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How not to take ET for granted | 40 comments (40 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: I am one of the people who has been (4.00 / 9)

taking ET for granted. There, I said/typed it.

So, my own personal remedy.

My most valuable asset is my ~~sterling wit~~ time. I currently donate tutoring time to deserving students who otherwise could not afford my services. Therefore, I now pledge to ET one, count it ...one, hour of my time per day in service, starting tomorrow Friday Feb. whatever.

What form this time/service will take I do not know. Suggestions are welcome. I'm putting my time/money where my mouth/keyboard is.

P.S. I'll attempt to be sober during "service time" and keep capital letters to a minimum.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 06:38:23 AM EST

Suggestion (4.00 / 4)

Write a diary from time to time. About stuff you know about and that interests you: science, applied science, what you think about equality of access to higher education and how it might be improved, truffles, what an ideal world would look like, etc etc...

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 09:08:29 AM EST
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Oink! (4.00 / 2)

Truffles!

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 09:12:36 AM EST
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Re: Oink! (none / 1)

Exactly my thoughts...

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 09:16:58 AM EST
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Re: Oink! (none / 0)

Thoughts ? I thought you were the "no brain no pain" type, kinda Buddhist :-)

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 10:51:16 AM EST
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Re: Oink! (4.00 / 4)

I was acknowledging the pain - which, thanks to sciatica - is rather nasty today. I had to cancel the dentist because I couldn't lie down flat on my back.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 11:12:48 AM EST
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Re: Oink! (4.00 / 2)

Sorry to hear that.

Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.

by Ted Welch (tedwelch-at-mac-dot-com) on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 12:39:11 PM EST
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Re: Oink! (4.00 / 2)

do you know any reflexologists? good deep foot massage can be helpful.

fran, when's your dvd yoga course coming out?

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 01:37:27 PM EST
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Re: Oink! (4.00 / 2)

As a matter of fact I do. I'm going to call them.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 02:35:18 PM EST
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Re: What I'm currently considering. (4.00 / 5)

I want to do something I can enjoy. I don't want it to turn into a job. (UGH!) The series I was going to do some months ago about the "Embryonic Police State" was too much of a bummer although Italy seems to have a good headstart on the rest of us.
I am a crappy typist and I have a bad back. That limits my ability as a typist/diarist but you've got plenty of those kind of folks and I'm always one to plow my own furrow.
Thus, I'm thinking more of the visual media in which I collect audio/visual stuff (I'm not a photographer) and I DO have a built-in camera on my laptop and will be looking for appropriate solfware to use with linux. No, no porn movies starring moi. My camera wouldn't pass that stress test.

Anyway, that's my current thought. Megan II will be by in a few (no, not afew) hours for help in her metabolism/nutrition course or I would have started this project today. I wonder if I have to be cognizant of the time difference between Europe and CA? Will keep that in mind.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 12:06:56 PM EST
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Re: Suggestion (4.00 / 7)

What I know most about is profoundly depressing mostly. But, okay I'll do one.

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson

by NearlyNormal on Thu Feb 26th, 2009 at 03:58:19 PM EST
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Re: I am one of the people who has been (none / 1)

How about a diary about the students you tutor? Who are they? Where? What are they studying? Why do they need a tutor? Why are they "deserving"?

Segue from there into discussion of the education system. And thanks for your time.

by Mnemosyne on Sat Feb 28th, 2009 at 07:49:57 PM EST
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