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hobgoblinn) wrote2008-06-26 08:29 pm
hobgoblinn) wrote2008-06-26 08:29 pm
Book Meme revisited, etc.
I think this is a slightly different list than the one currently making the rounds, but I cannot make myself do the formatting required manually just now. But if anyone wants to see it, there it is. Maybe next year.
Wasn't a terrible day, though I did have to restrain myself when a job that has been running for 14 Months has suddenly been written up for having a barcode error (all docs are a single page but read as 1 of 2 in the code, though the human readable says 1 of 1). This is more from our QC wizard, about whom I will say nothing else, except that I begin to feel sorry for the poor bastard. He's been in this environment for so long blaming all and sundry, and old habits die hard. I do wish he would take aim at someone else. The Customer Action Request report is supposed to be for things the Customer has demanded a refund on, not to nail more blame on a particular person. I joked today that I need to get a Blue Book and sell some of the CARs I seem to be accumulating so rapidly.
On the upside, I have been asked to take a road trip to Columbus sometime soon and meet the new company's QC guy, with the aim of making me, perhaps, the QC person for development, if not for the company. I really impressed my new Workflowone boss at our last Quality Process Improvement Meeting, and he was brilliant at redirecting the discussion to positive things we could change when Mr. QC started beating me up. Again. I could take it, but boy was I glad the guy was there. To see what we've been up again all this time, if nothing else.
For anyone who has missed it,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
tnl_awards is now in the voting stage (the awards have a judged and popular component.) Drop by and try some really outstanding HP fic, and by all means vote if the mood strikes you-- I'm up in a couple of categories myself. Do read the rules before you jump in, though.
"This could be mathier." Wee Hob and the Mathematics Experiments.
And Wee Hob and I tackled some math together tonight. I don't think I can force him or myself through the whole book. But I showed him my mod11 checksum and we worked through it by hand and he liked that a lot. Mostly laughing at me, but also, he does the same thing I do when something clicks for him-- and it clicks in a different way than it does for other people. We get things in a flash of insight and then have to look back and figure out how we got there. It's saved me a lot at work, because I catch on quickly enough that people think I already know stuff when I really am just learning it. And while I don't do math particularly well, I can logic my way out of problems. Sometimes.
At any rate, I now have some cool math puzzle type books aimed at teens, including my personal fav, "Math Doesn't Suck" by Danica McKellar. I figure we'll have a full notebook for him either way, but he might not fight so hard if he hasn't really already done most of the problems (whether or not he actually turned them in.) Plus, he'll have to write down the problem and show his work to show whoever looks at the notebook he knew what he was doing and what he was trying to do in the first place.
Wasn't a terrible day, though I did have to restrain myself when a job that has been running for 14 Months has suddenly been written up for having a barcode error (all docs are a single page but read as 1 of 2 in the code, though the human readable says 1 of 1). This is more from our QC wizard, about whom I will say nothing else, except that I begin to feel sorry for the poor bastard. He's been in this environment for so long blaming all and sundry, and old habits die hard. I do wish he would take aim at someone else. The Customer Action Request report is supposed to be for things the Customer has demanded a refund on, not to nail more blame on a particular person. I joked today that I need to get a Blue Book and sell some of the CARs I seem to be accumulating so rapidly.
On the upside, I have been asked to take a road trip to Columbus sometime soon and meet the new company's QC guy, with the aim of making me, perhaps, the QC person for development, if not for the company. I really impressed my new Workflowone boss at our last Quality Process Improvement Meeting, and he was brilliant at redirecting the discussion to positive things we could change when Mr. QC started beating me up. Again. I could take it, but boy was I glad the guy was there. To see what we've been up again all this time, if nothing else.
For anyone who has missed it,
tnl_awards is now in the voting stage (the awards have a judged and popular component.) Drop by and try some really outstanding HP fic, and by all means vote if the mood strikes you-- I'm up in a couple of categories myself. Do read the rules before you jump in, though."This could be mathier." Wee Hob and the Mathematics Experiments.
And Wee Hob and I tackled some math together tonight. I don't think I can force him or myself through the whole book. But I showed him my mod11 checksum and we worked through it by hand and he liked that a lot. Mostly laughing at me, but also, he does the same thing I do when something clicks for him-- and it clicks in a different way than it does for other people. We get things in a flash of insight and then have to look back and figure out how we got there. It's saved me a lot at work, because I catch on quickly enough that people think I already know stuff when I really am just learning it. And while I don't do math particularly well, I can logic my way out of problems. Sometimes.
At any rate, I now have some cool math puzzle type books aimed at teens, including my personal fav, "Math Doesn't Suck" by Danica McKellar. I figure we'll have a full notebook for him either way, but he might not fight so hard if he hasn't really already done most of the problems (whether or not he actually turned them in.) Plus, he'll have to write down the problem and show his work to show whoever looks at the notebook he knew what he was doing and what he was trying to do in the first place.