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One of those days...
Dec. 2nd, 2013 11:16 pmIt was one of those days where everyone, it seems, has a reason to want a piece of you, or of your time. The end result is a tiring day with no apparent progress.
Galina and I watched Expendables 2 yesterday evening. With any luck, the movie pretty much exhausted the franchise (assuming there was ever one to begin with). This evening, after I got back from tai chi, Galina was not enthusiastic about watching The Blacklist, which promised quite a bit of blood and gore, so we watched Somm, a documentary that followed a small group of candidates as they prepared for the Master Sommelier examination.
One of the candidates suggested that he memorized quite a bit of information about various wines by creating a "memory palace" consisting of physical regions drawn on maps, which is as good a method as any for that kind of thing.
My attention was drawn to something that was mentioned several times, which was the idea that, upon passing the exam, a new Master Sommelier could burn his or her flash cards—you read that right... flash cards (one of the participants had over 4,000 of them)—and sort of take it easy from that point on, which sadly echoes some of what one hears at various colleges, along the lines of not having to crack any more books upon gaining some milestone, such a degree, after having busted one's hump.
In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. In the film, one of the young men who passed the test gets an opportunity, somewhere around a year after the fact, to explain how that event changed his life, and he spends quite some time debunking the idea of resting on one's laurels, stating that, if anything, the pressure had only increased, because now so many people look up to what it is he represents.
* * * My ownCloud client runs pretty slowly between my work machine (which is linked to the network via wireless) and the ownCloud server (which is hard-wired to the router). As I've probably mentioned before, it also has a tendency to want to update all of the files in the database (a bug, according to the forums). I started a sync session this morning at about 8:30. As of a few minutes ago (almost 15 hours into the process), the sync is 46 GB of the way through a 78GB session.
I think I will let the machine stay on all night long and see what the morning will bring.
Cheers...
Galina and I watched Expendables 2 yesterday evening. With any luck, the movie pretty much exhausted the franchise (assuming there was ever one to begin with). This evening, after I got back from tai chi, Galina was not enthusiastic about watching The Blacklist, which promised quite a bit of blood and gore, so we watched Somm, a documentary that followed a small group of candidates as they prepared for the Master Sommelier examination.
One of the candidates suggested that he memorized quite a bit of information about various wines by creating a "memory palace" consisting of physical regions drawn on maps, which is as good a method as any for that kind of thing.
My attention was drawn to something that was mentioned several times, which was the idea that, upon passing the exam, a new Master Sommelier could burn his or her flash cards—you read that right... flash cards (one of the participants had over 4,000 of them)—and sort of take it easy from that point on, which sadly echoes some of what one hears at various colleges, along the lines of not having to crack any more books upon gaining some milestone, such a degree, after having busted one's hump.
In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. In the film, one of the young men who passed the test gets an opportunity, somewhere around a year after the fact, to explain how that event changed his life, and he spends quite some time debunking the idea of resting on one's laurels, stating that, if anything, the pressure had only increased, because now so many people look up to what it is he represents.
I think I will let the machine stay on all night long and see what the morning will bring.
Cheers...
