You may now all call me Dr. Joe. Or Dr. von Doom. That works too. Course I still have to get my thesis signed off on.....

I defend August 3. God help me.

I discovered two things today about Tacoma, WA, the reviled southern neighbor of the continual cesspit that I live in. (As an aside: I would make the comment that when Seattle looks down on another city it really means something, but denizens of Seattle have a tendency to look down on just about everybody who doesn't do things in exactly the same ' ( Read more... )

for showing the US v. Switzerland game live on the east coast but tape-delaying for 3 hours here on the west coast WHERE THE GAME IS FRIGGIN BEING PLAYED! We wouldn't want to interrupt your precious soap operas ( Read more... )

See above.

Am working at Banyan this morning, one of the characteristics of which is that you are constantly talking about and/or talking to very successful people. And I was thinking (somewhat distractedly) that a large portion of my own worldview revolves around a central tenet: That I personally, and to a large extent those around me as well, will be ( Read more... )

( Battlestar Semi-Spoilers (maybe, I don't consider them spoilers, but some might) )

After more or less agonizing over the decision and soliciting my parents and roommates input I finally decided on the Honda Fit and I went and bought it today. I think I made the right decision. We'll see how it works out on the next drive down to California.

OK, so I was bored today (meaning that I totally had work that I should have been doing but wasn't) and so I went for a walk to Borders to look around. Now I've noticed before that in the 'Literature' section (i.e. all fiction that doesn't fall under sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, or horror) there are a trillion books by a trillion authors, the majority ( Read more... )

( OK, here we go. )