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because rob requested it, http://homepage.mac.com/njenson/movies/underwear.mov

Q: How many elephants can you fit in a VW Bug?
A: Four. Two in the front, two in the back.

Q: How can you tell if an elephant is in your refrigerator?
A: There’s a footprint in the mayo.

Q: How can you tell if two elephants are in your refrigerator?
A: There’s two footprints in the mayo.

Q: How can you tell if three elephants are in your refrigerator?
A: The door won’t shut.

Q: How can you tell if four elephants are in your refrigerator?
A: There’s a VW Bug in your driveway.

my supervisor at my current assignment *cough*dcx*cough* told me that i should find a new job because there was no hope for career advancement (nor financial gain) here, even if i left for a year and came back.

that drives the last rail into the coffin of hope here. now i know.

last month, i applied for three jobs at a major university. the least-likely position called me back, the web systems support position (mostly websphere, some tomcat.)

after a 30 minute phone evaluation interview, i had an appointment today at 10:30.

questions about JSP and other application server architecture were brutal, but they are new to me. once we got around to the UNIX questions, i was a lot more comfortable. networking questions, i was comfortable. personal and interpersonal skills were fine too.

i’ll be surprised and scared if i make it to “round two.” a: take the exceptionaly qualified folks and pay them accordingly. b: (my case) take someone less qualified, pay them a lot less (bottom of the range, or just above) and train them as you’d like. who knows how this will pan out.

in related news, i’ve started the monster.com hell. i want a house. getting paid a little more would help that.

I found this article that revisits an article that Electronics Magazine asked Gordon Moore (you know, Moore’s Law) to write about the state of the industry. It’s a pretty interesting read. My favorite part is that, for once, instead of predicting the demise of Moore’s Law, they merely predict that the pace will finally slow down.

I’ll believe it when I see it.

rob told me that i needed to add the wedding calculation stuff to the site again.. or this new incarnation. now it is.

i thought it a lot harder than it actually was. yay! fisher-price my first php functions! xhtml and css compliant too!

thanks jer.

nibble/nyblle: Four bits; one hex digit; a half-byte.

There is a new update for Firefox located here provided by the good people at the University of Oregon Open Source Labs. It’s in testing now, but it is supposedly capable of defeating those annoying Fastclick popups that beat the current Firefox popup blocker. I’ve only just installed it, so I can tell you that it works, but I don’t know if there are any downsides yet.

Some of my friends are fans of chatting up women online with the intentions of dating them. I can only imagine that this right here would happen to me as often online as it does in real life… and the rejection would be devastating…

Oh, careful, it’s a bit loud.