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Unconscious Mutterings – Week 37

I say … and you think … ?

1. Country:: Bumkin
2. G:: Rated
3. Offer:: Recieve
4. Connection:: Broken
5. Quest:: Johnny
6. Lighthouse:: North Carolina
7. Sycamore:: Climbing
8. Inhumane:: Dog Kennel
9. Sneer:: Snarl
10. Weapon:: Mass Destruction

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Friday 5 – October 3, 2003

1. What vehicle do you drive? I drive an Audi A4 Avant… My little Soccer-mom-mobile

2. How long have you had it? Just got it last month… SEE

3. What is the coolest feature on your vehicle? Hmmm.. I think the coolest thing is the automatic seats that can tell the difference between Kevin’s key and Mine… if he’s been driving it last and I unlock the door it adjusts the seats and the mirror to my settings.. spiffy! 🙂

4. What is the most annoying thing about your vehicle? Cup holders.. As the sales man put it – was designed by germans who didn’t seem to believe the driver should be messing with a drink while driving so it has one strange cup holder in the dash (which doesn’t hold my coffee mug) and two in the arm rest (which is where I – get this – REST MY ARM)…. Thats OK.. I cope (and have spilled coffee on my leg twice)..

5. If money were no object, what vehicle would you be driving right now? A Mercedes S class (either the S55 AMG or the S600 Sedan). I’ve ALWAYS wanted a Mercedes. LOVE ’em.. Fit together like a finely tuned machine and drive like a dream.

Free Association

Few Blog exercises for the fun of it… Word association – try it for yourself here! :):)

1. Herpes:: Virus
2. Freddy:: Kruger
3. October:: Halloween
4. Hunting:: License
5. MSN:: Fox
6. 36:: 29
7. Hotel:: California
8. Travesty:: Justice
9. Health:: Crisis
10. Conditions:: Results

Weekly Wrapup #70 – On Blogging

1. How would you describe blogging to someone who didn’t know what it was?
Kind of like a cross between scribbling the things you would write in a diary on the outside wall of our house and ranting about your favorite topics in a place where your friends can’t say ‘Pete – Shut the Fuck up!’… I really use it as a forum to talk about and share things that interest me with people outside of my immediate group of friends.

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Friday Five – August 29th

Friday five time again – don’t know why I like these so much – probably cuz it gives me something to write about when i’m not feelin clever

1. Are you going to school this year?
Nope.

2. If yes, where are you going (high school, college, etc.)? If no, when did you graduate?
Got my degree from CU December of 1992… Moved out here right after that to start work and been doin that ever sense

3. What are/were your favorite school subjects?
Favorite subjects in high school were my music courses. Orchestra, Marching Band, and Jazz band. Also really enjoyed Yearbook (yes – at my high school that was a class). The rest of my classes in High School bored me for the most part.

At CU Marching Band was still on the list but my software classes were on there too. LOVED my Data Structures class – largely because the professor kicked my ASS – Evi Nemeth. Most people HATED that class but I loved it and to this day its THE class that had the most relevance to what I do today. She would have us design a library implementing some particular data structure and then she would write a test harness that would beat the crap out of the library. Almost no one could survive her tests – myself included – but its pretty much exactly what every software engineer need so know..

4. What are/were your least favorite school subjects?
English in high school – I’m a REALLY slow reader and had a REALLY difficult time staying on top of the reading, let alone understanding the symbolism and all that crap. My writing skills were also pretty piss poor too (in case you haven’t already figured that out)

Semiconductor theory in college – It was REALLY math intensive and I had a hard time convincing myself I cared since I knew I wanted to be doing software for a living.

5. Have you ever had a favorite teacher? Why was he/she a favorite?
Mrs. Mitchell and Mr. Schmenk in High School – Both english teachers. Probably my favorite because they went out of their way to make the reading interesting and to be sure that everyone in the class was involved and interested… I learned a TON from those two.

Prof Nemeth and Prof Ravenel in College. Prof Nemeth for the reasons above and Prof Ravenel because she seemed to be one of the VERY FEW professors I ran into in college that seemed to care about teaching. She would come in on weekends and evenings to help her students if they were stuck and didn’t seem to be 100% research focussed like all the other engineering professors. (Didn’t hurt that she taught my software architecture class either – senior software project was FUN)

Friday Five

1. When was the last time you laughed? This morning over Breakfast

2. Who was the last person you had an argument with? With Kevin this evening over how we were going to deal with re-finishing the flippin floors… How come household projects turn so dramatic? Or maybe its just us..

3. Who was the last person you emailed? Her this evening… Talking in codes to bait John Ashcroft (and to fix bugs in the changes I made to my blog earlier)…

4. When was the last time you bathed? Took a shower this morning… And every morning.. And after the gym… I’m kinda fussy about that… Now a regular Bath in the bath tub with rubber duckies and bubbles? That I don’t remember

5. What was the last thing you ate? Whiskey Flank Steak, Green Beans, and Au Gratin Potatoes for Dinner.. Woo hoo! 🙂