Ever see the movie "insignificance"?

Post #113,154 by mhuber 8/7/03 10:29:05 PM Reply	Ever see the movie "insignificance"? Interesting scene where The Actress (obviously MM, but nobody had names in that movie) explains Relativity. I don't exactly reccomend that movie. Good, but very depressing. Came out at the same time as Back To The Future, and was described - before we saw it - by my friend as BTTF for grown-ups. Einstein on at least one occasion (in real life, I don't remember whether he was in that movie or not (No, I mean Insignificance, I'm not getting metaphorical and meaning real life when I say "movie" (Dang - back in The Trade a week and a day and I'm already nesting parenthesis))) listed his occupation as "model". ---- Sometime you the windshield, sometime you the bug, sometime you the driver you turn on the windshield washer you keep going.
Post #113,177 by drewk 8/8/03 8:59:54 AM Reply	OT: "Back in the trade" ? I must have missed it, you're employed++ ? === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #115,116 by mhuber 8/23/03 11:50:49 PM Reply	Re: OT: "Back in the trade" ? I am. As of the end of July. It is ill-omened: the networking opportunity that got me the job was a discussion of the differences between field slave headwear and house slave headwear. But it is fun so far. I'm doing tech support and documentation for an industrial software company again. A former competitor, more or less. 15 people. Some of the more gung-ho programmers have been known to work as late as 5:30 from time to time. You know, technology built by people who are awake is sometimes good. ---- Sometime you the windshield, sometime you the bug, sometime you the driver you turn on the windshield washer you keep going.
Post #113,224 by Ashton 8/8/03 4:21:02 PM 8/8/03 4:52:13 PM Reply	EInstein possessed that One quality totally-absent in every Dedicated '-Winger' - a nicely developed sense of humour about the machinations of the flock all around.. And I recall that once he replied to a school girl's question - maybe about similar triangles and some relationship (?). He gave a quite clear explanation in plain English; not a patronizing bone in his body. (Damn.. is there anybody Conscious left around, at all?) [image\|http://global.msads.net/ads/10617/0000010617_000000000000000014020.gif\|\|\|\|] [link\|http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1985/08/11354.html\| Insignificance] Edit PS: CONGRATS! on sashaying back into the loony-bin; may your cow orkers be a Rare Breed, one unafflicted with the common diseases-of-Office, for which no pharm-chem has yet been developed.. :-\ufffd Mad Cow Orker Disease Edited by Ashton Aug. 8, 2003, 04:25:10 PM EDT Edited by Ashton Aug. 8, 2003, 04:52:13 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #115,119 by mhuber 8/24/03 12:32:08 AM Reply	Well, thanks I've been there long enough now to know who the real software salesman is. Um, wait, is that kind of like trying to be insulting by calling Lenin a commie? Dang. "Software salesman" is about the best insult I have, short of going into old-fashioned Spanish-Arabic mode and exploring deep questions of metaphorical ancestry. Seems to be a pretty decent place, all the more so because the veneer of professionalism is rather thin and cracked. "Full of courtesy, full of craft" and nobody seems full of courtesy except the CEO. -------------------------- A Ben Franklin quote that a certain plumbing company completely misuses in their very annoying ad. Maybe they don't realize that "craft" isn't short for "craftsmanship". ---- Sometime you the windshield, sometime you the bug, sometime you the driver you turn on the windshield washer you keep going.
Post #115,122 by deSitter 8/24/03 1:00:47 AM Reply	Re: EInstein possessed that One quality totally-absent in At a party hosted by the Einsteins, the great man mentioned to a colleague that a certain person was like time - "always going, never gone". IOW you hit it hard on the head with that reference to E's humor. -drl

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