Gone to Boston for the weekend (and friday). Seeing some friends, eating some good food, going to some good bars and having a job interview . I'll be back sometime sunday.
Oh by the way check the following band out...one word: HOTNESS
The Servant
their cd
Good news, after about two weeks since I stepped up my cardio my body is no longer sore all the freaking time. Begining to add weight training afterwards (33min cardio + 40min weights) will continue to add weight until my body hates me.
I've gone on a reading/news/information binge recently and the following are things that have been purchased and read completely or purchased and read partially (the list would be a lot longer if I included the books/magazines/journals I purchased but havn't touched yet)
(1) Inside the CIA by Ronald Kessler
Kessler explores such diverse subjects as the agency's employment policies (the CIA, he maintains, prefers aggressive, manipulative recruits willing to lie and to break the laws of foreign countries), the director's daily presidential briefing, the CIA's counter-narcotics efforts, the physical plant itself ("The CIA compound is indeed a spooky place") and the agency's struggle to create a viable public-relations policy. As to the agency's mandate, given the diminution of the Soviet threat, Kessler reports that the CIA is intensifying its effort to track nuclear proliferation, international drug trafficking and terrorism. A largely objective, evenhanded, highly informative survey.
(2) The Economist
everybody's favorite worldwide newspaper. Its not just for economists anymore. :-) But seriously it has some of the best articles about world news out there that I have been able to find recently.
(3) Foreign Affairs Magazine
The preeminent journal of foreign policy and international affairs, has provided government and business leaders, students, and the general public with insightful, thought-provoking analysis on world events for over 80 years. Before it becomes policy, it's in Foreign Affairs.
(4) Foreign Policy Magazine
Covers the arena of international affairs, presenting views on world events from people in the news. Features articles from across the political spectrum that attempt to explain foreign policy as well as shape the debate.
(5) The American Agent: My Life in the CIA by Richard L. Holm
I can't stand paperback books even though they cost less than 1/2 the cost of hardcovers
Dick Holm joined the Central Intelligence Agency in the 1960s and rose rapidly through the ranks to become Bureau Chief in Paris, eventually earning the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the CIA’s highest award. His first posting was in Laos, where he served in the CIA’s “Secret War” against the Communists in the lead–up to the Vietnam War. He was then sent to the Congo and suffered near–fatal injuries after a plane crash in a remote jungle. Healed by local tribesmen, his horrific burns treated with snake oil and tree bark, he then spent two years in a U.S. hospital undergoing extensive surgery. Holm also worked in Hong Kong and Paris and was instrumental in anti–terrorism operations during Carlos the Jackal’s international terror campaign. Having served under thirteen CIA directors, Holm has firm, highly informed views on the policies—past and present, national and international—that determine how, where, and why the CIA works.
for those of you with significant others, happy valentines day.
for those of you without, happy black monday.
Any way. I get home after working the overnight at SUA and find this email from my mother:
> these are entries to a Washington Post competition asking for a rhyme
> with the most romantic first line but the least romantic second line.
>
> Love may be beautiful, love may be bliss
> But I slept with you because I was pissed.
>
> I thought that I could love no other
> Until, that is, I met your brother.
>
> Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you.
> But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead,
> the sugar bowl's empty, and so is your head.
>
> Kind, intelligent, loving, and hot.
> This describes everything you're not.
>
> I want to feel your sweet embrace
> But don't take that bag from off your face.
>
> I love your smile, your face, your eyes.
> Damn, I'm good at telling lies!
>
> My darling, my lover, my beautiful wife,
> Marrying you screwed up my life.
>
> I see your face when I am dreaming.
> That's why I always wake up screaming.
>
> My love, you take my breath away.
> What have you stepped in to smell this way?
>
> What inspired this amorous rhyme?
> Two parts vodka, one part lime.
College students have $122 bln in spending power,
of which $24 bln in discretionary spending.
Their average annual per capita spending is $13,000.
90% of college students own a computer,
65% of those students have broadband connection.
62% own a stereo,
a cell phone (77%),
a printer (77%),
a television (84%) and a
calculator (86%).
74% own a DVD player and
55% own a gaming system.
62% of college students use their cell phone for text messaging and playing games (70%).
41% of students with cell phones can access the Internet through their mobile phone.
Thanks to him for installing a new version of MT. Thus allowing anyone who wants to to actuall comment on entries here...YOu still have to enter the number thing though.
Enjoy all
I did a self degree audit tonight. I figured that even though I knew I would be graduating (provided I don't f'up a course this semester) I might as well make sure.
Anyway the final course lsit looks something like this:
CIS500-Financial Applications of Artificial Neural Networks
CIS531-Compiler Design +
CIS583-Systems Assurance Seminar
CIS600-Chaos, Emergent Flows and Evolutionary Games
CIS607-Mathmatical Basis for Computing
CIS623-Structured Programming and Formal Methods
CIS628-Cryptography
CIS655-Computer Architecture
CIS657-Principles of Operating Systems
CIS675-Design and Analysis of Algorithms
CIS700-History of Operating Systems
CIS787-Analytical Data Mining
IST642-Electronic Commerce
+ Not counted towards the graduation requirements, but is still listed on the graduate school transcript.
I was thinking about staying and taking one May-mester course if there were any interesting ones that would be offered. I sort of figure that it might be one of my last chances to take a college course and since the darn thing only lasts 2 weeks, who cares.
I was under the impression that email was suppossed to speed up communication between people. Appearantly I was mistaken.
Why can't I get my publickey/privatekey pair to work on Enyo?
its taken about a year, but I think I am finally begining to understand certain people I interact with on a fairly regular basis (their foibles, quirks and sometimes-bigotry). Not sure if this is a good thing or not, but then again they can make their own decisions.
Effing emergency flashers wouldn't turn on last night...appearantly A2 just needs to be loved more.
Weird discussion before falling asleep last night. Looking forward to this weekend, perhaps out into the city again.
My weekend in short sentences:
Saturday began with a effing page at 8:14 in the morning
Syracuse won in BBall (surprise surprise)
Out into downtown on saturday night.
Had two drinks, one was the Manhattan from Hell.
Drinks in Kimmel after the bars
Slept like a log
Sunday
Got a new table for the apartment.
Need to find a new FM station to broadcast my iTrip on.
Working the overnight tonight (can you say 10-18A?)
Can you say ummmmmm....NO
SCOTLAND YARD’S new chief is launching a drive against middle-class drug users who think it is now socially acceptable to take cocaine at a dinner party or a club.
article
Rumour has it that what position you sleep in indicates to some degree what type of person you are in bed (with others)...will research this further and report back.