Why is it?
So why is that when the boss heads out on three-day business trip and you have committed to plans a, b, and c being complete before his return that is when everything just seems to get mixed up and off track? I give you yesterday and today in short (to save you from technical pain). Yesterday while on a late lunch, one of two air conditioning units went out. With the heat in the server room building, we had a major system loose a hard drive before anyone caught the heat situation. Rebuild that last night and get final things in place this morning. Doing final configuration for a project install phase one this afternoon, when another system coughs up a hairball. All is running again forty-five minutes later and I still am not sure I can explain it. Did I mention the new computer we bought was DOA and a one users system has three trojans? And then the folks and I that were doing the cut over for phase one all got together. It should be fifteen minutes at most, right? But it fails to work, even after an hour and fifteen minutes – so we have to roll back and this will throw off all the rest of our dates. Why is that this kind of week seems to always occur when the boss is away? A few more why is it follow:
- Why is that no one seems to be able to get slash and backslash correct? Just to be clear this one ‘/’ is the slash (or if you prefer the forward slash, but really saying forward slash is like saying clockwise clock). The other one, that looks like ‘\’ is a back slash. Now think for just a second how a URL on the internet looks? Yeah, you got it, http: / / www.something.com /. Now think about the last hundred times you have heard some one say it out loud and they said h-t-t-p-colon-back slash-back slash… I kid you not when I say slash slash one-third of the people look at me and say which one. But the amazing thing is probably another third correct me to a back slash. Why is it that dyslexia is so common?
- Why is that most everyone that has either never been on a horse or at least rides as if they have never been on a horse before has some story about how much riding they have done? Heck, I have met two different folks that were all but alternates for the US Olympic team in the late 1990′s or early 2000′s, at least according them. Yet when I mentioned the great story David O’Connor tells of his ride across the United States at a young age, they look at me as if to say who is that?
- Why is that most everyone that has what is clearly a clue with riding and tends to make it look effortless can always list you at least a hundred things that was wrong with the last ride, performance, joust, or just trail ride in which they and their horse participated? They can also name you at least a few people that they know that make riding look completely effortless and in their estimation is a much better rider.
- For the record, I fall in both camps, usually looking like I have not had much saddle time ever, but clearly knowing that I look that part. Further, while I am not one to be ready to take lessons or anything anytime soon, I will occasionally ask for advice from folks that I respect. And I can count at least a hundred if not closer to two hundred folks that I know that I think ride a lot better more gracefully then I do. Why is that? Oh yeah, I know, I do not ride often enough and when I do I tend not to practice or worry so much the gracefulness of it all.
- Why is it that today we have so many people concerned about the invasion of privacy with the census of 2010 underway? Having seen the basic set of questions I can not really see that much of invasion of privacy. Consider that in 1910 one of the census questions required your respond with the color of eyes. Point is, in my opinion, a lot more information is collected on the typical 1040 tax preparation form that the census of thought about, so why is that so many are so concerned. Matter of fact I have an idea that everyone was required to file taxes and indicate the same statuses, we could do away completely with the census as we know it and every tenth year just use the tax forms. After all, no two people can claim the same person.
