'Shindig'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Sigh. My mother just emailed my sister and me an article explaining how compound interest works, and how it's different from simple interest. I'm a mathematician. My sister is a tax lawyer/accountant. She thinks we don't understand compound interest?
Oooh! Does she have anything on preferential voting?
t evil cackle, runs away
I figured it was an arty picture of the pretty flowers....
Yup. Obligatory GothPhoto of dried roses.
Glad to hear MSFT is cool to work for, and not as evil as us Mac users say it is ;)
Heh. You know I'm a Mac user at home, right? I luuurrves my iBook and iPod. (And oh my goodness, do I want an iPhone!) But yeah, MSFT is a good place to work. Occasionally maddening, but what big company isn't?
Do they smack you if you show up with an iPod?
Do they smack you if you show up with an iPod?
Nope! I mean, sure, they'd rather that we all show up with Zunes, but no one has ever hassled me about my iPod.
I mean, sure, they'd rather that we all show up with Zunes, but no one has ever hassled me about my iPod.
Just for them, from the Onion...
curls up in thread.
{{{meara}}}
I'm so sorry! Much ~ma to you.
Nope! I mean, sure, they'd rather that we all show up with Zunes, but no one has ever hassled me about my iPod.
At Coca-Cola's HQ campus in Atlanta you can't get past security carrying say, a Taco Bell cup, or wearing Pepsi blue. True fact. (We had a meeting there with a potential client for some complicated reason and were warned to let all of our attendees know.)
Oh, meara! How unspeakably shitty of them!
I vote stay in Seattle, since you'd seemed to be doing such a good job of carving yourself a niche there - but if you opt for the Big Adventure, there's a sofabed in Bangkok with your name on it.
I've been thinking about jobs after graduation. One of my friends who's graduating thing year told me that a bunch of universities in other countries are really heavily recruiting math professors. Of the countries she mentioned specifically, I think I don't want to go to Qatar, but it seems the American University in Cairo is looking for people. That could be interesting.
(I've pretty much realized that I'm more interested in teaching schools than in research schools. I like teaching a lot more than I like research, and I know that I wouldn't do well with the publish or perish pressure.)