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By any chance, does anyone know if one is expected to look for work the week of Christmas in order to satisfy the "search" rules?

I've tried calling the claims office, but they haven't been answering since last Wednesday.

Okay, I normally don't like to rant, especially about such trivial stuff as television (yes, I know it's not the most important thing in the world), but after coming across yet another PBS program about how simple the digital switch is going to be, I just have to vent a bit ( Read more... )

We were supposed to go sign the lease on the new house today, but of course where I am the roads are covered with ice and two inches of snow on top of that. I can't even get out of the driveway. I'm already getting cabin fever!

Grrrr! ... or should I say Brrr!

...and then wait some more ( Read more... )

As briefly mentioned in my previous post, I have this interesting possible opportunity coming up that could be very sweet (and lucrative), but in order to take advantage of it, I need to use a compiler that only works with Mac OS. Would anyone have such a thing that I could borrow for a few weeks or so ( Read more... )

Went to pick up my final paycheck (another post coming soon), had a meeting with a friend about something I can't talk about yet, then headed over to Bellevue to see the new Bond flick.

After that I wandered around the mall and noticed a bit of a sore throat coming on. Later I joined L and some of her friends for a fun evening of playing games at ( Read more... )

I know some of you have seen this already. I haven't missed a Bond film in the theater since I started seeing them in the '80's and don't plan to start now:)

I can go basically any time this weekend or any time next week, day or night (for reasons that I'll explain in another post), so if you're interested, just send me an encoded message in a

For reasons that I'll get into later, I have an elliptical runner to give away. It's a fairly decent model with heart rate monitor and the other standard electronics, but of course there's a catch. The knob for adjusting the wheel tension works more or less, but the mounting bit it goes on is broken, so it doesn't look so pretty.  I never really ( Read more... )

If you're a gamer, you'll get it. If not, I think you'll still find it hilarious.

Link going around at work:
http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4762&page=1

Note: the video controls seem a bit wonky and it may start as soon as it loads, so you may want to scroll down a tiny bit so you don't miss it. Otherwise you may have to reload ( Read more... )