The three hour final

Jeff: Hey
me: Hi

Jeff: How's it going?
me: It's going well
Just going through emails

Jeff: Cool. Ready for summer?
me: I suppose

Jeff: Lol
me: The weather is nice now though
No need to rush

Jeff: Lol yea
I'm depressed I had to change my howdy portal password and I really liked my old password. It was BosonHCRisrunnighot=vr30%
me: runnig?

Jeff: Whoops running
me: Julianne said she doesn't understand why you're depressed

Jeff: Lol I am emotionally attached to it. Its a combination of forensic psychology and cosmology
Oh and anthropology
me: Julianne says that maybe you didn't change it and you just want me to break into your account

Jeff: Lol yes that is exactly it
me: Figured

Jeff: Lol
I have my finals next week. I have a three hour math final
Oh but I am being forced to go to a star wars party on Saturday with N Hall people
me: it's not coercion if you go willingly

Jeff: lol yes it is
N adopted me in as their new baker person since the person that currrently bakes is moving
me: Aren't all finals three hours?
That doesn't sound unusual

Jeff: no they usually only an hour if that most take only 30 mins
me: That's not right.
It's a final

Jeff: At least from what i've experience here they are pretty easy
me: It is undergrad, after all.
lol

Jeff: lol yea
but my math professor said in grad school he has to take a five hour final so we have to take a three hour final
me: But you already said it is easy, so what's the big deal?
haha
Three hours is not bad

Jeff: not this class other classes are easy my grade in this class is currently 34
me: Well then I don't think taking the final is going to help at all.
Unless it is worth like 90% of the grade or something

Jeff: well he has a built in curve some where he is still working on it but the final counts for 30% of the grade he says he thinks i will be ok
He said he got bitched at because his class average is too low
me: Maybe if you get a perfect score.
Grade inflation isn't the answer

Jeff: that's what a lot of professors do
me: If people can't make the grade, that's their own damn fault.

Jeff: if the grade distribution isn't right they make it right
me: That's not right
So if you have a class full of lazy people….then you get grade inflation
That makes your degree worth less
It means nothing

Jeff: Well it means they aren't teaching something right if their class grade is too low
me: That's questionable.
There are bad teachers, but there are also bad students
If you really intend on going to grad school, be prepared….they don't inflate your grades.
Rather, your workload is inflated, lol.

Jeff: lol yea i know
me: 3 hour tests are a piece of cake compared to what you have to do in grad school

Jeff: Oh so I started playing the new tomb raider game
me: In grad school….a B- is failing. 3.5 GPA is the minimum.

Jeff: Well it depends on the program I've been told
me: Yeah, some programs you might be able to scrape by with a B-, but others generally want you to have a B or better.
C is failing.

Jeff: yea
So any vacations planned for the summer
me: Nothing explicit. I have a few work trips and we have some travel plans, but we're probably going to play it by ear.

Jeff: Cool
Well I'm going to get going. going to a orchrasra consert
me: k, later

Jeff: later

My Account - Page says it is disabled

And so the email thread begins...

My account when I try to log on says the account is disabled.  After one or two tries, I close the page and try to log on, and it lets me in to log my hours.  Can you check into this and let me know what I have to do to get my account to not show disabled?

Thank You

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I got a message that the page couldn't be displayed.  I then clicked Refresh
and it opened the page with my Timesheet link.

Regards,

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We are aware of the problem we are working to resolve the issue

Sent from my iPhone

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Not to add to the mail flurry, but this is going to all of the Deltek
users on that list, not just the administrators.  Wanted to make sure you
are aware of this before user names and passwords start getting passed
around.  =)

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Yes please take me off this list.

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Please take me off as well I am receiving allot of email

Thank you

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Please take me off.

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Please take me off this list. 

Thank you, 

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Take me off the list too, please.

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I TOO WOULD LIKE TO BE REMOVED OFF THIS EMAIL, MY BOX IS FILLING UP, THANK
YOU ENJOY YOUR EVENING.....

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If we all stop hitting reply-all, this will simply go away...but thanks for the entertainment!

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Please take me off too


Sent from my iPhone

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Take me off the list too, please.

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Me too please!

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Me too please!

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Pls remove me from this mailing list.

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All,
If you need to be taken off a list please reply to the person who sent the
email, please stop hitting   reply to all

Thanks

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Please stop replying to ALL!!

Start every day with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude!

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Me to, not sure what this is even for.

Thank you,

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Please remove me from this email, my email box is over flowing :)

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Take me off this list

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By doing a reply all you are perpetuating the problem. This is a distribution list for Deltek notifications and not intended for us to hit reply all.

If everyone would simple stop replying all this will end.

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Please take me off as well... 

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Everyone,

Please stop sending your replies to all.

Thank you

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Please remove me from the mass mailing list

I am getting mail from dozens of people and I do not want to get their emails!

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It looks to me like the Deltek time tracking program has a virus, and is sending out unwanted e-mails. You might want to let them know. k

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Please stop this it's really annoying now

Sent from my iPhone

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I would also like to be removed from this list.

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Please remove me too!!

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Please remove me too.....

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Please also remove me from mass mailing lists. Thank you

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Taboo Recreation

(1:28:37 PM) Me: What are you doing in your leisure class?
(1:30:40 PM) Jeff: We were learning about taboo recreation such as drugs, lynching, casual sex, gambling . Now we are learning about trends and basically white people make up 90 percent of people that use parks in the US
(1:32:22 PM) Me: lynching????
(1:34:31 PM) Jeff: yes back in the 1800's people would get together and enjoy lynching people. We learned in waco tx about 2,000 people came together to watch a black guy burn on a tree. kids were playing games and they made it like a party. He said back then it was considered to be an american recreation
(1:35:21 PM) Jeff: well social scientist considered it to be an leisure activity
(1:37:03 PM) Me: That is so fucking wrong
(1:37:51 PM) Me: Goddamn racist pigs
(1:39:24 PM) Jeff: yea . its just a sad part of american history
(1:40:40 PM) Me: To put it midly

Happy Valentines Day

(12:28:14 PM) Jeff: how's it going?
(12:50:49 PM) Me: Hey
(12:51:00 PM) Me: Was just eating lunch.
(12:51:15 PM) Jeff: what did you have
(12:52:11 PM) Me: Sweet Italian sausage with noodles and a four cheese cream sauce.
(12:52:23 PM) Jeff: cool
(12:53:47 PM) Jeff: when you were a undergrad did you ever use a system called CPR
(12:54:48 PM) Me: cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
(12:55:01 PM) Jeff: lol no callibrated peer review
(12:55:22 PM) Me: No
(12:55:54 PM) Jeff: ok ok we use it in astronomy and we grade other studedents work and get graded on how well we grade
(12:56:39 PM) Me: I see
(12:57:55 PM) Jeff: I made a 94 but my professor is just going to give me a 100 so my class grade right now is a 100
(12:58:39 PM) Me: Why is he going to give you 100 instead of 94?
(12:59:07 PM) Jeff: just because he can lol i don't know the reasoning behind it
(1:00:07 PM) Me: Seems like you would care more if he decided to give you a 90 or 88 instead of 94.
(1:00:13 PM) Jeff: he said if we made a 70 or above we get 100 if below a 70 a 0
(1:00:32 PM) Me: I see, you didn't mention that before.
(1:00:51 PM) Jeff: he has a weird grading scale.
(1:02:29 PM) Jeff: Im learning lots of cool and fun things in psychology
(1:05:41 PM) Me: Such as?
(1:07:48 PM) Jeff: depression, Unipolar and bi polar , euthymic, cyclothim, diasthymic, and major depression, as well as spent three days talking about suicide. Now we are learning about pain disorders and stomatoform disorders
(1:09:21 PM) Me: I've always felt that suicide is one of the coolest/most fun things to talk about... /sarcasm
ha
(1:09:39 PM) Me: Depression...that's depressing
(1:12:29 PM) Jeff: well it's interesting in the fact that we don't know much about suicide we can't quite understand it. The only real way to study it is to let more people commit suicide but ethics will not let psychologist do that. they have to intervene. We were learnign about electroconvolsive therapy in how it helps snap people out of suicide because it reactivates the part of the brain that wants to live
(1:13:21 PM) Me: Morbid
(1:15:15 PM) Jeff: on valentines day he told us some sad stories from when he worked in the er as an emergency psyc consult and at the end he was like happy valentines day have a great day with this note of suicide
(1:15:38 PM) Me: wtf
(1:16:05 PM) Jeff: I have weird professors this semestter
(1:16:16 PM) Me: Yeah, sounds like it
(1:19:16 PM) Jeff: I do find this stuff interesting though but it's because its my major and i really like learning why people do what they do and how they think . My professor said with this knowlege no we cant diagnose people but we have alot of back ground that we should be able to recognize symptoms in people and know whats going on with them
(1:21:36 PM) Me: Well that's good that you at least find it interesting. The challenge I guess is to become good at it.
(1:25:08 PM) Jeff: yea true . we are learning a about the dsm guidelines but thats it its just a guideline peoples symptoms don't have to follow what the dsm says. so it can be on the difficult side

banana hammock monkey nuts

(10:04:10 AM) Robbie: tonight is going to suck so much banana hammock monkey nuts. I get off work at 7 and I got to finish my paper for soci about why video games is good for society and study for a test
(10:06:28 AM) Me: banana hammock?
(10:08:36 AM) Robbie: lol it's a new phrase i made up i know it dont make sense but that's what school doest to you 
(10:16:10 AM) Robbie: I am hopping my prof likes my paper. My three main points are that it is used to help people with disabillities such as people with lupus that cant go to the gym they use wii fit at home and its improved their lives. it creates disassociation with is theraputic when used in moderation people use dissociation from reallity in relgious practices as does video games it relieves streess of the real world. and it has education value and improves problem solving cognition and hand eye corrdination

Indeces

me: I would like to point out that indeces is not a word (though I'm sure you knew this). I noticed that Billy used indeces instead of indexes or indices. Seems like the trend is continuing...

(It's just a peeve, that's all)

 I was looking over Betty's check in

3:06 PM I never had the heart to tell Billy, though.

  lol

 Keith: Oh, yeah, I saw that, too. We were focused on fixing a bug and I didn't want to sidetrack her, honestly.

 me: Good time to show how the refactoring tool works though!

3:07 PM Haha

 Keith: True. I was just going to fix it myself, but I should do it with her instead.

 me: Doing pair programming?

  Or are you just helping her here and there?

3:08 PM Keith: Theoretically I'm just supposed to be helping her here and there, but functionally, it's closer to paired programming based on the amount of time I've had to spend fixing bugs.

 me: :-/

3:09 PM Keith: I'm hoping that things will get better when she gets a new assignment to code from scratch. Then there won't be any confusion over mixing old and new code.

3:10 PM I'm going to assign her the new tool, beginning with her writing a spec based on my description of the program. We'll see how that goes and then move forward.

 me: That sounds like a good idea

3:11 PM Keith: The spec idea was Bubba's. I was just going to write one for her, but he pointed out that it would be best if she could show some understanding of what needs to be done.

3:12 PM I know that the new tool will be heavy on libraries and reference systems, which might be a lot to take in. But that's so much of what we do that I can't just keep her from diving into it.

3:13 PM me: Yeah, it's hard to avoid

 Keith: The upside of our work on the this tool is that it's almost fully functioning now.

 me: That's good news

3:14 PM Keith: It's messy, but produces an output file with what I believe is valid data.

3:20 PM I think this is going to be a long process. I was talking to her today, and found that her Java experience does not include threads, nor has she ever used a debugger with breakpoints before.

3:21 PM me: Did she only teach an intro course or something?

3:22 PM Keith: That's how it seems.

3:23 PM She said that at her old place she always programmed on a mainframe, typically using C/C++.

  She also used Eclipse before, but only for an intro level C++ course.

 me: i see...and version control, has she used that before?

3:24 PM Keith: No, never before last week.

 me: Wow

3:25 PM It almost sounds like she's at a sophomore CS level

3:26 PM Keith: That's basically right. I think she's definitely in over her head right now.

  But her position is not supposed to produce at only a sophomore level. I can't just give her the same level of tasks as our student interns.

3:27 PM I mean, think of what Billy was accomplishing before he left. That's the same work she is supposed to be doing.

U R Brain

(4:02:29 PM) Mr. Gold: thank u old man. u r brain still works, (for now).
(4:03:11 PM) Me: And apparently yours doesn't: "u r brain"...