Thoughts and Ramblings

General things I find of interest.

Interviews and Scams

Well, MS has changed their mind… They want me to go to Silicon Valley instead of Seattle. I have to say, it is likely a much better place to go, so I am not really complaining. It was just interesting how they made the travel arrangements for me to go to Seattle before it all got straightened out. Interestingly enough, the trip to Seattle was supposed to be on a puddle jumper from CLL (College Station) to DFW, then direct to Seattle.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Monday, March 20, 2006

Spring Break

Well, spring break started off with moving offices…. I had a bit of confusion when it came down to which office I am to move in to. At first, I was supposed to move into 331C, which was at the very corner of the Computer Engineering Group’s new space. When I went to key control to get the key, they couldn’t find it. After some digging around, we found out that there was already two students in that office, so they had to find another one for me.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Sunday, March 19, 2006

Screwy people?

Well, I had a nice time at my parents’ place. It was nice to get out of CS for a little while, and I did enjoy dad’s chocolate rum pie :) I have noticed a tremendous number of access to this site trying to access sites other than this site. So, my solution, let them know quite concisely that they should go away: Learn what DNS is and fix your computer!

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Friday, March 10, 2006

Mail

People often ask my why I don’t check my snail-mail as often as they thing I should. So, in answer to that, here is the breakdown of what I get there: 70% trash (including envelopes and the like) 10% keep for records (bills and the like which I have already paid online) 15% shred (Things like credit card applications, checks, etc.) 5% actual important stuff That breakdown should quite clearly demonstrate why I don’t check my snail-mail very often.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Veritas

Well, this week was the Veritas Forum. I really only went to one talk through the thing. Unfortunately, I really wanted to go to the one Tuesday Evening by Dr. Hugh Ross, but I couldn’t because of Breakaway. He had another presentation at 4 where he presented some of a scientific theory which includes a creator of the universe. There was one statement that he made during the talk that caught my attention.

Posted by Thoughts and Ramblings on Thursday, February 23, 2006