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Oh, dear. As dreadful wedding stories go, this is pretty good.

Heh. Just heh…
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Yeah, saw this on WUWT yesterday, and while it’s awesome, if it’s a pain to get on my iPhone I probably won’t bother. It’s all about the lazy.

I’m in salinas at my daughter’s getting ready for a wedding I really do not want to attend. Woe.

“Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty” is available for free now? Be still, my beating heart…

Heh. Yeah. There are quite a few titles they’d have to pay me to read. There are a few good ones, though.

Actually, the one James the lesser called out should be fairly interesting EITHER way. If it’s honest, it will bring loud and incessant caterwauling from the usual parties. If it’s Politically Correct, it should provide quite a large dose of (unintentional) humor…

I work at UW Madison. We went through a review last year to ascertain why women were under-represented in physics. As a non-professor I was not required to attend the self-criticism sessions, but I gather from the tone of some of the posters advertising new programs that we were found not to have a precisely equal gender mix–better than most but not quite good enough. No doubt the book has a place in the department office now.

To be fair to the NAP, “Unknown Quantity” by Derbyshire is a fun book.

I used to work in the art department of a research and engineering company, James. You can imagine how lopsided THAT was. One year, the annual report (which I designed) was supposed to feature pictures of employees. The mandate came from a female HR exec, so we knew going out we were going to have to scare up some women.

We managed it by showing women in editorial, HR and support staff. We got called on the carpet anyway, because those are traditional women’s jobs. Not good enough, I guess.

We had ONE female field engineer…what were we supposed to do? Make employees up?

We had so few persons of color, they eventually asked us to stop putting them in promotional materials. We were interfering with their jobs.

Thanks for the resources Wease

Weasel –

You should have asked for them to hire a few people just to act as stunt engineers. With a good makeup crew, two or three would do for all the departments.

You could even photoshop them into crowds of employees.

I’m almost certainly the first person to Photoshop a white person into a black person in a desperate effort to make a corporate project more diverse. (I say the first, because I did this with a different image editing package a couple of years before Photoshop existed).

Management saw what I’d done and FREAKED. They couldn’t put their finger on what was so dangerous about it, but they were sure it was a hanging offense.

I’m sure it would have been ok if you’d had them singing “Old Man River”

No, Oldcat, they woulda hadda been singin’ “We shall overcome!”

I haven’t been real happy with trying to read pdf format files on my Kindle, so I don’t. Unless they gots lots of illustrations that I have to magnify the part that I wanna see anyway.

So, what I does is feeds ’em into the snout of Kovid Goyal’s calibre ebook squirter outer and elex book bag, and read ’em as Amazon style books. (Called “mobi” summfinks.)

Besides, with a name like “Kovid Goyal,” I just wanna do my part to help make him famous.