They are not perfect, but the monks of new skete have two very good books on raising dogs.
I don't know if the monks do this naked or not.
We already had naked beekeepers showing up in Spain and I think Ireland as well.
On a similar note....
Does anyone have advice for when a puppy just will not go to sleep? Last night Sophie would not shut up until I let her back outside every 15-30 minutes or so, and only one of those to actually Go; the rest of the times just seemed like she wanted to run circles around the yard or chase things in the grasses along the fenceline.
I ended up putting her in her kennel room for the night so I could sleep, after literally five trips outside and her wanting to go for a sixth by midnight. But I'd like some advice for dealing with this in the future, especially since I'm 99% sure her desire to go out was mostly to resume chasing whatever it was she found or smelled in the grass.
Caveat: I am not a dog person. I am not a professional dog trainer.
What I know from friends and relatives who have taken their dogs through professional training:
It's really just like kids. Consistency. Get them on your schedule. It'll take a couple weeks, but they'll get used to it.
I finally figured out why I hate Slack: The way my organizations use it is like a permanent "Reply All" thread.
We have an "All Org" channel. It has over 250 people on it. People are constantly posting, "Hey, I'm having trouble registering for this online session. Can someone help me out?"
And someone responds.
And someone else says, "Oh, I had that trouble, too! Thanks for telling me about it!"
And a whole bunch more people say, "Me, too!"
And I end up with 2-3 dozen messages to sort through, only the first two of which might possibly have been useful to me.
Slack = An eternal Reply All thread.
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I finally figured out why I hate Slack: The way my organizations use it is like a permanent "Reply All" thread.
We have an "All Org" channel. It has over 250 people on it. People are constantly posting, "Hey, I'm having trouble registering for this online session. Can someone help me out?"
And someone responds.
And someone else says, "Oh, I had that trouble, too! Thanks for telling me about it!"
And a whole bunch more people say, "Me, too!"And I end up with 2-3 dozen messages to sort through, only the first two of which might possibly have been useful to me.
Slack = An eternal Reply All thread.
My wife's company uses Slack...they have 50-75 employees total. They have over 300 different channels she has to monitor at any given time while trying to do her actual job.
On a similar note....
Does anyone have advice for when a puppy just will not go to sleep? Last night Sophie would not shut up until I let her back outside every 15-30 minutes or so, and only one of those to actually Go; the rest of the times just seemed like she wanted to run circles around the yard or chase things in the grasses along the fenceline.
I ended up putting her in her kennel room for the night so I could sleep, after literally five trips outside and her wanting to go for a sixth by midnight. But I'd like some advice for dealing with this in the future, especially since I'm 99% sure her desire to go out was mostly to resume chasing whatever it was she found or smelled in the grass.
Caveat: I am not a dog person. I am not a professional dog trainer.
What I know from friends and relatives who have taken their dogs through professional training:
It's really just like kids. Consistency. Get them on your schedule. It'll take a couple weeks, but they'll get used to it.
She's been mostly good about it, last night was definitely an unusual outlier. I just need to know what to do when those exceptions happen. I can't just ignore her until she adapts when I need to get a decent night's sleep for work the next morning and she barks and whines until she's let out roughly every half hour.
My wife's company uses Slack...they have 50-75 employees total. They have over 300 different channels she has to monitor at any given time while trying to do her actual job.I finally figured out why I hate Slack: The way my organizations use it is like a permanent "Reply All" thread.
We have an "All Org" channel. It has over 250 people on it. People are constantly posting, "Hey, I'm having trouble registering for this online session. Can someone help me out?"
And someone responds.
And someone else says, "Oh, I had that trouble, too! Thanks for telling me about it!"
And a whole bunch more people say, "Me, too!"And I end up with 2-3 dozen messages to sort through, only the first two of which might possibly have been useful to me.
Slack = An eternal Reply All thread.
Yep. That's about the size of it. Every single group with whom I communicate says, "Don't bother emailing us, we won't respond. Just subscribe to our Slack channel and you'll hear everything you need to know."
Yeah... plus around 600 messages I don't need for every useful one.
This just makes me appreciate my current job. We use Microsoft Teams for quick communication, but all important and time sensitive stuff must go thru email.
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All this makes me glad I work in construction.
Unrelated, I got an email from Dane County thanking me for signing up for a salting seminar.
I suspect this is the boss's doing.
Get her a crate. Dogs like having a home to hide in when they're sad or scared or lonely. Put some of your old unwashed clothes in it to give it your smell. When you go to bed, put her in the crate.
Will not solve your issues alone, but will likely dramatically improve them.
If Albany Unified School District is this unbelievably incompetent, I shudder to think how other districts are "managing" online learning. I can't imagine that we're the worst. But we're trying really, really hard.
At the beginning of the school year, we were told that cameras wouldn't be required except possibly during testing, and since forcing a minor to put a camera in their room was probably illegal, they probably weren't legally allowed to require cameras at all.
Impus Minor's math teacher "strongly preferred" cameras, so I got one for Impus Minor, but he never turns it on.
This morning his Spanish teacher informed him that cameras were going to be required for all classes as of Monday, as the school board had changed their mind about the legality of the cameras.
So... every parent in the district who didn't buy a camera because they were assured they didn't need one now has 4 days to get a camera? And there hasn't even been an official announcement from the school yet?
This district's communication and decision-making has been nothing short of appalling.
For those of you who have done home schooling, how hard is it to pull your kid out of school and home school them for a year?
It depends on how much time you have available, how motivated you are and if the kid is willing.
You and Gothbard are certainly well qualified to do it and with the internet available building a plan curriculum is easier than ever.
Depending on
a) Impus Minor's skill at self-management
and
b) Your district's rules on how to convert "home schooling credits" to "graduation credits"
you might want to consider a year of 'unschooling'. It might be less fraught than force-feeding a prescribed curriculum
With so many top-tier schools no longer using SAT/ACT scores for admission, the pressure to 'teach to the test' is lessening somewhat.
Yeah, the *HUGE* issue is Impus Minor's self-motiviation. I would have to spend an inordinate amount of time forcing him to work. And I don't have that much free time.
Khan Academy is awesome, and I know I could drive him through Math and Physics without an issue, but his other classes (English, History, and Spanish) would be much harder for me to manage, and I think he'd really miss his friends in choir.
But it's at least worth talking to him about it, because this is stupidity.
I know I could drive him through Math and Physics without an issue
Sounds like a good candidate for unschooling.
I know I could drive him through Math and Physics without an issueSounds like a good candidate for unschooling.
I'm unfamiliar with the term, then. What's "unschooling"?
If it's taking a year off, I'd love to do it; it's what Impus Major is doing. But I thought state requirements in virtually every state were that minors had to be in some kind of school until they turned 18.
Not in California:
Kids who are 16 or 17 can take a leave of absence for supervised travel, training, study or work, and can drop out entirely if they can pass the GED.
'Unschooling' is independent study, basically. The child decides what they want to learn and the adult helps them find the resources to learn that thing. Adult may also help them learn time management and self management strategies so they can achieve their goal.
It's about helping the kid figure out who they are and how they want to live, and facilitating them learning the skills to do that.
Kind of "emergent" parenting: you don't try to sculpt the person, you teach them how they can find their own bearings in an unpredictable and constantly shifting environment.
There may also be some state certifications you have to deal with to be allowed to home school.
Not in California:
Kids who are 16 or 17 can take a leave of absence for supervised travel, training, study or work, and can drop out entirely if they can pass the GED.
Right; that's the issue. He wouldn't be doing any of those. And the rules for homeschooling in California are pretty strict.
So I'm reduced to having him pass the GED, which he could probably do at this point, but in terms of social life, friends, and the like, I'm not sure that's what he'd want.
As I said, I'll talk with him about it tonight. High school is far more about socialization than it is about education, and if it's making him miserable then why go?
So I'd like to just pull him for the semester or the year, but he's not traveling, training, nor working, so he'd have to be "studying", which brings up the home school rules.
That's pretty much the crux: He doesn't want to be out of high school, he wants to be out of remote learning. And managing to pull him out temporarily instead of permanently seems like quite a long shot unless he gets a job. And I think he'd like that even less.
You could pitch a b#@%! fit about the cameras and call the local news until the school breaks from pressure on behalf of the kids who don't have one
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in terms of social life, friends, and the like, I'm not sure that's what he'd want.
As I said, I'll talk with him about it tonight. High school is far more about socialization than it is about education, and if it's making him miserable then why go?
So I'd like to just pull him for the semester or the year, but he's not traveling, training, nor working, so he'd have to be "studying", which brings up the home school rules.
That's pretty much the crux: He doesn't want to be out of high school, he wants to be out of remote learning. And managing to pull him out temporarily instead of permanently seems like quite a long shot unless he gets a job. And I think he'd like that even less.
Honestly, one of the main study motivators for one of my kids was that he wanted to graduate with the rest of his friends. The social carrot worked to get him to complete the less fun parts of turning in papers and verifying progress through exams.
Look into whether an internship counts as a 'job'. I had a pretty broad definition of "working": paid official job, regular volunteer position with at least weekly commitment (minimum 20 hours per week in the summer), or 20-hour per week internship.
For high schoolers, that was often 'gofer' positions in professional firms, but I figured showing up every day and seeing how the profession look from the inside was helpful in figuring out whether a fantasy stood up to the daily grind. And it sure beat 6 years of tuition and classes invested in something that they didn't really enjoy.
Dig up your local home-schooling people and see if they have an official way to get credit for self-study activities. There's probably a work around already in place. People have been doing this for a long time
Edit: Check your PMs
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Tech: Dear [User]: I've got your laptop scheduled to be picked up by FedEx tomorrow. You should get it early next week. Here's the tracking number. Call me at this number when you receive it so we can finish getting you logged in with your network password.
User: OH I forgot to tell you I live in a gated community now! Here's the code to the gate. Give that to FedEx. They might not need it though because someone rammed the gate yesterday so it is open right now until it gets fixed.
Yeah, that's...that's just great security...here's an email to multiple people with the code to your gated community with instructions to hand it over to FedEx via the internet. Your neighbors are just going to love you...especially after I sell that code and your neighborhood location on the darker portions of the internet...I didn't say that out loud. Or type it. Or send it on a forum. That wasn't even me. I don't know what you're talking about.
(Yes, I have a character defect where I all too easily think about all the criminal behavior that I could be engaging in with the information that is all too freely handed to me.)
Needless to say, no, we're not giving that information to FedEx. We assume they already have a procedure set up with every gated community they have ever interacted with. But it's in an email.
Your neighbors are just going to love you...especially after I sell that code and your neighborhood location on the darker portions of the internet...I didn't say that out loud. Or type it. Or send it on a forum. That wasn't even me. I don't know what you're talking about.
Gated communities are security theater on the level of TSA, and probably several levels less secure.
Of course their gate codes are public information for every parcel delivery service, security alarm company, public utility, private utility (internet/TV) and all the lawn maintenance and house cleaning services that have ever existed in their county. To say nothing of every government fire response, law enforcement, and security agency that exists.
And if there are teenagers living there, all their friends and frenemies have the code too.
I wouldn't worry about one email.
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I really appreciate all the feedback (and the PMs), because I was able to have an intelligent conversation with Impus Minor over lunch. We both agreed that travel was out of the question during a pandemic, and he agreed that he didn't want to just GED and graduate.
The idea of working for a year appealed to him, but his immediate question was, "But then I'd be a year behind my friends, right?" and that eliminated that option.
So, exactly as CrystalSeas pointed out about one of their kids, Impus Minor wants to be in school with the rest of his friends, and he wants to graduate with his friends, so he's just going to have to endure this remote stupidity until classes start up again.
And the really nice thing was that I just listed the options and he came to that conclusion on his own, and went back into his room for his next class with a much better attitude.
I'm sure it'll only last through the weekend, but still. Thanks for the information and the resources!
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It's just the idea of someone moving into a gated community "for the extra security" and then freely giving that code out to anybody. Always makes me wonder what other info they'd just spill.
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Always makes me wonder what other info they'd just spill.
Just about all of it, if you ask nicely and sound sincere.
There's a classic defense lawyer story about a guy running a PEN testing firm, who employed his mom and (iirc) grandmother. He was sued under some dumb internet security law, and embarrassed the DA by pointing out that all the information had been freely given to the nice lady.
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Always makes me wonder what other info they'd just spill.Just about all of it, if you ask nicely and sound sincere.
(And now I feel old -- I remember reading that article when it first came out, and now I note that that was in April of 2004. Ouch!)
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John Strand breaks into things for a living. As a penetration tester, he gets hired by organizations to attack their defenses, helping reveal weaknesses before actual bad guys find them.
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In July 2014, prepping for a pen test of a South Dakota correctional facility, he took a decidedly different tack: He sent his mom. … "She approached me one day, and said … 'I want to break in somewhere,' " says Strand … this week at the RSA cybersecurity conference. … "And it's my mom, so what am I supposed to say?"
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She told the guards at the entrance that she was conducting a surprise health inspection and they not only allowed her in, but let her keep her cell phone, with which she recorded the entire operation. … She was even allowed to roam the prison alone, giving her ample time to take photos and plant … malicious USB sticks [that] would beacon back to her … colleagues and give them access to the prison's systems.
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Then she handed … the prison director … a specially prepared USB drive. … When the prison boss clicked, he inadvertently gave [researchers] access to his computer.
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In 2016, Rita died. … She never had a chance to do another pen test. Strand declined to say which prison his mother infiltrated, only that it has since shut down.I can only imagine the interrogation the next actual health inspector got.
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I'm sure it'll only last through the weekend
Then he's lucky that the link I sent doesn't go by quarters or semesters. He can join any time! ;-)
It's just the idea of someone moving into a gated community "for the extra security" and then freely giving that code out to anybody. Always makes me wonder what other info they'd just spill.
Let them talk to me, face to face, for five minutes, I'll get everything.
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It's just the idea of someone moving into a gated community "for the extra security" and then freely giving that code out to anybody. Always makes me wonder what other info they'd just spill.
Nothing surprises me.
When I worked at a bank, people were shocked (SHOCKED!) to learn that if you wrote your PIN on the back of your ATM card, and someone uses the stolen card to withdraw money out of your account, the bank will not make you whole for that loss.
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Oh boy...She's crawling. She's standing up when she has something to hold onto. She has favorite foods. She has a favorite color she gravitates towards (green). She's always smiling, except when she's teething, hungry, or has a full diaper.
Six months is a world of changes.
Before then, she was like a fragile pet that screamed if you didn't hold her. Now she's so much more like a little person. I mean, she IS little person, but before she just didn't act like one.
It's crazy to watch.
And somehow she backs herself up under the couch all the time, legs under, torso out, and looks at me like "help; I have no idea how I got here and I can't get out, dad!"
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Just wait until 6.
And 16.
And 26.
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Booo hooo.
I reached the end of El Goonish Shiv archive binge... Now I have to read it at the rate the new strips are posted... Like an animal.
*sigh*
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I began watching She-Ra purely because I thought it would be simple brain candy to watch while I'm stuck in front of the tv for my 2 hours every day. I never saw the original, so it wasn't even nostalgia.
But I'm pleasantly surprised that it's really good. I'm in season 2 and I'm loving the characters and the slowly-revealed history of the world.
Yay for Puppies!
Boo for self-cutting!
One may help stop the other. No joke, the endorphins and oxytocin from interacting with puppies can help fight the depression your sister has, TS (I assume - cutting usually comes from being so numb pain feels better than current mindset), and having someone helpless to care for can have her get her mind off herself, which helps as well. Just a suggestion, but maybe a surprise gift?
She does have a cat, so I'm not sure a surprise puppy is a wise idea, but thanks for the thought.
She's being discharged early because I guess the unit she's in is more of an emergency management thing, and she needs more long-term treatment. So things are kinda up in the air atm, which is frustrating.
I began watching She-Ra purely because I thought it would be simple brain candy to watch while I'm stuck in front of the tv for my 2 hours every day. I never saw the original, so it wasn't even nostalgia.
But I'm pleasantly surprised that it's really good. I'm in season 2 and I'm loving the characters and the slowly-revealed history of the world.
its good. Really really good.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Happy birthday, John!!
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About to go home. Have a good night, everyone.
Also, October 2 is my birthday. I'll be fifty-three.
Happy birthday Grandpa!
Audio books are awesome, especially when James Marsters is reading them.
It's October 2 here already. Happy Johnday!
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I began watching She-Ra purely because I thought it would be simple brain candy to watch while I'm stuck in front of the tv for my 2 hours every day. I never saw the original, so it wasn't even nostalgia.
But I'm pleasantly surprised that it's really good. I'm in season 2 and I'm loving the characters and the slowly-revealed history of the world.
TEAM SCORPIA
About to go home. Have a good night, everyone.
Also, October 2 is my birthday. I'll be fifty-three.
Happy National Produce Misting Day!