Does anyone have $700,000,000,000.00 I could borrow?

No?

Are you absolutely sure about that?

Verizon and the CWA/IBEW have stopped the clock, meaning that they will continue to negotiate and that I will go to work as normal on Monday under the existing contract.

I was ready to strike. In fact, I was almost looking forward to a strike.

However, I sure do like getting paid.

Touched down safely at 12:01AM Saturday. In the last two days Baranoouji has taken me to the company picnic (bigger than the Arlington Co. Fair) and up a freaking mountain. The park ranger claims that snow-bound hiking trails are unusual for July, but I'm not sure I believe him.

Washington Post article about an online spat about an espresso over ice at Murky Coffee in Clarendon. The incident was posted on a blog and then picked up by a couple of web sites. When I saw it posted on Metafilter on Monday there were already close to 200 comments ( Read more... )

Today is the 143rd anniversary of Union troops entering Galveston Texas and announcing the emancipation of the slaves and the end of the Confederacy. In honor of this I present you Marching Through Georgia.

Hurrah! Hurrah! we bring the jubilee ( Read more... )

Back from voting. An exercise in futility in this district, as congressman-for-life Jim Moran will continue to represent me until he grows tired of it or I move. We have established that he can innappropriately touch an 8 year old boy, get a sweet-heart loan from a company with pending legislation and even tick off the Jewish community and still ( Read more... )

So now that I am done with school and Baranoouij is off to the Pacific Northwest, I have some time on my hands. So far this weekend I have been out to the Four Provinces in Falls Church to listen to folk music and drink Guinness ( Read more... )

I have passed all my classes for this semester. That means on Saturday I will be graduating with a M.S. in Telecommunications. Given my experiences as an undergrad, I think I can be forgiven for not not taking anything for granted until I actually saw the grades posted on my transcript. I am really looking forward to having free time. For the ( Read more... )

Done with midterms for the week. Just going to work tomorrow will be almost a vacation.

I came up 50-50 on the definitions part of the test. I missed nadir totally but was able to pull superheterodyne from somewhere. We'll see if got the rest of the test right (or even used the right equations) in a couple of weeks.

One down, one to go. Midterms are the devil.

I think I did ok. I guess I'll find out in a week or two. Now just one more exam to cram for. This week, anyway.