Apparently we just got hit by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake.

I was driving at the time, and felt nothing.

If there is someone that you miss dearly, for any reason, post this exact sentence in your journal.

I can't believe it took me this long to realize that my car is Tachikoma-colored.

Like, how driving is different here. Most of the main roads - the equivalents of Crawford or Oakton or Dempster, for those of you know those roads - have 6-8 lanes, with medians, and more often than not, double left-turn lanes. Due to the prolific medians, U-turns are specifically allowed at most intersections - which means that right turns on ( Read more... )

For anyone here who doesn't know, I just moved out to California for my first job out of college. Yay me!

From the Associated Press, in regards to the recent overpass collapse in San Francisco:

"The steel supporting the overpass turned pliable after the gasoline-fed fire below reached temperatures up to 2,000 degrees - more than four times as hot as the hottest conventional home oven."

No, no, NO! Assuming you meant Fahrenheit, 2000 degrees is not ( Read more... )

It's not suppose to get this cold in April!

And, job hunt over! The ATI group within AMD has offered me a position in Santa Clara, CA, which I accepted yesterday afternoon. I'll be doing "physical design" - that is, chip layout & routing type stuff. It's not *actual* logic design, but I think it's about as close as one can get straight out of college.

Yay me!

God I hate job hunting.

You know, "Human Resources", you might want to include the name of the company you're a part of in your from name when sending emails to people outside of said company.