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September 25, 2005

Ego Boost (like I needed it :)

Last May I followed a co-workers advise by sending my resume to as many game companies as I could thing of to ask �what would you like to see on the ideal resume�. Having received responses from only a couple, I didn�t give it much more though.

However, last Wednesday I get an email from the tech recruiter at Sony Imageworks.

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Posted by gravits at 11:45 PM

September 20, 2005

Dear pet

Thanx to Rhoda for sending me this!

Dear pet(s),

The dishes with the paw print are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine and contain my food. Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate of food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.

The stairway was not designed by NASCAR and is not a racetrack. Beating me to the bottom is not the object. Tripping me doesn't help because I fall faster than you can run.

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Posted by gravits at 4:50 PM

September 19, 2005

June Griffin on The Daily Show

HOW THE HELL DID I MISS THIS???

watch the video

Posted by gravits at 2:11 PM

Purpose Driven Life

My co-worker, Sember, and I were making fun of a self-help book that another co-worker's grandma had bought for him.

Today when I came in...

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Posted by gravits at 11:24 AM

September 15, 2005

CPUs smarter than 'every human brain combined' by 2060

Does this mean that programmers will be out of a job? -Jennie

By Tony Smith
http://www.theregister.co.uk
Published Thursday 15th September 2005 12:23 GMT

Computers will be able to out-think the entire world population put together within the next 60 years, the head of Lucent's research division has forecast.

First, though, phones will be able to tell how their owners smell, Jeong Kim, Bell Labs' president told reporters in Seoul yesterday.

Kim's comments, conveyed by local paper Joong Ang Daily, make scary reading.

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Posted by gravits at 7:38 PM

TRUE STORY - W HAS TO PEE!

U.S. President George W. Bush writes a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during a Security Council meeting at the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations in New York September 14, 2005.

See the REALl news article HERE

Posted by gravits at 10:51 AM

And Now For a Joke...

The Baptist Bra

A man walked into the Women's Department of Macy's in New York City. He told the saleslady, "I would like a Baptist bra for my wife, size 36B."
With a quizzical look the saleslady asked, "What kind of bra?"
He repeated, "A Baptist Bra. She said to tell you that she wanted a Baptist Bra, and that you would know what she wanted."
"Ah, now I remember," said the saleslady. "We don't get as many requests for them as we used to. Mostly our customers lately want the Catholic bra, or the Salvation Army bra, or the Presbyterian type."
Confused, and a little flustered, the man asked "So, what are the ! differences?"
The lady responded. "It is all really quite simple. The Catholic type supports the masses. The Salvation Army lifts up the fallen, and the Presbyterian type keeps them staunch and upright."
He mused on that information for a minute, and asked "So, what is the Baptist type for?"
"They," she replied, "make mountains out of molehills

Posted by gravits at 10:42 AM

September 14, 2005

The Storm That Ate The GOP

I love this guy!
Here's today's article (sorry, all the links don't show up... you can view the article with links at http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2005/09/14/notes091405.DTL&nl=fix
So if any of you 'conservatives' are thinking, "That's not true, Bush isn't on vacation AGAIN", just clickthrough to the article and then click on the associated link.)

Who will pity the soulless Republican Party now that Katrina is mauling their regime?

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Can you hear that? That low scraping moan, that painful scream, that compressed hissing wail like the sound of an angry alligator caught in a vice?

Why, it's the GOP, and they're screaming, "No, no it can't be, oh my God, please no, this damnable Katrina thing is just an unstoppable PR disaster for us!"

After all (they wail), who woulda thought dissing all those poor black people and letting so many of them die in filth and misery in the Superdome while our pampered CEO president enjoyed yet another vacation would cause such an ugly backlash, such harsh criticism of the glorious, rich-�ber-alles GOP creed?

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Posted by gravits at 10:52 AM

September 13, 2005

Motorcycles must be invisible!

I can't think of any other way to understand why I almost get run over on a daily basis.

I think of myself as a good rider. I don't speed much (if any), I ride furthest away from traffic as I can, look both ways before entering an intersection. I pay VERY close attention to what every other dumb ass on the road is/isn't doing.

But it never fails, I am not seen.

Monday I was on my way to school. I had just gotten off of Amnicola Hwy and was about to cross 4th street.

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Posted by gravits at 9:31 AM

September 10, 2005

New Look

So I spent an hour or two tonight trying to get my blog to look more like me.

If you have any problems with columns overlapping or something just looking broken or out-of-place, please post so that I can look into it. Don't forget to include the browser and version number that you are using.

Thanx!

Posted by gravits at 1:26 AM

September 9, 2005

The Waiting Game

Patience is a virtue, but that is something I have little of (patience I mean).

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Posted by gravits at 2:35 PM

September 8, 2005

GRE - over and done!!!

So I took the dreaded GRE test today. It was a horrible experience.
PLUS, they made me take my freakin� hat off before I entered the room THEN took a picture of me. I mean, for me, hat = bad hair day. So I was devastated.

But I did well on the test.
My stress and anxiety level was at an all-time high. So I didn�t do as well as I had hoped, but I made well above the required score for the UCF. Which is all that matters. So now I can put that stress behind me.

Posted by gravits at 1:09 PM