That's it, time to get my resume ready...

Don't know if this is related to the Cthulhu job, but it's pretty catchy.

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It's never too early to get ready for Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Pirate name quiz found via Red Jack Cash:

My pirate name is:

Mad Dog Rackham

Part crazy, part mangy, all rabid, you're the pirate all the others fear might just snap soon. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced ( Read more... )

Found via satyrs_grove, who got it from other people.

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% General American English
40% Yankee
10% Dixie
0% Midwestern
0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

I want to know how that 10% dixie got in there. I've obviously watched too much TV if my yankee has been diluted to such an extreme.

What the heck, everyone else is trying it...

Plus, it seems eerily accurate in some respects.

Apparently I have to time-share my sidekick.

In the continued absence of anything "real-world" that's worthy of posting, I'll cave in this once and post something of no real value whatsoever.

I proudly give you my warning label! (Determined using the same method as satyrs_grove and bears_place before me.)

DAdam may explode without warningM
EXPLOSIVE
From Go-Quiz.com

Remember that house I mentioned down below? As of last night we have a fully signed purchase&sale agreement on it. Seems our ability to close quickly finally outweighed the full-price offer the seller had from the other interested party, so last week they contacted our agent to see if we were still interested ( Read more... )

I was going to just forward the e-mail to a couple people, but then I remembered I have this livejournal thing for disseminating information that only appeals to a small minority of the population. So here it is, the e-mail entitled "Understanding Engineers".

( Well, it's here actually )

The seller's absolute minimum and our absolute maximum did not overlap, so we will continue the hunt. Surprisingly I don't feel disappointed, just kind of feeling the drop from "excited" to "back to normal". But as I said, we now know for a fact that we can find places we like, and that's a relief. The seller just has to be a bit more desperate ( Read more... )