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Didn't get the job at Intel. The other guy had more experience.
And my LJ paid account expires in twenty-four hours. Bleah.
And my LJ paid account expires in twenty-four hours. Bleah.
2002-12-13
renewal
...Awww. Thanks, Wendy. I have something for you too, are you going to be oot and aboot this weekend?
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Ever since its inception, I have been in awe of Google, and they just keep getting better.
Completely aside from the fact that I would actually pay to use their search engine if I had to, and that their news-aggregate page is more or less my daily newspaper, they keep trotting out things like the Google Viewer:
http://labs.google.com/gviewer.html
Which is more or less the search utility you saw Neo using in the Matrix, scrolling through web pages as it goes...
Or Froogle, every shopping catalogue in one, with a sensible hierarchic UI complete with thumbnails:
http://froogle.google.com/
Or WebQuotes, which lets you read what other sites say about your search topic.
http://labs.google.com/cgi-bin/webquotes
So, honestly, I'm thinking we should just have Google take over the Internet and let them have the whole thing. We'd probably all be using IPv6 within a year and not having any compatibility problems at all.
Completely aside from the fact that I would actually pay to use their search engine if I had to, and that their news-aggregate page is more or less my daily newspaper, they keep trotting out things like the Google Viewer:
http://labs.google.com/gviewer.html
Which is more or less the search utility you saw Neo using in the Matrix, scrolling through web pages as it goes...
Or Froogle, every shopping catalogue in one, with a sensible hierarchic UI complete with thumbnails:
http://froogle.google.com/
Or WebQuotes, which lets you read what other sites say about your search topic.
http://labs.google.com/cgi-bin/webquotes
So, honestly, I'm thinking we should just have Google take over the Internet and let them have the whole thing. We'd probably all be using IPv6 within a year and not having any compatibility problems at all.
I love this quote.
This quote perfectly embodies my entire childhood view on life and literature, and how it shaped me as an adult.
"The point of so many of the skinny little books targeted toward children is to inculcate in the reader a sense that their experiences are normal, and that everything is going to be all right. The serialized formulaic forty-page tales of prepubescent girls and scandalous slumber parties -- they were fine for the kids who actually got invited to slumber parties. If your life didn't look much like life at Sweet Valley High, you didn't feel reassured. Life was not necessarily going to be all right. It even kinda promised to suck.
Instead of plodding through the equivalent of literary Xanax, the pregeeks go for sci-fi and fantasy: LSD in book form. They read about war, love, death, passion, magic, hope, technology, and above all the potential of the unlikely hero to win through the sheer greatness of his being, not to mention the occasional chance to boink an alien in zero-G."
Source:
http://monkeybagel.com/sysadmin.html
"The point of so many of the skinny little books targeted toward children is to inculcate in the reader a sense that their experiences are normal, and that everything is going to be all right. The serialized formulaic forty-page tales of prepubescent girls and scandalous slumber parties -- they were fine for the kids who actually got invited to slumber parties. If your life didn't look much like life at Sweet Valley High, you didn't feel reassured. Life was not necessarily going to be all right. It even kinda promised to suck.
Instead of plodding through the equivalent of literary Xanax, the pregeeks go for sci-fi and fantasy: LSD in book form. They read about war, love, death, passion, magic, hope, technology, and above all the potential of the unlikely hero to win through the sheer greatness of his being, not to mention the occasional chance to boink an alien in zero-G."
Source:
http://monkeybagel.com/sysadmin.html
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Something Positive wins infinite points for referencing an Information Society song.
I give in, I give in, it's cool, okay?
I give in, I give in, it's cool, okay?