• 18Aug 07

  Why am I in LA?

  Well my summer of hard work is mostly over, I had a good time planting this year. Made a decent amount of money. My best day was 4140 trees at $0.14 per tree, so roughly $580 profit for one day of work (although taxes raped me).

  ButnowIaminLA,doingatradeshowhere, selling a cash counting machine. It is quite a fancy little device, how else can you count a full till in under a minute. As anyone who has had to balance a till before, it can take quite a while to do by hand.

  Apparentlythislittleroomhereinthehotelthathasinternetisclosinginafewminutes,soImustbeoff.

  • Posted Aug 18, 2007 7:37 pm PT
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• 15May 07

  Final Final

  So tomorrow morning I write my final final (excuse the bad grammar, it was
  intentional). So seeing as i have an exam tomorrow and don't particularily
  want to study right now, I am honing my fine skill of wasting time. Although
  I am running out of things that I can waste time doing. So far I have
  checked digg, reddit, slashdot, my rss feeds, and my email this fine
  evening. This is my last ditch effort to draw out the inevitable, after this fine
  post I shall have to open my textbook, I will have run out of excuses
  (because I can't justify playing video games right now).

  As well I hate being the person in our family who has to fix anything
  related to computer problems. For example:

  Dad: 'Trevor, my internet isn't working'
  Trevor: 'Have you tried resetting the router and modem and rebooting your
   computer?'
  Dad: 'No' 
  Trevor: 'Then why are you calling me, I just walked out of cl@ss to answer
   this because I thought it was important. EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU
   CALL I  TELL YOU THE SAME THING, WHY CAN'T YOU
   BE PRE-EMPTIVE AND TRY IT BEFORE CALLING ME.'
  Dad: 'But I thought that maybe it was something different this time'
  Trevor: *click*
  
  or here is another fine example from today no less:

  Brandon (my older brother): 'Say Trevor, do you know why my mouse goes
   all jittery sometimes when I am doing ________'
  Trevor: [sarcasm] Oh yes, its becuase the modulating index on the signal 
   being transmitted from your mouse to your USB port has been reduced
   and thus you are encountering electromagnetic interference from your
   speakers [/sarcasm] NO OF COURSE NOT, YOU LIVE OVER
   3000 KM AWAY. HOW IN THE HELL WOULD I KNOW
   WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR MOUSE. *click*

  why-o-why does GS not like the word c-l-a-s-s. 

  well it would appear as though I have managed to drag this out for quite 
   some time. Time to start studying. (note: the whole bit inside the sarcasm
   section is because I am studying for my final in electronic communications
   systems)

  EDIT: GS seems to want to do fun things to the formatting, guess it doesn't
   like opera. 

  • Posted May 15, 2007 9:31 pm PT
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• 24Apr 07

  Personality Types

  So today we had someone from the counseling section of the college come and talk to us today on different personality types and how this affects us in the workplace. What a load of BULLSH!T. This woman actually thought that people could be defined in little boxes and that all of our decisions were based on how much we fit on one side or the other of a scale.

  Apparently I qualify as an introverted, sensing, thinking and judgemental 
  individual. WTF does that mean. We were supposed to answer a bunch of 
  questions about how we felt and reacted in certain situations. So this 
  means that I am supposedly unable to do certain things according to her 
  little boxes. According to the constraints that she would like to put on 
  everyone, I am incapable of Feeling, or Intuition, or even Perceiving. As a 
  cl@ssmate of mine said, 'go to hell'

  It was a waste of time because no-one in the whole engineering department 
  took it seriously other than her. Not even our profs cared what we did. We 
  were supposed to split into groups and determine our group weaknesses and
  what kind of person we should add to our group to improve its dynamics. We
  said we needed a dwarf, and that one of our strengths was body mass.
  
  This will be providing a source of jokes for the next few weeks before exams
  take their toll.

  • Posted Apr 24, 2007 6:06 pm PT
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