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Thursday, June 12, 2003
So I'm about to head to Austin for a month, with the goal of finding a job while I'm there, so I can stay. A key tool while searching for a job, local or not, is access to the internet. I'm gonna be staying at Dusty's place on Burton Drive. He has no internet access in his apartment, and no land line. Meaning I'd have to either wait a week for some jackass to show up to install DSL or a cable modem, or pay the hundred bucks it takes to get a landline activated, and be stuck with my dad's aol dial up "service". Those options suck, so I'm resurrecting the laptop that I used for 2 years in austin, and that spent a year in japan being torn to bits by stephanie. Last night I went out and bought a 802.11b pc card for my laptop and signed up for t-mobile's "hotspot" service. Most starbucks and borders bookstores have wireless access points, so I guess I'll be spending a lot of time in starbucks. I think I won't mind that at all. Actually, I'm in a starbucks in pasadena right now writing this. I'm looking around, and there are 11 nubile females surrounding me. There is only 1 other male in this place. How very interesting. I didn't think there were any nubile females in pasadena at all. Amazing.
.: posted by Jeremy 6/12/2003
Never EVER impale yourself on a microphone stand when you're pregnant. There are BABIES involved, for christ's sake!
.: posted by Jeremy 6/12/2003
From my usual source of subversive and generally worthless websites, namely Science magazine, I found this collection of geographical information in which you can find about anything to do with anything in the country. FBI crime statistics, dirty pac money from polluters, its in there.
Soon as I can figure out what a cubit is, I'm getting to work on an ark. Rains all the time up here.
.: posted by Dweeb Eubanks 6/12/2003
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Every Indian guy I meet wants to go into business with an American. I think it's a great idea. Instead of fighting the system, you should find a way to insinuate yourself into it.
.: posted by andy 6/11/2003
In Silicon Valley the rise of Bangalore and India's high-tech economy is often blamed for the shortage of good IT jobs. "It's the flip side of globalization," says NeoIT's Vashistha. "What happened to manufacturing over the last 25 years is now happening in services. You can't really fight it." (Article)
Sure I can, with my own personal cruise missile aimed directly at these assholes.
Another way would be for me to cash in my chips with the administration, and start some kind of war with india. Bonus side effect: less muslims hate us by virtue of the "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" phenomenon. This would ultimately reduce global terrorism, and increase my chances of getting a job, at the relatively small cost of increasing the odds of nuclear catastrophe. That would also work to my benefit, however, since Raytheon and other similar contractors need throngs of engineers for their ABM work. Although this post, among others, may make it difficult to acquire that all-too-necessary security clearance.
.: posted by Jeremy 6/11/2003
Tuesday, June 10, 2003
Beth and I saw The Italian Job last weekend. I'm not going to link to it, because it's too much trouble from this Mac (everytime I try to open more than two browser windows, I get a message telling me that there's insufficient memory). Anyway, the movie was alright, I guess. Beth seemed to like it. I say that because after it was over, I said, "did you like it?" and she said, "yeah."
The best analogy I can come up with is that watching The Italian Job is like eating cardboard. It's not bad, but it's not that good, either. I did come away from the movie with a vague urge to buy a Mini.
.: posted by andy 6/10/2003
Analysis of Al Qaeda, how it works, and why we won't be able to beat it with our current mindset.
I would add to that argument that we can't beat Al Qaeda because we aren't making any move to fight the causes for Muslim militancy. Maybe if we tried to understand a suicide bomber's motivation, we would be more effective in our so-called War on Terror. As it is, we can kill Muslims from sunrise to sunset, and unless we're using neutron bombs and highly contagious diseases, we'll never be able to eliminate our enemy. In fact, we'll probably create two new terrorists for every one we kill. Whatever happened to winning hearts and minds?
.: posted by andy 6/10/2003
I have a drink in the computer lab. That is a violent breach of the lab rules. It says right on the door in big black letters on a blue piece of paper, "No food or drink is permitted in the lab at any time." But you know what? There isn't a goddamn thing they can do about it, because I AM THE LAB MONITOR! That's right, FUCK THE ESTABLISHMENT!
Also, I've been the only person here for the last two hours. And of course I'm keeping my drink hidden behind a table-leg.
.: posted by andy 6/10/2003
Funny thing I got in email today:
It is a shame that Eddie Murphy never studied philosophy, for then we might have had the following Saturday Night Live sketch about Heidegger's definition of Being with respect to Non-Being, namely death. The use of dialect would make Heidegger's meaning far clearer than in the available English translations:
"What be 'Be'? You cain't say that 'Be' be, cause you saying 'be' to talk about 'Be', and it don't mean nothing to say that 'Be' be dis or 'Be' be dat. 'Be' be 'Be' to begin wit'. So don't you be saying 'Be' be 'Be'. You wanna talk about 'Be', you gotta talk about what ain't be nothin' at all. You gotta say 'Be' be what ain't 'ain't-Be'. Now when you ain't be nothing at all? Dat be when you be daid. When you daid you ain't be nothing, you just be daid. So 'Be' be somewhere between where you be and where you ain't be, dat is, when you be daid. Any time you say 'Be' you is also saying 'ain't-Be', and dat make you think about being daid."
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 6/10/2003
Pykrete is a kind of ice that is resistant to damage and melting.
.: posted by andy 6/10/2003
Bruce Smith is building his own cruise missile. We should all have our own cruise missiles. After all, a well-armed society is a well-behaved society, right?
.: posted by andy 6/10/2003
Drainspotting, an online archive of manhole covers and storm grates and whatnot. There are some really great ones. I had an idea once that I should take pictures of these things, but then I never did.
.: posted by andy 6/10/2003
Backpack Nation is a plan to send individual Americans into the third world as roving ambassadors of good will. I think it's a great idea.
.: posted by andy 6/10/2003
Robert Byrd has some things to say about the so-called War on Iraq, as well as the current administration.
.: posted by andy 6/10/2003
Sunday, June 08, 2003
What everyone needs.
.: posted by Grand Inquisitor Fnord Moco 6/8/2003
Google
DrinkBoy
Modern Drunkard
DMOZ.org
The Agonist
Metafilter.com
Fark.com
RobotWisdom.com
Memepool.com
Plastic.com
news.google.com