What are you doing right now?

[hardline]

i had a slight mishap on a job today. so i put the results up on my blog.

[WJenness]

Nice go man...

What did you take out with that oops? 1 TV? All video and internet for sidebar? Something in between?

Related aside: I hate terminating coax. It's impossible for me to do it and not either end up with filings from the braided shielding under my skin or terminating it poorly and getting a crappy signal. If I did it more than once every two years I'd probably have better results.

-w

[billski]

Originally Posted by severine

Writing my journal entry for my first writing assignment. It was to be 550 words; I'm at 2350 words and the day isn't anywhere near done yet.

Can you get marked down for failure to follow directions? My profs would have. "The path to hell is paved with good intentions."

[billski]

Originally Posted by severine

Dishes. I've been putting off washing them all day.

Can't they wait for the weekend? Or until they walk away on their own?

[severine]

Originally Posted by billski

Can you get marked down for failure to follow directions? My profs would have. "The path to hell is paved with good intentions."

Goodness, I hope not! Final product (still needs to be edited) is 2985 words. She said she wanted detailed entries. She probably figured nobody had that much to say about 1 day in their lives.

Originally Posted by billski

Can't they wait for the weekend? Or until they walk away on their own?

I wish!!!! I HATE washing the dishes!

[billski]

Originally Posted by GrilledSteezeSandwich

watching the Hurricane coverage..

Ike is way more formidable than Hanna (125mph vs. 65mph.) Whatever Ike hits is going to cause some serious damage.

[billski]

Originally Posted by severine

Goodness, I hope not! Final product (still needs to be edited) is 2985 words. She said she wanted detailed entries. She probably figured nobody had that much to say about 1 day in their lives.


I wish!!!! I HATE washing the dishes!

Unless you know this prof well, I'd seriously think about dropping her a note to confirm your presumption. I know lots of professorial types and while some reward extra effort, some also abhor having to read too much and will credit you appropriately. I've seen people knocked down a grade for going over the proscription. Seriously. I hope I'm wrong.

[billski]

Originally Posted by severine

She said she wanted detailed entries.

If I was teaching, I'd give more credit to quality over quantity. I don't want to discourage, just level-set and be sure you're matching the assignment expectation.

[drjeff]

Originally Posted by billski

If I was teaching, I'd give more credit to quality over quantity. I don't want to discourage, just level-set and be sure you're matching the assignment expectation.

Also, remember that your prof will be reading not just yours, but all the other students in your class too. If it's a big class, that prof will probably appreciate quality and brevity over quality and quantity, especially along about the 30th one their reading.

I run into this quite often, where when I tend to write things, as my wife puts it, I'll often get "diarrhea of the mouth" and the words just keep flowing on out. My wife's parent's are both retired college profs, and from years of writing journal articles/texts, etc they've become very good at editing, and passed that trait onto her. As a result, she'll often take something I've written and cut out 1/2 the words, and once I've swallowed my pride and re-read her edited version of my "masterpiece", 9 times out of 10, her condensed version of my work not only reads faster, but is also a better piece of work.

[severine]

There are 8 people in my class. I've had this professor before. Yes, quality over quantity. It was not intentionally long; I had a lot to say. She also allows as many revisions as you want before you get a final grade. Like I said, she asked for a detailed entry just like the author we were reading (who also had long entries... most were 12-20 pages for each day). But I am shooting off an email to her anyway to ask a formatting question and I will ask her opinion. Thanks.