Re: Office Decor

Thomas Stromberg — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 05:04:23 -0000

My keyboard was looking a bit grimy too. The Kinesis I have at work was actually a gift from my last company, who figured they couldn't give it to anyone else. :) I ended up spraying it heavily with some fantastik all purpose cleaner, and rubbing on each key and surrounding areas with some industrial strength paper towels.

As far as learning so much information.. I can't say I have much trick to it. I've determined that I really only have two learning methods: experience (long-term), and long brute force high-speeed flash-card type systems (short-term). The only book-learning I seem to be decent at is for history type classes, where for me it's just cool cause it's all a neat story book that actually happened.

I don't actually learn very much if I'm just "told something", which frustrates a lot of people. I have to go and try it, and often fail in order to figure it out.

Knowing my long-term learning method is experience (mixed with the positive reinforcement of people being surprised at me that I accomplished it, and the negative reinforcement of totally messing up), in order to learn the computer things I have, I've had to set challenges and goals.

For instance: Learn Solaris by using it as my primary workstation OS at home for 3 months. Move my mail server to an AIX machine. Put all my photos up on the internet in a time-based format. Learn the innards of Windows 2000 (when it first came out) by trying to make a working installation operate with under 100MB of disk space.

The challenges I've put myself have seemed weird to others, but they've always served to teach myself how to do things. I especially enjoy it because it makes me try things that people wouldn't teach otherwise, cause it's too strange :)

Re: Office Decor

Elliot Robinson — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:17:01 -0000

For all the books and hardware you have in there, everything looks pretty nice and neat. If I were anal, I'd be snobby about dusting your bookcase, but it isn't that important.

My room goes from looking immaculate one day to a total disaster the next.

As for one of my workspaces in the supermarket, I haven't taken any pictures. One of the customer service desk, the other is at the cash register and another is down the aisles. It's probably something better just kept in memory. The keyboard for the Western Union has thick gobs of dust in it that don't go away no matter how much I try to clean it.

Heck, the crevices of many things there has either crumbs, dust, dirt or other nasty things. We do a decent job cleaning, but some things (like the keyboard) just need to be replaced. I was tempted to find a cheap replacement on ebay, but decided not to. It still works and its current state has little effect on my productivity, so why should I spend my money on it.

What kind of approaches have you taken to learning such large amounts of information?

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