Sunday, March 28, 2010

It's late and i write my titles last

Here's a question of morals. Or maybe it's not morals; it's just a question. Either way it just is. I have a group presentation in one of my classes next week (it's about networking, just so you know). And the teacher tells us that we should have a question period in case anything we say isn't quite clear. He also says that there is no way we're going to cover everything that can possibly be covered and there will be questions. A thinly veiled way of saying that he's going to ask questions if no one in class can come up with one. And this has gotten the ladies in my group in a tizzy. So they came up with a quick solution. Plant a couple questions in the audience. Get a handful of people to ask questions before the teacher has a chance to. Now to me, this seems a bit off kilter. It's makes me unsettled. Rather than have the answers to the questions or admit that they don't know the answer, these people would rather withhold some information and then release it later. Personally I'd like to be an expert in the field. I'd like to know the answer to the question that they ask. I don't even think I'm a good enough actor to go through the motions of saying "Yes Jack?” "That's a good question", and "Networking means never having to say you're sorry". It is alright to not know the answer. Yes, we have been doing research on this for a month but we can't be expected to be experts about networking in that time. So your first question of the day is what should I do? Should I load a question to seem like i have an answer? To me this seems like one step above cheating. If you knew the answers before going into a test, that would be considered cheating. But on the other hand, this isn't a test. It's just a presentation. And what if i do know the answer to a question that wasn't prepared. I'd have a greater sense of myself than if I just told people what i already knew. So i pose the question to you. I have just under 2 weeks before the presentation and i'd like your help. Just do you know my stance I'll tell you right now that I'm against it but i can be swayed to the other side. Whadda ya say?

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Of Simon and Garfunkle..... The one that is NOT Garfunkle

So a few weeks ago my friend Scott decides that we should start drinking bourbon. It is, after all, the drink of Southern gentlemen and we need to be more cultured.... i guess. So he does a little research and picks a bottle of wild turkey. I can't honestly say that i know the difference between whiskey, rye, scotch or bourbon, hence our need to be more cultured (If that's what makes you cultured then I would say being able to swim makes you a boat). But we have this bottle of bourbon, and we're ready to drink it, sort of. I didn't have whiskey glasses so i poured a shot of bourbon into some small water glasses over ice. This was a special occasion so Scott put on some AC/DC to get us pumped up. And I got out a picture of Sean Connery, the baddest MoFo to ever grace this beautiful planet, to make sure we were drinking in the presence of a real man (I wish i was making that part up). So there we stand, AC/DC playing, Sir Sean watching, bourbon in our hands, and we take a deep sniff (I don't know if you've ever sniffed bourbon but i don't recommend making a hobby of it) and we both think "hmmm, better have a chase". So we open the fridge..... skip the milk.... water's no good..... lemonade? It'll have to do.
It was a disgrace to Mr Connery that we couldn't finish those shots of bourbon. I can just imagine his gruff scottish accent echoing in my head. "What's the matter boys? Can't finish your bourbon, eh?" And that's what hurts the most. Letting down such a legend of a man. An actor with brilliance and class. His roles are fantastically epic. Multiple roles as James Bond, a shut in in Finding Forester, even a dragon in Dragonheart. Any one of these characters are something that you can admire and when Sean puts his own unique characteristics into these roles they become something extraordinary. Blah blah blah beats his wife blah blah....