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On Saturday, August 24, 2013 11:05:14 AM UTC-4, amdx wrote:

So the little techie is going to "crush the shoulders of the [scientific] giants" eh? Kinda pathetic, unimpressive, narcissistic rant...
 
Interview with the speaker, Nick Selby, a sophmore in mechanical

engineering:

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He seems quite articulate and able to think well on his feet.

Think on his feet in a Fox news interview??? Gimme a break! The interview is equally superficial and dumb, but thanks for the link so I could give it a dislike.
 
There are leaders and there are followers. The speaker in the video

clip is a leader, or at least a cheerleader. You are apparently a

follower.

If I was enrolled there and found the mentality of that so-called speech was at all representative of the student body, I would lead myself to the registrar's office and disenroll from the cesspool. Ironman suit my ass...
 
So the little techie is going to "crush the shoulders of the [scientific] giants" eh? Kinda pathetic, unimpressive, narcissistic rant...



Lighten up. It was a great performance. Hell of an Engineer, I like that.





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John Larkin Highland Technology Inc

www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com



Precision electronic instrumentation

Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators

Custom timing and laser controllers

Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links

VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer

Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators

It was a lower brain function performance of interest to maybe behavioral psychologists and that's about it.
 
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amdx

Jan 1, 1970
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So the little techie is going to "crush the shoulders of the [scientific] giants" eh? Kinda pathetic, unimpressive, narcissistic rant...



Lighten up. It was a great performance. Hell of an Engineer, I like that.





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John Larkin Highland Technology Inc

www.highlandtechnology.com jlarkin at highlandtechnology dot com



Precision electronic instrumentation

Picosecond-resolution Digital Delay and Pulse generators

Custom timing and laser controllers

Photonics and fiberoptic TTL data links

VME analog, thermocouple, LVDT, synchro, tachometer

Multichannel arbitrary waveform generators

It was a lower brain function performance of interest to maybe behavioral psychologists and that's about it.
bloggs; the cranky uninspired half brother of Phil.
 
"Kinda pathetic, unimpressive, narcissistic rant... "

That's the best part. The world as you know it was founded on that shit. WTF ?
 
The guy *designed* that speech. I suspect he'll be a good ME, too.

He borrowed the whole script from his high school debate teacher. If you watched even a portion of the miserable Fox News interview, you would know that. The words were unimportant, it was all gesture, emphasis, and a few buzzwords- typical carnival stuff. The kid is an idiot and Georgia Tech looks real bad ( well actually it explains a lot of what I've seen from some their graduates)- takes four years of repetition to teach them how to solve an LTI diff equation.
 
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Spehro Pefhany

Jan 1, 1970
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On Saturday, August 24, 2013 11:05:14 AM UTC-4, amdx wrote:

So the little techie is going to "crush the shoulders of the [scientific] giants" eh? Kinda pathetic, unimpressive, narcissistic rant...

Lighten up. It was a great performance. Hell of an Engineer, I like that.

I thought it was kind of a suck-up reference to their famous fight
song, but reasonably politic (for an engineer).


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
 
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amdx

Jan 1, 1970
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You're just a lower brain function kinda guy...

This just shows you only got half the ability to denigrate that you
half brother Phil does.

Mikek
 
Yes, the interview is superficial. I would not expect Fox News to

interrogate him, or to dig deep into his past and beliefs in order to

produce an "in depth" interview. To his credit, he doesn't fall apart

with nervousness, doesn't appear to be faking anything, answers the

superficial questions directly, does not wander, is very polite, and

knows how to smile. We should all do as well.



Here's the rest of the speech, which includes 10 tips for success.

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I probably violated all 10 tips at one time or other (especially about

doing the laundry regularly). He also mentioned MATLAB and got some

applause.







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Jeff Liebermann [email protected]

150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com

Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com

Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

Thanks for the link, I see it has 25 dislikes, well, 26 now, so I'm not theonly one sickened by that joke presentation which lies somewhere between aSouthern Baptist sermon and a ripoff infomertial. How a man of your experience falls for such crap is beyond me.
 
On Sunday, August 25, 2013 4:07:33 PM UTC-4, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

This is an example of real sophistication:

That other thing is ghetto by comparison.
 
Arianna Huffington is 63 years old and head of a successful company.

Nick Selby is perhaps 20 years old and has yet to even work for a

company. Her speech was to a more educated graduating class. His was

to a new freshmen class, less educated, and far less certain of their

destiny with perhaps half or more of those entering college dropping

out before graduation. Her speech was to give graduating seniors

direction. His was to give entering freshmen reassurance that they

were in the right place. Her 24 minute speech was from prepared

notes. His speech was 7 minutes and memorized. Her speech was to set

herself up as a living example of what the graduates can achieve. His

was to set the entering class as his friends.



Had her speech been to the Smith College entering freshmen, I suspect

they would have been confused by the references, lost by the topic,

and wondering what any of it had to do with them. Similarly, his

speech would have seemed trivial and juvenile to a class of graduating

seniors. It's amazing how much can change in 4 years of skool. I

would not expect equal quality or sophistication from such a disparity

in years, experience, target audience, and allowed time. Try again.







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Jeff Liebermann [email protected]

150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com

Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com

Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

You missed the point. One was a speech and the other a carnival act. If there is a freshmen welcome speech at Smith, I'm sure it wouldn't look like that GIT atrocity.
 
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Bill Sloman

Jan 1, 1970
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Not exactly. Fred is a lot less cranky than Phil Allison, no less sound on technical issues, and sound on a wider range of technical issues. If you claim that he's uninspired, you merely label yourself as imperceptive.
This just shows you only got half the ability to denigrate that you
half brother Phil does.

On the other hand, he denigrates more accurately. Sadly, you aren't all that bright - not stupid, but not in the same class as Phil Allison or Fred Bloggs.
 
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Bill Sloman

Jan 1, 1970
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40:30 -0700 (PDT),
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On Saturday, August 24, 2013 11:05:14 AM UTC-4, amdx wrote:

So the little techie is going to "crush the shoulders of the [scientific] giants" eh? Kinda pathetic, unimpressive, narcissistic rant...

Lighten up. It was a great performance. Hell of an Engineer, I like that

It was a lower brain function performance of interest to maybe behavioral psychologists and that's about it.
bloggs; the cranky uninspired half brother of Phil.

Permagrump. Can't be much fun.

John Larkin's judgement isn't great. He believes denialist propaganda aboutglobal warming, and thinks that half-witted boosterism is the right kind of introduction for university freshmen. If he were a freshman, one could hope that he might mature, but he's clearly made the transition from juvenileself-satisfaction to elderly self-congratulation without passing through maturity on the way.
 
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