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In case anybody out there is wondering...
No, you didn't miss the annual End of Summer Party, and no, you haven't dropped off our list. The fact is that this past summer has been a big fat bully that overstayed its welcome, and doesn't deserve a going-away party.
Besides, we can't fire up the grill lest we burn down the other half of the state. Sigh. -
Boredom
I'm afraid that Scott Adams may be right.
Oh, not about the wild dysfunction of the American corporate culture. We all know he's had that nailed with appalling accuracy for longer than today's crop of college students have been alive. No, I'm referring to his recent article about boredom and its importance to the creative process.
For most of my ( Read more... ) -
Letter to ETS
To Whom It May Concern:
I took the GRE General test at the University of Texas at Austin on July 19th, 2011. I recently received my score report, and discovered that although I had scored XXX on both the verbal and the quantitative sections, I received only a 4.0 (45th percentile) on the analytical writing section.
This surprised me considerably, ( Read more... ) -
Wow
Looks like I finally found a back door into LiveJournal. Since the Denial of Service attacks earlier this month, I've been unable to log in from the main page. Eventually I followed a random link from that page, and logged in through the full-page login form that came up. Still can't get in through the front door.
Wow.
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Poling Canoes
So, to elaborate on my apparently tantalizing reference to canoe poling....
A couple of months ago, chikuru and I went to a dance concert and found ourselves sitting in front of Sally Jacques, directrix of the Blue Lapis Light aerial dance troupe, with whom we have performed as rappellers several times in the past few years. We fell into conversation ( Read more... ) -
I am a Gel Peg
One of the reasons I've soured on the software development industry in recent years is that in general the interview process has become distressingly rigid. A typical interview probes the exact nature of the applicant's experience, and may include a long list of technologies with which a successful applicant is expected to have worked in the recent ( Read more... ) -
Bad Kitties!
The cats seem to know that they're in disgrace. They've been keeping a tactful distance all day, pestering me much less than usual for food and attention, and letting me shut them out of my office without protest.
They've been very bad kittens, and they know it.
My first inkling of trouble this morning was a loud and persistent scrabbling sound from ( Read more... ) -
Pirates of the Caribbean
I went to see the new PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN this evening, and I didn't hate it. It's not the equal of the first movie, but I found it a more satisfying ride than the second or third. The seriousness wasn't too serious, and the silliness not too painful. And in addition to Keith Richards' obligatory cameo, there is another that's entirely ( Read more... ) -
I think I remember this...
When I was a kid at summer camp, a counselor showed me how to propel a canoe using a long pole and standing upright. Not by pushing off the bottom, as I expected, but by holding the pole in the middle and rowing with it as though it were a kayak paddle. It was surprisingly effective and easy.
I have no idea whether I can replicate the experience ( Read more... ) -
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Nothing new to report. I'll do my best to provide a real entry tomorrow, I promise.
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