Inspired by a list of things bush is not, and kottke.org, I have made a list of things I am not and things I am when looking through the ole /mark archives. enjoy. A List of Things I Am Not: I'm not allowed to work more than 20 hours a week. I am not happy that school is over. I'm not mentioned once in the 'about' section. I am not a big fan of the Christmas songs in general. I'm not here to sell you anything. I am not a car thief. I am not happy with the clear fan w/ LEDs. A List of Things I Am: I am going to make a lot of people mad. I'm off to bed. I am in a major that I don't even know if I want to be in. I'm me. I am waiting for that overwhelming feeling of joy to come over me. I'm back from San Francisco a little tanner as well as a little gayer. I am an idiot. I am at work right now. I'm still alive. I am typing this post from the hospital.  And I got a haircut.
A thought occurred to me today. Did you notice how recently, all straws are now individually wrapped? A year or two ago, you could get an unwrapped straw out of a straw dispenser no problem, but now they're all wrapped. I think this was an FDA regulation change, or thats my guess. However, I noticed that lids to drinks probably get touched by more people than straws ever did, because you can't take one lid off of the stack without touching others. I'm just wondering how long it will be until lids are individually wrapped. The day lids are individually wrapped is the day I stop voting. -=MovieQuoteoftheDay=- "One minute it's running like a top, and the next it's broken down on the side of the road. And I can't fix a car like this, because I don't have the tools! And even if I did have the tools I don't know if I could fix a car like this!"
Tonight I visited my niece who just started saying my name. This is her atempt at it, but you have to understand she was on the phone, which should explain why she says "hello" a few times.
The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn since the first of the month, and up until this point, it hasn't been all that interesting. However, two days ago, the spacecraft was able to take a picture of the rebuilt deathstar. (fixed link) thats all i've got. sorry.
Today I clicked on an advertisement, which I never do, so I kind of surprised myself. The ad said "enter to win an iPod!" Now usually, these kind of ads will say "You have won an iPod, click to receive your prize," or "Should President Bush be impeached? Yes/No. Answer and receive your free [something]." Those never work, and only idiots click them, but if I was just entering a drawing, that seems better, so I did. And it was just a drawing. You can go here to enter once a day for the next month. They give away one iPod a day (the now-outdated 15gb 3rd generation). After I entered, I did something else that I don't often do, I read the rules and eligibility. In it I found a passage that seemed a little odd: Odds of winning will depend upon the number of eligible entries received. If winner is from Canada, then to be declared a prize winner, the selected entrant must first correctly answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical, electronic or otherwise, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question to be administered by telephone at a pre-arranged, mutually convenient time. If the skill-testing question cannot be administered and correctly answered within 14 days of the draw, the prize will be forfeited and may be awarded to an alternate entrant. If you're Canadian you have to answer a mathematical skill-testing question? What the hell is that? Plus, you don't get any lifelines! Lifelines are the American way, Regis will tell you that. Everyone should get at least one lifeline. As I read it, if you're Canadian, you have to be smart to win, if you're an American, you don't even have to know anything beyond the spelling of your name. I would be astounded to find out why this crazy rule is in place, and what exactly the kind of question the Canadian would be asked is. I think I'll email them and ask them. Any of you ever see these kinds of rules before? Well, I decided to actually e-mail them about this. here is the email I sent out: Hello. My name is Mark Husson. I was just curious why in the rules for your "Win an iPod" contest, it states, "If winner is from Canada, then to be declared a prize winner, the selected entrant must first correctly answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical, electronic or otherwise, a time-limited mathematical skill-testing question...". I am not Canadian, but I do have relatives in Canada who I'm sure would like to enter the contest, but may not have the high-level mechanical or electronic mathematical skills to answer such a question in the event that they win the contest. I am curious to find out why such a rule is in place and if there is any way to determine in advance just how difficult the math question will be, so that perhaps they could study. Or, perhaps there is some sort of test question(s) you could send me so I could help them learn the math necessary to win the iPod. I appreciate any assistance in helping me better understand and resolve this matter. I will keep you informed on any response I get.
My sister is on a 4 week trip to Costa Rica where she is in a Spanish Emerson program. So far she has learned a lot of Spanish (including some choice words to help fit in speech-wise), she has also seen monkeys and sloths at the beach. I had a short IM conversation with her a moment ago: ... Mark : I hope you're taking tons of pictures ...
Q: What happens when your friends buy you a keg as a thanks for letting them drink at your house for the past 5 months, then you walk past your roomate who is demonstrating "how you really serve in ping pong...."? A: 1, 2, 3, 4.
There have been some changes recently at my work concerning where people are located. We had another group move into our area so that if management tries to move us to the other crappy building we have, it will be a lot tougher to move all if us at the same time. I recently moved one office over within my tri-cubicle area so that someone else could be where I was (and closer to her boss). The guy who used to be in my new cube quit because he got a job programming for the company that owns a series of retail porn stores. In the commotion of the move, I needed to reposition where some cables were coming up from the floor, so I lied down under the desk to move them. What I saw next will stay with me the rest of my life. I looked up on the underside of my new desk and saw that it was caked with years of booger's wiped from its former resident without cause or concern for others, let alone himself. There were thousands of disgusting boogers, all the way from gooey now-dried-up liquidy sloppers to chunky blood-coagulated glops. Soon-after, I became sick and was told that my complexion resembled the pastel green of my collared shirt. The layer off boogers spanned an area approximately 5.5 feet across and reached back up to two feet in some places. Something had to be done about this, so I called maintenance and they were able to get the cleaning lady to come up, but warned me not to make a big stink about it because "there are a lot of other desks that have it too and we don't want to have to clean them all. If you tell people, they'll just look under their own desks, so lets not tell everyone." The cleaning lady had a warm bucket of ammonia water, rubber gloves, and a rag. The pungent smell of ammonia was strong enough to get my ti-cube-mate to move to a common area away from the smell. After scrubbing for approximately 2 minutes, the cleaning lady (we'll call her Rosa) says, "I going to need someting stronger," and leaves Only to return with a 98/2 Ammonia/water mixture and cleans my desk for another 13 minutes. Today I brought Rosa a small box of chocolates in appreciation for her work, and cleaning up the single most disgusting thing I have ever been in close contact with. Thank you Rosa, thank you.
Why can I search for a word on google, which searches for words within over 4,285,199,774 documents in a virtualy infinate ammount of locations for one word, and get the results back in 0.13 seconds, yet when I search for a filename on my own hard drive and I have to wait upwards of five minutes to see if the file exists? Microsoft better watch themselves, because if they dont clean up their act with their new OS, then I'm going to tell everyone I know how much I dont like their software, and guess what Microsoft? Over 15 people read this website per day (you read that right, per day), and I don't think they want someone badmouthing their software like that. Let's figure things out Microsoft, before people start to figure you out and not buy your software. And for the record, that is a threat.
Heres a little update on how my viruses are going: ___ sadface. For those who do not have a blog of their own, here is some insight as to why people who do have blogs will often become burnt out on posting to their blog. Granted, I'm not in the same classification as the people they interview, but every small site is a microcosm of what happens on the big ones.
 The dock at Carter Lake
 Mike contemplates lint-rolling his chest.
 Mike stretches his legs on Buffy II "The possibilities are endless, I can do most anything. And the impossibilities Are beginningless And meaningless." -the Bens
 
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