An excerpt from a discussion from the Management and Marketing lecture:
Professor: Luca Paciolo was quite smart for that time: during the XII-th century.
Student: Actually he lived in the XIII-th century: he was contemporary with Leonardo DaVinci.
Professor: Oh well: lots of things have changed since I was in school.
… like Luca Paciolo’s life span, apparently.
[edit: 8th April] Many thanks to Jem, for helping me fix the textarea in Internet Explorer :dance:. And now go and join Snark Forums! I’m already addicted to it/them.
I can’t believe I missed this. In the Aesthetically Challenged article, I forgot to add colspan=”2″ to the cells that contained the header image, respectively the footer. Why didn’t anyone tell me?! I’m so ashamed. But it’s fixed now.[/edit]
Up until now, I thought that “to climb the walls” was simply an expression1 meant to illustrate extreme frustration; my university’s maintenance department however, proved me wrong. Among many notices for internships, school demonstrations, prohibition of smoking (and whatever else people see fit to ‘decorate’ the walls with), there was the following one, right inside the main lobby:
Get your feet off the walls!
Given the fact that the chairs are arranger in the middle of the lobby, far away from any wall, I’ve come to the following conclusion: people must find finals very stressful2… or they’re training for some martial arts tournament :?
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1 At least, when it is not in mentioned in reference to Spiderman.
2 … and have taken to literally try out climbing the walls.
For some reason (I’ve yet to figure it out) my doctor’s assistant is always reluctant to make appointments, unless you’re retired and need a monthly prescription. As a result I’m always told to just show up and they’ll ’squeeze me in’. Given this situation, it’s no wonder that I always end up waiting at least 3 hours and go in last.
Two days ago, upon seeing the packed waiting room, I nearly turned right back. Nevertheless, keeping in mind that 5 other doctors use the same waiting room, I stayed. And wonder of wonders…
Assistant: Who’s the first one waiting for doctor X?
Vera looks around expecting to see everyone jump up, yet no one does. Standing up, she uncertainly approaches the assistant.
Me: I’m here for an appointment with doctor X.
Assistant: Good, go on in.
Me: But there are lots of other people waiting… I wasn’t here first.Assistant looks at Vera as if she were crazy and ushers her in.
I guess, no one else is weird enough to offer to wait for 20 other… hypothetical people… 