09:13 – We’re in reasonably good shape with regard to finished-goods inventory on our current science kits, with 70 or 80 assorted ones in stock. Over the next couple days, I’ll make up 30 sets of chemical bags and small parts bags for the LK01 Life Science kits. This weekend we’ll build the shipping boxes and assemble 30 LK01 kits to be ready to start shipping them Monday.
With both parents still in the hospital, Barbara and Frances are still waiting to find out when they’ll be discharged, and where they’ll be discharged to. It’s pretty clear that Dutch will have to be discharged to a nursing home, but there’s no way to know which one because it all depends on which nursing homes have a bed available at the time he’s discharged. We’re hoping that Sankie will be well enough to return to their apartment at Creekside, but we won’t know that for sure until she’s ready to be discharged.
Best wishes again, as always.
82 here in Retroville right now; tropical. I should be planting coconuts and bananas out back instead of mesclun and spinach.
Just dropped off some nice NRA material for Princess to bring her friend in Berlin on Sunday; a Second-Amendment t-shirt, patch and a pen made from a .308 bullet. Said fraulein is graduating from the University of Glasgow after a year at McGill and is very interested in American gun culture and our 2A. In a good way, too; she backs it completely; not sure what the firearms ownership situation is in Germany these days; perhaps Chuck in Tiny Town can shed some light. Or brad in Switzerland. Or Ray, if he ever logs in here again.
Also got a big hug from the girl; we may have cracked each other’s ribs.
“Also got a big hug from the girl; we may have cracked each other’s ribs.”
Miles Teg is currently accepting hugs from unattached nubile ladies… 🙂
Wow, Miles_Teg; now that you ain’t working you will have time to return all those hugs. Go to it, you old rascal!
Also got a big hug from the girl; we may have cracked each other’s ribs.
Princess? If so, cool, sounds like things are getting better.
Dave, I’m sure you already know this, but I just found a 30 year old one page guide to systems development:
STEPS OF SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
1. Wild enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Total Confusion
4. Search for the guilty
5. Punishment of the innocent.
6. Promotion of non-participants
This can be applied to many managerial situations, including outsourcing.
Lynn wrote:
“Princess? If so, cool, sounds like things are getting better.”
A hug from Princess could be “interesting”, in the sense of the Chinese blessing/curse:
“May you live in interesting times.”
Even if the hug was well intentioned it could squeeze the life out of most guys… 🙂
Sigh.
I’m in the middle of an e-mail argument with my younger nephew about gun control.
He’s latched on to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pOiOhxujsE
and is saying that because gun control “worked” in Australia in 1996 after the Port Arthur massacre that it will work in the US. He’s trotting out the usual arguments, I’m trying to explain to him how our situation is different from in the US. He’s not buying.
Well, he means well. I’ll try and educate him.
Maybe it’s different outside of the US, but I hardly ever bother to argue about gun control anymore. Would-be controllers are either afraid of guns or they want to control other people. (Remember, the operative part of gun control is control.) Neither is amenable to anything so prosaic as facts and logic.
About the only exception to my don’t-waste-my-time policy is when the would-be controller ignorant, parroting what he’d heard, and seems open to reason. Oftentimes an offer to take him shooting does some good. The other exception is when a lot of undecided onlookers are, um, onlooking, and sometimes I’ll put in some effort to counter the lies that are inevitably put forth by the would-be controller.
I unilaterally declared a ceasefire with my younger nephew because I thought it would soon turn into a full on slanging match, and as he is family I have to get on with him.
He is a school teacher and I was quite tempted to put the following question to him:
“Robbie, suppose you were proficient with firearms and could usually hit what you aimed at. Suppose you hear gunfire at school, look out the window and see a guy popping kids and fellow teachers. Suppose he’s heading towards your classroom and its defenceless five year olds. Would you rather have your hand gun or not have it?”
I decided against this because it’d just set him off. He doesn’t understand that crims only obey “no guns allowed” signs when and if they want to.
I sent him this link:
http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/an-opinion-on-gun-control/
I hope he read it.
It’s useless to try to reason with an unreasonable person. Every anti-gun person I’ve ever encountered holds their beliefs with the tenacity of religious beliefs. They refuse to let facts get in the way of what they believe.
I don’t agree. He isn’t unreasonable, he just doesn’t know. And I used to be pro-gun control but eventually became pro-Second Amendment, mainly due to what I’ve read here.
I don’t waste my time anymore arguing with people about firearms, either online or off; we plan to shoot these buggers after the revolution anyway.
Well, Greg, you’re reasonable, as are most or all of the regular posters here.
There’s difference between favoring gun control and being anti-gun. Many people in the former group are willing to be convinced to change their position, as you did, based on data and logic (AKA reason). The latter group are the True Believers. Nothing will ever change their minds, such as they are.