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Aug. 21st, 2006 02:13 pmOoh, I wanna play, too!
( interest collage after the jump )
( interest collage after the jump )
Aug. 21st, 2006
on the merits of updating your resume
Aug. 21st, 2006 03:00 pmSo I just exited the weekly conference call, between my peers and our illustrious boss. Another five people are leaving our group. Three of them are server administrators, one is the guy that was my former boss, and the last...well I don't know who the fuck they are but I'm sure they did something, right?
Five.
That's five less resources the remaining admins have to cover for, seven total since June. The plans are to not replace these people any time soon.
That said.
I have the resume polished to a gleam. I'll print it on virgin linen if I have to. That's right, no slutty paper for me.
If you hear of something that might be a good fit, please (please) let me know. I'll investigate anything at the moment, anything to get out of here in one piece and save my sanity.
Thank you for your support. Sushi donations accepted kindly. :P
Five.
That's five less resources the remaining admins have to cover for, seven total since June. The plans are to not replace these people any time soon.
That said.
I have the resume polished to a gleam. I'll print it on virgin linen if I have to. That's right, no slutty paper for me.
If you hear of something that might be a good fit, please (please) let me know. I'll investigate anything at the moment, anything to get out of here in one piece and save my sanity.
Thank you for your support. Sushi donations accepted kindly. :P
an endless supply of free energy?
Aug. 21st, 2006 08:12 pmAttention ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
project_mayhem_ and funkerjess: is this possible?
Irish company challenges scientists to test 'free energy' technology
EDIT: A second article on the claim from Wired magazine...
An Irish company has thrown down the gauntlet to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy.
The company, Steorn, says its discovery is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy -- a concept that challenges one of the basic rules of physics.
It claims the technology can be used to supply energy for virtually all devices, from mobile phones to cars.
Steorn issued its challenge through an advertisement in the Economist magazine this week quoting Ireland's Nobel prize-winning author George Bernard Shaw who said that "all great truths begin as blasphemies".
Sean McCarthy, Steorn's chief executive officer, said they had issued the challenge for 12 physicists to rigorously test the technology so it can be developed.
"What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy," McCarthy said.
"The energy isn't being converted from any other source such as the energy within the magnet. It's literally created. Once the technology operates it provides a constant stream of clean energy," he told Ireland's RTE radio.
McCarthy said Steorn had not set out to develop the technology, but "it actually fell out of another project we were working on".
One of the basic principles of physics is that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form.
McCarthy said a big obstacle to overcome was the disbelief that what they had developed was even possible.
"For the first six months that we looked at it we literally didn't believe it ourselves. Over the last three years it had been rigorously tested in our own laboratories, in independent laboratories and so on," he said.
"But we have been unable to get significant scientific interest in it. We have had scientists come in, test it and, off the record, they are quite happy to admit that it works.
"But for us to be able to commercialise this and put this into peoples' lives we need credible, academic validation in the public domain and hence the challenge," McCarthy said.
project_mayhem_ and funkerjess: is this possible?Irish company challenges scientists to test 'free energy' technology
EDIT: A second article on the claim from Wired magazine...
An Irish company has thrown down the gauntlet to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy.
The company, Steorn, says its discovery is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy -- a concept that challenges one of the basic rules of physics.
It claims the technology can be used to supply energy for virtually all devices, from mobile phones to cars.
Steorn issued its challenge through an advertisement in the Economist magazine this week quoting Ireland's Nobel prize-winning author George Bernard Shaw who said that "all great truths begin as blasphemies".
Sean McCarthy, Steorn's chief executive officer, said they had issued the challenge for 12 physicists to rigorously test the technology so it can be developed.
"What we have developed is a way to construct magnetic fields so that when you travel round the magnetic fields, starting and stopping at the same position, you have gained energy," McCarthy said.
"The energy isn't being converted from any other source such as the energy within the magnet. It's literally created. Once the technology operates it provides a constant stream of clean energy," he told Ireland's RTE radio.
McCarthy said Steorn had not set out to develop the technology, but "it actually fell out of another project we were working on".
One of the basic principles of physics is that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form.
McCarthy said a big obstacle to overcome was the disbelief that what they had developed was even possible.
"For the first six months that we looked at it we literally didn't believe it ourselves. Over the last three years it had been rigorously tested in our own laboratories, in independent laboratories and so on," he said.
"But we have been unable to get significant scientific interest in it. We have had scientists come in, test it and, off the record, they are quite happy to admit that it works.
"But for us to be able to commercialise this and put this into peoples' lives we need credible, academic validation in the public domain and hence the challenge," McCarthy said.
when I should be looking for work online
Aug. 21st, 2006 11:59 pmI just got off the phone from a work-related thing. Had to dial in and provide support for two servers I maintain out in Slidell. Massive lightning strike literally fried the switches at the facility, so they had to hotshot two new ones from like Dallas or something (love to see the freight bill on that) just to get the network up and running over there. I got called to cycle the servers, get the timeclocks running, and make sure the DHCP was...DHCP'ing.
I'm so glad I didn't have to drive the forty miles to do it.
But as I'mscrewing off researching employment, I'm reading through a few tidbits here and there.
Bush acknowledges slow pace of La. recovery - Bush said, "...we've appropriated the money, and now we'll work with the states to get the money out." The president touted efforts to loosen restrictions tied to recovery money. Such efforts are intended to speed up the recovery process and he cited debris removal as one such example. Bush also lauded Congress' approval of $110 billion in aid money and cited successful federal funding of New Orleans' public schools.
You jackass. You're picking up the trash? Dude, if the trash in this city could be contained in ten dumpsters, you've only moved a couple of cans worth. And you're already reneging on that claim by refusing to pay for cleanup in places like Cameron, a poor fishing parish that's still mostly without utilities. Let's talk about the tens of thousands of flooded houses we're about to shred. Where's that debris going? Oh, and schools! Successful funding of the schools, indeed. All...five? Six? Podnah, most of the schools are destroyed. People are gone, perhaps forever. Families have been uprooted. You take credit for taking out the trash. Nice. Did you use a Hefty with the tie wraps, or did you wing it and use a big contractor bag from Halliburton? God knows you paid enough to get one gratis.
And while we're at it, you jug-eared excuse for a doorstop, let's discuss that $110 billion. I want to see FEMA's books. Open 'em up, bitch. We've gotten under a billion to rebuild infrastructure in the region, but Fluor, through a series of wholly owned subsidiaries, has already made billions from the cleanup. Explain that to me, oh mighty squasher of WMD's. Tell me why the city can't pay to repair the leak to a water meter two houses from me, a leak that has progressed from a mere gurgle to a now constant stream, replete with green algae and a daily flock of bathing birds. Show me the accounting for the lack of funds to fill the pothole that jarred my molar loose this morning on De Saix Boulevard. This city is crumbling, man.
Meanwhile, Fluor, through the gracious (and apparently unavailable-to-the-public) rules of FEMA, is considered to be a local contractor in both Mississippi and Louisiana, all without having papers of incorporation or income tax records in either state. Magnificent. A loophole big enough to drive a self-loading haul-truck through. See that? All of my tax money, and I've picked up the disposal agency lingo! How wonderful!
Mr. President, it's beyond money. It's a matter of decency for you to show respect to the citizens you lead. Sometimes that respect is a matter of caring for them, and not just the millions of faceless individuals whose nations we arbitrarily decided to invade.
My frustration with the White House fading, I found this headline, too.
Today (how many months into the hurricane season?) the Corps of Engineers disclosed the pumps installed at the 17th Street and London Avenue locks began to vibrate during a drill. “We don’t know what’s causing it,” said New Orleans District Chief Colonel Richard Wagenaar. “The whole system starts to vibrate to the point where everything, the platform, everything starts shaking, so you have to shut it down because of the damage potentially to the pumps itself.”
Say what?
You've been slinging shit all summer saying you were this close to having a viable temporary solution should any storms come into the region. People's homes and livelihoods have been claimed and demolished to make way for your "solution", all without any payment to the owners. That's some impressive engineering, yes, sir. Who's coming up with these designs? Wile E. Coyote? At least he would have ordered a pre-assembled solution from ACME and had it dropped in a big wooden crate. The box would have dropped on him, but dropped nonetheless. Here's a hint: when you pump water out of a city shaped like a bowl, it usually requires said pump to actually be PUMPING.
Attention Georgie. Attention Corps-holes. There is another depression in the Atlantic. K+1 is eight days away. If we get a repeat of last year, you're going to have more to worry about than making deadlines on building dams in Arizona or keeping raging terrorists from using KY on transatlantic flights. You're going to have a bunch of 'yats tracking your ass down to feed you to the gators.
I'm so glad I didn't have to drive the forty miles to do it.
But as I'm
Bush acknowledges slow pace of La. recovery - Bush said, "...we've appropriated the money, and now we'll work with the states to get the money out." The president touted efforts to loosen restrictions tied to recovery money. Such efforts are intended to speed up the recovery process and he cited debris removal as one such example. Bush also lauded Congress' approval of $110 billion in aid money and cited successful federal funding of New Orleans' public schools.
You jackass. You're picking up the trash? Dude, if the trash in this city could be contained in ten dumpsters, you've only moved a couple of cans worth. And you're already reneging on that claim by refusing to pay for cleanup in places like Cameron, a poor fishing parish that's still mostly without utilities. Let's talk about the tens of thousands of flooded houses we're about to shred. Where's that debris going? Oh, and schools! Successful funding of the schools, indeed. All...five? Six? Podnah, most of the schools are destroyed. People are gone, perhaps forever. Families have been uprooted. You take credit for taking out the trash. Nice. Did you use a Hefty with the tie wraps, or did you wing it and use a big contractor bag from Halliburton? God knows you paid enough to get one gratis.
And while we're at it, you jug-eared excuse for a doorstop, let's discuss that $110 billion. I want to see FEMA's books. Open 'em up, bitch. We've gotten under a billion to rebuild infrastructure in the region, but Fluor, through a series of wholly owned subsidiaries, has already made billions from the cleanup. Explain that to me, oh mighty squasher of WMD's. Tell me why the city can't pay to repair the leak to a water meter two houses from me, a leak that has progressed from a mere gurgle to a now constant stream, replete with green algae and a daily flock of bathing birds. Show me the accounting for the lack of funds to fill the pothole that jarred my molar loose this morning on De Saix Boulevard. This city is crumbling, man.
Meanwhile, Fluor, through the gracious (and apparently unavailable-to-the-public) rules of FEMA, is considered to be a local contractor in both Mississippi and Louisiana, all without having papers of incorporation or income tax records in either state. Magnificent. A loophole big enough to drive a self-loading haul-truck through. See that? All of my tax money, and I've picked up the disposal agency lingo! How wonderful!
Mr. President, it's beyond money. It's a matter of decency for you to show respect to the citizens you lead. Sometimes that respect is a matter of caring for them, and not just the millions of faceless individuals whose nations we arbitrarily decided to invade.
My frustration with the White House fading, I found this headline, too.
Today (how many months into the hurricane season?) the Corps of Engineers disclosed the pumps installed at the 17th Street and London Avenue locks began to vibrate during a drill. “We don’t know what’s causing it,” said New Orleans District Chief Colonel Richard Wagenaar. “The whole system starts to vibrate to the point where everything, the platform, everything starts shaking, so you have to shut it down because of the damage potentially to the pumps itself.”
Say what?
You've been slinging shit all summer saying you were this close to having a viable temporary solution should any storms come into the region. People's homes and livelihoods have been claimed and demolished to make way for your "solution", all without any payment to the owners. That's some impressive engineering, yes, sir. Who's coming up with these designs? Wile E. Coyote? At least he would have ordered a pre-assembled solution from ACME and had it dropped in a big wooden crate. The box would have dropped on him, but dropped nonetheless. Here's a hint: when you pump water out of a city shaped like a bowl, it usually requires said pump to actually be PUMPING.
Attention Georgie. Attention Corps-holes. There is another depression in the Atlantic. K+1 is eight days away. If we get a repeat of last year, you're going to have more to worry about than making deadlines on building dams in Arizona or keeping raging terrorists from using KY on transatlantic flights. You're going to have a bunch of 'yats tracking your ass down to feed you to the gators.