Tag: 2007

Kill -9

These guys are uber nerdy! I love it!

Hmm, I’ve been out every night this week. Although not really _out_. Hung out with Erick again and we watched Ellen’s Stand up. Good times. Thursday I went out with Ben to The Gabe Dixon Band. Really good band. I enjoyed it. After that we met up with Will and went to a couple bars to just chat and hang out in Weho.

Thursday I also had an interview with the University of Chicago – Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. There were 5 people on the interview, 2 of which had heavy accents and I couldn’t understand them and they kept asking me questions. I really enjoyed talking to them. It sounds really cool. But we all know I’m afraid of that sort of major move so even if I do get the job I’ll probably stay here.

Remember that house that we put an offer in on back in Jan? Well we didn’t get it back then, but it’s still on the market and my Realtor just told us that the owner is going to pay for all the upgrades that we wanted. So were putting in another offer soon. Not exactly sure when, as I’m also looking at a few houses here in the LA/OC area.

This weekend is very busy. 70 miles tomorrow, then a comedy show if I can get the free tickets. Sunday is 30 miles and then perhaps another comedy show with Ben.

I really need money people. PLEASE donate! I’ve sent some of my readers e-mail cards, but they keep getting sent back (Spam filter). Every dollar helps!

My cats got a hard core combing today, they hate me now. 🙁

Rachael Raye failed me!

Anyone who knows me should know that I _love_ Rachael Raye. I have her books. I cook her recipes, I watch her TV shows, I think she’s adorable. Well last night, she failed me…

I saw a recent episode of her show where she made “Everything” Chicken Tenders. I said to myself. “Hey those look pretty good”. So I decided to make some last night. I went out and bought chicken and all the other ingredients. About $25 total (mostly because I don’t have any of the needed spices, but that’s another thing!). Anyways. I get home and I start mixing things up.

It says to put in 2 TABLESPOONS of salt! That seems like a HELL of a lot of salt to put in. So I cut it in half! 1 tablespoon, I roll all the chicken in the mix and put it into the oven. It’s cooking and smells soooo good, I can’t wait for it to get done.

It gets done and I take it out, looks good, smells good. I take a bite…

And have to spit it out! It’s GROSS! Rachael has failed me! I try putting some sour cream with it, still gross. I try smothering it in Guacamole. No dice, I try scraping off the spices and covering it in ranch dressing. Still no dice!

I throw it in a pan and sautéed it with a potato (the potato will absorb the salt taste). Well that didn’t help either.

I had to throw it all away. $10 worth of chicken! I was sooo sad. And Rachael has failed me! Hopefully she can redeem herself on the next recipe I have from her. But that will have to wait till Thursday, which is the next day I can afford to go grocery shopping.

In other news… The next 4′ tall Asian bitch in her giant Range Rover SUV that merges into my lane without looking… I’m just going to let her hit me, and then sue the shit out of her. LOOK BEFORE YOU MERGE BITCH!

OG suggested I try Stumbleupon. And I have to say that I am now HOOKED! Love it. I have found so many new interesting things already! And I just can’t stop!

Here’s some examples:

Ok, are you bored yet? LOL.

Who wants to donate and help me buy the Garmin Edge 305! That thing is amazing!

Later!

Interesting Things

Gay retirees find neighborhood built just for them. Who knew there were so many homos in LA! Why can’t I find a good one!?

12 ways to pimp your office I love the desk!

A Six-Pack By Summer

Nerdy T-Shirts – Digg Me!

Did a 50 mile bike ride today, yesterday I did nothing. I’m sooo dead today. Ok. I’m out. Nothing important going on here. Just waiting for Ben to call me. Ugh.

Corporate Moves

The last couple weeks I’ve been really disgusted by corporate america. For any of you who don’t know the offices in SM are being condensed from 3 different buildings into 1 building. Reducing the size floor space from 50,000 square feet down to 30,000 square feet. Thus probably saving the company tons of money on rent. However….

The company has brought in outside contractors to do all the moving. You don’t have to pack anything except for your personal belongings, so all your files, etc. Just leave them and they will get packed and moved for you. Your computer equptiment, everything. This can’t be cheap! They have had 4 full time people on staff for at least the last month managing this move. I was here till 7:30 last night and all 4 of them were just sitting around laughing thier asses off. You know charging overtime. I highly doubt it takes 4 people to manage this sort of thing.

Next, instead of reusing all the cubicles, furniture, bookshelves, etc. They are getting ALL NEW stuff. Now, I know that cubicles are NOT cheap, the chairs they got everyone run about $400 each, all new phones, all new bookshelves. All new everything. Even new pencil holders. And honestly I think the the new cubes are a huge downgrade. The ones we have now are about 6′ tall, the new ones are half the square foot size and only about 4′ tall.

On the other hand, the people who do have offices are HUGE and very nice. Honstly half these people don’t even deserve the offices they get. Secondly, they cut 10,000 jobs and then the CEO gets a 36% raise? He already made $11 million.

Now, I worked with some of those people who were cut, and they deserved it. Others didn’t deserve it and should have been kept. And yet, some that were kept should have gone a long time ago.

It’s just disgusting, I have to get out of this!

Big Brother State

All Employers should really read this:A Note To Employers: 8 Things Intelligent People, Geeks and Nerds Need To Work Happily.

JDub does it again. I wish I had the guts to just drop my life and get out there and do something like this. If only…

Do you own a Mac, use iPhoto? If you don’t use the photobook functions in iPhoto you should follow these instructions to save 300 megs. I’ve also found that it saves RAM when running iPhoto:

Here’s how to get rid of said folder:

Right click on iPhoto.app

Select Show Package Contents

Navigate to Applications/iPhoto.app/Contents/Resources/Themes

Delete it, burn it to disk, or offload it to external drive

Not much else really going on. I had a really annoying day today. I get in and have this meeting. I get assigned to do something. I had JUST got in, so I go back to my desk, read my e-mails and what not and then finish up another project, this all takes me about 1.5 hours. So then I go and start on this thing I was told to do. It takes me abot 20 minutes and then I run into something that i have a quick question about. So I IM the guy only to find out that he had already just gone ahead and done it. how very annoying! UGH!

I’m also getting REALLY sick of my friends/co-workers never inviting me anywhere. VERY annoying.

Random, creepy messages terrorize bisexual college students. REALLY interesting read! Who knew things like this happened!

Digg Me! I totally want one of these!

Look like a spartan. How the stars of “300” got that Greek statue look.