ObI'mAGirlPost: I think most diamonds are boring. Yeah, sure, they're well nigh indestructible...but most engagement rings (of a certain dollar amount within the range of your average-cubicle-dweller salary) I've seen look much the same. Some sort of gold band, adorned or unadorned, with a mounted diamond. Bleh.
My own engagement ring, FWIW, is plain platinum/gold with 5 blue/blue opals flush-mounted. In natural light, it's like having ever-changing prismatic electric blue LEDs on my finger. Very cool, but very fragile (hence the flush mount). At a local jeweler, I've seen black opals with red and green fire, and green opals with red and blue fire; don't go for the common (cheap) milky white.
An antique diamond ring would be *much* more interesting than a new one...but of course the diamond would be small. I suppose it depends on whether size matters;) Given a choice, I'd opt for a *real* emerald, which IIRC is karat for karat more expensive than diamonds.
I too dropped out of college...but I wasn't studing computer science or engineering of any sort -- I studied anthropology for three years before deciding that Professional/Professorial Academia (my goal) wasn't all it's cracked up to be. Fortunately, while attending this particularly engineering/sciences/technology-oriented university, I learned a great many things about computers from my engineering geek friends. I left college for a $7/hr tech support position at a small ISP.
Timing, as they say, is everything. I was fortunate enough to jump into this field before, but not long before the Internet Boom. As my skills and experience expanded, so did the spread of the Net. I was especially fortunate to move from the private sector into university infotech, where I climbed my way up the ladder. Within three years there, I was a senior sysadmin, playing with supercomputers.
Now, three more years, two additional universities and a startup later, I'm still a sysadmin, and I've hit the limit of what I can teach myself in a reasonable amount of time, and I've found many of the gaps in my learning. I'm still working at a university, so I do have the opportunity to take classes (like next fall), but I find myself thinking, again and again, if I had it to do over back when I was fresh out of high school, I would have gone into computer science, and gotten the degree.
Fortunately, I was able to share these notions with my younger brother when he was starting college. He went into compsci, got his degree, and worked at the same university's infotech department while doing so. With degree and experience in hand, he's utterly employable.
All large universities have some sort of infotech department -- a very very very good place to work part time while working on your degree. Job experience and a degree. IMHO, it's the best route to go. It may take longer (take fewer credit hours per semester/quarter to accomodate part time work), but it's worth it.
For more accurate reference, see the Quorn Website, or listen to the Real Audio version of today's (3/22) Morning Edition segment about Quorn. IIRC, Alex Chadwick and another NPR staffer said that it was quite tasty stuff. In any case, NPR commentaters were alluding to a future where the world is overpopulated and arable land is scarce...where this foodstuff would be a Good Thing.
... unless Anakin is supposed to come off as whining, everyone wished he would get killed type.
Okay, and this is different from Luke Skywalker how? Before you all swell up with righteous indignation, let us all remember that Luke was a whiney brat. C'mon...you all remember him whining to Uncle Owen about getting some power converters.
Uhm, hello? As if security checkpoints at airports didn't take enough time.
I travel by air three or four times a year, and I've quickly learned that the longest delays (when rushing from one end of an amazingly long airport terminal to the opposite end of another amazingly long terminal - see Pittsburg airport for an example) is the security checkpoint. Standard walkthrough time, barring beeps, is like five seconds. Drop your bag on the belt, walk through, pick up bag. Now if everyone has to do that *and* have a 10 second x ray...multiply that per numbers of persons in line and add 5 minutes each for each person with "questionable" metal bits... oh for chrissakes! I'll never make my connecting flights.
As an aside, I have 6 piercings. Don't worry, most of them are ear:) But they've never set off metal detectors:)
So whatever happened to Merced - the PA-RISC and Intel joint effort that was supposed to dominate the 64 bit chip market? I recall the hub-bub when it first went into supposed development over a year ago. HP observed MS's exceedingly slow pace developing a 64 bit OS, and decided to spring their own HP-UX 11.0 outta the box.
But then, IMHO, HP-UX 11.0 is still under development and has a long way to go before it can replace 10.20. 64bit is going to be a long way off in that camp as well.
Problems running 2.2 on RH5.2? Buh? I never had a wink of a problem...well, other than needing to hypermodularize everything. Such a vast range of support offered that it's tempting to dig up old hardware and spider it off of my workstation, just to watch it run for the first time in years.:)
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ObI'mAGirlPost: I think most diamonds are boring. Yeah, sure, they're well nigh indestructible...but most engagement rings (of a certain dollar amount within the range of your average-cubicle-dweller salary) I've seen look much the same. Some sort of gold band, adorned or unadorned, with a mounted diamond. Bleh.
;) Given a choice, I'd opt for a *real* emerald, which IIRC is karat for karat more expensive than diamonds.
My own engagement ring, FWIW, is plain platinum/gold with 5 blue/blue opals flush-mounted. In natural light, it's like having ever-changing prismatic electric blue LEDs on my finger. Very cool, but very fragile (hence the flush mount). At a local jeweler, I've seen black opals with red and green fire, and green opals with red and blue fire; don't go for the common (cheap) milky white.
An antique diamond ring would be *much* more interesting than a new one...but of course the diamond would be small. I suppose it depends on whether size matters
I too dropped out of college...but I wasn't studing computer science or engineering of any sort -- I studied anthropology for three years before deciding that Professional/Professorial Academia (my goal) wasn't all it's cracked up to be. Fortunately, while attending this particularly engineering/sciences/technology-oriented university, I learned a great many things about computers from my engineering geek friends. I left college for a $7/hr tech support position at a small ISP.
Timing, as they say, is everything. I was fortunate enough to jump into this field before, but not long before the Internet Boom. As my skills and experience expanded, so did the spread of the Net. I was especially fortunate to move from the private sector into university infotech, where I climbed my way up the ladder. Within three years there, I was a senior sysadmin, playing with supercomputers.
Now, three more years, two additional universities and a startup later, I'm still a sysadmin, and I've hit the limit of what I can teach myself in a reasonable amount of time, and I've found many of the gaps in my learning. I'm still working at a university, so I do have the opportunity to take classes (like next fall), but I find myself thinking, again and again, if I had it to do over back when I was fresh out of high school, I would have gone into computer science, and gotten the degree.
Fortunately, I was able to share these notions with my younger brother when he was starting college. He went into compsci, got his degree, and worked at the same university's infotech department while doing so. With degree and experience in hand, he's utterly employable.
All large universities have some sort of infotech department -- a very very very good place to work part time while working on your degree. Job experience and a degree. IMHO, it's the best route to go. It may take longer (take fewer credit hours per semester/quarter to accomodate part time work), but it's worth it.
I'll take fungus over soylent green anyday.
My relatively low UID is taken, but I'll sell for a price :)
Not via PayPal, however. I've only ever used that despicable service once. The only good thing I can say is that it was easy to cancel my account.
"Dershowitz said the database would have to be carefully guarded and that police should not be able to ask for a card at will..."
And Social Security Numbers aren't necessary for jobs, bank accounts, credit cards...
Okay, and this is different from Luke Skywalker how? Before you all swell up with righteous indignation, let us all remember that Luke was a whiney brat. C'mon...you all remember him whining to Uncle Owen about getting some power converters.
I travel by air three or four times a year, and I've quickly learned that the longest delays (when rushing from one end of an amazingly long airport terminal to the opposite end of another amazingly long terminal - see Pittsburg airport for an example) is the security checkpoint. Standard walkthrough time, barring beeps, is like five seconds. Drop your bag on the belt, walk through, pick up bag. Now if everyone has to do that *and* have a 10 second x ray...multiply that per numbers of persons in line and add 5 minutes each for each person with "questionable" metal bits... oh for chrissakes! I'll never make my connecting flights.
As an aside, I have 6 piercings. Don't worry, most of them are ear :) But they've never set off metal detectors :)
Wow...52 degree ambient temperature. Toss in a couple humidifiers and you've got the perfect wine cav.
So whatever happened to Merced - the PA-RISC and Intel joint effort that was supposed to dominate the 64 bit chip market? I recall the hub-bub when it first went into supposed development over a year ago. HP observed MS's exceedingly slow pace developing a 64 bit OS, and decided to spring their own HP-UX 11.0 outta the box.
But then, IMHO, HP-UX 11.0 is still under development and has a long way to go before it can replace 10.20. 64bit is going to be a long way off in that camp as well.
(d'oh! previous attempt got munged)
Problems running 2.2 on RH5.2? Buh? I never had a wink of a problem...well, other than needing to hypermodularize everything. Such a vast range of support offered that it's tempting to dig up old hardware and spider it off of my workstation, just to watch it run for the first time in years. :)
Those whacky Christians...when did 'treat others as you would have them treat you' turn into 'torture and burn those who aren't you'?
And although I did laugh loud and long at our amazingly silly Rev. Falwell...uhm, where's the nerd/geek angle here?