leap year is a time for gender reversals. women in breeches, men in skirts (fine, it doesn't say that). women were to chase around and catch their unsuspecting prey like butterflies in a net, sadie hawkins style, or something like that. MEN HUNGRY WOMEN! it's the best leap year article officemate has read all day, and the only one i've read all day.
i'm uncertain why i have this article open but it is interesting. it's likely due to the ownership of ideas but this one is regarding computer programs. homophones, oh homophones, why didn't you just get an editor dear mr. snapper?! i see that you got your phd from uchicago, and now my heart breaks for the torment that you too must have gone through. broken, abused, and full of anger towards the world.
my newest favoritest magazine ever with a great article on audiobooks. i myself find it hard to get into them but antoin has said they're really good. maybe i'll try that if i can figure out where the ipod is and how to get music off the ipod onto a computer (insert uptalk non-question questioning here!?). and then read an ipod (ditto!?).
i've managed to while about the day doing work and stuff, so this will be one of the briefest tales from the trenches of late.
29 February 2012
28 February 2012
DAY ONE HUNDRED AND ONE POST THREE
more longform! man, this day has been a good one for me to learn new things!
but first, abstract work what what! i like this one bc it's purty. and purty.
and big ups to major shoulder pain every day! counting down the time til i can get a new keyboard thingy to put under my desk so it doesn't hurt!
contracts are oddly interesting. weird. but my computer at work is making me really, really, really, really, really sad because it's obviously quite in need of some assisted suicide but as far as i can tell that's illegal in this office, judging by the sickly, screaming in pain nonagenarian computer in officemate's former office
officemate plus other people who were drunkenly discussing the 'benefits' of living in taiwan have basically convinced me that it would be a terrible idea in terms of my continuing frustration with the (overall) set of very messed up individuals who live abroad to choose to move from an area which i find quite frustrating (/startling and boring lack of diversity of jobs people choose to go into) to what sounds to be an even more terrible place (hello very messed up socialization!). and now i want to go to new york, d.c., london or paris. civilization and adequately adjusted intelligent individuals. it's so boring that i crave normalcy. maybe i should stop reading new york magazine and nytimes and new yorker?
but then again, american politics makes me sad.
top four employers of gaylord, michigan back in the day: the school district, glen's market, the hospital, and the plywood factor.
nytimes article: uptalk. still don't like it no matter what the article says. hi, i'm a lawyer? but totally cute: fathers of young daughters uptalk to show non-dominance. adorable!
and just like that, poof, she's gone! fav wilfred reference yesterday. as usual, show's amazing.
but first, abstract work what what! i like this one bc it's purty. and purty.
and big ups to major shoulder pain every day! counting down the time til i can get a new keyboard thingy to put under my desk so it doesn't hurt!
contracts are oddly interesting. weird. but my computer at work is making me really, really, really, really, really sad because it's obviously quite in need of some assisted suicide but as far as i can tell that's illegal in this office, judging by the sickly, screaming in pain nonagenarian computer in officemate's former office
officemate plus other people who were drunkenly discussing the 'benefits' of living in taiwan have basically convinced me that it would be a terrible idea in terms of my continuing frustration with the (overall) set of very messed up individuals who live abroad to choose to move from an area which i find quite frustrating (/startling and boring lack of diversity of jobs people choose to go into) to what sounds to be an even more terrible place (hello very messed up socialization!). and now i want to go to new york, d.c., london or paris. civilization and adequately adjusted intelligent individuals. it's so boring that i crave normalcy. maybe i should stop reading new york magazine and nytimes and new yorker?
but then again, american politics makes me sad.
top four employers of gaylord, michigan back in the day: the school district, glen's market, the hospital, and the plywood factor.
nytimes article: uptalk. still don't like it no matter what the article says. hi, i'm a lawyer? but totally cute: fathers of young daughters uptalk to show non-dominance. adorable!
and just like that, poof, she's gone! fav wilfred reference yesterday. as usual, show's amazing.
DAY ONE HUNDRED AND ONE POST TWO
i am longforming the crap out of today. and, i have quite a bit of exciting work to do, so all is good with the world.
beautiful and very much my favorite article i've read in a long, long while!!!!:
i took two tests today to see if i have add. the first said yes adhd and the second also said yes but i don't have generalized add, i have a super powerful focus scope of interests, but then liz refused to help me evaluate from a 3rd party perspective whether i did have it saying it was a 'huge waste of time' and that i was making it hard for her to concentrate on 'actual work'. but not as hard as the annoying car alarm going off! i wish that would remain going off for the whole time so she'd have to do the test. but i did show her the different characters from winnie the pooh and apparently i am a combination of tigger and the rabbit. !!!
this was brought about because of the great adderall drought which said that adderall is only legal in 2 countries in the world, which i didn't know. i think that it may be time to bite the bullet and figure out how to make it so i can work at a job where i have to do tasks all day. or, become a spy!
today, i ordered subway and it didn't suck. this is groundbreaking newsworthy stuff, really. re subway: this video, this website, and this one (which isn't very good, but yet again, our thingy has classified it as porn for whatever reason, so thought i'd link to it anyway).
i would like to take this minute to say, yet again, what i hope EVERY GRAD STUDENT EVER IN THE WORLD EVER REALIZES WHICH IS NOT TO GO TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WHERE THEY ARE SERIOUSLY MESSED UP AND PLAY MIND GAMES WITH THE STUDENTS AND ARE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE TO EACH OTHER. AND WITH THIS I WILL BE PERSON NUMBER THREE ON THE INTERWEBS TO ANNOUNCE LOUDLY AND PROUDLY THAT I THINK THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SUCKS and if you have to go to grad school do not(!!!) go to this one which appears to try to beat its students down in an attempt to claw its way up to ivy recognition (plus? only if that's PLUS SERIOUS EFFED UPIDNESS AND STRESS AND HUMILIATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TORMENT/TERROR). DO NOT RISK IT!! DO NOT RISK IT!!
finally, another piece penned by my new favorite article's author mention's there are ipad games for cats. that is awesome.
beautiful and very much my favorite article i've read in a long, long while!!!!:
But I am here to convince you: to erase is to write, style is the consequence of a writer’s omissions, and the writer is always plural.The editors at longform seem to love the pieces which most challenge the notion of copyright and ownership (read through to the end: do, do read it all), and I love them for that and particularly enjoy the challenges that art issues to notions of copyright. obviously likely related to proposed changes to copyright protections and the internet/political leanings, but one great upshot is fantastic articles like those two. i'm seriously having issues with reading every single article about things like this, so i'm just going to link to a few here: of lamb, published by mcsweeneys (reviewed here in the paris review and in the approval matrix here in new yorker). tree of codes, with a write up in the guardian (with a very unfortunate reference to glands). a whole lot more are mentioned within, with my favorites being a eulogy to a woman's dead husband and dickenson.
To erase is to leave something else behind.
i took two tests today to see if i have add. the first said yes adhd and the second also said yes but i don't have generalized add, i have a super powerful focus scope of interests, but then liz refused to help me evaluate from a 3rd party perspective whether i did have it saying it was a 'huge waste of time' and that i was making it hard for her to concentrate on 'actual work'. but not as hard as the annoying car alarm going off! i wish that would remain going off for the whole time so she'd have to do the test. but i did show her the different characters from winnie the pooh and apparently i am a combination of tigger and the rabbit. !!!
this was brought about because of the great adderall drought which said that adderall is only legal in 2 countries in the world, which i didn't know. i think that it may be time to bite the bullet and figure out how to make it so i can work at a job where i have to do tasks all day. or, become a spy!
today, i ordered subway and it didn't suck. this is groundbreaking newsworthy stuff, really. re subway: this video, this website, and this one (which isn't very good, but yet again, our thingy has classified it as porn for whatever reason, so thought i'd link to it anyway).
i would like to take this minute to say, yet again, what i hope EVERY GRAD STUDENT EVER IN THE WORLD EVER REALIZES WHICH IS NOT TO GO TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WHERE THEY ARE SERIOUSLY MESSED UP AND PLAY MIND GAMES WITH THE STUDENTS AND ARE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE TO EACH OTHER. AND WITH THIS I WILL BE PERSON NUMBER THREE ON THE INTERWEBS TO ANNOUNCE LOUDLY AND PROUDLY THAT I THINK THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SUCKS and if you have to go to grad school do not(!!!) go to this one which appears to try to beat its students down in an attempt to claw its way up to ivy recognition (plus? only if that's PLUS SERIOUS EFFED UPIDNESS AND STRESS AND HUMILIATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TORMENT/TERROR). DO NOT RISK IT!! DO NOT RISK IT!!
finally, another piece penned by my new favorite article's author mention's there are ipad games for cats. that is awesome.
DAY ONE HUNDRED AND ONE
turns out i'm not so good with the spelling conventions of words that are in the hundreds, but wikipedia was quite helpful there.
With a sad story mentioned within the article.
and i'm reminded why i really like new york magazine. as late as 1978, the village voice ran a front page article that gay issues shouldn't be of concern; the article recounts homophobia within the nytimes. an interesting vote count of yeas and nays for the 1996 DOMA act (the act is, in my opinion, simplified a bit in this article, ignoring the role that attempting to repeal the ban on gays in the military had on clinton's presidency and his ability to pass *any* laws). the nays are pretty standard, but it's really interesting that there's a holdout from nebraska, of all places, until kerrey's wiki page bio: he subsequently became the (hotly debated) president of the new school.
Last night I found out a good friend of mine died. It's really weird to find out information like that from facebook (or via officemate from facebook). jerrell always had the best stories about growing up as a geeky black science nerd in south dakota (continuing on in michigan) and was friend during high school when he was one of my favorite coaches/debate judges, in college as one of the people i hung out with almost every day for several summers, in law school when i'd go over to his apartment near my school whenever i got too stressed and every summer visit back to play beer pong with the debate crew in lansing. sad news about a great person who will be deeply missed.
During the first few games of Lin's run, it was mentioned early and often that he was the "first American-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the NBA." Once the story got knocked off its hinges, that tedious mouthful got spat out for a good, generic "underdog." National media outlets, present company included, have now strung his narrative along a more relatable, predictable path. In Act One, Jeremy faces down the doubters and all their doubts. In Act Two, he perseveres. In Act Three, perseverance pays off in the greatest city in the world. Along the way, he slays the Cyclops of Stereotypes and sails right on past the rock where the three Kardashian sirens sing their celebrity song.
This is not a bad story. But it is not the story of Jeremy Lin.
With a sad story mentioned within the article.
and i'm reminded why i really like new york magazine. as late as 1978, the village voice ran a front page article that gay issues shouldn't be of concern; the article recounts homophobia within the nytimes. an interesting vote count of yeas and nays for the 1996 DOMA act (the act is, in my opinion, simplified a bit in this article, ignoring the role that attempting to repeal the ban on gays in the military had on clinton's presidency and his ability to pass *any* laws). the nays are pretty standard, but it's really interesting that there's a holdout from nebraska, of all places, until kerrey's wiki page bio: he subsequently became the (hotly debated) president of the new school.
Last night I found out a good friend of mine died. It's really weird to find out information like that from facebook (or via officemate from facebook). jerrell always had the best stories about growing up as a geeky black science nerd in south dakota (continuing on in michigan) and was friend during high school when he was one of my favorite coaches/debate judges, in college as one of the people i hung out with almost every day for several summers, in law school when i'd go over to his apartment near my school whenever i got too stressed and every summer visit back to play beer pong with the debate crew in lansing. sad news about a great person who will be deeply missed.
27 February 2012
DAY ONE HUNDRED POST FOUR!!!!!!!!!
still excited about day one hundred.
yesterday night was the oscars, i guess. this has very little relation to my life because i see approximately one film per year in theatres and rarely care what movies i see (other than trying to finish off all the 60s/70s sci fi on my external hard drive). i don't even think i've heard of most of the winners before, but now i really want to see the one called hugo.
yesterday night was the oscars, i guess. this has very little relation to my life because i see approximately one film per year in theatres and rarely care what movies i see (other than trying to finish off all the 60s/70s sci fi on my external hard drive). i don't even think i've heard of most of the winners before, but now i really want to see the one called hugo.
DAY ONE HUNDRED POST THREE!!!!!!
also i like to think of the mish tense when i think of the word apparently. i've been distrustful of information lately and have been assigning the mish tense to a lot of it. APPARENTLY there are more problems with my comptuer. actually almost all of the suspicion has been regarding that. for someone who does well under pressure/stress, i really do not like change, and this new windows platform is really hard to get used to. APPARENTLY it was necessary.
DAY ONE HUNDRED POST TWO!!!!!
i hate when my shoulder hurts so bad i feel nauseous and it's only a monday. can't wait for the new keyboard tray. i wish that there was even a tiny conception of ergonomics in turkey.
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