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Showing posts with label Nonsense. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nonsense. Show all posts
Monday, March 05, 2007
Friday, March 02, 2007
wet shoes
have you ever have this experience, that you are walking on a rainy day, rain drops on your umbrella, the ground is wet, water running under you and by your side. all of a sudden, you find that your toes are feeling cold! so you look down, and find the heads of your sneaker all wet!
so this is an example of common design problems that everyone of us must have experienced. from the human walking motion, a flick at the head of our foot towards upright will happen when we are moving our foot in front of us, before stepping down. so if there is water under our shoes, inertia of the water makes it keep going up and land on the heads of our shoes.
no one wants to walk around in a pair of wet shoes all day long, so even though this is a tiny problem, it is annoying! a simple solution to the problem might be adding some grain at the front of the sneaker so that when water goes up along the heads of our shoes due to inertia, there is resistance making it stop before it reaches to the top of our shoes. also, add a small part of water proof material at the head top of our shoes.
let's walk with a pair of DRY shoes!
so this is an example of common design problems that everyone of us must have experienced. from the human walking motion, a flick at the head of our foot towards upright will happen when we are moving our foot in front of us, before stepping down. so if there is water under our shoes, inertia of the water makes it keep going up and land on the heads of our shoes.
no one wants to walk around in a pair of wet shoes all day long, so even though this is a tiny problem, it is annoying! a simple solution to the problem might be adding some grain at the front of the sneaker so that when water goes up along the heads of our shoes due to inertia, there is resistance making it stop before it reaches to the top of our shoes. also, add a small part of water proof material at the head top of our shoes.
let's walk with a pair of DRY shoes!
Monday, February 26, 2007
deadline
so deadline is a weird word. what is a deadline exactly? is it a line, by which if you pass, then you will die? nooot exactly!
instead of a visible, physical line, deadline usually is a time, by which if you pass, then severe consequences will happen. so as a time stamp, deadline usually serves as a mechanism for people, lazy people like me, to organize their work, and get them work done.
the argument states as follows: like the thesis grant proposal i submitted today, it was right before the deadline (4pm this afternoon). i was editing and printing, running around to get signatures, and so on and so forth, all sorts of things that i could have done a couple weeks ago. however, because i had other deadlines back then, so the priority for this deadline just dropped down. also, i wouldn't have done all these even if i don't have other deadlines because i would think that there is still time and i need some time for myself to relax and sleep. hence, deadlines organize my work.
how do deadlines help to get work done? because severe consequences would happen if i should miss a deadline. i'll be still using the proposal example to illustrate this point. if i don't get the proposal done by the deadline, i will have no money for my experiment, which is needed for my thesis. therefore, i won't have a thesis and i shall not be able to graduate this year, which would make my plan of getting out of ithaca and get a job this year vanished. therefore, i have to get the proposal in before the deadline. and that, is how the deadline helps me to get work done.
ok, enough crazy talk today, should rest... in peace
instead of a visible, physical line, deadline usually is a time, by which if you pass, then severe consequences will happen. so as a time stamp, deadline usually serves as a mechanism for people, lazy people like me, to organize their work, and get them work done.
the argument states as follows: like the thesis grant proposal i submitted today, it was right before the deadline (4pm this afternoon). i was editing and printing, running around to get signatures, and so on and so forth, all sorts of things that i could have done a couple weeks ago. however, because i had other deadlines back then, so the priority for this deadline just dropped down. also, i wouldn't have done all these even if i don't have other deadlines because i would think that there is still time and i need some time for myself to relax and sleep. hence, deadlines organize my work.
how do deadlines help to get work done? because severe consequences would happen if i should miss a deadline. i'll be still using the proposal example to illustrate this point. if i don't get the proposal done by the deadline, i will have no money for my experiment, which is needed for my thesis. therefore, i won't have a thesis and i shall not be able to graduate this year, which would make my plan of getting out of ithaca and get a job this year vanished. therefore, i have to get the proposal in before the deadline. and that, is how the deadline helps me to get work done.
ok, enough crazy talk today, should rest... in peace
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