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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: HeinBallz on July 26, 2011, 08:49:58 PM
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Went to the "Getting Motivated" seminar today in wichita; Terry Bradshaw came out in a purple shirt, said he was a KSU man - then ripped on KU several times during his speech. Everyone laughed & everyone left before Massa Seff spoke. :kstatriot:
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Was this an all-sports thing, just basketball, or life in general motivation?
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cool
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Was just a "better your life" type set-up of speeches sandwiched between sales pitches by losers. The speeches were pretty amazing though. In order of my favorite speakers: Collin Powell, Lou Holtz, Bill Cosby, Steve Forbes & there were a couple of other guys there that were good but I can't remember their names. We left before Seff, because he was the last speaker & they brought on some sales dude to segway between Bill Cosby & Bill Self and he was just trying to get people to sign up for his class teaching them how to be internet spammers.
Was a pretty awesome show, but kind of wished I would have got up & stretched the legs each time they had a sales pitch.
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Was just a "better your life" type set-up of speeches sandwiched between sales pitches by losers. The speeches were pretty amazing though. In order of my favorite speakers: Collin Powell, Lou Holtz, Bill Cosby, Steve Forbes & there were a couple of other guys there that were good but I can't remember their names. We left before Seff, because he was the last speaker & they brought on some sales dude to segway between Bill Cosby & Bill Self and he was just trying to get people to sign up for his class teaching them how to be internet spammers.
Was a pretty awesome show, but kind of wished I would have got up & stretched the legs each time they had a sales pitch.
That sounds awful.
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Was just a "better your life" type set-up of speeches sandwiched between sales pitches by losers. The speeches were pretty amazing though. In order of my favorite speakers: Collin Powell, Lou Holtz, Bill Cosby, Steve Forbes & there were a couple of other guys there that were good but I can't remember their names. We left before Seff, because he was the last speaker & they brought on some sales dude to segway between Bill Cosby & Bill Self and he was just trying to get people to sign up for his class teaching them how to be internet spammers.
Was a pretty awesome show, but kind of wished I would have got up & stretched the legs each time they had a sales pitch.
That sounds awful.
Only 3 sales pitches for a total of maybe 45 minutes. The headline speakers though... good lord - very entertaining. Well worth it.
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That's a great line-up. Like a motivational speaker version of Live-Aid.
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had a chance to go to this. passed.
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Yeah sounded all around awful. Figured they were trying to sell crap when the tickets were five cents apiece.
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terry was an absolute treasure in that one matthew mconaghey movie. but he is also a dumbass.
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JTbro saw Guliani today. I assume he was one of the speakers?
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yeah... rudi was pretty rough ridin' horrible. spent the first 10 minutes talking about how people needed to embrace the internet. I stopped listening and got up to go pee. Seemed like a typical politician douche bag out of touch with reality & still living in the 90's.
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Weird. I'm pretty sure people embrace the internet. Probably too much
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Weird. I'm pretty sure people embrace the internet. Probably too much
Eh, in academia there are still a lot of people that are weary of "the web." I've had plenty of professors warn against the danger of the web because of the numerous faulty sources, etc. Which, on the surface, seems fair.
But these professors have to stop treating wikipedia like it's the enemy. There have probably been 20 times a professor has brought up wikipedia in class, and every time, it's warning students against the dangers of it. Nevermind the fact that nowadays, it's practically entirely reliable. Sure, I wouldn't cite it in a paper (strictly because professors see it as taboo), but I've used it for my own research (completing study guides, supplementing information for papers, etc) in probably 75% of my courses. In reality, it's the most comprehensive encyclopedia in the world. Oh yeah and it's accessible from everywhere and absolutely free. Overall, it may be the best tool given to academia in the last 15 years.
This is an example of people not embracing the internet.