In class tonight, I got to tell my story about the board of directors where they went for diversity by looking for middle-aged white guys who DIDN'T work in finance.
The field I work in is heavily white middle aged male. Nature of the beast, the field waits for die offs and that demo is heavily repped. There is a fair effort of white female, but unless you are italian, there ain't much minority rep. And yet, they try to pretend otherwise. @@
Got a call from former coworker and friend. Basically, about how to research. I got more umph from providing her resources than I do my job. Problem, no? But it was fun. And? I should go visit her.
Okay, I haven't been able to watch 24 in a couple of weeks.
Leland Palmer
as vice president? Scarier than Dick Cheney.
ETA: I suppose that should be whitefonted.
Apparently the joke fell flat, but I cracked up at home.
I'm guessing most of the live audience didn't think it was a joke.
Hivemind question, lori, anyone? How is elevation measured on planets with no sea level? (Yes, I'm playing with Google Mars, why?)
Hivemind question, lori, anyone? How is elevation measured on planets with no sea level? (Yes, I'm playing with Google Mars, why?)
They just pick some arbitrary elevation as the standard for "sea level"
I totally have a hole in my heart, but I thought it was just metaphorical.
In the grand tradition of ita's links on which you don't want to click, I present Rubber Johnny. I'm probably late to the game, but I still needed to share.
Not an ita-style link, but here's more Mars image geekery. [link]
up too late, awake too early. trying to find the upside.
