By dixie
California is stereotyped as super-liberal, the home of the granola-crunching, tree-hugging hippies, and a generally safe place for people with alternate lifestyles, beliefs, and viewpoints.
I’ve done a little work trying to dispel the myth, explaining where it comes from (yes, California’s major cities are pretty hippy but there are a lot of wide open [...]
By xaosseed
After freaking out about T-Mobile (curse their rotten souls) I’ve realised I have so much damn paperwork to crunch, forms to fill and stuff to file and submit with various everyone that I may as well just jump through their damn hoops because its minimal extra hassle.
By xaosseed
I got my shiny Vaio. Its beautiful, all the tech works. The ‘non-hardware’ part of the web-n-walk chip from T-mobile is shockingly bad. Its like ‘MRE - three lies for the price of one’ - except in phonebill form.
By dixie
Adding further insult to crippling injury, WAG called a group meeting this afternoon. This afternoon being Memorial Day, one of the few holidays Americans get. I would have skipped it, along with the rest of my group, except I’m trying to be a good little postgrad and curry enough favo(u)r to graduate in time to [...]
By xaosseed
As possibly you may not know, I am just completing a BA in Management, another undergrad degree* and am doing my thesis on knowledge management - specifically handing over the giant models we build as part of reservoir engineering and which I will be doing myself in a month or two.