so they say you learn something new every day and the day that you stop learning is the day that you die. things i learned today... 1. i learned that waffle house waiters and waitresses are some of the most friendly (or is it friendliest?) people on earth. 2. i learned that when asked where you are originally from (or "where are you live?) from somebody foreign (paris in this case) and you say "texas", they immediately think of bush and think you are conservative. 3. i learned that travis really is a good band. i remember someone saying a while back that the reason that travis wasn't successful here was because they were "simply not that good". 4. i learned that i still do not have my priorities in order. 5. i learned that i need to slow my arse down. got only one ticket in the last eight years, but i got two within the last month and a half. one for driving on a shoulder (90 and dulles ave) that was shortened a week after i got the ticket and another yesterday for going 75 in a 60 zone on 59. 6. i learned that people talk to much and need to shut their f'ing mouths. need to keep in mind certain things i say to certain people. edit: 7. the more i drink heineken (sp?), sam adams, and guiness (sp?)... the more i realize that bud light and budweiser taste like pisswater. soooo... what have you learned today?
1. I learned that the UT Natural Sciences Career Expo is mainly for intraverted CS majors who otherwise wouldn't leave the house to get a job. I tried to apply with a bunch of different companies, but most of them wanted CS majors. WTF. CS majors are a dime a dozen, just like Bio majors are... So why do they get the jobs and not me? 2. ACL had 210,000 people attend this weekend. 3. The Arizona Diamondbacks won the 2001 World Series. (This was before I followed baseball) 4. My printer is just one more wasted page away from being in the dumpster.
1. learned a ton about hinduism and sikhism yesterday; 2. learned that the plumbing in my house needs some work...also learned i'm grateful that i renewed the home warranty for my house!
share your story buddy, I too want to learn about those religions. I learned that not going to class every other day can seriously hurt your grade .
I learned that you can be at school/work for 15 hours straight and still not feel like you accomplished that much. I learned that sleep deprivation makes you hungry even when you shouldn't be. And I heard some good stories about people sticking suction cups to their face and firecrackers where the sun don't shine. But that's probably not the kind of learning that helps you improve yourself.
can you email me? i'd be happy to discuss it with you. i just don't want to get off on a huge tangent from this thread.
Today's lesson: I just learned that I could buy a Dell DJ20 MP3 player for only $179 for today only (using an online coupon). Yeah, I went ahead and did that just now. SWEET!
I learned the guitar parts to "Knock on Wood" by Eddie Floyd and "Walking the Dog" by Rufus Thomas...
Today I learned, yet again, that certain people I work with do not know what the hell they are doing.
I learned that I still hate my job. I learned that non-technical managers should keep their noses out of the tech folks' business
Yesterday and Today I learned that my body does not bounce back from a 3 day weekend of partying in the Austin heat like it did when I was 20.
i learned that you have to be a rude motherf*cker to work for the county. case in point? everyone working at harris county employment office. i guess that's why they haven't hired me. i'm too damn cordial.
I learned that concentrating on the Torts reading until I got tired because it is "more fun" and then doing the contracts when I am tired means I won't learn anything in contracts. I learned that taking a break today from cracking my head open trying to understand contracts all night is a good thing. I learned the other day that taking a left from the middle lane because you have seen other people do it everyday for the past three years will still get you pulled over if you do it in front of HPD. (No ticket though, the guy was pretty cool.) I learned that if you want to stop a flight, just scribble something in Farsi in an in-flight magazine.
I learned 2 pretty good cannibal jokes today. I learned yesterday that my son has reached the optimal height for crushing my balls, when he runs into me while pretending to be superman. I learned that missing one day of Prilosec is okay, but missing 2 days is not.
must be nice. the first ticket within a month in a half was completely bogus if they were going to shorten the effing shoulder (by the way, for those of you who are driving on a three lane road, but get into the right lane although you're not turning right... please don't do that. it's really annoying... especially for those who want to turn "right"). the second ticket during that month and a half, i was coming home from work at 2:30 in the morning. he asked me why my car was dirty and i told him full time work and i just started going back to school again. he recommended that i clean it it up. wtf?
One of my biggest pet peeves, because I'm forced to deal with it on my daily commute from work to home!!
I learned that I will never get to the point of where I was several months ago on my bench press max of 260.
I learned that I don't know what makes music fit into the 'jazz' genre after going to the San Antonio Jazz Festival on sunday. (Can salsa be considered 'jazz'?)
i learned that i still don't have my priorities in order. i learned that i shouldn't give up on the 'stros though they lost tonight. friggin viscainio (sp?) error. was wrong in thinking hernandez was ready to come back. dude's control is awful. i learned that it makes me happy that a couple of things are still going strong that i used to do in my childhood by reading a couple of your threads... comics and nintendo. i learned that i'm able to read people more quickly than i thought... and now... i don't like anyone that i work with. i learned that i still have this extreme fear of wasps, bees, etc... after being stung in the ear by a bee as a child (not a child pretending to be a bee... sentence worded funny). i can't smoke on my porch now because of those got damn dirt dobbers (i heard that those don't sting, but i'm not sure). i learned that my hatred towards any intolerance towards racial background, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc... gets stronger by the day. sheer stupidity. i learned that i missed reading. haven't bought a book in the last couple of months.
