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Rude people
I was in the security line at the airport when someone behind me switched to another line and then switched back to my line in front of me. She didn't say anything, just cut in front of me. Uggh. I saw that she had a New York license; these kind of people give New Yorkers a bad name.
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Practical schooling
Lately my wife and I have been talking about what skills kids need these days to "survive" in the real world. Reading, writing and arithmetic are great starts, but there are just some practical things that don't seem to be taught in school. For instance, knowing how to use credit (money isn't free and paying the minimum is going to take a long time to pay it off; however, the minimum has now doubled under recent banking changes), how interest rates affect borrowing power (each additional 1% increase in interest causes a big increase in monthly payments), how to balance a bank account, etc. While these items are all money related, there are other ideas, but I can't think of them right now.
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Voicemail notification
Whenever we get voicemail at home, MCI sends an email to whatever address I specify. This is great, but I don't recognize most phone numbers. So, today I got the great idea to write a script that takes the inbound number, looks it up in an SQL database, and then sends the name to my cell phone. This is extremely cool; then I was able to import the names from my address book into the database. I learned out php, sed, and SQL in this particular exercise.I'm glad that I have the knowledge to learn whatever I need to in order to make technology work for me.
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Televangelists
Who bothers listening to televangelsts? Do they really think that there message is better than someone else's if they are on TV? Every time Pat Robertson opens his mouth, something arrogant and plain stupid comes out. Today he said that Ariel Sharon's health problems are punishment from the almighty for trying to break up Israel. OK, here is a guy that is trying to make peace and Roberston has to say something like this. Somehow Robertson has 865,000 people a day watch his 700 Club show. Those people that watch must not be able to think for themselves.