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Mar. 25th, 2013 10:25 pmThe office is looking better and better every day, in terms of reduced clutter.
I recently unearthed my old Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra, which according to the manufacturer's web site is a product that has reached the "end of service life," a formal way of saying they don't support it any more. The most recent driver is 2.01, dated near the end of 2006.
Fortunately, there exists a Linux application (gnomad) that will allow my Ubuntu laptop to interact with this MP3 player, so I may get some additional use from the hardware.
* * * At the start of today's t'ai chi lesson, sifu asked what, in retrospect, turned out to be a trick question about "loyalty": Is loyalty a two-way street between teacher and student?
The thing that defines a trick question is not only that the intuitive answer is wrong, but that the intuitive answer is, well... intuitive.
In retrospect, I conflated loyalty with several other qualities, such as honesty, to come up with the intuitive (and wrong) affirmative answer. Had I paused to consider my understanding, or better yet to ask what the definition of "loyalty" was, I might have answered differently. But that's not really the point, as sifu's subsequent explanation was quite illustrative.
Cheers...
I recently unearthed my old Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra, which according to the manufacturer's web site is a product that has reached the "end of service life," a formal way of saying they don't support it any more. The most recent driver is 2.01, dated near the end of 2006.
Fortunately, there exists a Linux application (gnomad) that will allow my Ubuntu laptop to interact with this MP3 player, so I may get some additional use from the hardware.
The thing that defines a trick question is not only that the intuitive answer is wrong, but that the intuitive answer is, well... intuitive.
In retrospect, I conflated loyalty with several other qualities, such as honesty, to come up with the intuitive (and wrong) affirmative answer. Had I paused to consider my understanding, or better yet to ask what the definition of "loyalty" was, I might have answered differently. But that's not really the point, as sifu's subsequent explanation was quite illustrative.
Cheers...
