Since I know The Company has no interest in my welfare and no interest in doing the right thing and converting me from Extended Tenure Extra (ETE) employee status to regular status, I have begun looking (with my manager’s blessing) for other opportunities within the company to become a regular. As I mentioned previously, I interviewed for an on-site System…
Month: June 2008
Cool Medieval Music
While giving the Savage Piper some much deserved grief over his piping ways, Taco’s Rule decided it would be cool to find some techno piping videos. Somehow, that lead to our finding this German, medieval band with this cool-sounding song (at least we thought so). If only these guys were at the Renaissance Festival. ^_^ Corvus Corax — Saltarello Ductia…
AstroNerdBoy: Home Owner 07
This past weekend, my parents came up to check out my new place. More importantly, my dad agreed to help me with a few projects that needed doing. The catch was that (1) I had to take them to lunch and (2) I’d be doing most of the work as Dad would supervise and assist when needed. No problem on…
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Indiana Jones 4 I went to see the latest Indiana Jones with my brother last night. So I thought I’d mention the good and bad of the movie. The Good Marion’s return. Seriously, I liked her character in Indiana Jones and was disappointed that the next movie didn’t have her (but to be fair, it is a prequel so she…
"I Can’t Read!"
Blogspot, which is owned by Google, experienced some problems today with the service, namely that most blogs were throwing up a 502 error. If folks were able to get to their Blogspot blog, it was very slow and accessing the dashboard would fail. So for a while there this morning, this was a right mess, losing Google money (how many…