Two in Summer 2017

Yesterday morning’s hopefulness has been replaced with worry after not hearing anything from the promising opportunity yesterday.

I’m still pretty confident, though, even if that one doesn’t come through.

Interestingly, I applied for something that appeared to be the government counterpart for that job. That would be a little weird. I also did end up archiving a bunch of my outstanding USAJOBS applications. If they haven’t made a decision after this long, they’re probably just aren’t going to make one.

Do you ever feel the need to play the devil’s advocate?

I’m not sure? I don’t ever recall seriously making a fallacious argument about something publicly. Whenever I write or speak, I do try to figure out the arguments that might be made against my drivel. Is that playing devil’s advocate? I don’t know.

I wish I could remember what the folks in the legal field called that exercise.

I did use the technique when I was going through something I planned to submit a Shmoocon a few years ago. I’d written the paper, started putting together the slide deck, and started rehearsing the oral presentation.

As I got into the meat of my argument, I thought of a counter-argument I couldn’t neatly refute.

So, into the trash with the presentation, and plans to figure out how to get to the conference as an attendee, not a presenter.

Deleting something where I was going to punt, and take it to sports.

The crux of the argument? Tom Landry is the greatest coach in football history. No, I’m not a Cowboys’ fan.

The writing juices seem to be coming after only a few days of writing. I’m happy about that. we’ll see how I feel here in a couple of weeks.