In case someone wants to listen to some good (not mainstream yet) hip-hop, this guy Wale is pretty god.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
In the laptop market
I'd love to get anyone and everyone's thoughts on anything regarding the current (and recent) laptop market -- good experiences, bad experiences, what you'd look for, what you'd stay away from. I love my MacBookPro right now, but for some of the testing software in law school, they recommend Windows (fuckers). Anyways, this is where I'm leaning right now:
http://premierecomm.dell.com/dellstore/basket.aspx?itemtype=CFG&s=eep&l=en&cs=rc985663&c=us&&details=true
thoughts?
especially on customization stuff (I hear Vista is a memory hog) -- should I go higher than 2 gigs of RAM?
also, how do you know if the processor is Santa Rosa (centrino) or just the regular old Core 2 Duo?
I'm definitely coming in cheaper than I thought I'd be, so if something makes sense to do, I'm not against paying for it.
http://premierecomm.dell.com
thoughts?
especially on customization stuff (I hear Vista is a memory hog) -- should I go higher than 2 gigs of RAM?
also, how do you know if the processor is Santa Rosa (centrino) or just the regular old Core 2 Duo?
I'm definitely coming in cheaper than I thought I'd be, so if something makes sense to do, I'm not against paying for it.
Friday, June 29, 2007
From JP Morgan Investment Banker
Dear Co-Workers and Managers,
As many of you probably know, today is my last day. But before I leave, I wanted to take this opportunity to let you know what a great and distinct pleasure it has been to type "Today is my last day."
For nearly as long as I've worked here, I've hoped that I might one day leave this company. And now that this dream has become a reality, please know that I could not have reached this goal without your unending lack of support. Words cannot express my gratitude for the words of gratitude you did not express.
I would especially like to thank all of my managers both past and present but with the exception of the wonderful Saroj Hariprashad: in an age where miscommunication is all too common, you consistently impressed and inspired me with the sheer magnitude of your misinformation, ignorance and intolerance for true talent. It takes a strong man to admit his mistake - it takes a stronger man to attribute his mistake to me.
Over the past seven years, you have taught me more than I could ever ask for and, in most cases, ever did ask for. I have been fortunate enough to work with some absolutely interchangeable supervisors on a wide variety of seemingly identical projects - an invaluable lesson in overcoming daily tedium in overcoming daily tedium in overcoming daily tedium.
Your demands were high and your patience short, but I take great solace knowing that my work was, as stated on my annual review, "meets expectation." That is the type of praise that sends a man home happy after a 10 hour day, smiling his way through half a bottle of meets expectation scotch with a meets expectation cigar. Thanks Trish!
And to most of my peers: even though we barely acknowledged each other within these office walls, I hope that in the future, should we pass on the street, you will regard me the same way as I regard you: sans eye contact.
But to those few souls with whom I've actually interacted, here are my personalized notes of farewell:
To Philip Cress, I will not miss hearing you cry over absolutely nothing while laying blame on me and my coworkers. Your racial comments about Joe Cobbinah were truly offensive and I hope that one day you might gain the strength to apologize to him.
To Brenda Ashby whom is long gone, I hope you find a manager that treats you as poorly as you have treated us. I worked harder for you then any manager in my career and I regret every ounce of it. Watching you take credit for my work was truly demoralizing.
To Sylvia Keenan, you should learn how to keep your mouth shut sweet heart. Bad mouthing the innocent is a negative thing, especially when your talking about someone who knows your disgusting secrets. ; )
To Bob Malvin (Mr. Cronyism Jr), well, I wish you had more of a back bone. You threw me to the wolves with that witch Brenda and I learned all too much from it. I still can't believe that after following your instructions, I ended up getting written up, wow. Thanks for the experience buddy, lesson learned.
Don Merritt (Mr. Cronyism Sr), I'm happy that you were let go in the same manner that you have handed down to my dedicated coworkers. Hearing you on the phone last year brag about how great bonuses were going to be for you fellas in upper management because all of the lay offs made me nearly vomit. I never expected to see management benefit financially from the suffering of scores of people but then again, with this company's rooted history in the slave trade it only makes sense.
To all of the executives of this company, Jamie Dimon and such. Despite working through countless managers that practiced unethical behavior, racism, sexism, jealousy and cronyism, I have benefited tremendously by working here and I truly thank you for that. There was once a time where hard work was rewarded and acknowledged, it's a pity that all of our positive output now falls on deaf ears and passes blind eyes. My advice for you is to place yourself closer to the pulse of this company and enjoy the effort and dedication of us "faceless little people" more. There are many great people that are being over worked and mistreated but yet are still loyal not to those who abuse them but to the greater mission of providing excellent customer support. Find them and embrace them as they will help battle the cancerous plague that is ravishing the moral of this company.
So, in parting, if I could pass on any word of advice to the lower salary recipient ("because it's good for the company") in India or Tampa who will soon be filling my position, it would be to cherish this experience because a job opportunity like this comes along only once in a lifetime.
Meaning: if I had to work here again in this lifetime, I would sooner kill myself.
To those who I have held a great relationship with, I will miss being your co-worker and will cherish our history together. Please don't bother responding as at this very moment I am most likely in my car doing 85 with the windows down listening to Biggie.
One!
As many of you probably know, today is my last day. But before I leave, I wanted to take this opportunity to let you know what a great and distinct pleasure it has been to type "Today is my last day."
For nearly as long as I've worked here, I've hoped that I might one day leave this company. And now that this dream has become a reality, please know that I could not have reached this goal without your unending lack of support. Words cannot express my gratitude for the words of gratitude you did not express.
I would especially like to thank all of my managers both past and present but with the exception of the wonderful Saroj Hariprashad: in an age where miscommunication is all too common, you consistently impressed and inspired me with the sheer magnitude of your misinformation, ignorance and intolerance for true talent. It takes a strong man to admit his mistake - it takes a stronger man to attribute his mistake to me.
Over the past seven years, you have taught me more than I could ever ask for and, in most cases, ever did ask for. I have been fortunate enough to work with some absolutely interchangeable supervisors on a wide variety of seemingly identical projects - an invaluable lesson in overcoming daily tedium in overcoming daily tedium in overcoming daily tedium.
Your demands were high and your patience short, but I take great solace knowing that my work was, as stated on my annual review, "meets expectation." That is the type of praise that sends a man home happy after a 10 hour day, smiling his way through half a bottle of meets expectation scotch with a meets expectation cigar. Thanks Trish!
And to most of my peers: even though we barely acknowledged each other within these office walls, I hope that in the future, should we pass on the street, you will regard me the same way as I regard you: sans eye contact.
But to those few souls with whom I've actually interacted, here are my personalized notes of farewell:
To Philip Cress, I will not miss hearing you cry over absolutely nothing while laying blame on me and my coworkers. Your racial comments about Joe Cobbinah were truly offensive and I hope that one day you might gain the strength to apologize to him.
To Brenda Ashby whom is long gone, I hope you find a manager that treats you as poorly as you have treated us. I worked harder for you then any manager in my career and I regret every ounce of it. Watching you take credit for my work was truly demoralizing.
To Sylvia Keenan, you should learn how to keep your mouth shut sweet heart. Bad mouthing the innocent is a negative thing, especially when your talking about someone who knows your disgusting secrets. ; )
To Bob Malvin (Mr. Cronyism Jr), well, I wish you had more of a back bone. You threw me to the wolves with that witch Brenda and I learned all too much from it. I still can't believe that after following your instructions, I ended up getting written up, wow. Thanks for the experience buddy, lesson learned.
Don Merritt (Mr. Cronyism Sr), I'm happy that you were let go in the same manner that you have handed down to my dedicated coworkers. Hearing you on the phone last year brag about how great bonuses were going to be for you fellas in upper management because all of the lay offs made me nearly vomit. I never expected to see management benefit financially from the suffering of scores of people but then again, with this company's rooted history in the slave trade it only makes sense.
To all of the executives of this company, Jamie Dimon and such. Despite working through countless managers that practiced unethical behavior, racism, sexism, jealousy and cronyism, I have benefited tremendously by working here and I truly thank you for that. There was once a time where hard work was rewarded and acknowledged, it's a pity that all of our positive output now falls on deaf ears and passes blind eyes. My advice for you is to place yourself closer to the pulse of this company and enjoy the effort and dedication of us "faceless little people" more. There are many great people that are being over worked and mistreated but yet are still loyal not to those who abuse them but to the greater mission of providing excellent customer support. Find them and embrace them as they will help battle the cancerous plague that is ravishing the moral of this company.
So, in parting, if I could pass on any word of advice to the lower salary recipient ("because it's good for the company") in India or Tampa who will soon be filling my position, it would be to cherish this experience because a job opportunity like this comes along only once in a lifetime.
Meaning: if I had to work here again in this lifetime, I would sooner kill myself.
To those who I have held a great relationship with, I will miss being your co-worker and will cherish our history together. Please don't bother responding as at this very moment I am most likely in my car doing 85 with the windows down listening to Biggie.
One!
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Creepy site against Scientology
http://theunfunnytruth.ytmnd.com/
Anti-scientology.
Very creepy.
Listen to it with the volume up to hear the creepy ambient music.
Anti-scientology.
Very creepy.
Listen to it with the volume up to hear the creepy ambient music.
Weird Cool Internet Radio
http://musicovery.com/index.php?ct=us
Weird Internet Radio. It shows different genres of music in this weird spiderweb format that changes with emotion/tone of the music.
Really cool.
Weird Internet Radio. It shows different genres of music in this weird spiderweb format that changes with emotion/tone of the music.
Really cool.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
100 ft. deep Andes lake disappears
http://beta.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/21/missing.lake.ap/index.html
Lake was there in March, and now it has disappeared.
Cool.
Lake was there in March, and now it has disappeared.
Cool.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Thursday, June 14, 2007
I want to buy you a draaank
Hilarious (courtesy of Bobby)
Chris recites T-Pain
Chris recites T-Pain interview
Chris recites Fergie
all of the above from: http://www.cutewithchris.com/
Chris recites T-Pain
Chris recites T-Pain interview
Chris recites Fergie
all of the above from: http://www.cutewithchris.com/
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
looks like there's a job opening for me
Last Song at Santa Clara
Former Santa Clara play-by-play man Dave Lewis had a point to make -- and he used Beyonce to make it.
Cliff Watts/SIOkay, so you're the longtime broadcaster of a mid-major college basketball team. You're upset that the school has just forced out its longtime basketball coach so it could hire somebody younger. What's your next move? Well, if you're Santa Clara play-by-play man Dave Lewis you show up at a team banquet and sing a bunch of songs that indirectly criticize how the team handled its coaching situation. In the end it costs you your job.Last week, in front of 125 Santa Clara fans and employees, Lewis sang a version of the Beyonce song Irreplaceable that included the line "You've been fired, tell the press you’re retired." Lewis then sang a song about a school that tried to hire Rick Majerus, but ending up hiring an assistant coach. Both songs clearly referenced longtime Santa Clara coach Dick Davey's forced resignation this past season.Lewis, who had been Santa Clara's play-by-play man for the last 12 years, will now have to find a new job. In what seems like his last hoorah, Lewis told the press "If I'm fired for telling the truth in song, I can certainly maintain my integrity and live with the consequences." He certainly maintained his integrity, but now he will have to live with the consequences. Still, you have to have the utmost respect for Lewis. In an era when people will do whatever it takes to keep their jobs, Lewis did what he felt he needed to do, and it ended up costing him his job.By Eric Horowirz
Former Santa Clara play-by-play man Dave Lewis had a point to make -- and he used Beyonce to make it.
Cliff Watts/SIOkay, so you're the longtime broadcaster of a mid-major college basketball team. You're upset that the school has just forced out its longtime basketball coach so it could hire somebody younger. What's your next move? Well, if you're Santa Clara play-by-play man Dave Lewis you show up at a team banquet and sing a bunch of songs that indirectly criticize how the team handled its coaching situation. In the end it costs you your job.Last week, in front of 125 Santa Clara fans and employees, Lewis sang a version of the Beyonce song Irreplaceable that included the line "You've been fired, tell the press you’re retired." Lewis then sang a song about a school that tried to hire Rick Majerus, but ending up hiring an assistant coach. Both songs clearly referenced longtime Santa Clara coach Dick Davey's forced resignation this past season.Lewis, who had been Santa Clara's play-by-play man for the last 12 years, will now have to find a new job. In what seems like his last hoorah, Lewis told the press "If I'm fired for telling the truth in song, I can certainly maintain my integrity and live with the consequences." He certainly maintained his integrity, but now he will have to live with the consequences. Still, you have to have the utmost respect for Lewis. In an era when people will do whatever it takes to keep their jobs, Lewis did what he felt he needed to do, and it ended up costing him his job.By Eric Horowirz
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Maybe this is the answer
for how I can start getting all those girls with boyfriends that I fall for:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1761982
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1761982
Friday, June 1, 2007
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