This week I am listening to “Pop” by Tones on Tail
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
Somebody needs to think about this stuff...
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This week I am listening to “Pop” by Tones on Tail
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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This month I am studying “Marketing for small businesses.”
This is a three month, two nights a week for three hours per night part-time, in-person course.
Running my own business I have realised there is a lot I don’t know. This is what I hope to be the first step on a long journey of self-improvement, education and study so that I can run a business more successfully. This is a part-time class at Rhydfelin two nights a week.
Update: I managed to do 3 hours of studying, course work and reading for this month. Total hours spent studying so far is 33 logged hours for an estimated 78 hours of course work/studying/reading.
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Today I finished reading “Nightfall and Other Stories” by Isaac Asimov
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This week I am listening to “Sparkle in the Rain” by Simple Minds
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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Today I finished reading “The Robots of Dawn” by Isaac Asimov
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Today I finished reading “Tunnels & Trolls Solo Adventure #2 – Deathtrap Equalizer” by Ken St. Andre
Brutal!
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This week I am listening to “It’ll End in Tears” by This Mortal Coil
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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This week I am listening to “Dead Can Dance” by Dead Can Dance
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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Today I finished reading “The Last Question” by Isaac Asimov
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This week I am listening to “Double Nickels on the Dime” by Minutemen
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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Today I finished reading “Burning Chrome” by William Gibson
More Mr Gibson, if you please.
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This week I am listening to “Learning to Crawl” by The Pretenders
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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Today I finished reading “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury
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This week I am listening to “Rattlesnakes” by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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Today I finished reading “Garfield #9 – Garfield Loses His Feet” by Jim Davis
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Today I finished reading “Atari ST Machine Language” by Bernd Grohmann
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This week I am listening to “Alf” by Alison Moyet
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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How do you measure the productivity of a fireman?
Is it by the number of fires he put out?
By the number of cats rescued?
By the number of fires prevented?
Similarly, how do you measure the productivity of an artist?
By the number of paintings painted?
By the gallons of ink used?
By how much a collection of artwork sold for?
Similarly, how do you measure any unmeasurable creative field?
Perhaps, rather than trying to measure (and reward) slivers of productivity we just reward the process.
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This week I am listening to “Lament” by Ultravox
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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Today I finished reading “Pebble in the Sky” by Isaac Asimov
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Today I finished reading “Computer Graphics: A Programming Approach” by Steven Harrington
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This week I am listening to “Welcome to the Pleasuredome” by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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Today I finished reading “The Naked Sun” by Isaac Asimov
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In any engineering profession there are many ways to skin a cat.
And all of them involve trade-offs.
In a medical profession there are many ways to fix the cat that has been skinned.
And all of them involve trade-offs.
In piloting a plane there are many ways…
okay, this is where my analogy breaks down.
But it is the same principle.
But the point is, there might be many ways to do something with a cat.
And they all involve trade-offs.
A formal education and training will bring you up to speed on those ways and means and the trade-offs involved.
If however your entire profession is based on nothing more than “how you feel” (not how someone else feels because we call that psychology) or “what I reckon” that is the metaphorical equivalent of a few guys gathered around a bar having a talk over a few beers, then I am adamant that you do not need a formal education in whatever it is.
And anybody demanding you have a formal education in whatever it is, is either trying to sell you that education at an inflated price, or they are taking the easy (protectionist) option of demanding a credential that somehow is supposed to validate “how you feel.”
Beware the person who exclaims “I am absolved of all responsibility of the professional misdeeds of this employee because I verified they had the required certificate/credential.”
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Today I finished reading “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” by Dr. Seuss
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This week I am listening to “Hallowed Ground” by Violent Femmes
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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Today I finished reading “The Malifestro Quest” by Steve Meretzky
Like all the Zork/Infocom books, these are just bad. A guilty indulgence.
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This week I am listening to “The Flat Earth” by Thomas Dolby
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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Today I finished reading “City of Sorcery” by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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This week I am listening to “Red Roses for Me” by The Pogues
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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Today I finished reading “Fleet of Worlds” by Larry Niven
Interesting concept. I found it improbable and had difficulty suspending my disbelief long enough to enjoy it.
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Today I finished reading “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual II” by Gary Gygax
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Today I finished reading “Presenting the Atari ST” by Lothar Englisch
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Today I finished reading “The Caves of Steel” by Isaac Asimov
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This week I am listening to “Declaration” by The Alarm
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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Today I finished reading “Tortilla Flat” by John Steinbeck
If you aren’t depressed after reading a Steinbeck you obviously weren’t paying attention.
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This week I am listening to “Who’s Afraid of the Art of Noise?” by The Art of Noise
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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This week I am listening to “World Shut Your Mouth” by Julian Cope
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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Today I finished reading “Garfield #5 : Garfield Takes the Cake” by Jim Davis
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Today I finished reading “The Rest of the Robots” by Isaac Asimov
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This week I am listening to “1984 (For the Love of Big Brother)” by Eurythmics
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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This week I am listening to “Junk Culture” by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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This month I am studying “Calligraphy.”
This is the final month of a four month part-time course in calligraphy.
Update: Logged 15 hours of studying and reading this month for a grand total of 68 hours out of the estimated 52 hours of required class time.
Final update: I will never improve my handwriting.
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Today I finished reading “I, Claudius” by Robert Graves
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This week I am listening to “The Big Express” by XTC
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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I have found that the amount of discussion (and the heat, zealotry, and noise of that discussion) about a particular change is inversely proportional to the complexity of the proposed change.
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Today I finished reading “I, Robot” by Isaac Asimov
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This week I am listening to “Too Tough to Die” by Ramones
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.
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Today I finished reading “Tunnels & Trolls Solo Adventure #3 – Labyrinth” by Lee Russell
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This week I am listening to “Keep Moving” by Madness
Starting in January 1985 I am making a concerted effort to listen (really “listen”) to one new LP each week.