Archive for May, 2005

suits!

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/05/20/business/japan.php
Interesting article. Japan trying to cut power by cutting back on air conditioning, by attacking the reason AC needs to be set to “glacial” settings: men in business suits.
So, companies are banning suits in the office, and turning the AC to the 80’s. Neet.

Hotel Rwanda

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

Wow.

humanity

Friday, May 13th, 2005

The thing that determines whether we are good citizens or not is whether we help others in their crises, or ignore them.
That’s what I believe, anyway.
Today I was sitting here in work, like any other day. Things happened, very typical work stuff. The boss left, and I was pricing some systems to finally [...]

consequences.

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

First, the consequence of my last post. I’ve been working 8+ hour days. I’m hoping to make enough to cover a maymester tuition shot and still handle groceries and rent, but I’m not sure how realistic that is. It’d be nice.
The second “consequences” subject is …. grades. Got compilers grade. [...]

glasses broke

Monday, May 9th, 2005

Yep. My glasses broke.
The nose bridge just snapped while I was cleaning them. I’m glad I had an old pair lying around!
So yeah … I need to get new glasses soon. This old pair isn’t going to cut it for very long. Guess that means whoring out the timeclock for fun [...]