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WCDT Strips 3771 - 3775 (25-29 June 2018)
BryanP:
Today's comic ties in cooincidentally with today's repeat from Unshelved (a library based webcomic).
http://www.unshelved.com/2007-6-11
Near Lurker:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 26 Jun 2018, 01:57 ---Clinton’s at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, about 10 miles from downtown Northampton on the other side of the river. There’s pretty frequent bus service between them.
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Trust me, I've taken that bus many times, and trust me, you don't want to. It's about an hour each way, with occasional express runs that are still about half an hour.
Thrudd:
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 27 Jun 2018, 06:47 ---
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 26 Jun 2018, 01:57 ---Clinton’s at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, about 10 miles from downtown Northampton on the other side of the river. There’s pretty frequent bus service between them.
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Trust me, I've taken that bus many times, and trust me, you don't want to. It's about an hour each way, with occasional express runs that are still about half an hour.
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Wow, a whole hour ..... colour me .... unsympathetic.
I drive now and the trip to or from the office can range from 18 to 70 minutes + depending on time of day, traffic, construction, accidents, and weather.
Add to that client on-site calls that could reach 3+ hours each way .... :-\
In the bad old days in a previous career where I was a transit rat, I commuted to one of two locations. First was two buses and took almost an hour including the three industrial park block walk.. The second was downtown to head office which was Bus-subway-streetcar-walk and could take anywhere from 70 to 200 minutes++ either way. Streetcars don't do so well in blizzards. Most of my coworkers had a less than 15 min transit commute.
--- Quote from: moriastar on 27 Jun 2018, 04:18 ---Also- former library grad so I'm wondering if he'll put in... the CAPSTONE project librarians have to pass to get their master's degree.
It's literally at 8am Monday morning you are given 10 potential research topics. You have exactly 7 days (Due 7:59AM the following Monday) to write 3 well researched papers with NO HELP FROM ANYONE (not even to edit and spell check!) that meet certain word min and max and source types and such. You may never talk about the questions or what you researched or how you did it with anyone ever or they can take away the degree. This is put forth by the American Librarian Association. (if someone was in the program more recently and has corrections to this feel free to correct, I did graduate in '06).
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That is an "interesting" vetting procedure.
(click to show/hide)The Professional Engineers in my jurisdiction had something similar decades ago.
It was quickly overhauled and made open to auditing once the human rights tribunal was in the process of sticking their nose into how things were being done and who all was involved in the process.
[no little thanks to court proceedings at the national level about to hit the docket]Opaque closed systems are rife with abuse.
There are no if's and's or but's. Just, how much and how bad.
(click to show/hide)I say this as an outside observer since the change to the vetting process, the number of non-WASP engineers being accepted skyrocketed yet the quality has improved.
Last I heard they were still debating changing lifetime certification to renewal every 5 years.
That won't happen till all the old guard die off, more get sued into receivership and/or their insurance premiums get too dear.
Just a caveat - I am a specialist in Quality Systems, Metrology, etc etc [not always recognized as an equal due to my specialty] and I HAVE TO work with engineers.
I do respect Engineers for their knowledge and know-how in their specialty even though some have challenges with communication.
Not so much for most grads who are lacking experience, practical knowledge, good sense [like self preservation] and more times than not humility.
I have none for those who lack respect and play the Engineer Card on subjects they have no clue about.
Roborat:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 27 Jun 2018, 09:38 ---
--- Quote from: Near Lurker on 27 Jun 2018, 06:47 ---
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 26 Jun 2018, 01:57 ---Just a caveat - I am a specialist in Quality Systems, Metrology, etc etc [not always recognized as an equal due to my specialty] and I HAVE TO work with engineers.
-snippage
I do respect Engineers for their knowledge and know-how in their specialty even though some have challenges with communication.
Not so much for most grads who are lacking experience, practical knowledge, good sense [like self preservation] and more times than not humility.
I have none for those who lack respect and play the Engineer Card on subjects they have no clue about.
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I am a professional engineer (geotechnical and environmental, if anyone cares), and will say that any engineer with any competence will not express an opinion, as an engineer, on anything outside their area of practice. I learned that lesson pretty early in my career. Even a casual conversation in a bar can get you into trouble if you are not careful. I have noticed that the worst ones for not having any common sense are recent masters of engineering grads, who usually have no practical experience yet, just a few extra years of school, and haven't discovered that what you learned in Uni doesn't necessary apply to the real world.
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wlewisiii:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 26 Jun 2018, 01:44 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 26 Jun 2018, 01:18 ---I'm pretty sure that Jeph has decided that he is moving onto the 'where next for Marten and Claire?' arc.
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Stand By For (in)Action!
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I think not, anymore. At least not once one of the pair realizes the other is serious.
I'm actually thinking that a conversation with his father after the Fay/Bubbles events could put Marten into the spot of actually taking the initiative. The catch is going to be if it is enough to force him to be either a) serious about being a musician or b) finding a different career path. Myself having watched a couple of pro/semi-pro muscians struggle with "do I go for it? do I really really go for big time fame?" and remembering watching the Replacements essentially intentionally self-destruct on SNL, that could be a pretty heavy topic for Jeph to tackle. Claire will, in the end, be a professional librarian of the top order. Where does Marten end up and what is both willing to do and willing to sacrifice to keep Claire and her love?
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