Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
Have you noticed that education seems more and more about getting trained to get a job and less and less about being educated! of late? Article after article calls for education to be more relevant, which seems to have more to do with future employment than mind expansion. In defense of the humanities and a liberal arts education.... It is good to know that what is seen online often invokes the need to sit down and actually read a book, whether paper or electronic version.
Speaking about reading -- from a book I found on my shelves but have somehow have never read, the Riverrun Triology by SP Somtow:
"... Every man is an island. The universe splits off a million million times each millisecond and each of us carries a private universe around with him wherever he goes. Where the universes intersect, that's when we think we encounter other people and we think they are our friends and our parents and the people we love. But we never really know them because we never cross from our little bubble of reality into theirs. When we part company with a friend we can never know how alien the world he inhabits is from ours. We can never know.....
Precisely!
Disney, in common with other theme parks and attractions, has always had issues about how tickets are handled. At the root of the issue is what happens to any unused days that have been bought? E.G. if a family of four buys a seven-day park hopper pass and only uses four days, why shouldn't they sell the remaining three days or keep them to use for a future visit? But the corporate mindset is that passing those already purchased days to someone else is somehow robbing them and that saving them for a future visit is equally unfair [in the corporate lexion anything that impacts their revenue is "unfair"] so like so many others [don't get me started on the Williamsburg rant], Disney continues to take steps to keep ticket transfers from happening. Not content with making the ticket expire two weeks from the date of the first use, and checking fingerprints, now they want to issue broadcasting wristbands!
Speaking of corporate profitability and revenue streams, most folks are under the impression that credit card rates are capped by state usury laws. Nope -- they put their headquarters in a state like Delaware that do not have such restrictions and charge everything % that they can. And I can tell you from personal experience that if a card gets a whiff of a problem, even if you have never been late with a payment, they will arbitrarily boost your rate -- the right to do so is in all that legalese that you didn't read when you signed up. But globally? Credit cards are being marketed much differently....
The news broke on Tuesday that Harborplace has been sold to a NY company. I have mixed feelings about this centered mostly about having out-of-towners owning what is the centerpiece of the city.
I have often taken a perverse joy in announcing that there is no such thing as an historical fact when in discussions -- as soon as you pick and choose what it is that is recorded then you have filtered what is happening through your own perspective and are presenting an interpretation not a fact. At the same time? I have to agree that it would seem updating statuses every hour on the hour is self-indulgent and can be downright boring .... So how to react to this ability to record EVERYTHING?
Perceptions change -- what was fabulously expensive and golly-gee-wiz technology fifty years ago, is now just a curiosity sold for scrap. Reminds me of the hsitorical tour of the Kennedy Space Center when we were told that the fancy computer used to send the frist manned mission to the moon actually had the computing power of a Commodore 64K more or less.
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