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Monday, April 28
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6:07 PM:
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Northrop it is. Go future go! Swarm swarm!
When I first started looking for a job, I didn’t envision myself going into defense. Now that I’ve taken a more serious look at it, I can’t believe I didn’t before. While the work you do is less visible, it will still be interesting (and, fairly important). Additionally, the defense companies take good care of their employees, something you can’t count on in other technology companies. Also, they’re a bit more serious about a 40 hour work week... I feel I should be able to accomplish the goals I have set for myself with this career.
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4:16 AM:
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Went out with Ed on Friday night. Swung by Second City ETC and then went out for a few drinks. Ed always has his eye on the future (and, is always talking about it), he definitely appreciates a multifaceted approach to living. Talking to him made me realize how nebulous my own personal goals are currently. I really should have worked them out before my job search. Now that my job search is all but over, I am looking at what seems to be my best option and wonder if it allows the completion of these goals which are for year after I graduate.
Goals to be completed within one year of graduation
Arts/entertainment
Build one piece of furniture for my new living area (and use it).
Take at least one lesson/class in: carpentry, glass blowing/working, pottery or more photography; preferably one in each.
Get into a dark room and make at least four studio quality prints.
Keep up photoblog, at least four entries a month.
Keep up blog.
Take some more dancing lessons and get practice.
Read more literature – at least four novels.
Attempt to locate way to sail and relearn how to sail.
Professional
Take one professional development class through work or through at home study with books. Have deliverable demonstration of knowledge learned.
Read:
1) Code Complete
2) Rapid Development
3) Programming Pearls
4) one more book
Write/finish at least three columns for sharpstick.
Food
Cook at least one meal a month and serve to other people once away from home.
Locate some books (Think like a Chef?) and read them.
Take a class if possible.
Personal
Maintain friends from Rose and high school, including coming back for homecoming.
See Adrienne more, visit once at [her] school.
Do one thing you've never done before per month.
Body
Get into better shape.
Do physical therapy exercises and stretching on regular basis.
Stop biting fingers (this one is tough).
That is the list for now, I just wrote it as I thought about it, so they’re in no order. Let me know if you think there should be something else on there.
Also, that Friday night (or Saturday morning), I did a cartwheel down Armitage Ave cause it was totally empty. Ed tried his first cartwheel ever that night, good times.
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Sunday, April 27
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6:31 PM:
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There is a new photoblog entry, you can tell because the image to the left will update to be the top image of the most current update.
Other than that, I’m back in the Haute and getting ready for my last four weeks of class.
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Friday, April 25
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3:44 AM:
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Photoblog is now open to the public. Check it out and let me know what you think. It still needs a title, let me know if you have any ideas, right now I can only come up with corny ones. also, if you know a better way to have http://www.alexlo.net/photoblog/ redirect to http://www.alexlo.net/photoblog/blog.php (I need the .php) than having a crappy redirect file, please let me know.
update: the answer is rather simple, use index.php (for some reason i thought i tried this and it didnt work, but it does...) - thanks jeff.
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12:58 AM:
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Trips down the blogroll have been very quick of late (or, the last month). Come on guys (...and Eva).
Thank you digitally imported - best internet radio around...
working on photoblog, let me know if you have any ideas.
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Wednesday, April 23
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3:54 AM:
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This may be old news, but Zwan has their new album online, and it's news to me. Worth a listen.
I have added a short story called “casual” to my writings section. I’m not sure why I’ve put it there instead of on the blog. It probably won’t be everyone’s cup of tea.
I am currently home, give me a call or email if you will be around the Chicago area.
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Tuesday, April 22
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12:08 AM:
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Erica Jong - American writer and feminist, 1942 I think this quote has a few unintended corollaries to it.
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Monday, April 14
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1:56 AM:
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I love the way things at Rose work
K: hey alex, / I saw some of your photographs for the Photography class... / I'm editing an art-magazine for Rose called "Ink" / if you're interested in printing some your stuff, feel free to email them at ink@rose-hulman.edu / thanks, later
Me: when is the deadline
K: who cares, I'm Art-Director, just send it over, and if it's in before it's printed; it'll get printed
Me: right on
K: awright, cheers
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Sunday, April 13
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12:25 AM:
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I was slightly disconcerted when I entered in my email address in this thing to remove my email from their spam list, and the next page just said “enjoy eternal life”. What the shit?
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Saturday, April 12
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2:57 AM:
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Today was one of those days where you just gotta say “everything’s coming up Alex!” I sleep through my first class (I really needed to go too, shit) to find that it was canceled (score), I aced a midterm in design patterns though I felt slightly unprepared and then, well, it was Friday. I guess it doesn’t take that much to make me happy. Go life.
Oh yeah, I saw Michael Kelsey tonight and he rocked the house (where the house is the Coffee Grounds). The man is quite the performer, I arrived early and got a front row table, which was cool. He played drums on the empty glasses on my table, totally in your face action... He improved with 5 different people (3 drummers, a singer and a harmonica player), he had only met one of them prior to that evening. He does some stuff I’ve never heard of, including using a ball bearing and frequency generator (thing you put on the strings and it makes them vibrate) on his guitar while the bottom rested on my table.
Nutty stuff. Talk about getting your $4's worth. I also have some pretty neat videos but lack software to change them from big ass avi files to midsized mpg files...
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1:25 AM:
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More precious Ques moments. ...I then got my check and left. The mistake in the night was not going piss before I left the bar. Damn I had to go bad. I almost went on a building because it is a decent walk home however I saw a cop car adn decided it would not be a good idea. I probably have walked home quicker from a bar however if it did happen it was solely becaise I was not afraid of pissing my pants. After I got home I took the biggest pee in the whole wide world... priceless.
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Thursday, April 10
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8:42 PM:
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Permanent job search 2002-2003 has taken me hither and thither... - Seattle
- Boston
- Albuquerque
- Chicago
- Baltimore
- Indianapolis
- Cincinnati
The Keck Graduate Institute got me my financial aid packet Monday. It was not quite what I had hoped, I don’t think attending will be financially feasible. I interviewed in Cincinnati yesterday at Xetron, a division of Northrop Grumman. Tuesday of next week is Microsoft (play showdown music) in Redmond. I think that will be it. I’m all out of moves, contacts and leads. We’ll see how it all goes down, I am looking forward to whatever result.
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Tuesday, April 8
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1:01 PM:
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One my freshmen friends has been a really big tool of late (I had such high hopes too), apparently he justifies it with his AIM profile:He was a gunner boy
She wanted funner boys
He wasn't good enough her
He'll be a millionaire
Cruisin' his porsche somewhere
Thinking about the girl he used to know ;-) I may have to kick his ass.
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Sunday, April 6
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11:20 PM:
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Do you ever think "after a weekend like that, I need a weekend to recover..."? I’ve been thinking for three weekends straight now. ugh.
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Thursday, April 3
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6:55 PM:
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Every day feels like "What It's Gonna Take To Make It Back To Bed Day" to me...
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Wednesday, April 2
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5:34 PM:
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iraqtshirts.com Buy a $20 tshirt supporting capitalism, oh, and our troops. I like the one featuring Saddam. sigh
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Tuesday, April 1
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5:33 PM:
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We’ve been reading Confucius in world religions. I’ve been receiving emails from a group of graduated engineers, some of whom have pretty strong opinions about the war, and voice them in emails to everyone.
Earlier today one of my friends on the group shared this particular form of sentiment: fuck YOU! you bassackwards spaz - if you disagree with me or decide to voice your opinion or have the audacity to take up valuable space in my inbox when I don't want you to - well you can just go to kerplakistan you blatant devout follower of whatever type of government I deem anathema to my existence. Don't ever question the clarity (in my head) of my world view or the purpose of this sacred alumni newsgroup- my ethic is the true way – not yours. so be more like me or fuckoff. In effect, both sides resorted to messages of this form, with varying degrees of obscenity.
I’ve been hearing a lot of opinions on the war, I can’t even believe educated people are spouting some of them (“we should just carpet bomb the whole place to save time” seriously).
I ran into this quote and was struck by its appropriateness: It is only the most intelligent and most stupid who are not susceptible to change.
The Analects XVII.3, Confucius
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copyright (c) 2001-2003 Alex Lo
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