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Country: United States
State: Delaware
Gender: Male
Interests: Leadership and Management, contributing to organizations and humanitarian causes, pickup sports, reading every book, Information Technology, travel, Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream :-)
Expertise: Uh...*mumbles something*
Occupation: Student
Industry: Computers (Software)
Message: message me
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Member Since:
11/23/2003
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| So, I have disappeared for the past 3 months or so.
What happened? Was I out of commission from a horrible car accident that left only mangled remains of metal and plastic? Did I get insanely wealthy from an inheritance of millions of dollars from a long-forgotten uncle? Did I take a trip to somewhere in the Pacific Islands, not to be heard again for a long time? Did I worked in the farming fields of western China, in an attempt to escape the electronic-based world of metropolitan areas? Or did I ended up in jail, due to driving 90 mph while terribly drunk with a bottle of Samuel Adams as companion?
Fortunately, none of these things happened. Instead, I was insanely busy in the world of Corporate America. See, there is this company called GE Asset Management, which happened to be located in Stamford, CT, and they hired me to work there as a summer intern.
And you know, I have finally, finally, finally made it into the Information Management Leadership Program at GE. Yay! Which means, starting next July, I'll officially be in a accelerated management program (you know, up or out). I wanted that job since freshmen summer while working at GE Global Research, so it's nice to see one's plans working out like this.
Here are some photos of this adventure:
This is after my final presentation, after people ran away screaming left for other pressing things they had to do.
Yes, I realize this photo might be a bit scary.
No, we're not working for someone who liked to put lots of repeating photos of themselves. That was outside a Thai restaurant, today after lunch.
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| here's the lesson from 4 years at CU:
life is short. don't waste it on crap that have no future value. 
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| So, things are uber-crazy and I have no time to post. But here's a really funny series of conversation that two guys in my sign language class said (in sign language, of course...they were practicing signs by "negotiating" candy exchange):
"Can I have two M&Ms?"
"No..."
"Why not?"
"Well, I can give you 1 grape Starburst jellybean and 1 green M&M..."
"No, I don't want that...I want 2 orange M&Ms that you have..."
"How about 1 orange M&M and 1 grape jellybean?"
"Nooooo...."
...and so on...
Hahahaha...
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| I just woke up from a rather nasty dream. My brain is only 60% booted,
so it feels truly weird and out-of-body-like while writing this entry.
In my little adrenaline-filled dream, I was undergoing surgery for
cochlear implant. Except they did it while I was wide awake. Even
though I couldn't see it, I knew they were picking pieces of my
brain out to make space for this little electrode. And I was talking with
the surgeon. How creepy was that??! Maybe God, my subconscious, or
something else is trying to tell me a message about those kind of
thingies...
Ooooh yeah, lately, I was reading "Altered Carbon" by Richard Morgan.
For those not in the know, that's a sci-fi book about the distant
future, where people don't really die anymore because they have these
tiny electronic "stacks" in the back of their neck, where their
conscious is essentially "recorded" every second of their lives. So if
you die physically, the medical people will take out that "stack" and
put it in a new body
("sleeve"), and ta-da, you're resurrected -- minus a large portion of
your
life savings (to pay for that kind of immortality, of course). Unless,
if your stack has been vaporize in a charged particle blast (which
oddly tends to happen a lot in the story), then you are truly screwed.
I'm
reading it on my PalmOne Tungsten, and it is downright creepy. No
wonder my subconscious started showing "movies" during my sleep, on the
same level of...yuckiness.
Maybe I should start re-reading books like Pride and Prejudice. So much lighter, eh? 
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In other news, since taking COMM 263, I have developed an unconscious desire to edit every piece of writing that I see. Passive voice? Must turn it into active voice! Dangling modifiers? Must attach them coherent object(s)! Ambiguous pronouns? Must insert clarifications right after!
It's pretty annoying, I must admit. (And yes, I did edit this entry
before clicking "submit", although I ignored the rules about sentence
fragments, mwhahahahahaha.)
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| Well. Heh, so for the first class in sign language, I tried to be funny
while teaching everyone the alphabet. Except I also looked like an idiot in the process. In front of the director of SDS. Great. Isn't life wonderful?
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