Kim, Kaye, and I did the Chinese New Year Treasure Hunt tonight. Much puzzle solving, walking, and fun. It's always enjoyable to see two friends meet for the first time and get on really well.


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Is it a sign of overconfidence or of misplaced concern that my biggest worry ahead of taking the LSAT this morning was whether or not I'd be able to have a proper poop before hand? When I took a practice test last Saturday I didn't and was ready to burst by the break. Fortunately I did this morning and all went well, though FIVE HOURS of testing is ( Read more... )

New Hire Notification: chaleur23 - 10/17/05

Name: chaleur23
Title: [cut for privacy]
Team: 110-2511-5262 (Tiger)
Status: RFT (New College Grad Hire)
Req #: FY05-R296
Start Date: 10/17/05
Hiring Manager: [cut for privacy]

Huzzah! See you soon!

In part because I was reminded of a discussion with chaleur23 in which she said, "heck we [Canadians] only got civil rights in 1982!" I was reading the Wikipedia entry on the Canadian constitution today and was astounded by some of what I read:...sometimes been denounced as "messy," "almost incoherent" or worse for their somewhat convoluted form and long, ( Read more... )

Most recently, chaleur23 gave me a list of coworkers (she is a once and future EA employee) with boats that I could ride. So I went around the harbour hopping in boats and seeing if they were ready to go, until I jumped into one in which a woman was already at the helm. I sheepishly explained to her that I found her name on this list of people with boats I ( Read more... )

Attention chaleur23, neodymium155, and niknakpadywak: I have rediscovered the Santa Cruz Hell Hole. It was right along the streambed where we were looking but higher up than I remembered. Anyone want to go caving?


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Because of recent insanity, someone at work owes me. Our standard currency here is free games, but since there are a limited number of video games I'm interested in I once again throw it open to you: want any free EA games?

A complete list of what's available can be found here. I can probably get away with three games.

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In honor of chaleur23's immenant departure this Sunday, I will tonight only be listening to Canadian musicians. From my own MP3 collection, this means Barenaked Ladies (shut up - I liked them before they were famous, back in the Gordon days), Godspeed You Black Emperor!, and Loreena McKennitt.

It was a long, good weekend. On Saturday Heather, chaleur23, neodymium155, niknakpadywak, and I went down to Santa Cruz and a pretty good time was had by all.
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SCIENCE!

chaleur23 has been trying to convince me for some time that Diet Coke is an acceptable substitute for Coke, even going so far as, today, challenging me to a taste test to see if I could even tell the difference. I gladly accepted and we set up a single-blind test, which, needless to say, I passed instantly - it took only one sip to identify the ( Read more... )