pacino wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:

Woody wrote:At some point, e-mail will cease being a productive mode of communication in the business world. If it hasn't already. No one reads e-mails, at least not in their entirety

Yeah, pretty much. At my company we have IM, and that is what you use to contact people if you want to get something done. email is for forwards and long winded important updates that no one reads. And phones are dead man, I don't even know my extension and I've been here for a year.

i use email as my primary form of communication at work. The problem is people not checking it. They then answer me by coming to my desk and jnterrupting other work im doing.

Exactly my original point. It's virtually useless

best of luck and stay safe gut

Thank you for your service. Stay safe and come home soon.

if anyone has 'world points' on their credit card, what's a worthwhile way to spend them? I see gift certificates and I see gift cards where one can use them anywhere...anything else? most merch looks overpriced

Grotewold wrote:It's already dead on campuses. Today's students view logging into their e-mail the same way I did walking to my Simmons Hall mailbox back in the day (ie, a waste of time unless LaTisha was working)

I used e-mail in college all the time. It was the best means of communicating with professors when I was off campus and needed a question answered. Most of my profs would check their e-mail every half hour or so if they were in their office, so it was actually a very efficient way to get answers. I doubt it's changed that much in a little over a year.

Can't you get cash/check back? That's what I'd recommend

Wooduy you done got top page'd.

LG, good luck and stay safe.

smitty wrote:

Luzinski's Gut wrote:ISAF Joint Command.

smitty wrote:

Luzinski's Gut wrote:I received deployment orders for Afghanistan, will be there in the first week of December.

(is that random enough?)

Who you gonna be with?

You being a SAMS guy I figured it would be something like that. Yowsa. That seems like a real puzzle palace. I was with a division HQ once and I thought that was bad.

I don't know what any of those terms mean, but I hope its good (relatively). Good luck. Stay as safe as you can.

Best of luck, LG.

good luck lug

good luck lg. my brother heads over with the 25th infantry in january/february. might get postponed depending on how his meniscus heals up from surgery.

jerseyhoya wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:Yes wrapping up my first week of classes this evening

Hoping to be home in time for kickoff

My professor also today said that the country was in recession in 1983-4 even as Reagan was winning reelection, and that Bush's poll standing improved after the late DUI leak in 2000. I told him he was wrong on the latter, and bit my tongue on the former.

He also told us we were all getting A's in the class today

It was kind of a weird morning

What did you think of Milt?

We spent 45 minutes assembling our course packs from three different piles that were in no discernible order. The whole class was pretty amazing, but that stood out.

Just don't ever get in a care when he's driving.

SK790 wrote:

Grotewold wrote:It's already dead on campuses. Today's students view logging into their e-mail the same way I did walking to my Simmons Hall mailbox back in the day (ie, a waste of time unless LaTisha was working)

I used e-mail in college all the time. It was the best means of communicating with professors when I was off campus and needed a question answered. Most of my profs would check their e-mail every half hour or so if they were in their office, so it was actually a very efficient way to get answers. I doubt it's changed that much in a little over a year.

I think it's kind of a one way street--students will use it to get in touch with professors, but they don't use it to talk to each other, and they don't check their e-mails for info from the university. Between blackboard, facebook, and texting, its utility on campuses is diminishing. More and more, the e-mails I get aren't really personal anyway. They're more like memos.

smitty wrote:

Luzinski's Gut wrote:ISAF Joint Command.

smitty wrote:

Luzinski's Gut wrote:I received deployment orders for Afghanistan, will be there in the first week of December.

(is that random enough?)

Who you gonna be with?

You being a SAMS guy I figured it would be something like that. Yowsa. That seems like a real puzzle palace. I was with a division HQ once and I thought that was bad.

Best of luck with that. like everyone else says, take care.

Woody wrote:
Thanks, I was just curious, and good to know. There is a small chance I may have some work of this type to outsource in the near future. This client probably wouldn't even notice the difference in the british/american spellings anyway, so maybe you're the man

cheers woddy. nice one.

damn my jittery caffeine fried brain. I hardly ever get this from coffee any more, and now my mind is doing fucking cartwheels. great.

This job is pretty annoying most of the time but the adrenaline rush on a foot pursuit is awesome.

I'll be a whopping five miles from where I was during my last tour of Afghanistan in 05-06...literally on the Kabul International Airport.

Luckily I served on a Combined/Joint Staff that first time as well...I understand the environment I'm getting into...for better or worse.

smitty wrote:

Luzinski's Gut wrote:ISAF Joint Command.

smitty wrote:

Luzinski's Gut wrote:I received deployment orders for Afghanistan, will be there in the first week of December.

(is that random enough?)

Who you gonna be with?

You being a SAMS guy I figured it would be something like that. Yowsa. That seems like a real puzzle palace. I was with a division HQ once and I thought that was bad.

Guys/Gals

Thanks for all the well wishes. Kabul is about the safest place in the country, but it's still damned dangerous. Some really nasty stuff going on as well, like the Taliban using some kind of pesticide/herbicide as nerve gas and pumping it into girls schools.

I haven't posted here nearly as much as I'd of liked lately, but this is quickly becoming - if not already - the best Phillies board on the Intrawebz.

I'll send some pictures back if I can...apparently the network over there is jacked up and unreliable.

I'm more concerned about how wife does with our two kids - both under three years old - than my own safety. Nature of the beast I suppose.

I'll be floating around for another month then will be scarce...

Trent

ISAF is the International Security Assistance Force and is the NATO HQ in Afghanistan...the Joint Command is one level below that...

SAMS is the Army's School for Advanced Military Studies. We lucky few who are selected for the school are Strategic Planners (insert joke here about "strategery") once we graduate...we're sent to high level commands for the rest of our careers to figure out "wicked problems."

Mandatory "wicked problems" link"
http://www.uctc.net/mwebber/Rittel+Webb ... anning.pdf

Trent Steele wrote:

smitty wrote:

Luzinski's Gut wrote:ISAF Joint Command.

smitty wrote:

Luzinski's Gut wrote:I received deployment orders for Afghanistan, will be there in the first week of December.

(is that random enough?)

Who you gonna be with?

You being a SAMS guy I figured it would be something like that. Yowsa. That seems like a real puzzle palace. I was with a division HQ once and I thought that was bad.

I don't know what any of those terms mean, but I hope its good (relatively). Good luck. Stay as safe as you can.