for awhile.
Monday, November 20, 2017
Taking Inventory
I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the information below about my drives. I feel like I need a plan for how to get all of my files organized. With the purchase of the 4 TB EHD (drive G), I think I now have plenty of total space. I don't think I will need to purchase another EHD until at least May 20, 2018, which is 6 months from today. I also hope that by that date, I have consolidated all of the following drive information into an organized system for backing up my files.
I would also love to remove drive A - the 3.5" floppy drive - from the Windows 10 tower. It makes a lot of noise when I am doing work unrelated to it. I suppose a case could be made for hoarding when I think about that drive. I went quite a few years without having any computer with a 3.5" floppy drive and, during those years, I purged my collection of 3.5" floppy drives. I didn't see the point in keeping them when I had no way to access the data on them. Now, they are in the landfill or someplace other than the den.
I would also love to remove drive A - the 3.5" floppy drive - from the Windows 10 tower. It makes a lot of noise when I am doing work unrelated to it. I suppose a case could be made for hoarding when I think about that drive. I went quite a few years without having any computer with a 3.5" floppy drive and, during those years, I purged my collection of 3.5" floppy drives. I didn't see the point in keeping them when I had no way to access the data on them. Now, they are in the landfill or someplace other than the den.
Friday, November 17, 2017
One Down, One to Go
This is the relevant part of an article in the Iowa City Press-Citizen about the State Championship football games today. As of now (almost 3 PM), the Regina game is over & Regina lost. The Iowa City West game is tonight at 7 PM.
The paper predicted a Regina loss and were correct. Will it be correct about the Iowa City West game as well?
The paper predicted a Regina loss and were correct. Will it be correct about the Iowa City West game as well?
Teeter Teeter
Sounds a lot like Crowbar. It teeters on the edge of what I will listen to repeatedly. Saw a Craigslist > Des Moines > Musicians ad that they are looking for a drummer. Nope. Not for me, but as I said, it teeters on the edge.
If you understand death metal vocals, you may hear some occasional adult language.
If you understand death metal vocals, you may hear some occasional adult language.
How to Write a Drum Solo
Warning! There's some brief "Adult Language" in this video:
It's still funny...
It's still funny...
So Bad
After reading this - Justice League Is So Bad It May Cause Brain Damage - I wanted to leave a comment.
I clicked in the comments field:
and was then prompted to log in with either Google or Facebook. I chose Google. I set up my user ID and returned to the article. I clicked in the comment field and saw this:
I clicked in the comments field:
and then saw this:
I clicked Continue.
I clicked in the comments field:
and then saw this:
I clicked Continue.
I clicked in the comments field:
and then saw this:
I clicked Continue.
I clicked in the comments field:
and then saw this:
I clicked Continue.
YES!! Hamster wheel code sneaked into the page!
So then, I didn't leave a comment.
I like Erick Erickson's political writing. I still plan to go see the movie on Tuesday for $5 at the Coral Ridge Mall theater.
Editor's Note: Eventually, this was worked out and a comment was left:
I clicked in the comments field:
and was then prompted to log in with either Google or Facebook. I chose Google. I set up my user ID and returned to the article. I clicked in the comment field and saw this:
I clicked in the comments field:
and then saw this:
I clicked Continue.
I clicked in the comments field:
and then saw this:
I clicked Continue.
I clicked in the comments field:
and then saw this:
I clicked Continue.
I clicked in the comments field:
and then saw this:
I clicked Continue.
I like Erick Erickson's political writing. I still plan to go see the movie on Tuesday for $5 at the Coral Ridge Mall theater.
Editor's Note: Eventually, this was worked out and a comment was left:
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Specialized Humor
Last night, I showed Karen the picture of the t-shirt I ordered for Alex & I, which is going to be delivered soon:
I find the shirt to be hilarious - as does Alex - but Karen? I don't think she thought it was very funny. It may not be as funny as my all-time favorite Dilbert cartoon.
Editor's Note: In 2013, you wrote this: Favorite Dilbert of all Time - please keep your story straight.
I find the shirt to be hilarious - as does Alex - but Karen? I don't think she thought it was very funny. It may not be as funny as my all-time favorite Dilbert cartoon.
Editor's Note: In 2013, you wrote this: Favorite Dilbert of all Time - please keep your story straight.
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
This Drummer is Good and all but...
I got kind of bored the more this went on and on.
Editor's Note: Uh, people who suck at the drums ought not bitch about people who do not suck - this isn't Blabbermouth.net, after all...
Editor's Note: Uh, people who suck at the drums ought not bitch about people who do not suck - this isn't Blabbermouth.net, after all...
Luck
The man finds a lucky penny in the first panel and marries a woman in the last panel. The gist is that because the man picked up the lucky penny, he met his wife.
What if the man hadn't picked up the penny? Would the comic end with his wedding? Luck was on my side in a similar vein way back in September of 1988. Luck introduced me to Karen. Going back to that day, it was luck that I was on the Mount Mercy College bus trip to see the Minnesota Twins play the Chicago White Sox. I had agreed to go with Nieman, my friend, who was a Chicago White Sox fan. The 'what if' game is a rabbit hole I'll dip my toe in for 5 thoughts:
- what if Nieman wouldn't have wanted to go on that bus trip?
- what if Nieman and I had never met?
- what if Nieman had never asked me to go?
- what if Nieman had been a - gasp - Chicago Cubs fan with no interest in the Chicago White Sox?
- what if my manager at work - the Spring House restaurant - had not given me the day off?
Sounds Like a Terrible Situation
Advice like "You should have made a backup of your external hard drive" is not helpful in this situation.
a Science Tip and the MVP
If I was a high school science teacher, I would get this as a poster and put it in my classroom:
No comment about the hero of NYC.
No comment about the hero of NYC.
ffNot Often See Do I a
... technical writer position located in Davenport. Thus, here it is. It doesn't look like a "bad" job, per se, but it's not one I would apply for now, when I'm enjoying my daily life at work. That said, I have some questions about the ad:
And, after that brief excursion, it's now time to resume my work on the disaster recovery documentation project in RoboHelp!
- Is there a job ad somewhere for a proofreader in their Human Resources department? There's obviously a need for someone to catch the first word in the ad is spelled wrong (which I highlighted below).
- I enjoyed this phrase - "Ability to take complex information and write it in an understandable manner" - because it summarizes what I have done every day in my career.
Technicial Writer
Cobham - Davenport, IA
Cobham is seeking a Technical Writer that will be responsible for researching, writing, editing, and proofreading technical data for use in documents such as Specifications (SPs), Procedural Documents (PDs), and Standards (STs) within the aerospace and defense industry. This position is located in Davenport, Iowa.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensures technical documentation is accurate, complete, meets editorial and government specifications and adheres to standards for quality, graphics, coverage, format and style
- Handles contract data item preparation
- Submits data items via customer portals
- Prepares and edits artwork
- Researches standards and specifications
- Coordinates with engineering personnel on preparation of data items
- Performs all operations according to prescribed safety principles
- All other related duties as assigned.
Minimum Requirements:
- 3+ years’ experience working as a Technical Writer
- Bachelor’s degree in English, Technical Writing, Communications, or engineering
- Advanced experience using computer software programs such as MS Office and Adobe Pro
- Ability to take complex information and write it in an understandable manner
- This position requires access to technology material, software or hardware that is controlled by export laws in the US. In order to be eligible you must be either a US Citizen or Permanent Resident.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 1+ years preparing bids and proposals for new product development
- Experience working in an aerospace or defense industry
- Experience using Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, or MS Visio
- Strong attention to detail
- Effective verbal/written communications and interpersonal skills
Cobham's values of Trust, Talent and Technology have driven us from our launch in 1934 by Sir Alan Cobham, an aviation innovator, to becoming a global leader in state-of-the-art aerospace and defense systems. And it’s the insights of our innovators today that will secure our collective future. Innovators like you.
Cobham is one of the world's leading companies engaged in the development, delivery and support of leading-edge aerospace and defense systems in the air, on land and at sea. Our clients and partners trust Cobham to deliver the mission-critical technology they need, and we trust our employees to draw on their ingenuity and passion to deliver those solutions. This leads to an empowering culture for our people. Our Leadership team is open, sharing plans for the next five years, driving retention by offering demanding, exciting work, and providing full guidance and mentoring.
Cobham is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of Cobham to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Cobham will refrain from discharging, or otherwise discriminating against, employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants.
See all of our latest opportunities at www.cobham.com/careers or follow us on our LinkedIn page at www.linkedin.com/company/cobham
To be considered you must apply by going to www.cobham.com/careers
Job Category
Engineering
Primary Location
US-Iowa-Davenport
Organization
Cobham Mission Systems Davenport
Schedule: Full-time
And, after that brief excursion, it's now time to resume my work on the disaster recovery documentation project in RoboHelp!
It's Been a LONG Time
I like to look back at the past. I like to look at a post like this one - http://prhmusic.blogspot.com/2008/11/back-in-groove.html - and recapture the frame of mind I was in when I wrote it. I like this specific part of the post in item #3:
I'm here to say that after 3294 days (9 years and 1 week), I don't have this figured out. I have 5000 CDs now - so that's awesome! - on 50 x 100 count spindles, but I still do not have an organization structure for the inlays and CD booklets. I have some sorted into file folders, but I'm not anywhere close to being complete. Maybe by the 10 year anniversary of the post, I will have it figured out. I can say I have completely abandoned Excel as a tool to store my CD information. I use Windows Media Player exclusively.
...At work, we order CD-Rs in 100 packs for distribution of our releases to our clients. We use white envelopes - instead of jewel cases - and end up with empty 100 pack spindles. My (cool) manager has said that I could use those spindles if I had a use for them. Right now, there are 4 spindles. I could take 400 CDs from my rack and put them on the spindles. Then I would have more room. The only things to consider are that
I can fix issue 2 with an up-to-date CD list. I don't know how I can store the inlays and CD booklets where I can know where they are. In essence, I already have this type of scenario with the existing CD-Rs I already have on spindles. The only difference to overcome is what to do with the booklets, etc. I can find a plastic Rubbermaid to put that stuff in, I guess, and use some sort of filing system to keep things organized.
- I need someplace to put the cases and inlays for the CDs I put on the spindle
- I need some way to not forget what CD is on what spindle
I'm here to say that after 3294 days (9 years and 1 week), I don't have this figured out. I have 5000 CDs now - so that's awesome! - on 50 x 100 count spindles, but I still do not have an organization structure for the inlays and CD booklets. I have some sorted into file folders, but I'm not anywhere close to being complete. Maybe by the 10 year anniversary of the post, I will have it figured out. I can say I have completely abandoned Excel as a tool to store my CD information. I use Windows Media Player exclusively.
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
SS 2017
This is a STACKED lineup for Survivor Series 2017! Triple H returned to Raw and inserted himself into the Survivor Series match!
Team Raw (from left to right)
VERSUS
Team Smackdown (from left to right)
Raw ended with Braun Strowman slamming Kane through the ring so, of course, the question has to be asked, "What will Strowman's condition be come Sunday at the PPV?!?"
Also, John Cena & Randy Orton have never been on the same page for very long. I fully expect Team Raw to win so that means Team Smackdown will win. <grin>
Team Raw (from left to right)
- Braun Strowman
- Samoa Joe
- Kurt Angle (captain)
- Triple H
- Finn Balor
VERSUS
Team Smackdown (from left to right)
- John Cena
- Randy Orton
- Shane McMahon (captain)
- Bobby Roode
- Shinsuke Nakamura
Raw ended with Braun Strowman slamming Kane through the ring so, of course, the question has to be asked, "What will Strowman's condition be come Sunday at the PPV?!?"
Also, John Cena & Randy Orton have never been on the same page for very long. I fully expect Team Raw to win so that means Team Smackdown will win. <grin>
My Grandma's Sense of Humor
Without any doubt in my mind, I believe my grandma would have liked this joke. She would have been 110 today.
In other news, my brother turns 45 today.
In other news, my brother turns 45 today.
Five Years Old Not Rock
Emmas Ringer is no more. Per their youtube.com page, their first video was published in 2012 and their final video was published on Oct 11, 2016. If they played in the Iowa City area, I don't recall hearing about it. I like them.
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