14 Feb
So, as of today, I have accepted an offer to work for The Man. Not The Man as in, “The Man is keeping us down”, but as in “You are The Man!”. Except, in this case, it’s more like The Company. Starting soon (hopefully Friday, if everything is ready to go) I’ll be working […]
Posted in Geek, Life, Network Geek, Programming, Rails, Ruby by: Alex
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19 Jul
Update (7/30/07): Finally have finalized dates for Colorado. See below
So it’s been quite a while since I’ve updated the site. The time that I was doing most of my blogging I couldn’t actually access my site, and since then I’ve fallen back into the pattern of not updating. So here’s a brief update now. Nothing […]
Posted in Bike, Life, Travel by: Alex
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22 Mar
As I was walking home from dinner this evening, I passed by two homeless people living in abandoned shop entrances. One was a man, the other was a woman. And as I passed them, I noticed a few things about their respective living areas. Things that got me to thinking about how different these two […]
Posted in Cool Finds, Life by: Alex
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15 Nov
Northwest Airlines Flight 592
Departing: Portland Intl. Airport (PDX) Sun, 02/12/06, 9:05 AM
That was JP’s return flight. I had it all marked down in my Palm to make sure we didn’t forget or run into any problems. But in the end, it was all for nothing. There’s nothing powerful or persistent about life. It is a […]
Posted in Life, Problems by: Alex
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28 Sep
I looked at the man in the mirror… and he looked back at me…
Current Mood: crazy
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22 Sep
I had thought, when I was younger, that I knew all about lousy parties. After all, most parties were, by definition, lousy. Then I went to a few good ones and began to think that maybe this whole deal wasn’t so bad. The good ones, in quality even if not in quantity, outweighed the bad […]
Posted in Events, Life by: Alex
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05 Sep
So I just had a wonderful weekend. Starting out by getting 4 jumps in (and passing all 4 on the first try!) on Saturday, and then extending into 3 days of friends, food, drink, and debauchery. While the wild events of the weekend are certainly worth chronicling in greater detail (and I intend to do […]
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28 Aug
It’s been a pretty crazy year. Well, 14 months to be exact. Got to include all of the interesting stuff I suppose. I wish that I could say something impressive sounding like: “If you had asked me a year ago what the next year would bring, I never could have guessed this.” Well, obviously. There’s […]
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