Rumsfeld Says War Critics Ignore History
Um.... Should we start a list of things this shithead and the administration ignores/ignored, wish they handled well? I can start going with events that happened about a year ago? Katrina? Not only is he wrong, but he's being an ass, plain and simple.
Universal Backs Free Music Rival to iTunes
Seems interesting that this service is coming out. I'm sure in one respect or another, we'll have to deal with some sort of adverse action in exchange. Like, MAYBE, (sheer speculation): if you'd like to use our service, please disable your pop-up blockers, antispyware apps, firewall and please check the "I accept" key under a EULA which clearly will grant us the right to install a small, yet bitchin root kit on your system. Also, we'll farm out some of that sweet bandwidth you pay for... awesome! I'll be happy if any and all speculation is oh so wrong. I can't argue with that kind of "free".I also read something on aol where scientists 'proved' that the taller you are, the smarter you are. So, does this mean that most NBA/NFL teams were more likely to win a nobel peace prize than Einstein? I actually, genuinely feel insulted by this and feel that there is something obviously wrong with the scientists who conducted the study. Give me the resources on them, I'll whittle 'em down to my height. My earliest memories predate my ability to speak... Lets go. Seriously. :) With this and the whole Pluto debate, I've lost ALL respect for scientists, excluding myself and a circle of friends.
My shifts have shifted back to an 8-5 timeslot. 8:30 to 5 to be exact.
Today we had a meeting and it went well. When I hear meeting, I don't always think good things... So, I'm happily disappointed. Seems this year, we've/they've managed to get 85% of incoming students registered on the network within opening weekend. Usually, It's much slower than that. In a way, if you think of it, that can be a bad thing. Instead of keeping 4 people, perhaps they'll only want two... Maybe they'll end it early. I don't know. A coworker and I went around to a few labs and we organized and took their inventory... Then we mosied on back to the central office and hung out. After I went back to the lab and spent a lot of time stumped by a Symantec Corporate problem. I couldn't get past it's password to uninstall it to get a pc prepped to register. Luckily one fo the other workers remembered that Symantec often autoprotects installation and sets its own default password, which was "symantec" *groan* By them it was time for me to leave. More of the same tomorrow.
My sisters dog is howling with the old air raid sirens.
so funny. So odd to hear at almost 1am!
I am tired. All I do at work is stand and prod keys... I help people. People go. I explain things. blah.
I got a ride from my sister who is a nurse at the hospital down the street from the building I work in. She was supposed to get out an hour after me, fourty-five minutes after that, we left. I wasn't mad, I just forgot that happens sometimes. It's not an easy job, but there is that sense that you helped someone when alls said and done.
We both help people, only I'm not filled with some sort of inner glow. I can't say she is all the time either, I guess it's just the nature of things. Today I saw version of Windows in Spanish, on lappy with a spanish keyboard. It was quite a fast computer, very well built, designed and programmed. The user was quite a cutie too, only I'm betting she's over 10 years younger than me and it all seems wrong to think that way... Unless she said otherwise (lol).
Well, time for sleep.
Remember sniglets? Do you have any favorites? Have you ever made up your own word? (Now's as good a time as any.)
I don't like the word sniglet... I prefer neologism.
um. any gnarly 80s term that's been forgotten with time. The 80s were so rad.
I'm quite tired tonight. Today wasn't a bad day... It was actually slightly boring. We got a few more laptops and they weren't too hard to fix. The student I was paired with didn't quite let me do much with them... I like him, I just wish I felt a bit more preoccupied.
Here's some pictures of where I work (Syracuse University):
This here is the building I work in... It's one of the coolest residence halls I've ever been in. The views of the city are really nice!
Here is a building that a coworker referred to as Dumbledorfs.(or how ever that castle in Harry Potter is spelled). It's also a campus building, it's a lot more breathtaking than this picture, taken with my CRAPTASTIC camera phone can capture.
Here is a shot of the city scape from one of the streets on the campus. Part of the Skyline of Syracuse, NY.
After work, my sister wanted me to meet her at her house and instead I met her at a neighborhood bar. I usually don't do neighborhood bars for a long list of very good reasons but I was happy to learn that not many of these reasons existed at this one in particular. No typical scope-outs by regulars and alchies, no awkward moments of sudden silence... No need to give the "handshake" or rite of passage of throwing down a drink without a whince. Most bars around where I live have bartenders that know me or have seen me toss a few back. Most like me because I'm not a regular! LOL! This place had nice people my sister and brother-in-law knew, a really hot bartender who made a great dirty martini and didn't leave me with the urge to shower or hide for a day or two because of aforementioned reasons I don't do neighborhood bars.
I'm here thanks to the wonderful Kefira. Thank you very much.
I will mark this post with a bit about me.
My name is Bob, I'm 33 years old and I live in the state of New York. Nothing is ever easy in life, especially with mine. If it's not complicated, I have a way of making it complicated. In college, my work wasn't late due to procrastination, but deciding what to do my work on. If you're crafty enough, the only limitation to the type of project you do is your own imagination. In sociology of deviance, after some wrestling with my own inner deamons, I wrote my main paper on social norms of boyhood. I came up with the project after taking a long look back on my own life, the last child in a family of seven, also the only boy. I had a tough time growing up and I didn't understand why. This project gave me that understanding. What made it complicated was that is was difficult to do the research because I had to find specific studies. Old studies that examined the norms of boyhood in the victorian era to when they began to change to recent times. For me it just substantiated that I was a victim to preconceptions, mistunderstanding, and ... social norms. You might think, "he must be a sociologist!" Well, I'm not. I'm an Information Scientist. We won't get started on all of that research.
I don't know where friends would begin when describing me. You'd think with my past I'd overcompensate for those misunderstandings with an overdeveloped machismo, but no... Actually, I might be one of those peope you either way to be 10 feet away from or within 10 inches of. I cherish my individuality and the individuality of others. So long as you're cool with me, I'm cool with you. I can be loud, mischevious, animated, silly, and dead serious... I think we all run these emotions, only with me, I seem to spill over with them. Of all the people I've ever met, the only ones that I found that I didn't want to get to know better were the ones out there to purposely piss me off, to ignore me over the company of others (in certain circumstances, it's no big but I pick up on patterns). I fully endorse honesty, I'd rather be hurt with the truth than slaughtered by a lie... Having experienced this, I'm a bit quiet with new people until I feel I can be otherwise. I have a knack for catching people cast glances or say things about me and while it sucks, it doesn't phase me. I'm on my way to find my way own complicated way through life and I haven't got the time to sort anyone out. :D
Sheesh, that was longer than I imagined.
I'm listening to "M.I.A."
