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Comment Re:Administrators (Score 4, Insightful) 538

In all aspects of education, from primary school to university, the growing swarms of administrators soak up the budget. In some school systems, they vastly outnumber the actual teachers, have better pay, and yet contribute nothing to the operation of the schools.

You beat me to it. It's time for adjunct administrators and more full time professors.

Comment Need TV to sleep. (Score 1) 138

My trouble is, I can't fall asleep in a perfectly quiet room, with pitch black.

I do best, falling asleep to the TV being on. I used to have a regular tv that had a timer, which would turn itself off and cut the ambient light.

Now, I have a 27" computer monitor which is my "TV", and it doesn't have a built in timerâ¦so, it stays on all night, even when the DVR cuts off on Uverse, it has a blue screensaver light which I think affects me.

I guess I need to find a wall timer and hook it to the monitor and try that.

But I just don't do well in 100% quiet environments, even in school, if the room was quiet and no tv or stereo, I would start fidgeting, and goofing off, but with tv or stereo on in background I'd study for hours and all of a sudden, notice that hours had passed and I didn't realize what had played or what tv shows had been on.

Strange.

Comment Re:Or maybe, you know... (Score 1) 138

Yes, because a lack of sleep is the #1 reason why people don't exercise and eat right.

Well, it can affect things.

For one, about the only time good for me to hit the gym and exercise is EARLY in the morning. If I don't sleep well that night, I can't get up and work out and then to work on only 4 hours sleep. If I sleep 4 hours, and wake up, toss and turn till 6amâ¦I don't feel like hitting the gym and will try to crash till 7:30 or so to get a bit more sleep before having to get up and run to work. If I get a full 7 hours of sleep in a row, I wake up early, refreshed and ready to hit the gym and then start my work day from there.

That's just scheduling, but the body has been show more and more to react very badly if not properly rested each night with sleep.

Comment Was this a Racist Clinton Statement? (Score 1) 255

What did Chelsea mean by "not look like Mark Zuckerberg"?

Was this a racist statement because he is white, he shouldn't be looked at as a 'face' of computer science success?

Of course my statement here is a bit tongue in cheek, but if this had been said about a dark skinned person, I'd lay money on it, that THAT would be called out as a racist statement.

Comment Re: As painful as it is... (Score 2) 552

Why didn't they dump the kid and save her for God's sake???

They can make another kid, there is only one of her!!

What a sad and tragic story. I'd have saved my wife, no question or 2nd thought in that contest. I'd rather have the woman I'd known and loved for time, than a fetus I'd not met and hadn't even processed the atmosphere yetâ¦.now, he's stuck with a vegetable for a wife, and raising a kid on his own. Worst of both worlds.

Why was this such a hard choice to me? Seems a no brainer to me (no pun intended).

Comment Re:BFDâ¦. (Score 1) 208

Oh god. Not this again. What makes you think the replacements will be any better?

If nothing else, it would get al the "long timers" out of there. Get rid of the politicians that have turned Federal service into a lifetime career.

Get them out, at least we could somewhat start over if no one has 'seniority' and get the entrenched politics out of there.

That alone would be worth it to me.

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