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One more day.
Aug. 31st, 2006 12:44 amWow! Tomorrow's my last day of work. This is a frightening and interesting development. It means that the summer period of worry is over, and that the final climb for the graduate degree begins. (Also, that the final debts from college will pile up. Yay, job-finding and paying back. Or something. Either way, progress made.
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annonthemoon pack her stuff up into the tubs we bought today. Hopefully, it all compresses night and right and we can get her out, and then figure out some way of sending her on her way. Even if it means that she stays on a little longer until someone can drive her home.
Rummy calls critics cowards. More "if you're not with us, you're against us" rhetoric. Plus, cell phone data, even when erased, can be recovered.
China's taking notice of global warming - since they've been hammered by nasty weather for a while now. And if China's admitting to dealing with it... that means we'll still deny it, perhaps even moreso now that the Commies are adherents. Speaking of China, they like keeping their culture around. Even the nearly three-hundred year old brothels.
On the opposite end of that particular spectrum, a case is being heard about a girl claiming to have been stabbed in the eye and other places with scissors because she likes to listen to AC/DC and metal. As I said yesterday, the pressure to conform can be enormous, whether it's conforming to the norm or conforming to the acceptable rebellion against the norm. Speaking of mass conformity and culture, one person's truths about McDonald's, in Photoshopped Flickr signs.
On the topic of things that probably don't mix well together, pretty girls on a background of destruction, using a sex doll raft for anything other than a flotation device, and, apparently, Quidditch and the fifth Harry Potter Movie. Can anyone confirm/deny this last one, as I'm not entirely sure that it's serious or from a good source. Something that does mix well, though, are threesomes and Christian living. Go check it out, it's all there.
Something more modern in nature, although I'm not sure how satirical - Youth Against Sudoku. Sounds like it's another thing promoting a sedentary lifestyle and rigid, logical thinking above activeness and creativity. Perhaps, but then again, I think of Sudoku as a diversion to whittle away a little time when in a lull, not an obsession. Those would be console RPGs, thankyouverymuch.
Peeking into Google's ideas, this article helps people to understand why Google's kicking as much arse as it is. It's because Google does things different - from giving lunch to the employees to using customised kernels and software and delegated as much of the drudge work to automaticity as is possible.
A neat exercise to think about, and then be glad of, and then realize the message and get cheesed at the oligarchs that style themselves the RIAA over - What if making ramen was like making music?
Fractal icons. Those are pretty. Signs of life in the storm's aftermath. Some of those are not so pretty. Icons of Mo Willems's Pigeon. Adorably cute.
Last day of work tomorrow. And then comes the whole class thing. Here's hoping for an easier year than the last.
Tomorrow, I'm going to let
annonthemoon pack her stuff up into the tubs we bought today. Hopefully, it all compresses night and right and we can get her out, and then figure out some way of sending her on her way. Even if it means that she stays on a little longer until someone can drive her home.Rummy calls critics cowards. More "if you're not with us, you're against us" rhetoric. Plus, cell phone data, even when erased, can be recovered.
China's taking notice of global warming - since they've been hammered by nasty weather for a while now. And if China's admitting to dealing with it... that means we'll still deny it, perhaps even moreso now that the Commies are adherents. Speaking of China, they like keeping their culture around. Even the nearly three-hundred year old brothels.
On the opposite end of that particular spectrum, a case is being heard about a girl claiming to have been stabbed in the eye and other places with scissors because she likes to listen to AC/DC and metal. As I said yesterday, the pressure to conform can be enormous, whether it's conforming to the norm or conforming to the acceptable rebellion against the norm. Speaking of mass conformity and culture, one person's truths about McDonald's, in Photoshopped Flickr signs.
On the topic of things that probably don't mix well together, pretty girls on a background of destruction, using a sex doll raft for anything other than a flotation device, and, apparently, Quidditch and the fifth Harry Potter Movie. Can anyone confirm/deny this last one, as I'm not entirely sure that it's serious or from a good source. Something that does mix well, though, are threesomes and Christian living. Go check it out, it's all there.
Something more modern in nature, although I'm not sure how satirical - Youth Against Sudoku. Sounds like it's another thing promoting a sedentary lifestyle and rigid, logical thinking above activeness and creativity. Perhaps, but then again, I think of Sudoku as a diversion to whittle away a little time when in a lull, not an obsession. Those would be console RPGs, thankyouverymuch.
Peeking into Google's ideas, this article helps people to understand why Google's kicking as much arse as it is. It's because Google does things different - from giving lunch to the employees to using customised kernels and software and delegated as much of the drudge work to automaticity as is possible.
A neat exercise to think about, and then be glad of, and then realize the message and get cheesed at the oligarchs that style themselves the RIAA over - What if making ramen was like making music?
Fractal icons. Those are pretty. Signs of life in the storm's aftermath. Some of those are not so pretty. Icons of Mo Willems's Pigeon. Adorably cute.
Last day of work tomorrow. And then comes the whole class thing. Here's hoping for an easier year than the last.
