Pulled from a CNN web article on the Large Hadron Collider:

The ILC will collide together electrons and positrons (fundamental particles with no constituent parts), enabling physicists to fully explore the kind of brain-bruising questions that would keep even Einstein up at night. Ummm...."collide" is not a transitive verb, even in UK usage (I ( Read more... )

When I was in grad school, I had a pretty decent job doing data entry and light office work for a small legal search firm (read: headhunters). I absorbed a lot of info about the New York legal scene without really trying, because I was dealing with it on such a frequent basis ( Read more... )

"...to talk of many things ( Read more... )

Aw, man. Okay. So my interview with the law firm temp-agency client is A WEEK from today. Ooops. But the kicker--I call the wrong agency to verify the interview date. I know that agencies operate under th knowledge that folks like me sing up with more than one company. But making a mistake like that is unprofessional. And icky ( Read more... )

Well. Just got a call from one of the three temp agencies I'm listed with. Seems that one of their clients would like to interview me for a clerk position (the client is a large law firm). This is good. However, the hourly rate isn't quite what I was hoping for--though still quite good, and with an opportunity for overtime. It adds up, more or less ( Read more... )

Not that I have time for these things, but they're addictive. Addictive to read, and presumably to write ( Read more... )