Baccarat True Believers vs. Con-Artists

Did you know "lorem ipsum" is based on Machiavellian writings on pain and pleasure by Cicero?

It's funny you mentioned this as that was another competency test I created for a company hiring secretaries that needed to be creative. We asked, "do you know what lorem ipsum is and its origins?" If they answered in the negative after having seen it countless times they were deemed not the inquisitive people the company wanted.

It was a very effective test.

P.S. Bonus one-liner: I majored in theoretical physics...I just can't prove it.

 

I did want to take a quick moment to thank you for your style of criticism. It did not take the form of mere name calling and incorporated well thought out arguments and possibly actionable information. I was raised to believe that compliments never move us forward, they only lock us in the patterns we already have. At least criticism has the potential to make us better.

I will leave with a quote I wrote and I expect you to criticize me for quoting myself:

Only the water of new knowledge can grow fruit in the soil of misunderstanding. And sometimes, only in the shadow of criticism, do the weeds of ignorance wither. ~FK 2013

 

Boy oh gee whiz, gosh… I don’t know a lot about competency or creating tests to find out how inquisitive people are, but who knew all of your magical stories would help you wind up where you are now.

When you’re taking a picture of a bowling team, are you working with an automatic focus or just setting up your f stops on your own, really gauging that light and perfecting that depth of field to capture the attention on good [removed, pay to advertise] Bob? Are we even using DSLR’s anymore, pretty sure we can do damn near most of it all on our little smart phones.

Just to be clear, I’m really not knocking you for that. Bouncing around careers and odd jobs your entire life is actually pretty cool in my opinion. I’d rather know a little about a lot of things, than a lot about one.

 

I didn't remember posting about my Bowling Tournament photography job. Yeah I discovered that at the Orleans and Gold-Coast they had different bulbs in the overhead lights which threw off varying kelvin temperature and confused the camera's automatic settings. I figured out a manual fix and programmed a photoshop macro to fix the issue. I think this is to what you are referring.

Who's Bob?

If you meant Bob Dancer, he knew me from when I ran the Gigantic Slot Team. We used to lock him out of plays all over the city. He met my mother first and tried to sell her a strategy at the Bingo Palace. She rebuked him, and said, "If I need a strategy I'll get one from my son." I walked up at this point, and Bob skulked away when he saw my strategy was colorized and laminated and better than his. LOL.

Oh, I totally agree that a broader spectrum of knowledge helps you in ways that can't be easily quantified. I think it's one of the things wrong with our current society. We don't have enough context.

I am sorry Jae if anything I've said offends you. My motivations can be hard to see even for me. I mean no harm. Truly!

I lived this bizarre life that I never wanted or asked for. Now, in retirement I'm trying to share my lessons learned. It really ends there.

It is also possible that the lessons I learned and the conclusions I came to are wrong.

Keep keeping me honest!

 

I have a secondary degree in library science and I could probably prove it but I don't want to. When I was young I wanted to be a librarian.

 

They conceal a lot of information in the place they know no one will look, books...

 

It's a corrupted version of his first century Roman text.

 

I fell in love with books when I was 9 years old and I am still in love with them. I only got through high school because I was reading all the time and the teachers thought I must be smart because instead of paying attention in class I was always reading. How I got through high school is a mystery. I spent way too much time in libraries and thought I wanted to be a librarian but it didn't pay very much in those days so I never did anything with it. Amazon is a godsend for me I haven't been to a library since 1999, Amazon is my library. I'm constantly ordering books.

 

I'd take anything and everything he spouts with a massive grain of salt.

Sure I get that, except you are renting from them, not the other way around.

True, I don't know of many getting a serotonin hit when payday came around when working 9 till 5.

Second hand no doubt...

Got to say Frank some of your images are fabulous, I've downloaded a few to include as part of my background desktop wallpaper rotation.

 

ND would never reveal anything about his personal past .

 

Q E D

 

I was so pissed off when I went to a library and happened across a copy of Euclid's Elements and suddenly understood it for the first time. Yet people have been trying to improve on perfection for 2400 years and putting out less understandable books on the same topic.

 

Glad you liked my images. I think the serotonin hit is from discovery. It's like being the first person to predict the yearly salmon run and feeding your family. It's not about the pay check. It's about figuring out how to cash it when there are no banks...or checks...and no one has yet invented paper.

Makes you feel pretty special. It could also mean you're just "special". We will let time be the judge.

 

This my fav and aptly describes at least three of my relationships.

 

What about winnings at baccarat ? Personal glorification seems to be topic of the moment .

 

And for that we are forever grateful Nathan

 

Frank said it would be fine to post what we like in this thread because he's the one that started it. So you will not hijack it by posting personal glorifications, if you have any that is.

 

Just as you give happiness to JK. ROFLMAO.

 

Glad I'm giving somebody happiness. I wouldn't know for me he's disappeared from view. He's not even charging me for living in his head

 

You mean this cat is still in the "Gulag? "