What Are You Doing Right Now? (98 Viewers)

[Martin]

Oh, Martin. You've given away that you are under 18 on these forums.

Don't Deneb me around with prologues, get to the point

I did with the piano for a couple of years. But after a while, practicing the same things over and over again wasn't very inspirational -- especially when I could be outside playing with friends. (Though I know for today's children, playing outside with friends ranks somewhere around taking intravenous drugs in an abandoned minefield among parental risk factors these days.)

Perhaps if I had Chinese parents who insisted that my fingers bleed before I was finished, I would be somewhere with that and I'd enjoy the craft a lot more.

I had no patience to practice as a kid. I actually discovered I did have patience a few years after I quit playing. Then I became a coder, so clearly patience wasn't a problem in the end.

That whole program of code-literacy thinking these days makes me vomit, and I'm interim CEO of a start-up that would benefit from that mindset.

Well, granted a lot of things make you vomit, in fact it's a small miracle that you can get through a day , but go on.

 

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[swag]

Greg, howz your new company comming along? How does it feel to be a boss?

Thanks for asking, Woody. Massive demo for our main investor on Tuesday, so it's a bit nerve-wracking. A lot of progress in some areas, but a lot of competition overall. I see it that our goal right now is to get into the game so we can at least compete and play. Once we do that, the next challenge will be to demonstrate we're better than the others.

So I'll know more about how we're coming along next week.

As for being the boss, I'm a pretty rational one. I try to make sure we're doing whatever we can to get stuff done, ensure people have ownership and authority, and distribute the load. I'm very much a regista on the team. I'm feeling pretty effective at it, so I like that part.

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Don't Deneb me around with prologues, get to the point

Those naughty words are being censored for you. I can see it in your quoted posts.

Well, granted a lot of things make you vomit, in fact it's a small miracle that you can get through a day , but go on.

True, true. When I make two of everything in the toilet in the morning, you can't always be sure what end they came from.

 

[Lilith]

I did with the piano for a couple of years. But after a while, practicing the same things over and over again wasn't very inspirational -- especially when I could be outside playing with friends. (Though I know for today's children, playing outside with friends ranks somewhere around taking intravenous drugs in an abandoned minefield among parental risk factors these days.)

Perhaps if I had Chinese parents who insisted that my fingers bleed before I was finished, I would be somewhere with that and I'd enjoy the craft a lot more.

I actually wish my parents had sent me for piano/violin/any instrument lessons. Anything I learnt was mostly on my own and I am not very good at it.

 

[Enron]

Back in my childhood I played the violin and I dabbled a tiny bit in piano too, but never really got anywhere with it.

Kids have no patience to practice playing an instrument.

I played trumpet, baritone, and tuba until I was 16.

 

[Martin]

I played trumpet, baritone, and tuba until I was 16.

And? What happened?

 

[WΏΏdy?]

Thanks for asking, Woody. Massive demo for our main investor on Tuesday, so it's a bit nerve-wracking. A lot of progress in some areas, but a lot of competition overall. I see it that our goal right now is to get into the game so we can at least compete and play. Once we do that, the next challenge will be to demonstrate we're better than the others.

So I'll know more about how we're coming along next week.

As for being the boss, I'm a pretty rational one. I try to make sure we're doing whatever we can to get stuff done, ensure people have ownership and authority, and distribute the load. I'm very much a regista on the team. I'm feeling pretty effective at it, so I like that part.

I'm pretty sure you would be a fantastic mentor, i really do. I don't see you as a boss who is hated by his slaves

About this new company, are you holding shares in the business or they just paying you fat to do the job for you? I ask because ive been doing a lot of thinking lately about going back to china for at least a year. Last time i was there i tried my hand on a couple of businesses. Opened a coffee place and a foreign language school with a few local friends i made along the years. I did not invest a single dime, i was paid fat and it was like a family of friends running. I got the money and i just had to use it, the cafe we sold off after a year with some profit but the foreign school just took off from there! Now its one of the top 3 foreign language schools in that town.

Now if i go back, im thinking of opening one of my own, but i'll be massively screwed if it flops last time around there was no pressure, this time there is a lot of competition.

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I played trumpet, baritone, and tuba until I was 16.

Were you in the school band? Ya know the guys who play flutes and trumpets after the morning assembly while the children walk to their classes

 

[swag]

And? What happened?

The world was made better through Enron's art.

I'm pretty sure you would be a fantastic mentor, i really do. I don't see you as a boss who is hated by his slaves

That's kind of true. But it can also be a weakness if you let it.

About this new company, are you holding shares in the business or they just paying you fat to do the job for you? I ask because ive been doing a lot of thinking lately about going back to china for at least a year. Last time i was there i tried my hand on a couple of businesses. Opened a coffee place and a foreign language school with a few local friends i made along the years. I did not invest a single dime, i was paid fat and it was like a family of friends running. I got the money and i just had to use it, the cafe we sold off after a year with some profit but the foreign school just took off from there! Now its one of the top 3 foreign language schools in that town.

Now if i go back, im thinking of opening one of my own, but i'll be massively screwed if it flops last time around there was no pressure, this time there is a lot of competition.

A mix. My fat isn't so fat (I am literally being paid half of what I was two jobs ago), and while there is stock/shares, I don't know what they would be yet. I just know I trust the chairman, whom I've known for almost 20 years.

 

[Nzoric]

I played trumpet, baritone, and tuba until I was 16.

sexy!

 

[WΏΏdy?]

The world was made better through Enron's art.
A mix. My fat isn't so fat (I am literally being paid half of what I was two jobs ago), and while there is stock/shares, I don't know what they would be yet. I just know I trust the chairman, whom I've known for almost 20 years.

Well, it was fat for me because
1. I was the only foreigner in the group.
2. I was the reason (along with all the blonde tramps we picked up from the clubs) that so many students were attracted to the school and the cafe would be filled with foreigners too.
3. I used to teach too

I would have loved to do something together with you though, in china Since you aint available, Martin, you up for the challenge?

That's kind of true. But it can also be a weakness if you let it.

True, especially if u have workers like me

 

[Kate]

I played trumpet, baritone, and tuba until I was 16.

Sweet. I played trumpet for a year in the school orchestra.

 

[Martin]

Well, it was fat for me because
1. I was the only foreigner in the group.
2. I was the reason (along with all the blonde tramps we picked up from the clubs) that so many students were attracted to the school and the cafe would be filled with foreigners too.
3. I used to teach too

I would have loved to do something together with you though, in china Since you aint available, Martin, you up for the challenge?



True, especially if u have workers like me

You want me to start a business in China? Why would you want someone so ignorant on the subject?

 

[Nzoric]

Sweet. I played trumpet for a year in the school orchestra.

 

[Kate]

Oh yeah. I never played it before then, and never played it after. Gives you a good indication as to the quality of that orchestra.

I did do piano for a long time as a kid, and I try to play clarinet now.

 

[WΏΏdy?]

You want me to start a business in China? Why would you want someone so ignorant on the subject?

Along with you and Kate as my teachers, i would destroy every other foreign language school in sight. The last time i opened the school i usually hired all my foreign friends as teachers, i just hated to hire/work with someone i didnt know or hated to be depended on someone else. If a teacher didnt show up for a class it was no big issue coz me or one of my friends would take over.

 

[Martin]

Along with you and Kate as my teachers, i would destroy every other foreign language school in sight. The last time i opened the school i usually hired all my foreign friends as teachers, i just hated to hire/work with someone i didnt know or hated to be depended on someone else. If a teacher didnt show up for a class it was no big issue coz me or one of my friends would take over.

How would we teach English Italian to a bunch of Chinese people without having a word of common language with them?

 

[Nzoric]

Oh yeah. I never played it before then, and never played it after. Gives you a good indication as to the quality of that orchestra.

I did do piano for a long time as a kid, and I try to play clarinet now.

i pity your boyfriends

i'm starting to learn piano now. growing tired of the geetar. my sister is really good at it, perhaps she can spare some time.

 

[WΏΏdy?]

How would we teach English Italian to a bunch of Chinese people without having a word of common language with them?

I have a system i used last time When a student registered he/she undergoes a 5 minute test to determine their level of english.
Level 0 - donno what "hello" means
Level 1 - Can understand basic conversational english but cannot reply back
Level 2 - Can talk in Chinglish and understand most of conversational english
and so on...so you would teach students who are level 2 and higher. I used to give the foreign teachers a chinese translator to help them along in the lower level classes.

 

[Martin]

I have a system i used last time When a student registered he/she undergoes a 5 minute test to determine their level of english.
Level 0 - donno what "hello" means
Level 1 - Can understand basic conversational english but cannot reply back
Level 2 - Can talk in Chinglish and understand most of conversational english
and so on...so you would teach students who are level 2 and higher. I used to give the foreign teachers a chinese translator to help them along in the lower level classes.

You're quite the business man

 

[Kate]

i pity your boyfriends

i'm starting to learn piano now. growing tired of the geetar. my sister is really good at it, perhaps she can spare some time.

Clarinet is better for the boyfriends, it has tonguing and the fingering is much more complex.

 

[WΏΏdy?]

You're quite the business man

I suck at business man I'm just good with students and although the stuff i sell is good, the packing i give it is even better