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Saturday, April 19, 2003
Your voice was heard, Andy Thomas, Savior of the Iraqi People. The photo is gone now, and has been purged from the collective consciousness of the world.
.: posted by Jeremy 4/19/2003
Friday, April 18, 2003
Geneva Convention! Geneva Convention! I'm sending this to counterpunch.org right now!
.: posted by andy 4/18/2003
Thursday, April 17, 2003
While these suggestions are fine and dandy, they won't help the poor saps stuck on the shuttle one bit. What NASA really needs to do is come up with an insulation spray kind of like you get at home depot to fill cracks around windows and the like, only not so sticky and with a greater tolerance for heat. Then if the telescopes find a problem, an astronaut can go out and patch the hole. Should be no real challenge to the group that brought us Tang and freeze-dried ice cream.
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 4/17/2003
I never had much problem keeping up with the rejection emails, since I hardly ever got any kind of response at all from any posting I applied to.
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 4/17/2003
I think the key to sanity during a job search is to keep the rate of outgoing resumes higher than the rate of incoming rejection emails.
There's no need to be bitter. Just because you can't drive to your mom's house and make cookies with her doesn't make it my fault.
.: posted by Jeremy 4/17/2003
You'd think that the size of an orange would have nothing to do with it's taste. You'd think that a huge california navel orange would taste mostly the same as a small or medium sized california navel orange. You'd think that and then you'd buy the big ones and find out how wrong you were. It's like eating orange rind wrapped around water, instead of the tart orange goodness in the small oranges. Oh well. In other news from my new career, yesterday I went to my mom's house. We made shrimp creole and chocolate chip cookies. I got to peel and devein the shrimp. I also made the cookies mostly by myself. The secret to chocolate chip cookies is to use half butter and half shortening. If you use all butter, as many recipies call for, you will probably end up with burned cookies. Also, don't cheap out on the chocolate chips.
Today I kept my regular thursday racquetball appointment, just like I did on tuesday. I think I'm seriously improving. Not that that's the point of playing.
.: posted by Jeremy 4/17/2003
Wednesday, April 16, 2003
.: posted by Jeremy 4/16/2003
Tuesday, April 15, 2003
Hey, good information from the information minister. To learn new terms in aramaic (or is it farsi?) is neat. Is tarateer plural for tartoor?
.: posted by Dweeb Eubanks 4/15/2003
Custom trailer. Neat.
.: posted by andy 4/15/2003
For the sake of conformity, we'll link to welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com, just like everyone else. I'd like to point out that Sahaf didn't always lie. Here's one of his moth truthful quotes:
"I speak better English than this villain Bush."
.: posted by andy 4/15/2003
Monday, April 14, 2003
That's funny, but that's the sort of comment that shows up on the top of google and then you get arrested or at the very least a cease and desist letter.
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's super-biased news media posting humiliating photos of prisoners of war in violation of the Geneva Convention. I guess the logic is that this photo isn't bad because the prisoner cowering on the ground has a hood on, so we can't tell who is being humiliated.
.: posted by andy 4/14/2003
Today I got some time to go through all my severance paperwork. I read through the severance agreement and signed it, read through and filled out the COBRA application, and then reread the letter from the "Director of Human Resources (herein after 'Herr Direktor') ." It's funny how that title makes her seem like her position is one of considerable responsibility, probably in charge of a department of many HR workers. The HR department at BPMicro consists of the "director" and her assistant.
Anyway, in the letter from Herr Direktor I was amazed to read that I wasn't actually laid off. What actually was happening while I was being escorted to my cubicle with a cardboard box, given 10 minutes to clean out a cube that took 2.5 years to clutter, and further escorted to the office exit, was my "participation in a Reduction in Force program."
I think tomorrow I'm going to drive down to the office with a can of gasoline and a lighter and introduce BPMicro to a "reduction of combustible materials program."
.: posted by Jeremy 4/14/2003
Weird. I just searched CNN for their article about the diamond heist in Antwerp, and I couldn't find anything related. Then I searched using Google, and got this article, right near the top.
.: posted by andy 4/14/2003
That's what I don't get. Everyone is like, "mathematically, this sequence is very useful." Useful for what? Is it so subtle that Fibonacci had to "discover" it?
I like it and everything, but I'm not real sure what's mathematically important about it. Except for the ratio, that is.
As part of our presentation, I'm going to pass out a series of compositions, some of which use the golden mean, and some of which don't. Using my incredibly scientific survey, we'll finally find out once and for all if people subconciously prefer stuff based on the fibonacci sequence.
.: posted by andy 4/14/2003
My sister told me once about how her art professors were real big on the golden proportion, which I now know has some relation to the fibonacci sequence. I thought it all sounded like alchemy. Computer Science types love the fibonacci sequence because it is the classic example of how recursion can be "useful."
.: posted by Jeremy 4/14/2003
I think the Ayatollah is generalizing. In a little over half the cases, a girl on a bicycle is worse than pizza. I think the rest are significantly better than pizza, though. I should know, after observing around 6000 girls on bicycles this last weekend.
.: posted by Jeremy 4/14/2003
Sunday, April 13, 2003
I don't know much about math, and I sure as hell don't want to. But on Wednesday I'm doing a presentation on the Fibonacci sequence, and it's just neat. Shows up all over the place in all kinds of things--the pyramids, sunflowers, crop circles, etc.
.: posted by andy 4/13/2003
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