you stand there framed, joking, while on the inside I’m choking, but say ‘hi’
with a flaming sense of redness and that black dress but I digress, never mind
I’d like to kill my good friend, but I thank him for the time spent with your surprise
well I guess you got invited, though I couldn’t have decided, it’s a mess
my home is sorta dirty, but you feel that it is worthy, quite polite
so after some more beer and white wine we do end up here, that makes two
The Watson Selection Task is an example of how lousy you are at logic, but you are also filled with beliefs that look good on paper but fall apart in practice. When those beliefs fall apart, you tend not to notice. You have a deep desire to be right all of the time and a deeper desire to see yourself in a positive light both morally and behaviourally. You can stretch your mind pretty far to achieve these goals.
There never was a truer maxim than: ‘If you don’t ask, you don’t get.’ But just because somebody asks for something, it doesn’t mean it has to be given. If it’s reasonable and settles things without too much aggravation, monetary sacrifice (if relevant) or bad feeling, fine. But if both parties are dissatisfied then the equation is not right. Remember — it’s a game with two winners.
It was a day like any other in this slow summer. He had just started to wind down from an interesting Friday. A friend called, but he really wasn’t in the mood to go out. “That’s fine, but listen: I’m coming round in a bit and we’ll go grab a beer somewhere.” Alright then, he thought and carried on with doing nothing of worth. The flat looked dirty and unorganised. After all he had moved in a couple of weeks ago and not all of the furniture had been bought yet. It’s alright, he thought again, because I’m the only one who sees this.
Well now then Mardy Bum
I’ve seen your frown and it’s like
Looking down the barrel of a gun
And it goes off
And out come all these words
Oh there’s a very pleasant side to you
A side I much prefer, it’s one that
Laughs and jokes around
Remember cuddles in the kitchen, yeah
To get things off the ground
And it was up, up and away
Oh, but it’s right hard to remember that
On a day like today when you’re all
Argumentative
And you’ve got that face on
Casual remarks or promises that may seem unimportant to you may strike a chord with the other person. You’re then expected to come up with the goods. If you fail to do so, your worth as a true person is in doubt–and it becomes hard to alter that judgement. […] The client would use such behaviour as a barometer of trustworthiness.
Happy DPI release day, everyone! Three months ago we were talking about how DPI technology could be improved further. Essentially, we were not satisfied with the current state of things. And there is no viable BSD-licensed code that’s fit for use with high load and mission critical networking infrastructure. Then we read a lot of papers floating around regarding the topic and started hacking. Now we proudly present our Lightweight Inspection to the public.
Our key requirements were as follows: