I have now been officially indoctrinated. And now, I’m going to… bed.
Update: And now I’m much more awake, feeling strangely at peace. And realizing that it is a far, far better thing to be indoctrinated than inculcated. (I believe that’s what they do to proctologists)
No, really. Story here. The crops have been decimated and the roads turned blood red.
This has been your random fact for the evening.
[politics filter]
Riots in Iran: this is potentially important, whichever way it ends up playing out. Iran has been moving slowly towards a crisis for a while now. If the “good guys” win, that could turn out to be very good for pretty much everyone in the world apart from the Ayatollahs; if they don’t, there’s going to be a bloodbath.
Things achieved today so far: Parents and sister got in town, showed them around some, got the apartment I was trying to get, and handed in my signed & sealed offer letter to Google.
Pretty good start for a day… (knock on wood) more amusements to follow, most likely.
Well, here it goes again… I just found another good place, I should hear back tomorrow by noon about it. Once again, there’s competition for it, but I may be able to achieve something with negotiation on it.
*sigh* Ah, the joys of apartment-hunting…
For those of you who (like me) have no television, or otherwise haven’t seen this – a new Honda ad that’s somewhere between beautiful and frightening.
No, that’s not CG. Yes, it took a lot of takes to get that right.
This has been your work avoidance for the night.
The new job is starting to feel real. I got asked yesterday “What username and machine name would you like?” (Yes, that makes things more real. The answers were zunger and hasufel, respectively. And anyone who can recognize the latter picks up some geek points.)
I just went and saw the perfect apartment. It’s got absolutely every feature I wanted, it’s pleasant, in the right location, the price is right. And I’m currently the third applicant in line for it.
Bugger.
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