No On The Job Training For Excel. Also No Classes On How To Use A PC. Better Know How To Type.

There is no on the job training for scientists, engineers, business men and women, analysts, administrative assistants, and researchers for which Excel is a job requirement. Times have changed. The past generations a co-worker or manager was happy to teach a new worker a skill such as Excel. Today's generation nobody is happy to teach. Nobody wants to train Excel because chances are they taught themselves Excel during their spare time.

College students many majors require self-learning outside the classroom. I was a math tutor for three semesters. One student in the math lab was a computer science major. She knew nothing about computers. She tried hard in her Calculus classes. One conversation was on how to use computers. I told her there were no classes to teach how to use computers. The Mathematics And Computer Science Department assumed all students know basic PC. Basic PC was an unwritten prerequisite. Some freshmen computer science majors knew programming. I never saw the student afterwards.

More jobs require more skills. More jobs require more skills self-taught or educated at a learning institution. Be prepared to spend time outside the workplace or outside the classroom to learn additional skills and acquire additional knowledge. We live in the Information Age. Many industries require a plethora of advanced skills and knowledge.

Random Knowledge Or Random Trivia June 2021

We live in the Information Age. Look it up on the internet. Random knowledge or random trivia? A life improvement? A waste of time? The answer is subjective. The answer depends on the reader.

Co-worker eats part of a cake in the break room. Never eat unpackaged foods or partial foods for health reasons.

Qwake Technologies. The companies makes C-Thru Ironman AR for Firefighters technology. Firefighters see through smoke fighting fires.

Esophageal Manometry. A friend experienced problems digesting foods. Esophageal Manometry is an outpatient test used to identify problems with movement and pressure in the esophagus that may lead to problems like heartburn. The esophagus is the "food pipe" leading from the mouth to the stomach. Manometry measures the strength and muscle coordination of your esophagus when you swallow.

Power to the Penis! With Dr. Edward Karpman. A podcast from Sex With Emily on the penis.

Greatest American Sports Moments of the Decade [2010-2019]. Sports YouTube video.

Aaron Gordon Dunks Over Tacko Fall - 2020 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. Probably the best dunk in the 2020 NBA Dunk Contest.

feebly: In a way that lacks strength or force. In a way that fails to convince or impress.

Life by Ludovico Einaudi.

Physicists Freeman Dyson past away at 96. ArsTechnica article.

Is it better to retire one year too early than one year too late?

Ceiling fans turn clockwise for cold days or counterclockwise for warm days.

plinth: A slab-like member beneath the base of a column or pier. A square base or a lower block, as of a pedestal.

What Monta Ellis told Steph Curry after trade from Warriors to Bucks. There's nothing to worry. The Warriors is your team. NBC Bay Area article.

Teachers, what's the darkest thing you've seen from a student? AskReddit post.

A legal prostitute in Nevada named Molly Sinn. AMA Reddit post.

A personality quiz to find fictional characters similar to you.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Major Kong survival kit contents check with his crew.

Survival prepper skills with pantyhose.

Life In A Northern Town by The Dream Academy. Ah hey ma ma, ma-me doo-de din-day-ya.

Top Ten Worst Movies I Watched

My top ten are not the worst movies in the history of movies. It's good because some of my top ten worst could be another person's top ten best. These worst movies I watch there is no connection between the movies and me. Be honest when sharing opinions on good movies and bad movies. Don't like a movie because of peer-pressure. Good movies and bad movies are opinions.

I reserve the opportunity to update my top ten when I watch another worst movie I become angry I waste my time watching the bad movie. Here are my top ten worst movies I watched.

10. Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi. An entertaining Skywalker vs. Kylo Ren battle could have saved the movie. I stopped caring about future Star Wars movies.

9. Dune. I remember two college friends and I watched the movie. One of them read the book. He said great book. The movie sucked. Too many voiceovers. I was bored watching the movie. The three of us entertained each other making jokes on the voiceovers.

8. Superman Returns (2006). I remember the big promotions at sci-fi conventions. The movie flopped at the box-office. I yawned.

7. Batman & Robin. Unfortunately speaking, the movie was my first thought when director Joel Schumacher past away in Jun 2020. Nipple shots. No! Butt shots. No!

6. Spider Man 3. Good bye to your acting career Tobey Maguire.

5. Chariots Of Fire. I enjoyed the cinematography more than the movie. Raiders Of The Lost Ark should have won best picture. Chariots Of Fire should have won best cinematography.

4. The Five Year Engagement. The Elmo and Cookie Monster was the only good scene. I forgot about the movie, Emily Blunt.

3. Slumdog Millionaire. My opinion is biased. The book is fantastic. The movie sucked. An Indian friend said some parts of the movie is Hollywood influenced. The parts are not real life.

2. Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas. I recognize the movie as a cult classic. I'm in the minority. The movie never connected with me. I wasted two hours of my life.

Honorable mention. Megaforce. I loved the movie when I was a kid because of the armed with rockets and machine guns motorcycles and the dune buggies. I'm an adult. The movie is stupid. The final battle scene all the enemy tanks missed the motorcycles and the dune buggies in linear bunch formation. The flying motorcycle scene was ridiculous.

Another mention is Run (2013). I stopped watching at the 23rd minute. I can't remember another movie I stopped watching. Run is the first movie I stopped watching anywhere in the middle.

The rest of the honorable mention are the following: Punch, Drunk, Love; After Earth; and Kids In The Hall Brain Candy.

1. Annie Hall. The first half of the movie is Best Picture quality. The second half of the movie is awful. Star Wars should have won Best Picture at the 1978 Academy Awards.

SOMT: Calculators Are Allowed

Blogger's Note: SOMT stands for Sign Of My Times, an occasional blog sharing my thoughts how time changes life from when I was young to today.

Calculators were not allowed in tests. My junior high math classes calculators were not allowed. My high school math classes from freshmen year to junior year calculators were not allowed. Calculators were allowed doing classwork and homework. The top reason was students must learn how to solve math problems in case there were no calculators. Another top reason was students understood the math concepts and math theories completely without calculators.

My education life changed in my senior year. My trigonometry and pre-calculus math teacher allowed calculators. All of my college classes involving math calculators were allowed.

Look who's talking now. Calculators are everywhere. Most people carry a calculator. The calculator is on their phone. Calculators are encouraged. Calculators are acceptable in education, in the workplace, and in the household. Calculators are efficient. Calculators reduce errors.

My high school chemistry teacher said don't memorize formulas. He provided the formulas during the tests. My Introduction To Physics professor answered any questions directly related to formulas during the tests. If the student forgot a formula, then he told the student. Don't memorize. There's no need. People remember the formulas by repetition and by practice. It's like a pharmacist memorizing the drugs and their spellings. Pharmacists learn drugs in college. Pharmacists work with drugs at their jobs.

My Mechanics Physics professor allowed open books and open notes. The first exam all questions were straight from the homework. The professor told the class a few students were stupid they scored a D or a F. All students earned A's copying our homework to the exam.

Open Book, Open Note, Open Everything

My Macroeconomics professor was my only Economics professor who allowed open books and open notes in all exams. The multiple choices questions were three choices. A few of the questions the students were required to open the textbook to a specific page. The negative was all exams except the final were timed. He explained the students after the first exam there was no such thing as a perfect test. The professor graded on a curve. A few students scored a D or a F. I believed the professor knew if we forgot anything we learned outside the classroom, then we could look it up from a book or ask for help.

Look It Up, Google It

The internet is the third source to look up anything. Forget memorization. Remember repetition. We live in the information age. There is information everywhere. There is knowledge everywhere. Access to information and knowledge are on our phones. People look it up when something is unknown. There is no shame not knowing. There are exceptions; e.g., a football fan must know a touchdown is six points. A friend of mine is a programmer. He and his co-workers Google programming documentation. No memorization required. Programmers learn new concepts. Programmers remember new concepts by repetition and by practice eventually. The programming and the pharmacist examples apply to many aspects of life.

The information age gives people methods to save information, save exercises, save work, create templates, and backup our work. The methods include USB flash drives, cloud storage, printed hard copies, network storage, and online repositories. People can access any method to recall procedures, retrieve knowledge, practice exercises, remember past projects, and research information.

Just In Case

Finally, I carried a flashlight and a multi-tool plier on my belt, and a Swiss Army Knife in my pocket while I was a student. I received criticisms. I received funny looks. Fortunately, there were no emergency situations. If there was an emergency situation, then nobody was laughing because either my flashlight or my multi-tool saved us.

Today's information age technology people with smart phones have access to a flashlight. Everyday carry or EDC technology tools allows people to carry multiple and miniaturized tools like a multi-tool plier. I carry an EDC bag 90% of the time when I'm out of the house. Some items in my EDC bag include three flashlights, AA batteries, USB battery storage, first-aid kit, sewing kit, pens, and matches. I don't bring my EDC when I run errands locally. Nobody laughs at me when my EDC bag saves myself and other people around me from an emergency situation.

Update On A Past Blog

I update the blog SOMT: Newspapers Are Still Great on Aug 5, 2010. My local newspaper prices have been going up two times a year. My household is paying more for less content. I learn less. We cancelled our newspaper subscription.

Do You Know What Day Is Trash Night Brain Test

The common questions people ask to another person to test his or her brain function are the following: the person's name, today's date, occupation, spouse's name, son or daughter's name, birthday, the last meal, and present location. I add another question to the common questions list. The question is, "Do you know what day is trash night?" I'm not a neurologist. I'm not a brain specialist. I believe nobody forgets trash night. Trash night is routine. Trash night requires brain function even though minimal mental effort is needed. Trash goes inside the garbage can. Roll out the garbage can to the driveway. Roll back the garbage can back to the side of the house after trash pickup. No sane person wants to live in filth.

Update On A Past Blog

Commentator Dave Ross released a podcast Commencement speakers are talking to the wrong people talking about his luck becoming successful on Jun 11, 2021. I remind myself three blogs on luck The Lesson To Be Successful Rarely Taught on Sep 12, 2018, Top Ten Men Truths on Jan 7, 2017, and Luck Is Part Of Life on Nov 15, 2016. Few successful people admit luck is a factor. I stand by my opinion on luck. The most successful people under appreciate luck. The least successful people over-rely on luck. A common wisdom is the harder a person works, the luckier the person becomes. However, there's not enough luck for the thousands of people working hard. The late Steve Jobs and Bill Gates admitted they are lucky from the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson.

Some People Need A Ferris Bueller's Day Off

I watched the Ferris Bueller's Day Off movie yesterday for the first time. The movie takes off at the Twist & Shout parade scene. People who thought living in the 1980s was fast may want to rethink 1980s speed to 2020s speed in comparison.

The movie made me think how I take my next day off. The last day off were multiple days off during the beginning of Jan 2021. However, I spent days continuing my indefinite self-job training. For instance, I spent Jan 13, 2021 reevaluating what job skills I need to learn, choosing books I should read, choosing books I avoid, and rescheduling when I learn new skills or reviewing existing skills. Also, I spent Jan 16, 2021 reorganizing my computer files and folders. My learning new skills and reviewing existing skills are a two-week rotation schedule. One week is six days. The second week is five days. In addition, I exercise four days a week, search for jobs, learn life skills, write blogs, cook meals, read books, watch one movie a week, and maintain the household.

The one day off on the first week and the two days off on the second week are planned leisure activities. These three days are not Ferris Bueller days off. The planned leisure activities are reading more pages, writing more blogs, sleeping more hours, watching another movie, listening to music, completing one-time responsibilities, running errands outside the house, and researching.

A Ferris Bueller days off is coming soon. I need a vacation on the fly. There is no planning. One Ferris Bueller day off is acceptable during the COVID-19 pandemic. I continue living a COVID-19 cautious lifestyle such as continuing social distancing. I model the on the fly vacation from the movie with intelligence. I blog the day off or days off when it happens.

Update On A Past Blog

I add Ferris Bueller's Day Off to the Top Ten Movies I Watched Late written on Mar 1, 2014.

Here are selected past blogs on taking a break. It's time to take a deep breath. It's time to remind. It's time to review. The blogs are the following: Today I Want To Talk About Sleep on Aug 2, 2016, Yes Slow Down on Oct 9, 2015, Time Out And Refocus on Apr 26, 2013, and Dear People, Take A Break on Mar 8, 2012.

"Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." --Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Shelter In-Place COVID-19 Blog May 2021

California issued shelter in-place orders on Tue Mar 17, 2020. I have been logging the highlights and lowlights. The May month continues a quick 2021 year. We are in spring with one blink of an eye. Blink again. We are in summer. I got my second of two COVID-19 vaccines. I'm fully vaccinated on Wed Jun 2, 2021.

Tue May 4. San Francisco County was the first Bay Area county to enter the yellow tier in the State of California's Safer Economy COVID-19 color reopening tier. The yellow tier is the least restrictive tier out of the four colors yellow, orange, red, and purple.

The recall campaign for CA Governor Gavin Newsom began. The recall petition was certified.

Wed May 5. Renewed my auto insurance. Shopped at Target.

Fri May 7. 30 US states reported cases dropping. 33% of the US population are fully vaccinated. 45% of the US population received at least one dose.

Sat May 8. The first weather red flag warning. The warning started on Fri May 7 at 11pm. The warning ended on Mon May 10.

Mon May 10. The FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine for kids ages 12-15 for emergency use.

Wed May 12. The CDC approved the Pfizer vaccine for kids ages 12-15.

San Mateo County entered the yellow tier.

Thur May 13. The CDC announced fully vaccinated people can stop wearing masks outdoors in crowds and most indoor settings. Masks are required in public transportation, hospitals, prisons, and homeless shelters.

The US virus case numbers were the lowest since Sep 2020.

Governor Newsom announced fully vaccinated people wearing masks ends Tue Jun 15. The exception is large gatherings such as sports, festivals, and concerts.

Kids age 12-15 are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Sat May 15. Health workers in Great Britain identified two variants in two towns in north England.

Movie theaters plan to lift all lockdown restrictions on Mon Jun 21.

Mon May 17. Retail stores Trader Joe's, Costco, and Wal-Mart announced mask mandates are dropped for fully vaccinated customers.

Tue May 18. Santa Clara County and Santa Cruz County entered the yellow tier.

Wed May 19. I received the second of two Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. There were no lines at Levi's Stadium. I shopped at Costco afterwards. There were no lines at the cash registers. I got gas before I went home. Traffic was light like a weekend afternoon.

I watched the fourth quarter of the Golden State Warriors at Los Angeles Lakers play-in tournament game.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said cases in the US are decreasing.

Sun May 22. The delayed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan is scheduled even if a state of emergency is declared. The Olympics begin on Fri Jul 23 and ends in early Aug.

Sun May 23. The Oakland Coliseum mass vaccination site closed. 500,000 shots were administered.

Mon May 24. The US Government warned Americans not to travel to Japan for the 2020 Summer Olympics. The Tokyo Olympics officials said athletes, their families, and sporting officials are allowed.

Wed May 26. The CDC reported 50% of US adults are fully vaccinated.

I shopped at REI's Anniversary Sale. The number of customers was bigger than I anticipated for a Wed afternoon. There was a line to buy shoes because of social distancing.

Fri May 28. Quick errand at the bank. Early Christmas shopping at REI's Anniversary Sale.

Sat May 29. The Indianapolis 500 was the first major sports event with full attendance.

Sun May 30. Helped my dad shopped at The Home Depot. Crowds were small for a Sun afternoon.

Mon May 31. First heat advisory of 2021 for the Bay Area.