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  • Thesis update #8

    There is a moment in a paper’s life that you are writing when you finally stop typing and you print it out. I am getting ready to print out my Thesis for the first time. I’m doing this to take a step away from writing to see what things are starting to look like. This gives me a chance to match up a lot of my references, include new figures and graphs, and add content as I see fit. Very exciting!

    Thesis Progress:
    version: 1.90
    pages: 23 (single spaced, 11pt and some 12pt font, a few figures)
    words: 9865
    characters: 49508
    size: 9.17 MB
    total editing time: 5495 minutes

  • Baby soon?

    Greta is getting very close! We’re trying to cram in as much stuff as we can. We got a lot of work done around the house, went out to see a movie (The Bourne Identity, great flick) and we got to bum around all day Friday. We feel are free time is coming to an end.

  • Selling your life on eBay

    I am amazed at the stuff people put on eBay, but this story (dead link) talks about this guy, whose story is probably the most famous.

    After putting everything he couldn’t fit in his car up for sale on eBay he actually wrote a book called All My Life for Sale where he finds some of the people that bought his stuff. He calls it artistic. I call it a sad commentary on people caught up in the internet hype that is eBay. There are web sites all over that troll eBay for weird stuff. This has only fueled a desire for people to put weirder and weirder stuff there. I think the people that got caught up in this guy scheme were duped into buying his crap by thinking they were part of history. All they have done is shown how things on the internet quickly get out of hand.

  • Job hunting on eBay

    So if you’re like me, you are struggling to find a job in the current sluggish market. Well, you can always do what these people did (dead link): sell yourselves on eBay!

  • Job happenings

    The job market seems to be gathering a head of steam. I usually do a weekly check of the job sites I use (Monster, Hot Jobs, Flip Dog) and I usually have the same results: nothing. Today, I had to update my resume on Monster because there was a job that sounded really cool! It was from a place in Westerville called Lake Shore Cryotronics and they are looking for someone with semiconductor processing and MEMS experience. It might not be a 100% fit, but I’m willing to give it a try.