WOOHOO!!!

Howdy!

Saw a job at a place I'd really like to work at so I've spent my afternoon trying to tart my resume up once more. They only accept resumes through Monster.com so the choice of words becomes even more important than normal.

My, you've all been very philosophical today!

I just got an email from a distant relative. (distant distant) Before I worked at , I was unemployed for quite a while and had time to work on researching my family's genealogy. This fellow contacted me through a posting I'd made on the web. I got him in touch with my great-uncle. Since being employed, I haven't had time to continue with genealogy. Just got an email out of the blue from this fellow and he has found out more info that corroborates the family story of my great-great-grandmother having been of a Protestant Ascendancy family and having been disowned after she fell in love with the Catholic stableboy. It'll be interesting to see what he turned up.

Hobbe's view of nature - nasty, brutish and short."

Nasty, brutish, and short always reminds me of the Woody Allen line about "The food here is terrible. And the portions are too small." I like my nasty and brutish experiences to be short.

How much don't I want to watch the portion of the Colbert show with the Michael Brown interview in it? I like Colbert, but he's never struck me as a good serious interviewer (which Stewart regularly does). For comedic purposes, yes, it's fun and light and occasionally he really gets a guest who is wise to his schtick and plays it for the ironic value.

Maybe I just want to see someone hoist Brown on his own petard.

He gets some real zingers in with Brown, I must say. I was happy that Colbert was tougher than I expected.

California condors seen nesting in Big Sur.

Oh, that's excellent news.

Thinking on this, I've come to realize that I am an extremely cynical hobbesian

But, Hobbes isn't cynical; he's a cute fluffy tiger who likes tuna fish sandwiches and tummy rubs!

All philosophy I learned in my PHIL 101 and 102 classes at Marquette has left me completely. The other philosophy classes, OTOH, are more memorable: bitching about current ethical issues in Philosophy and Ethics, and watching The Gold Rush and Monty Python and the Holy Grail in Philosophy and Humor, as well as writing a fun paper comparing Chinese and Japanese comic strips. Not much philosophy, but an easy A, nonetheless.

Oh, and I must Woo-hoo for finally getting my taxes done! (I'm getting a fair amount back from the feds, and owe Springfield one measly dollar.)

Nasty, brutish, and short always reminds me of the Woody Allen line about "The food here is terrible. And the portions are too small."

My favourite Allen/philosophy joke is in Hannah and Her Sisters (I think), when someone's talking about Nietzsche's eternal return of the same, and Allen says "Great, that means I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again."

But, Hobbes isn't cynical; he's a cute fluffy tiger who likes tuna fish sandwiches and tummy rubs!

Oh good, I'm not the only person who went there.