The End for Barta?

Leistikow: Meyer ruling could spell end for Gary Barta

1. I like Gary Barta's motto: Observe daily, evaluate annually
2. This is a BIG statement: University leadership — including president Bruce Harreld, who last year gave Barta a whopping raise and contract extension that guaranteed him $4.6 million through 2021 — has a big decision ahead.

Stay tuned - I'm sure there will be more to this story in the next few days / weeks / months / years.

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Editor's Note: Embedding the video on the above page displayed this error:

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What else is wrong with the website?

BOO!!! HISS!!! Never Should Have Happened!

After viral video, disabled Iowan files complaint against Mills Fleet Farm

Insane!

Meant to Post Last Night

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From the Deep Archives on my EHD...

These were taken on the day Mom passed.

Two Strikes are Enough

Strike one: I despise this song.
Strike two: the musicians - a term used very loosely - do not sound good. At all.

Carolina Rebellion 2017

Carolina Rebellion 2017 Lineups Announced

In alpha order:

1. A Perfect Circle
2. All That Remains
3. Alter Bridge
4. Amon Amarth
5. As Lions
6. Avenged Sevenfold
7. Badflower
8. Beartooth
9. Chevelle
10. Citizen Zero
11. Coheed and Cambria
12. Cover Your Tracks
13. Crobot
14. DED
15. Def Leppard
16. Dinosaur Pile-Up
17. Dorothy
18. Eagles of Death Metal
19. Every Time I Die
20. Falling In Reverse
21. Fire From The Gods
22. Fozzy
23. Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
24. Gojira
25. Goodbye June
26. Highly Suspect
27. I Prevail
28. In Flames
29. In This Moment
30. Korn
31. Kyng
32. Machine Gun Kelly
33. Mastodon
34. Mother Feather
35. Motionless In White
36. Nothing More
37. Opeth
38. Papa Roach
39. Pierce The Veil
40. Radkey
41. Rival Sons
42. Royal Republic
43. Seether
44. Skillet
45. Soundgarden
46. Starset
47. Sum 41
48. Sylar
49. Taking Back Sunday
50. Tesla
51. The Amity Affliction
52. The Charm The Fury
53. The Cult
54. The Dillinger Escape Plan
55. The Offspring
56. The Pretty Reckless
57. Three Days Grace
58. Volbeat
59. Volumes
60. Wage War

Editor's Note: This post was composed on Tuesday, 12/6/2016, when I thought there was a zero percent chance that I'd be in North Carolina today. I think it'd be a great 3 day festival. On the same day, I checked for the Memphis in May 2017 lineup, which is the same weekend, and only saw this:

Personally, I think the Memphis in May organization needs to make their announcement around this time the year before because it's possible that these two festivals are competing for the same dollar. The only way Memphis in May 2017 happens is if Metallica is playing <grin>. Since they are playing two weeks later in Columbus, OH, who knows what will happen.

Update: On Friday, February 10, 2017, I purchased tickets for Alex and I to attend the Chicago Open Air concert in July 2017. On Monday, February 13, 2017, Metallica announced a 25 date summer tour with two area shows, which are discussed in this post.

Update: On Wednesday, February 15, 2017, I checked the Memphis in May page and saw this:


Update: On Wednesday, February 22, 2017, I checked the Memphis in May page and saw this:

Heartwarming

May the Fourth Be With You!

Inspiration to Practice!

PSYCHO LAS VEGAS 2017 Lineup (alphabetical):

Of course, I know Ace Frehley and can hum tunes he wrote as well as Corrosion Of Conformity and cannot hum tunes they wrote, but as far as the majority of the these bands? Uh, unfamiliar.

1. Abbath
2. Ace Frehley
3. Black Anvil
4. Blood Ceremony
5. The Brian Jonestown Massacre
6. Buzzov*en
7. Carcass
8. Celeste
9. Chelsea Wolfe
10. Cirith Ungol
11. Cloud Catcher
12. Code Orange
13. Conan
14. Corrosion Of Conformity
15. Cough
16. Cult Leader
17. Cult Of Luna With Julie Christmas
18. Diamond Head
19. Domkraft
20. Earthless
21. Elephant Tree (Aka Flights)
22. Eternal Tapestry
23. Fister
24. Floorian
25. Gatecreeper
26. GEQ
27. Gojira
28. Gost
29. Graf Orlock
30. Heavy Temple
31. Hollow Leg
32. Inter Arma
33. Khemmis
34. King Diamond
35. Laura Pleasants & Special Guests
36. Magma
37. Manilla Road
38. Merlin
39. Mastodon
40. Minsk
41. Morne
42. Mothership
43. Mouth Of The Architect
44. Mulatu Astatke
45. Murder City Devils
46. Mustard Gas & Roses
47. Myrkur
48. Neurosis
49. North
50. Oathbreaker
51. Pelican
52. Pentagram
53. Psychic TV
54. The Rods
55. Ruby The Hatchet
56. Sasquatch
57. Saturndust (AKA Flights)
58. Sleep
59. Slo Burn
60. Slomatics
61. Snail
62. Sons Of Otis
63. Sumac
64. Summoner
65. Swans
66. The Skull
67. Toke
68. Urchin
69. Usnea
70. Vhol
71. Weedeater
72. Windhand
73. Wizard Rifle
74. Wolves In The Throne Room
75. Yawning Man
76. Year Of The Cobra
77. Youngblood Supercult
78. Zeal & Ardor

Questions Arise after Premature Death of U of I Freshman

Editorial: Open dialogue needed about alcohol
Point/Counterpoint: Should UI go ‘wet’ or stay ‘dry’?

What I've Been Doing At Work

I want to state where I am with the disaster recovery documentation I am writing at work. In my opinion, the term 'disaster recovery' is as big as the world so what I want to do is to reduce it to a concept that is easily understandable. Therefore, what I have done is divided the term 'disaster recovery' into 5 phases:

1. Activation and Notification Phase - this phase is all about figuring out there is a disaster, what plan is going to be followed, and alerting anyone that will be impacted by the disaster that there will be an interruption to the systems they routinely use.
2. Pre-System Recovery Phase - specific to my project, there are 16 critical systems. Some of those systems are what you might think of as applications - Microsoft Word - while others are systems that you might think of as prerequisite systems - Microsoft Windows - as a limited in scope example. I am thinking only about the fact that Microsoft Windows is a prerequisite to using Microsoft Word. Thus, this phase is about restoring the prerequisite systems that are required to be in place before restoring other systems.
3. System Recovery Phase - This phase is all about restoring the systems that are used by end-users, such as Microsoft Word within the context of the example in the Pre-System Recovery Phase.
4. Service Recovery Phase - this phase is all about testing and validating that the systems have been restored. For example, continuing the Microsoft Windows / Microsoft Word example, this phase would be about opening Microsoft Word and verifying that it actually opens and functions.
5. Return to Normal Operations Phase - this phase is all about alerting anyone that will be impacted by the disaster that the interruption to the systems they routinely use is over. Anyone that routinely uses a system should be able to use it again, as if the disaster never happened even though we all know it did. <grin>

I won't go into additional details on this blog but that is the mile-high view of my daily work.

Future Bright

Connor McCaffery will play baseball at Iowa, redshirt first year in basketball Iowa City West standout will be a walk-on for now

Tweaking Outlook

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Making Left & Right Different on a Windows 7 Box

How to Use Different Wallpapers on Multiple Monitors in Windows 7

MS Word File Formats

DOC v. DOCX

Style Guide Meetings Suck Everywhere

-----Original Message-----
From: On Behalf Of Wright, Lynne
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2017 11:14 AM
To: TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l@lists.techwr-l.com>
Subject: RE: Ethics in Technical Writing

"crybabies" brings to mind a particularly emotional meeting of the tech writing team that I once worked with.

As editor, I decided that we needed to nail down a style guide. My supervisor *suggested* that it would be good for team-building to hold regular meetings to try to get consensus on points of style, so I resigned myself to a process that I knew would just be unproductive chaos.

By the third meeting, I was bracing myself for yet another futile debate over whether to add punctuation to bulleted list points; which would absolutely be a battle of pedantics, as the previous meetings had been.

Instead, somebody started complaining about the fact that I used red ink to edit the hard copies of their work (as was the norm back in those days). They felt that red was "too violent and upsetting", and I should use green or purple ink instead. When I tried to reason that red ink just stands out best, things went off the rails, as each person chimed in with their "ethical" 2 cents about ink colors, and egos ran wild. 

That was the last style meeting I called.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Kim-Eng
Sent: May-02-17 11:50 AM
To: TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l@lists.techwr-l.com>
Subject: Re: Ethics in Technical Writing

Ethical issues in technical writing arise when your employer or client wants you to put things in documents that you know are false, like safety certifications for products you know haven't had their safety evaluated, or to leave out critical items like hazard warnings.

Worrying about about questions of correct grammar vs jargon in noncritical verbiage that doesn't impact actual usage may be a little bit pedantic, but being a little bit pedantic is one of the things technical writers are paid to do. Being VERY pedantic and conflating pedantic matters with "ethics" is one reason why many people regard technical writers as crybabies.

Gene Kim-Eng

Humbling to Be So Out of Touch

These bands played at the 2017 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California.
The 2017 event was held on April 14-16 and on April 21-23.

It's really humbling to see this list of bands and realize I recognize exactly 3 - Radiohead, Lady Gaga, New Order - bands on the list and, of those 3, I can hum a Lady Gaga tune. I thought I was in touch with the music world, but now I feel like I'm on another planet!

1. Anna Lunoe
   
2. Arkells
3. Autograf
4. Banks
5. Banks & Steelz
6. Bastille
7. Big Gigantic
8. Blossoms
9. Bon Iver
10. Bonobo
11. Broods
12. Capital Cities
13. Car Seat Headrest
14. Chicano Batman
15. Classix
16. Crystal Castles
17. D.R.A.M.
18. Dillon Francis
19. DJ Khaled
20. DJ Shadow
21. DJ Snake
22. DREAMCAR
23. Empire of the Sun
24. Ezra Furman
25. Father John Misty
26. Francis and the Lights
27. Future
28. Future Islands
29. Galantis
30. Glass Animals
31. Goldlink
32. Grace Mitchell
33. Grouplove
34. Gryffin
35. Gucci Mane
36. Hans Zimmer
37. Jack Garratt
38. Jagwar Ma
39. Joseph
40. Justice
41. Kaleo
42. Kaytranada
43. Kehlani
44. Kendrick Lamar
45. Kiiara
46. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
47. Klangstof
48. Lady Gaga
49. Little Dragon
50. Local Natives
51. Lorde
52. Mac DeMarco
53. Mac Miller
54. Marshmello
55. Martin Garrix
56. Moderat
57. Mura Masa
58. NAO
59. New Order
60. Oh Wonder
61. Phantogram
62. Porter Robinson & Madeon
63. Preoccupations
64. Preservation Hall Jazz Band
65. Radiohead
66. Richie Hawtin
67. Roisin Murphy
68. Röyksopp
69. Sampha
70. ScHoolboy Q
71. Shura
72. SOHN
73. Steve Angello
74. Tennis
75. The Atomics
76. The Head and the Heart
77. The Lemon Twigs
78. The xx
79. Toots & The Maytals
80. Tory Lanez
81. Tove Lo
82. Two Door Cinema Club
83. Tycho
84. Warpaint
85. Whitney

Editor's Note: Draft 1 of this post includes an embedded video from Anna Lunoe. If time permits, one video per artist will be added.

Best Midwest Date is a Wednesday in Chicago

I like Sacred Reich, especially the tunes "I Never Said Good-bye" and "Crawling" so when I saw the headline that they were going on a world tour to celebrate their 30th anniversary as a band, I was hopeful they would come near me.

Nope.

The closest date they have on tour is playing in Chicago on a Wednesday (9/20) so I will not be able to see them in concert.

Not Good

Ubuntu founder retakes the CEO throne, many employees gone

Bootmgr Error

Fixing Bootmgr is missing error in Windows

New Band

The singer speaks to the crowd and cusses... then starts to sing and cusses. You have been warned!

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When not cussing, I am liking the groove.

Strange Skitch Act

More Fodder for Copyeditor at the CRG

From: Double standard? University of Iowa volleyball coach not fired after parent complaints of verbal abuse ... Former University of Iowa Deputy Athletics Director says he would have fired Jane Meyer for yelling at her boss:

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After reading the article, I'm wondering if there was a double standard. Seriously, don't we all want to be treated the same? If I do something awesome at work while working on a team, I want to be as recognized as my teammates. I get that.

But then comes my curse of seeing both sides. There are likely other circumstances that were not brought into light during Barta's testimony about how he handles discipline issues. Maybe Barta met with the volleyball coach and heard the other side of the story about why the coach was doing what he did. I can tell you the hair on the back of my neck was raised when it was the parents who complained about the way their daughter was being treated. I can see parents doing that in elementary, junior high, and possibly high school. This is a college student. The step after college is a job. Who's to say this student won't find herself in a situation where her boss is not the nicest human being on the planet? Will she expect her parents to speak to her boss on her behalf? When does the cord get cut?

This trial has suddenly become more interesting to me.

Tunes I've Been Digging

I really REALLY like this tune by Tiny Stills.

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Modern Rock

Interesting, but Never Going to Happen

I came across http://rsync.net/pricing.html and saw their pricing information:

I then looked at my "main" external hard drives, b: & y: which have a combined size of 2803.53 GB, which is 2.80353 TB, so I fall into the $.06 rate.

2.80353 x .06 = $168.21 / month or $2018.52 / year.

I'm barely at 28% of the 10+ Terabytes range and even if I could reach that level, it'd be $400 / month or $4800 / year!!!!

Uh.

No.

Not going to happen.

In My Future? Stay Tuned...

From the Craigslist > CR > Musicians page:

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Dedicated Christian drummer needed (Cedar Rapids)

Christian prog rock project looking for dedicated and spirit led drummer. We are experienced musicians starting a new project and are in need of the right drummer to join our ranks. We are not looking to play 'mini-van" friendly pop, but much more serious message spreading rock.
A positive Christ centered message, at a higher volume!

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Under The Radar

One thing that flew under my radar was that there was a WWE PPV last night (4/30/17). Here are the results:
WWE Payback 2017 Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights, which points out one of the many takeaways is that Braun Strowman defeated Roman Reigns. As the article points out, it could be setting up a match between Brock Lesnar & Braun Strowman in the future. Personally, I don't like that matchup. I don't really care about Strowman - yes, he's a 'big & powerful destructive force' but that doesn't mean I relate to his character (I do not) - or Lesnar, who only has Paul Heyman speaking as Lesnar's "advocate." Don't get me wrong, Heyman's promos are top notch but, unless Lesnar cannot speak, I don't feel like I'm engaged with his character. At least with Roman Reigns, who I consider to be cut from the same cookie cutter as Strowman and Lesnar, he will speak. I'm curious how the fallout from last night's PPV plays out on tonight's episode of Raw.

One thing I noticed, which no one has been writing about a lot, is that Roman Reigns & Dean Ambrose & Seth Rollins (former teammates in the Shield) are now all on Monday Night Raw's show. There used to be talk about a Shield reunion. Now would be an opportune time to see that, in my opinion.