So at lunch today, Dr. Dermer was talking about all the space science gossip. There is so much money being put into these programs, it's insane. I had no idea how much politics there could be in something that seems like it should be rather dry. Incredible ( Read more... )

My little brother has been bugging me to talk to one of his friend's dads. "He works at NASA." It turns out, working at NASA, in this case, is being the third highest guy at all of NASA. Basically, he offered me a job. "I can talk to people, or let you talk to them." Wow... so apparently Zach was right ( Read more... )

... stupid program... I tell it to print certain data to a file. It doesn't. Just to make sure I have the file name passed right, i do a test print. It prints not only that test line, but the ones it wasn't doing before. So I get rid of the test, and it won't print. Anywhere ( Read more... )

I ran this cool little program made by some user that counts your comments and ranks them. I found it on jared's lj, I think. When i ran it, it showed me the depressingly small amount of comments I have. I was almost sad, and then I remembered that I really don't care.

... but yeah... anyway...

So it's lunch time, somewhat. Summer is apparently the time for NRL to put on dumb little shows during the day to get the scientists to leave thier offices and interact socially. My boss, Dr. Dermer, is currently sitting in his office, eating his cheese and crackers he brings daily for lunch. I'm in my office looking out the window (yaeh for having ( Read more... )

You've heard about people who have a thought of someone dying and 5 mintues later get that phone call confirming thier premonition. Seems too unlikely to be coincidence ( Read more... )

Played poker tonight with my Kensington, MD group... The whole wildcard games screwed me, 'cause I played real poker a few nights ago with Evan and a few other guys. Lost my buy in in like an hour and a half, figured I was playing badly and should stop. I think I won one hand the whole night. Damn table full of 9 people ( Read more... )

Five and a half hours of poker tonight. Didn't notice the time go by. Had lots of fun, only lost a very small amount of money. Not bad at all. Only four guys total, so it was a bit slower than it should have been, but... hey, whatev.

I'm working on a letter to my brother in Paris Island (marine boot camp), but... everything seems so trite.

I think I'm done caring. Whatever happens happens. "We'll all float on," in the words of Modest Mouse. So much for caring, so much for extra thought, so much for effort. I'm a bit overdue in giving up on everything. Or meyb I'm a bit premature. Whatever. I just know that if I cared, I'd be unhappy right now ( Read more... )

Ok, so everyone is out of town. Makes it kinda hard to have a social life, but whatever. I'm surviving ( Read more... )