Final Projects
Today is the first day of final projects and we are about to go on a break. My group is going today. We are talking about the Banner System! Wish us luck! 
Then we only have one more day of presentations before the final on Tuesday! Then systems is officially over 
As you can see from my blog, we learned a lot this semester! I have become much more tech savvy!
Well I have to go prepare now! I hope that you all enjoy the presentation that we are about to do! See you next year!
The last week of classes!
Yes, I said it. It is the last week of classes. And I would be very excited if it weren’t for the fact that I have a ton of work to do before I can have fun.
This week I have:
- An accounting project due Tuesday
- The systems project due Tuesday
- A 10-12 page essay for patristics due Wednesday
- An 8-10 page essay for Catholic Moral Tradition due Wednesday
- AND a marketing project due Thursday
So yes a lot of stuff… I think that this week is going to be more hellish then finals week.
But my group is meeting tomorrow to finalize our systems project so that should be good. And now I am off to Japan Town for lunch yummy
Disruptive Innovation
I just realized I have not written in a while, so I thought I would write a bit about disruptive innovations. A disruptive innovation is something that starts off as a bad investment; it is something that may look unappealing to adopt but that in the long run will definitely pay off. Past examples of disruptive innovations are:
- mp3 players
- paper
- guns
These are from wikipedia but an example that we came up with is cds! We will definitely be using computer chips or something smaller than those bulky discs in the future, don’t you agree?!
Google!
I do not exist in Google because my name is far too generic. This blog does not even come up before the pages With Simon Cowell and Jennifer Hudson!
So for now when employers look for me they will see a live journal of a girl who idolizes Lizzy Borden… Now I will know why that call doesn’t come.
But seriously, I never knew that Google had all of these secret tactics for determining order or that people have actually been booted off the site. Intense competition.
Now, I must continue to listen to the discussion of sex.com all all of the extortion and suicide surrounding it.
But before I go, here is a funny article that I found during break that I wanted to post. It is what the doctor would say.
Stop Making Movies About My Books
On the fourteenth of March, in towns nationwide,
In every cinema, multiplex, on every barnside,
Gleamed another adapting of one of my books,
CGI-ed and digitized by another sly crook.
Horton, my favorite—look how he’s been treated!
Stuffed with tinsels and tassels and promptly excreted!
The puns! And the filler! The script fees you must save!
While I tumble and grum-humble around in my grave.
Did you learn all but squat from The Cat In The Hat?
Please tell me you fired the prick who made that.
I would have stopped writing, maybe sold Goodyear tires.
If I knew one dark day I’d costar with Mike Myers.
And Oh!
Oh, dear! Oh!
My poor Grinch, what they’ve done!
They crammed in live-action and snuffed out all the fun!
It’s icky, it’s tacky, it’s awkward, it’s wrong.
The Whos look like ferrets, it’s an hour too long.
What a rotten idea to spend millions destroying
This masterful tale kids spent decades enjoying!
But still you keep making them!
Just how do you dare?
Sell my life’s work off piecemeal
To every Tom, Dick, and Har’.
Why it’s simply an outrage—a crime, you must judge!—
To crap on my books with this big-budget sludge.
My books are for children to learn ones and twos in,
Not commercialous slop for Jim Carrey to ruin.
Have you no respect for the gems of your youth?
To pervert them on screen from Taiwan to Duluth.
Even after you drag my last word through the dirt,
I know you, you pirates,
You’d cut out my heart for a “Thing 1″ T-shirt.
For eighty-some years I held you vultures at bay,
knowing just how you’d franchise my good name some day.
Not yet cold in my grave before you starting shooting
the first of my classics you’d acquired for looting.
Mrs. Seuss, that old stoofus, began selling more rights
to Dreamworks, Universal—any hack in her sights.
First The Cat In The Hat and then this, that and Seussical
without a thought to be picky, selectish, or choosical.
So to Audrey, you whore, you sad sack of a wife:
Listen close. Pay attention, for once in your life.
You give Fox In Sox to those sharks who made Elf
And so help me, I’ll rise up and kill you myself.
No Sneetches by Sony—
No One Fish: On Ice—
Burn that Hop On Pop II script not one time but twice.
Don’t sex up my prose with Alyssa Milano…
And no Green Eggs And Ham with that one-note Romano!
This must stop! This must end! Don’t you see what you’re doing?
You’re defiling the work I spent ages accruing.
And when it’s dried up and you’ve sucked out your pay
There’ll be no going back to a simpler day,
When your mom would give Horton a voice extra deep,
And turn the last page as you drifted to sleep.
Instead you’ll have boxed sets, shit movies, and… well,
You’ll have plenty to watch while you’re burning in hell.
Bye Bye Peter Cottontail…
Yes… sadness… Easter and therefore break are now over. It is back to work time for us all. I don’t know about you but I wish that the break had been longer. Its strange, I came back to San Francisco and realized that I had piles upon piles of stress awaiting me. The rest of this semester is going to be insanely busy for me.
So, I want to dwell a little on what I did during break to make myself feel better…. sigh… Basically, I was extremely lazy for a week. I went home to San Diego to see my family and my cat. I slept in and spent a good deal of time in pajamas. The only times I went out were to go eat, go to the movies, and go to a family function. Oh, and I conquered the Simpson’s Game on my PSP. Yes it was pretty much fantastic.
I think I am going to get in a fetal position and start to cry now… see you guys later.
The joys of inventory…
Ah, the joys of inventory. It has no place at all in JIT production but I have a feeling that I will be utilizing it a lot when I record it as an ASSET! HAHAHA!! Yes I am a future accountant.
However I did find the article in the beginning of the chapter on Amazon to be very interesting… at least it appears to be very organized in those warehouses. Also I had no idea that when I order gifts they are hand-wrapped… I don’t know what kind of machine I thought did that… I just thought it wasn’t people. I don’t associate Amazon with people.
And now because I enjoy posting videos, here is a clip from one of my favorite cartoons, invader zim. It is dedicated to JP, because I am sure this is what he thinks of when he thinks of inventory:)
A new Japanese word!
While reading the homework for tomorrow’s class I came across the latest Japanese word that has to do with efficiency. Move over muda and kaizen because here comes Kanban! For those of you who have yet to read, kanban is used in a “pull” system. It literally means card. This is used because the Japanese used cards to signal when they needed more material at various stations.
I look forward to discussing the glories of kanban tomorrow in class! But I think my favorite new word is still muda because despite my efforts I still manage to produce tons of it on a very regular basis. Does anyone want to buy some? I didn’t think so!
See you in class!
The Muda in my Life…
I said earlier that I would write an entry about the muda in my life so here it is…
I guess the main muda in my life would have to be my procrastination. I procrastinate all the time. In fact, I am procrastinating right now on homework that I have for tomorrow. But I would refer to this as productive procrastination because this is at least school related in some way and I am not just wasting my life. But most of the procrastination I do produces tons and tons of muda. This muda is usually video games or random internet surfing. I guess I need to be isolated from technology in order to get my work done…
However right now, this little bt of muda is making me feel like I am accomplishing KAIZEN because at least I am doing something productive! Therefore my conclusion is hooray for me!
PS here is a little bit of what I discovered while producing oodles of muda:
JP is my personal hero!
I just felt the need to do this. I wonder if I will get starred! haha!
I should go now because we are talking about MUDA and how to get rid of it. Perhaps I will write an entry later to talk about the Muda in my life.
Whatever do I say in my first entry?
Hmmm…. I was just thinking that I definitely need to start writing in this blog, but I am still not sure what to say. Let’s see, well in class right now we are working on solving problems the “Toyota Way”. Yes that is correct Toyota has a deceivingly simple way of solving problems that actually requires a lot of practice. So we have to do a mini-project on problem definition for class… I am still thinking about what I want mine to be about. Oh well, its not like I would give it away here anyway!
I guess I will also make a mini-announcement: tomorrow is the first UBC (Undergraduate Business Council) meeting of the semester. Myself and many other wonderful students and administrators are working on reviving this organization. So you can leave a comment here or talk to me in class about any ideas/changes you have regarding the business school and I will bring them up for discussion in the meetings. Doesn’t that sound fun?!
OK! See you guys in class!
