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And today's expression is a bug, a bug, B -U -G.
Now one definition of a bug is an insect like a beetle, B -E -T -L -E.
Once again B -E -E -T -L, a beetle, yeah, a ladybug, that's a bug.
It's a type of beetle.
An ant, we can call an ant, a bug, a cockroach. Which, ugh, that's a bug.
Even spiders, we can call spiders bugs.
Do you like bugs? No. Neither do I.
I hate bugs. Bugs are gross.
Some people like bugs.
Some people eat bugs.
It's true. But today I'm going to talk about a different bug.
A bug that you can find in your cell phone or in your computer.
Yeah, it means a problem.
There's a bug in the system.
There's a problem in the system.
And not just your software, not just your computer.
If you have some sort of process, some sort of SOP.
Standard operating procedure.
If you have some sort of method to do something.
But if there's a problem in that method you can say my method has a bug my plan has a bug This is a good expression, and I want you to think about how to use it for now.
Let's check out the dialogue So how's the update oh, there's a major bug What my battery life was cut in half.
I switched back to the old system Exactly, like I said yesterday, whenever I see an update for my software, my iPhone software, I'm really nervous, should I update the software?
I don't like to, because the last time I updated the software, I'm not joking, my battery life died.
usually I could get, you know, 10 hours on a battery charge.
Suddenly, five hours, it was terrible, it was terrible.
My battery life was cut in half, so I did.
I switched back to the old system, yeah.
So yeah, sometimes when there's an update, there is a problem.
And if it's a big problem, we can say a major bug, M -A -J -O -R, a major bug.
If it's just a little problem, we can say a minor bug, M -I -N -O -R.
So there you go. Today you get three expressions, a bug, a major bug, and a minor bug.
So let's see, what kind of a bug?
I'll tell you about a bug that I have in my schedule.
I have a bug. So as you know, I teach DDM lessons, two lessons every week.
I teach perf one lesson every week I have my Podcast the ecubed podcast which is basically seven days a week and I have this video The ecubed video which is basically six five six days a week I do try to take one day off, but sometimes seven days a week and then It's a business So I have to do so much accounting, so much management, file transfers, uploads, social media management, oh my god Facebook, Twitter, Google +, we've got people that are working with us.
I got to make sure the schedules are working, people are getting their classes, solving problems and I'm supposed to do another podcast. Let's there's this other podcast, Shane, and that's the bug in my schedule.
I have a good schedule, do this this day, do this this day, do this this day, but unfortunately it never works!
There's always some emergency, there's always some problem that occurs, some problem that rises up.
So yeah, I got a bug in my schedule.
Every week it's a different bug, it's driving me crazy, but I do my best and what can I say thank you thanks to you guys I love waking up every morning and solving the bugs and making my classes and podcasts and videos I really do love it and I just want to say thank you so even though there's a bug in my schedule I'm not complaining now if there's a bug in my iPhone software, then I'm complaining.
Okay, let's check out the dialogue two more times.
I want you to tell me about a bug that you discovered, something that is causing problems in a system, in a plan that you have, okay?
Alright, let's check it out two more times and then some information about DDM.
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I switched back to the old system So, how's the update oh, there's a major bug What my battery life was cut in half.
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