On Thu, 22 Sep 2005, Ralph Stoker wrote:
Thought some of you might be interested in the following article (link below).
Forget all the speel about how it applies to computing and read about the
eagle scout who almost got himself a Darwin award.
http://www.computer.org/portal/site/computer/menuitem.5d61c1d591162e4b0ef1bd108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=computer_level1_article&TheCat=1010&path=computer/homepage/0805&file=random.xml&xsl=article.xsl&;
Thank goodness the kids of today have PS2 to keep them amused!
You have to admire this kids tenacity....
Personally I think that kid is absolutely marvelous. The adults around him
were an utter bunch of nana's and wasted his potential. I hope I never to
fail so miserably as a Dad as that Hahn's dad did. Instead of guiding that
brilliance and tenacity into something great, he probably in the long
term has killed him. (His cancer risk must be scary.)
I was just thinking the other day, whatever they may say about Bruce
Simpson, and people tend to say lots....
http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/
he at least does things.
Makes interesting stuff happen that hasn't happened before.
I regard Bruce as a challenge to myself. Not to compete with him, but as
an example of what I could be doing if I got off my butt.
So start thinking, what could we do as part of CLUG that compares?
Anyone watch that "World Famous for Dicking Around" show? What a bloody
stupid waste.
But at least Team Squirrel is off their collective butts doing things, and
for various strange values of the word fun, having a lot of fun doing so.
I admire that.
Pity about their choice of what to do.
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Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law.
"Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong later."
From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.
