Olive

animal control trucks

2009-09-16T05:33:39Z

This afternoon, I saw 3 animal control trucks parked on our street. I let Thomas know, but then I had to hurry on to work. I'm home now, and I've seen 3 feral kitties at once. I haven't yet seen John's crazy dog though. I wonder what the animal control people did today.

Does somebody know somebody?

2009-05-21T00:50:01Z

Would a BA in Computer Science from Thomas Edison State College help me get a job?
I have 125 credits of varying relevancy. If it went the way I guess it would, I'd just need to enroll, do about 9 credit hours of computer science classes of my choice, and then I'd finally finish a degree. But would people actually respect it?
1 It's a BA instead of a BS.
2 It's a college, not a university.
3 It's an unknown name to many. They've only been accredited since the late 70s.
4 I haven't found any minors offered, so I guess all my extra physics wouldn't be recognized in that way.

What I like about them is that their BA plans don't arbitrarily exclude credit earned years ago, and that TESC lacks a rule requiring that I take ~30 credits directly from them.

I guess the person to ask would be someone in an agency that places programmers into jobs? Or someone with a lot of experience in the field? Does somebody know somebody I should talk to?

Clinton visited the foreign country of Texas

2009-04-23T21:13:17Z

http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2009/apr/17/secy-hillary-clinton-visited-foreign-country-texas

stuff I've been reading

2009-03-16T00:45:37Z

happiness research:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0DEFD61538F934A3575AC0A9659C8B63&scp=2&sq=Jon%20Gertner&st=cse&pagewanted=all

swiss banks will cooperate with foreign governments to catch tax evaders.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/business/worldbusiness/14tax.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Weary of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own Businesses
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/technology/start-ups/14startup.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

desktop ideas:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33771027@N08/3350346757/
http://lifehacker.com/5169445/put-news-on-your-desktop-with-geektool

olive789 @ 2009-02-23T23:27:00

2009-02-24T05:37:05Z

"Aspirin’s scientific name is acetylsalicylic acid that is non-narcotic analgesic that relieves the headache, muscle ache, and joint aches. The medicine works by making the blood thinner which causes the nerve ending to go to sleep and that takes your pain away.

The father of modern or technique medicine was named Hippocrates who lived sometime between 460 B.C. 377 B.C. Hippocrates discovered records such as using the powder made from the bark and leaves of a willow tree to help heal headaches, pains and fever.

Before there was Aspirin many people suffered. Men would do about 14-16 hours of back breaking. Which means that they have backaches for a long time. Women would have to do at least 16-18 hours of back breaking and give birth to 6 children. When the women became too old to give birth, they could count on Arthritis for the rest of their lives."

I didn't mean to read a child's report, but it made me laugh.
http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/02166/Melissa/melissa1.html

corzican talks in his sleep

2009-01-19T03:02:13Z

That's how I know:

We can, if the banana-cam can.
The economy is too big.
Alton Brown should use his _own_ soul.
There is a map of Santa-town on my back.
If he catches the butterfly, he will get +1 movement and will pick up the legs-card.

I'm not sure whose soul Alton is using now.
I suspect the banana-cam is something porntastic that he is only pretending not to know.

Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America

2008-08-07T23:27:16Z

http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/

funny question from www.freerice.com

2008-07-24T21:17:35Z

parricide means:

double murder
murder of a relative
murder of a parrot
murder of a peasant

scavenger hunt with a twist.

2008-07-22T23:59:31Z

This looks like fun.
I wish I had remembered to prepare to do this July 4th here in Richardson.
Where else might this work?

http://sf0.org/Spidere/taskDetail/?id=762

olive789 @ 2008-07-04T00:38:00

2008-07-04T05:39:29Z

A mosiac

Instructions!

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.

b. Using only the first page, pick an image.

c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

d. Save image and upload!

1. What is your first name? My statue by the Eiffel Tower. I'm a genius in France.

2. What is your favorite food?

3. What high school did you go to?

4. What is your favorite colour? Lapis is a color when you have two X chromosomes.

5. Who is your celebrity crush? Don't really have one. He's close though.

6. Favorite drink? Frappichino

7. Dream vacation? Alaska

8. Favorite dessert?

9. What you want to be when you grow up? Self Employed

10. What do you love most in life? Freedom

11. One word to describe you. Odd

12. Your flickr name. I don't have one, so I used my last name.