| my greetings |
[May. 8th, 2009|10:21 pm] |
aloha - and a return from the void.
what with a nasty return of carpal, its been a while since I updated, and I'm a little too lazy to go see what last a wrote. I have been stalking the rest of you on and off, but I'm only just getting back to unnecessary typing.
in exciting news -- I HAVE KITTENS! two! one grey one black, both double palm size. (Goshu and Penelope, respectively) (Goshu is a Bulgarian nickname for George)
piles of other stuff, but too much to type. so, lets just leave it with a big "hello" and "I still exist"
and holy crap, but they have cute ears. |
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[Jan. 25th, 2009|05:54 pm] |
I have all 50 state quarters!!
a 10 year quest is now complete... bum bum BUUM! |
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[Jan. 20th, 2009|07:44 pm] |
I liked the speech.... but the whole time I was on pins and needles wondering if some crazy was going to open fire.
I'm really hoping he makes it.
(I also kinda felt bad for bush, crappy as he is, sitting there being insulted. had to be hard to take)(but holy crap, am I glad he'e gone.) |
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[Dec. 17th, 2008|02:15 pm] |
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I am a master of robots. |
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[Nov. 20th, 2008|07:24 pm] |
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I swear the internet is taunting me today.
I just got an email (well, all the robotics students did) about an opening at Ames. For robotics.
Position: Software Developer
Location: Intelligent Robotics Group
NASA Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, CA)
We are looking for a full-time developer to help NASA send robots to the
Moon.
If you want to make a difference in space exploration, come join us!
robots! the moon! this is quite literally my dream job. For this I would give up my current plans and move to California. For this, all else is naught.
but then, the next section:
Ideal candidates will have a solid history of implementing and deploying
complex software systems that integrate multiple languages and libraries on
multiple platforms.
my dreams are crushed. I am good with matlab, and okay with a couple of others... but truly solid on others? not yet. For that I need Lockheed to let me play for a few years... then I will apply to Ames.
but omg and holy crap. how often does the ideal, perfect, most amazing job ever just show up in your inbox saying "take me!"
ack and arg. |
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| VOTE! |
[Nov. 3rd, 2008|06:16 pm] |
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GO VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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[Oct. 19th, 2008|01:36 pm] |
If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now (even if we don't speak often or ever), please post a comment with a COMPLETELY MADE UP AND FICTIONAL memory of you and me.
It can be anything you want - good or bad - BUT IT HAS TO BE FAKE.
When you're finished, post this little paragraph in your LJ and see what your friends come up with.
taken from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=88.8) shentou |
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| i thought this was apt |
[Sep. 11th, 2008|07:32 pm] |
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night
that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the
claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a
particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or
their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have
never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they
live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have
spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop
violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is
why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The
people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of
Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is
antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected
to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls
options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and
war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the
most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose
those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast
in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally
disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world.
Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the
clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with
regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this
as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing
changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global
warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our
cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan.
She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list.
The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The
wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here
to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As
she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God."
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not
believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their
will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's
baby or not.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth
control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know
how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From
what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a
tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot
tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who
could and might very well be the next president of the United States.
She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian
hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has
shot hundreds of wolves from the air. Sarah believes in God. That is of
course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together
in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the
rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of
church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to
be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold
this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the
future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine
whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever
uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards
dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence
through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we
go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in
alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will
determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we
build more and more methods of killing. It will determin e whet her
America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear,
fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do
everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant
that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill."
I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of
destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that
force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt,
ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain.
Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the
ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust
between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious
thing we call life?
Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008
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