Send the client out of the room so they don't know how easy it is.
Backstory:
In my never-ending quest to offload household duties, I am teaching Iris some basic sys admin (computer system administration) skills in the hope that she will take over the routine stuff for me. I told her how much she could charge clients hourly for that kind of work and she was all ears.
She already has grandiose plans to start a computer sys admin co-op (like a babysitters' club, only higher-paying) with two other girls in her school. For some reason, she thinks she should be the boss. The other girls may have different ideas.
Is anyone interested in reading the kind of things that I am teaching her? It applies mostly to Mac OS X and Unix. We are also doing some things in Mathematica, csh/tcsh and perl.
I imagine the other two girls' moms can teach them more. After all, they actually hold degrees in EE and/or CS. One has a PhD in EE and founded her own start-up (with employees and patent applications). I've met so many parents at her school who have start-ups in their garages. No wonder there is a shortage of street parking in our neighborhood.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Climate Day 2010 @ Pasadena
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is hosting a free event in celebration of Climate Day 2010. Read all about it here.
It's a small world. Who should I see on the Climate Day Info Page, but someone I met while working in Berkeley's analytical chemistry lab?
Asides:
Friday, March 26: Students/Educators only, grades 6-12Note that JPL is holding this event at the Pasadena Convention Center, and NOT at JPL. Registration is required for Friday, but not on Saturday. Though the event is free, parking is not.
(click here to pre-register)
Saturday, March 27: General public
9 a.m. - 3 p.m. both days
Pasadena Convention Center
Conference Center, Lower Level
300 E. Green Street, Pasadena, CA 91101
(map)
Climate Day will feature hands-on activities, lectures by scientists and experts from NASA and beyond, a giant-illuminated Earth globe, exhibits, games (including Climate Jeopardy!), career information and more. Come along and learn about Earth’s changing climate.
Asides:
- Emily Green at Chance of Rain was kind enough to point out this event.
- One of my coworkers asked me to post fun things to do with kids in the LA metro area that don't require lots of money. I've labeled all those posts with the LA Kids tag.
Monday, March 22, 2010
World Water Day 2010
It seems like more stories run about the so-called Oscar curse (debunked here) and a tattooed other woman than about World Water Day. (Though WWD did get more coverage in the US press than International Women's Day.)
This month, I had the pleasure of hearing Esther Duflo talk about Experiments, Science, and the War Against Poverty. She opened her presentation with some context. Millions of people die every year from preventable diseases; billions more suffer needlessly. The death toll in Haiti from the earthquake in January is equal to the number of people worldwide who die every 8 days from poverty and lack of access to simple things like clean water, clean food, basic medicines and mosquito nets.
In honor of World Water Day, here are a couple of links:
This month, I had the pleasure of hearing Esther Duflo talk about Experiments, Science, and the War Against Poverty. She opened her presentation with some context. Millions of people die every year from preventable diseases; billions more suffer needlessly. The death toll in Haiti from the earthquake in January is equal to the number of people worldwide who die every 8 days from poverty and lack of access to simple things like clean water, clean food, basic medicines and mosquito nets.
In honor of World Water Day, here are a couple of links:
- Walking My Watershed
- World Water Day Focus on Global Sewage Flood
- Cyclone! How to find potable water after a natural disaster
- On your port side, a smokestack and a sewage pipe; Eco-tourism in our backyard
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