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Month: February, 2009

five

RESOLVED, that whereas achiang shall ever eat ice cream in the United States, it shall consist of no more than five ingredients.
National Security on dvd
The Gate buy

my thoughts exactly

From TMF: This Week’s 5 Dumbest Stock Moves.
Item #4 is the relevant one. These paragraphs jumped out at me:

Hurd’s new squeeze? Salaries. He will be taking a 20% cut in his base salary, slashing executive pay by 15% to 20%, and sticking with a more modest 5% cut for most of HP’s workforce. It’s always [...]

happy sequence day!

Nerd content high, but still pretty accessible to normal people, methinks… Give it a shot, and see what passes for humour in some of my circles.
From the handbook of stupid Unix tricks:

[achiang@ethanol ~]$ man date
NAME
date – print or set the system date and time

DESCRIPTION
[...]

bring back the e-fare prices!

A mail I sent to United yesterday…

Regarding your weekly E-Fare emails, they’re one of the few pieces of corporate spam that I enjoy reading because of the possibility they contain within.
As I open the mail, my mind wonders, “Where might I travel this weekend? Peoria? Rapid City? Bismarck?” The E-Fares have opened my mind to [...]

when will i ever need to know this?

Those words have been uttered by many a frustrated high school student over such subjects as Greek mythology, geometry, astronomy, and just about everything from high school English. I am here to tell you that knowledge in such esoterica is useless insofar as getting a job. But as for getting chicks, it’s solid gold. All [...]

match.com observations

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I’ve been cruising around on match.com recently, and a few general themes have stood out. These observations are extremely unscientific and probably very specific to the Front Range, so take ‘em with a grain of salt.
The minimum height requirement for guys is 5′10″. Something like over 80% of the profiles I’ve viewed claim to be [...]

april plans

Fri, Apr 10, 2009 – Denver, CO (DEN) to Beijing, China (PEK)
United 0910 Depart: DEN 8:40 AM Arrive: ORD 12:00 PM
United 0851 Depart: ORD 12:41 PM Arrive: PEK 3:15 PM

Fri, May 01, 2009 – Beijing, China (PEK) to Denver, CO [...]