I finally got my first canvas letter for a typing position for a four-digit salary in an elementary school far outside of Ithaca that somehow is still under City of Ithaca jurisdiction. It was something like $8800 for working 19.25 hours a week for ten months of the year, but considering that I've had nothing, I might very well take that. Given ( Read more... )

Last weekend was the Ultimate Typing Championship in Austin, Texas, the only thing I was looking forward to all year in my perpetual state of unemployment...

( Hitchcock rotated by 135° )

A week ago Saturday (not yesterday) was the semi-finals for the Ultimate Typing Championship.  If you're my Facebook friend, you're already quite bored with this but I did mention it so should report on the results.

The 20 fastest speeds entering the contest were:

1. arenasnow - 195.7 wpm
2. LaughDonor - 187.2 wpm
3. benjamindickman - 176.0 wpm
4. ( Read more... )

MIT grad student Jelani Nelson, arguably the fastest typist in the online social networking community worldwide, sent me a Facebook note telling me about the Ultimate Typing Championship at http://www.ultimatetypingchampionship.com .  I can beat Jelani sometimes and have, and ( Read more... )

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Even the original annoys me quite a bit because of its laughably overdramatic vocals and misspelled cliches, but it does not approach THAT level of badness...

I split this in two because I wanted this to get read, as it is all more important than what was in the previous post.
Since I just obtained my master's, and have no desire for any further education, especially at Cornell, I have to go to the work force.  But doing what?  Okay, my bachelor's is in economics and my master's is in statistics.  That ( Read more... )

So I installed the Facebook typing test application the other day.  I knew I typed more quickly than anyone I've ever known, but I didn't expect to make it all the way to #1 on the board (I was #4 yesterday...) and I had to mark this moment down in pointless history.  Of course, this is just typing a bunch of random words with no logic to them, ( Read more... )

My mom went to the emergency room again two weeks ago for the same reason, because nobody's done anything about the cherry pit.  A couple days later I e-mailed tons and tons of people asking if they had any idea of how to help.  A few people did provide some help.  Nate Miletta, my high school classmate, offered a ride to Syracuse if Mom had an ( Read more... )

As for me, the main thing I've been doing is working on my website. I now have the IRL done (except for last week's race) and have finished up all the linkages. Now I'm working on the other Indy Car series, CART/Champ Car, because if I want to market this to general racing fans, I know I'm going to need to have complete F1, Nextel Cup, Champ Car ( Read more... )

She's going to a surgery clinic on Friday to have her tonsils removed. She continues to feel the sensation that she believes was caused by the cherry pit several weeks ago. She went to an ENT doctor for this and was told that she had a tonsilar cyst which she was feeling, after a gastroenterologist told her she had a pain on the top of her small ( Read more... )