Archive for May, 2005
Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
Streamlining
A buddy of mine works for a fairly large national corporation. He’s been trying to replace his SIX year old computer for a while now. It’s finally on the path, and he’s (eventually) getting a new laptop, a whopping $1800 purchase. So far, 12 people have authorized the purchase and it’s still not ordered.
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2005
A sense of place
14 years ago I moved away from my home town, where I was born and raised for 18 years. Ostensibly I left to pursue a degree in nuclear engineering, which drove my choice of place. On some level my motivation was also to get far from home and experience something new. I had a theory [...]
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Friday, May 13th, 2005
More randomness
- Billboard on the way up:wedocows! It was an ad for a veterenary outlet store. Your reaction to the billboard might be a good question on some kind of a pervert meme. – I’ve crossed it dozens of times times, and I’m almost 33 years old, but I still giggle every time we cross “Middle [...]
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
Travel
Boy did I luck out on getting here. I was able to book a flight using frequent flyer miles on less than 12 hours notice. I don’t remotely fly enough (this is my second flight in 6 years) to rack them up, I’m still burning travel credit I made while in college. The only other [...]
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
Update
I’m sitting in Glencoe, MN, a suburb of Minneapolis, about to head north to see my family. On Sunday my grandfather had a stroke. He apparently doesn’t have control of his right side. He can speak although it’s a little slurred. On Monday they took all the pictures, today they’ll interpret them. Grandpa hadn’t been [...]
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
Spare Cycles
I wonder what kind of hotdish the circle served at the Pope’s funeral.