Comments on: Friday Musings http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/09/friday-musings-42/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:20:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Babs http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/09/friday-musings-42/comment-page-1/#comment-47584 Babs Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:16:52 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/09/friday-musings-42/#comment-47584 Grumpy - You remind me of Rummy's famous line: There are known knowns, there are known unknowns and there are unknown unknowns. The media laughed themselves sick over it. Why? I don't know. It makes perfect sense to me. Grumpy – You remind me of Rummy’s famous line:
There are known knowns, there are known unknowns and there are unknown unknowns.

The media laughed themselves sick over it. Why? I don’t know. It makes perfect sense to me.

]]> By: Grumpy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/09/friday-musings-42/comment-page-1/#comment-47531 Grumpy Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:44:07 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/09/friday-musings-42/#comment-47531 It has often been said, "The difference between a wise man and a foolish man is the wise man knows that he knows not and the foolish man knows not that he knows not." The second is a paraphrase of old Proverb, "A fool is a man who speaks much about that which he knows little." Lex, You have done well, Sir. Have a GREAT DAY and WEEK!" Enjoy yourself! Grumpy It has often been said, “The difference between a wise man and a foolish man is the wise man knows that he knows not and the foolish man knows not that he knows not.” The second is a paraphrase of old Proverb, “A fool is a man who speaks much about that which he knows little.” Lex, You have done well, Sir. Have a GREAT DAY and WEEK!” Enjoy yourself! Grumpy

]]> By: Justthisguy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/09/friday-musings-42/comment-page-1/#comment-47446 Justthisguy Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:38:00 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/09/friday-musings-42/#comment-47446 Dammit, Robert Grave*S*... Who's truncating my comments, here?. I thought only Blogger did that.. (extra periods added to be sacrificed to the bad software).. Dammit, Robert Grave*S*… Who’s truncating my comments, here?. I thought only Blogger did that.. (extra periods added to be sacrificed to the bad software)..

]]> By: Justthisguy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/09/friday-musings-42/comment-page-1/#comment-47445 Justthisguy Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:33:34 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/09/friday-musings-42/#comment-47445 Dang, Lex! Good writin', and good analogy too! I reckon any airplane you could get into with yer own money would be like weak coffee compared to cocaine, to continue the analogy. We had a next-door neighbor once who was an ex-F-105 pilot, with whom I discussed the fun of flying, a bit. We decided, I think, that there just ain't no substitute for the high-energy stuff, once you've been spoiled by it. Damn' Gummint! Won't let private citizens have jet fighters, even if they *can* afford the gas! Oh, and; "There's a lot of love in boxing." - Robert Grave Dang, Lex! Good writin’, and good analogy too! I reckon any airplane you could get into with yer own money would be like weak coffee compared to cocaine, to continue the analogy. We had a next-door neighbor once who was an ex-F-105 pilot, with whom I discussed the fun of flying, a bit. We decided, I think, that there just ain’t no substitute for the high-energy stuff, once you’ve been spoiled by it.

Damn’ Gummint! Won’t let private citizens have jet fighters, even if they *can* afford the gas!

Oh, and;

“There’s a lot of love in boxing.” – Robert Grave

]]> By: Dale B http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/09/friday-musings-42/comment-page-1/#comment-47416 Dale B Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:50:48 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/09/friday-musings-42/#comment-47416 <i>"I realized that I have spent the last 18 months of my life pursuing a master? “I realized that I have spent the last 18 months of my life pursuing a master?

]]> By: Dale B http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/09/friday-musings-42/comment-page-1/#comment-409817 Dale B Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:50:48 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2007/02/09/friday-musings-42/#comment-409817 <i>"I realized that I have spent the last 18 months of my life pursuing a master’s degree whose chief purpose was to inform me how very much I have to learn."</i> I've decided that, at least for engineering, a degree just is a means to give you a start at gaining sufficient background to become an engineer, if you choose to do that. for me, engineering is about spending a good part of your day being confused. If you're not occasionally confused, or at least uncertain, you're not pushing hard enough and your results will be, at best, adequate. You can keep your job with adequate but it's not very interesting and is mostly just treading water. Many years ago it dawned on me that I'll never know all, or even a lot of the answers. I also realized that it doesn't matter. Usually, getting the answer to a question is fairly easy. The hard part is coming up with the right questions. “I realized that I have spent the last 18 months of my life pursuing a master’s degree whose chief purpose was to inform me how very much I have to learn.”

I’ve decided that, at least for engineering, a degree just is a means to give you a start at gaining sufficient background to become an engineer, if you choose to do that. for me, engineering is about spending a good part of your day being confused. If you’re not occasionally confused, or at least uncertain, you’re not pushing hard enough and your results will be, at best, adequate. You can keep your job with adequate but it’s not very interesting and is mostly just treading water.

Many years ago it dawned on me that I’ll never know all, or even a lot of the answers. I also realized that it doesn’t matter. Usually, getting the answer to a question is fairly easy. The hard part is coming up with the right questions.

]]>