Well I guess to compensate for the annoyances of having to deal with customers every customer service job has it's perks that you can't get anyway else. My perks? Well I get to read books I would read anyway well in advance of their release date, not to mention getting them free, as well as getting a nice big discount on the models I buy ( before any of your make a comment about model making being a geeky thing don't. yes I am a geek, I know. the clues in the blog title) However Enginseer in a post last night mentioned one of the disadvantages my job has that he doesn't. He got to meet the entire Southampton vixens cheerleading team, thats about fifty cheerleaders in total. So yes his 'perk' is that he gets to meet girls in his job. I don't. Unfortuantely it's just a fact that the hobby our company 'makes' does tend to be a boys hobby. There are a handful of girls out there but only a handful. It is quite amusing to see the effect on the gamers in a store when a girls walks in.
" Girl in the store, girl in the store, what do we do??????"
They then tend to get very quiet or gather together in a large group and get very loud. Obivousily some sort of mutal protection thing going on. I guess you could call it a 'gaggle of geeks'.
Well as it's Sunday, it was Church of course and I'm sure it won't surprise any of my long term readers in the absolute slightest that it's another Sunday down and yet again I still do not have a home teaching list!! I am totally confused as to what's causing the problem here. If these keeps going I will start claiming 100% home teaching ( as I've done exactly what I've been given. Nothing) just to try and prove a point.
Traveller was there again today. She's always so happy and cheerful and looks for the best in everything. I guess I could learn a lesson or two there. She had to leave early as she had to get a train back to uni. I did give her the blog address, so if you are visiting hello Traveller! If your not visiting there was really no point me starting this sentence as your not going to be reading it are you... Okay that sentence seemed to make so much more sense in my head.
Well it's Monday tomorrow. My favourite day of the week. I am hoping that it's been a quiet weekend as I'm going to aim to clear as much as possible as we've got this training day of Tuesday. I just hope I don't get lost on the way there. This is one of those times where satnav would be useful See there Engineseer I've said it. Are you happy now?
Somebody made a good point about the new bond film the other day. How exactly are they going to fit the name Quantim of solace into a song?
I've just seen a trailer for a film called the "Other Boleyn girl" . The trailer does not seem encouraging that they've actually stuck to the 'real history' of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII. But hey it can't be any worse off historically speaking then that awful Tv series the tudors. Speaking of which reminds me, I'm halfway through my second book on the tudors and shoudl be able to post a review soon.
I'm currently looking out of Grumpys office window as I type this. It's 5pm, it's still light and theres a nice blue sky outside. Maybe we're moving towards spring after all.
anyway,
later!
Life after the Rock…
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Even better, and far more geeky, you should claim random home teaching figures like 58.33331%, because they'd all be true too!
I disagree. You can't do 50% of nothing. Unless he goes hometeaching to cover another person he will always get 100% of nothing.
(Just watch fraggle own me now with some clever maths...).
well seeing as it took me three goes to get my C in GCSE far from it me to argue with either of you :-)
If you did all of your home teaching then go with another partner and do all their home teaching list does that mean you could claim 200%
The words "Casino Royale" weren't in the last Bond theme song, although it is a pretty good Bond theme song AND quite a good motivator on the treadmill. And does the fact that none of the main cast in "The Other Boleyn Girl" is British bother you? The film looks ridiculous, but does it annoy you that two Americans and an Australian are playing Henry VIII and the Boleyn sisters? Are their accents bothersome? Or do you just wait to see if they are any good in the role before forming an opinion?
I have to admit I forgot about the last films song Scully.
No, what worried me about it was a few comments they were making in the 'lines' they were saying. It sounds like they may have changed a few things for dramatic effect.
Behold the maths.... :-)
In order to work out the percentage you have to divide the number of home teaching visits by the number of assigned families. So in Saxon's case: 0/0.
Now you could say that equals 1 (which is 100%), and you'd be right. You can check that by doing the reverse, 1 x 0 = 0.
Problem is, I could come along and say 0/0=53127753188 and I'd be right, again because the reverse is true: 53127753188 x 0 = 0
In truth, the answer to 0 / 0 cannot be determined, because it could be absolutely any number at all, including 0 itself.
In maths this is called an undefined operation.
It's worse if Saxon were to do some home teaching anyway, as a non-zero number divided by zero is an 'indeterminate' operation because no value is valid, as the reverse (percentage x 0 = number of visits) could never be true.
So if you do some Saxon, and you asked for a percentage, say NaN (Not a Number)! :-)
...and yes, I realise I'm far too geeky for words...
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