February 28, 2005
This isnt a full update but I just needed to post something to satisfy my brother's urge to get more traffic to his site. His girlfriend... or should i say fiancee posted the story of how he proposed to her. You can read more here. In world of warcraft news... yes this is what my life evolved into... here is a mildly funny conversation with my pal Zilch and me: Enjoy.
February 13, 2005
I leave for Buffalo (A10s) in 2 days so i thought i'd update at least one more time before i leave. First let me show you my white board from work.
February 3, 2005
In a follow up of yesterday's post i noticed that La Salle put up suggestions to the students about the superbowl. They can be found here. These may be the dumbest things i have ever read. They don't realize that like a very high percentage of the students are from the area and are eagles fans. Be respectful? Show good sportsmanship? Fuck that. This game is about talking as much shit as possible. The only thing i think that is funny is about liturgy. I think more people than usual will be showing up because they will pray for a win, but i wouldnt put too good odds on that. College students are pretty apathetic when it comes to God. In the last thing it says is about the the police being ready for riots. If there is a riot at La Salle then you might as well consider half the students dead, and the ones who lived are the ones in jail or commute.
In a related note La Salle also posted a message (thats attached to the portal - otherwise i'd post it) inviting all patriots fans. If I were a pats fan i wouldnt want to want go there. Its like its a trap and eagles fans are going to burn them alive in the room they are going to.
February 2, 2005
I know I’m known for criticizing La Salle about certain situations but something has gotten me all rallied up. This semester they are really pushing hard about people watching the La Salle TV channel (WEXP 56). I mean these things range from having announcements about future TV shows, to video taping local sporting events such as last Saturdays swim meet which I promptly flipped off the camera and covered my face with my hand much like indicted criminals do. I guess whats really bothering me is the conscious effort that La Salle is doing to make people watch the channel dispite the fact that the channel hardly exists. Lets just put it this way. Last year was the last time I put on WEXP 56. The reception was so shitty and the sound and video quality were so bad that it made me yearn for the silent, black and white movie days. This is at school by the way, rougly half a mile from where the show is being transmitted from. I would like to say that this is an isolated case of problems with my cable but I have heard people saying the same thing that live in the dorms. So really, what La Salle is promoting is a non-porno channel that is completely made of static and irritable sound that you have to guess about what you are watching.
On another college note my friend John Shoemaker sent me an email today about Temples stance on if the Eagles win the superbowl. You can see the letter from the dean from this link. Shoemaker said that it may not interfere with the universitys Monday schedule but it will interfere with his. And possibly Tuesday too. I went on to forward his email to my family saying that: I think La Salle's stance on the situation is as long as the basketball players aren't involved with certain liberties they take with females anyone is allowed to do whatever they want after the superbowl.
That about sums it up. In a real quick update I am back on my schools diving team. And thus I’ll be going to A10s in 2 weeks. Expect another update shortly before that.
January 23, 2005
A little back story. A falcons fan in warcraft has been talking shit all week and literally 20 seconds after the Eagles won the game 27-10 I sign on and said this (I'm Krispy, the Falcon's fan is Zilch):
January 9, 2005
Two things: one, you should see how cracked out glick is these days. The other thing is a surveyesque thing with my answers. I borrowed the questions from Tim's girlfriend's xanga. Thanks Erin.
January 4, 2005
Welcome to 2005. Well thats my update. See you in a few months.
I'm just kidding keep scrolling down
I'm just kidding. I actually have some news. Since my last update (the pathetic Dec. 13th one) I have finished school and started my job. For those who arent every day readers (which i'm sure i have none left) I started a job at McNeil Pharmaceuticals. My job is basically to take the crap from the rest of my group and to technically support around 40 people around the country. But in the 2.5 weeks i have worked there i have basically only done training. I understand why there are training sessions like this but seriously, i just laugh and laugh at them all day. I'm pretty sure in the corner where i work the rest of the employees think i'm a crack head because i'm just laughing at random crap and every time they walk past my desk they see me sitting there doing nothing. Anyway, onto the story.
So i'm training yesterday about the do's and don'ts of email. And i noticed something. In each slide i was doing there were these multicultural pictures of "employees". Along with these pictures are a really weak story. I really wish you could see the pictures but you'll have to take my description. These people look like they are over exaggerating their roll. For instance today's lesson was on ethics or something and the person looked like they were fucking in deep thought about whatever they were thinking of. The actors or models, i dont know which, looked like they just tried too hard. At each picture i would laugh harder and harder. Then along with that story they have unrealistic dialouge. For instance Sally said 'I'm so happy you understand i have to fire you for sending a personal email out' and Jenny replied 'I understand let me clear out my desk.' Fuck that, if i was Jenny i'd fucking throw a chair at Sally. I mean you got fucking fired for sending out 1 email. Its rediculous. If that wasnt bad enough the actual educational part was flawed. They defined technical words wrong. I mean i know they are trying to dumb it down for the people who dont usually work with computers but they probably dont care about the definition anyway, you might as well use the more intelligent version for the people who do care (like me). With out really blowing things out of proportion they had this one section on questions to ask yourself if you ever recieve an email:
Ask yourself:All i have to say is jesus! I cant imagine how many calls the IT dept would be getting if everyone actually followed that rule. Well at least at the end of each of these training sections i get a diploma saying i completed it. Most people dont even print them out. But i hung them all around my cubicle. I dont know if its to impress my coworkers or just to laugh at. Either way i'm having a pretty good time at work.
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