Archived comment by triticale:
No, no, no! Contract management is what a company does to overcorrect when it discovers that management has expanded too much.

Archived comment by Jon:
"Contract Management" sounds like a Mob seminar, or a chapter in "Godfather for Dummies".

Archived comment by Jim:
Dave, I can relate.

People management just isn't all its cracked up to be, the last thing you want is to be on a first name basis with the companies HR legal team.

I get the Contracting class in December, I'm sure it will be thrilling.

Archived comment by dave:
Jim, every time I attend a course on Risk Management or Contract Management or the like, there's always at least an hour spent defining the innumerable ways in which I can end up in jail through no particular fault of my own, just because I do what I do. (Which sounds sinister, but its more about being at a management level of a company with a lot of employees.)

Archived comment by Jim:
In the words of the instructor for the 'Risk Management' class I just completed [and barely passed], "You can't handle the truth".

I think what I had problems with was a retired Army Colonel teaching a class called 'Risk Management'.

Archived comment by Montygirl:
So, Sheep, are you saying you are now a mole?

Archived comment by David.:
When I was at Berkeley, pretty much all my classes were in Dwinelle Hall. I can't say it cut down much on my between-class commute time, though. (For non-Berkeleyans, Dwinelle has one of the most confusing floor plans of any building known to mankind. The floors don't even match up between the north and south wings of the building--there are little half-flights of stairs between them. In a Call of Cthulhu game I once played, set in Berkeley, one of the optional skills you could buy was "Navigate Dwinelle.")

Archived comment by Jon:
I'm not at college any more, but the disadvantage of having it all in one building is: you can't hide from professors you dislike. ;)

Archived comment by Sheep:
Did I mention that my job is also in VLSB? And the lab I do grunt work in? Ah... *relaxes*

Archived comment by Sheep:
VLSB = my favorite building on campus... do you Humanities types know how NICE it is to have ALL your classes, research collections, and library in the SAME BUILDING?!?

My between-class commute time is like, not even statistically significant.

Archived comment by Yuri:
umrguy, VLSB is short for "Valley Life Sciences Building." It's one of the newest buildings on campus and is home to many various and sundry biology students, large laboratories, the Bioscience and Natural Resources Library, and a 40 foot T-Rex skeleton, among other things.

Slightly more on topic: It's not that we necessarily refuse to recognize truth; it's just that when it runs around stoned all the time we can hardly make out what it's saying.

Archived comment by Saint:
I remember one time, about three weeks before finals, some friends and I endeavored to write "The END is NEAR: Have a nice day!" on every single blackboard in Noble Hall.

We got about half of them done before we started sobering up, and the janitor told us to take a hike.

No, sorry, I didn't actually have a point.

Archived comment by umrguy:
OK, would one of you Berkeleyites mind explaining what the VLSB is? It's come up now in two recent posts, and my curiosity has been aroused. And like Kipling's child elephant, I have a most insatiable curiosity. (And a big nose, but that's a different matter entirely....)

Archived comment by Sheep:
A few notes:

Not all earthquakes are big.

Green sky = tornado

The truest thing I've ever read is on the door of the first crapper stall in the first floor restroom of VLSB:

"POOP EVERYDAY!!"

There's a lot more highly entertaining fecal-related graffiti on that door. I encourage each and every one of you (girls too) to go read it.

Archived comment by guy:
recently i saw that someone took a bag of marshmallows and stuck them on the ends of branches of a tree which all the leaves had fallen off of.

Archived comment by David.:
Unlike the earthquakes, which are big, random things?

Archived comment by adam:
There are (or were) a number of these tags up on trees around campus, all with similarly cryptic statements. I wonder who did it. I love the little random things like this that happen at Berkeley. :)

Archived comment by Ben:
The truth hurts, baby. (lifted from the X-Fools computer spoof)

Archived comment by jcharles:
Did anyone else picture Truth as a jogger with a stupid smile on his face, gleefully crashing into trees?

Archived comment by triticale:
Mindy, are you sure that was an out? Looked to me it tagged up safe at third...

Archived comment by mindy:
the truth is out there...

Archived comment by CAM2:
No wait . . . that was one of Lilly Tomlin's character's lines . . . Rodney's was Smorgasbord I think . . . dang, I hate when I screw up my own references.

Archived comment by CAM2:
Anyone remember Rodney Allen Ripley-- that kid in the 70s who was briefly famous for saying, "And that's the truth!"?

Kinda like Bart Simpson's flash of fame for "I didn't do it!"

Archived comment by David.:
"Get the Truth! Just call 1-976-ITS-TRUE! Our soothsayers are standing by 24/7 to bring you the Truth, the Whole Truth, and nothing but the Truth! (Charges of $19.95 per minute apply; minimum 10 minutes. Not available where prohibited or taxed. For entertainment purposes only.)"

Yep, truth runs pretty high.

Archived comment by Lou:
but if the sky was blue, and everyone agreed except that one person who didn't, it doesn't necessarily make that one person *right*. thats the messy thing with subjective truth. i like absolute truth, and differing opinions are only a result of our ability or failure to interpret it correctly.

Archived comment by edyesed:
Reminds me of this guy..

[Bill Hicks]:
How about a positive LSD story, that would be newsworthy. Don't you think? Anybody think that? Just once, to hear a positive LSD story. "Today, a young man on acid, realised that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves... here's Tom with the weather."

Archived comment by Montygirl:
candigyrl - sometimes the sky isn't blue. It's green or gray or black. I've even seen a yellow sky once or twice. :P

Archived comment by candigyrl:
There's no such thing as objective truth; everything is subjective. You can't convince some people that the sky is blue.

Archived comment by Liz:
umrguy,
If you were cynical enough to write that statement while working in fastfood... I can only imagine how many burgers you spit on during a shift.
Note to self: don't ask for the special sauce!

Archived comment by mashiara:
Ah yes, but does it run low?

Archived comment by umrguy:
I should also mention that usually, I only agree with the last sentence in my previous statement about "normal". Man, working fast food can really get to you....

Archived comment by umrguy:
That's deep. Right up there with "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."

Now, here's one of mine, from a more cynical moment: "'Normal' is a degenerate fantasy, a fiction invented by the ignorant masses so that they can feel secure in their pathetic lives. I am not 'normal,' and have no desire to ever be."
(I came up with this one at work over the summer, which should explain its rather caustic tone...)