Eleven UW-Madison coaches incurred charges of more than $3,000 each on their cell phones, causing the UW-Athletic Department to spend $180,000 on cell phone bills for the 2003-'04 school year.
Denise Ianello, a women's basketball assistant, and Troy Ward, the associate head coach for men's hockey, led the way with bills of $8,605.43 and $8,450.22, respectively. Out of the 158 people issued cell phones in the Athletic Department, 54 coaches, administrators, medical personnel and managers cost the university over $1,000 in cell phone bills this past year, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.
WOW! thats all I can say
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January's playlist ( made by random selection in iTunes)
(1) Andain - Beautiful Things (DJ Tiesto Remix)
(2) Greenday - Boulevard of Broken Dreams
(3) Pascal feat. Neo Cortex - This Will Be
(4) House of Pain - Jump Around
(5) Beethoven - Fur Elise (Immortal Beloved Soundtrack)
(6) Susan Vega - Tom's Diner
(7) Paris Texas - Bombs Away
(8) Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
(9) The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
(10) Pat Green and Cory Morrow - Nashville Sucks
(11) Ok Go - Don't Ask Me
(12) Nina Simone - Sinnerman
(13) Marianne Faithful - Wherever I Go
(14) Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson - (Ghost) Riders In The Sky
(15) The Burnside Project - Cue The Pulse To Begin
(16) Darude - Out of Control
(17) Santa Esmeralda - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstoof
(18) The Magnetic Fields - Take Ecstasy With Me
(19) Real McCoy - Run Away
I'll Finish typing out the list later tonight when I return
Talk about a disjointed set of purchases.
(1) Goat: A Memoir
(2) About a Boy (widescreen DVD)
(3) The Treasured One
Girl at the counter looked at me strangely, but then again if I saw someone purchasing those things as a group, I would have probably had the exact same reaction. I was walking back from Borders and saw him and talked for a while.
This was followed by about 20 pages of reading, driving over to his flat where (a) I met his flatmate who plays hockey and knows Car4 (b) bottle of wine was consumed amongst the three of us (c) above referenced DVD was watched and (d) random crap was discussed
HGS: thoughts on dogs?
FMF: stupider than babies
HGS: in a good way or a bad way?
FMF: both
HGS: siberian
FMF: super stupid
FMF: lol
I grew up with dogs, Goldens and Labs to be exact. I've been wanting to get one for a few years again and now that im getting close to graduation I have begun to look seriously at them again. Actually I visited the CNYSPCA today and found a 10-12 week old siberian. Any way that is all for now. Ill probably go back on friday and get a picture of the puppy if its still there.
well its that time of the year again. Time to renew professional memberships :-( Oh well I sort of figure it is an important thing to do (and have been told so by a couple of professors) So I just renewed my memberships to ACM, IEEE, AMC and a new one this year, the IEEE Standards society...thats right the organization that decides and votes on technical standards. I honestly don't know how that one was included in my application, but what the heck...
This story appeared in my mailbox yesterday. I gotta say that I never really thought the Red October was an actuall submarine, but it seems like it really is.
Any way its sort of sad that a relic such as this is being turned into scrap metal. I don't relish the fact that it was ever built in the first place, but I wish they could find something better to do with it then turn it into scrap metal (hopefully for recycling)
Россия - священная наша держава,
Россия - любимая наша страна.
Могучая воля, великая слава -
Твое достоянье на все времена!
Славься, Отечество наше свободное,
Братских народов союз вековой,
Предками данная мудрость народная!
Славься, страна! Мы гордимся тобой!
Random statistic for the day:
There are 197193 files on my computer at the moment
New addition to the reading list.
Anonymous Lawyer
I find it rather entertaining. the following being an excerpt from a recent entry:
The first week back from any kind of break, people think they're still on vacation. "I'm still catching up on what I missed" is not an excuse. An associate promised me a memo by end of day today, and just stopped by my office to let me know it's going to be another day or two because she's still "crawling out from under the pile of e-mails." This is why we give associates Blackberries. How can she have a pile of e-mails? Wherever she was, her e-mail was in her pocket. It's not my fault she let it get out of control. It's her own fault. And now she's making me wait an extra day for a memo I'm never going to read, but that isn't the point. It's the principle. The memo could have been important. Her e-mails over the holiday could have been important. She needs to answer her e-mails when she gets them. And she needs to get me the memo when she promises. This isn't just a game. Sometimes it's a game. But not this time.
I'm not quite dead YET
brief synopsis of break:
(1) I hate taxi drivers
(2) The streets of Boston were really laid out by a guy looking at a bowl of pasta
(3) rediscovered my love for the martini
(4) NH really REALLY needs more snow
(5) got a ton of reading done
(6) went to boston way too many times for my own good
(7) began looking at apartments in different cities (in the evant that I actually graduate with a job)
(8) Got hooked up with a really really good potential job connection