Archives: Lance
My Google-fu, it is strong
March 1st, 2010, No Comments
Friday, I found a very nice looking job lead on Workopolis for a Red Hat system administrator position with knowledge of Drupal or EC2 a plus. Brilliant! My skills fit those requirements like a glove. Friday night, I wrote a cover letter and prepared to submit said letter and resume to the [...]
Oh Canada!
February 23rd, 2010, 1 Comment
Well, it seems my time in North Carolina is coming to a close. My fiance, B, has accepted a 3-year postdoctoral position at the University of Calgary in Calgary, AB, and I’ve been job hunting for a while now. I have several job leads and we hope I’ll secure a position in time for us [...]
Fun and games with Time Warner Cable
February 7th, 2010, 2 Comments
Our cablemodem has been crapping out on us periodically. It would just stop working and we’d have to unplug its power and plug it back in to get it running again. This didn’t happen very often so it wasn’t an urgent matter. Yesterday, I had to run errands in Durham anyay, so I took the [...]
It’s the small things in life
February 3rd, 2010, No Comments
Ya know, it’s really the small things in life that make me feel good about myself. The big wins that make you feel like Superman for a day come so rarely, for me, that I can’t rely on them to keep my outlook positive.
For example, I prefer New Balance shoes and have worn them exclusively [...]
WBCOOP Event #6 Cash
January 29th, 2010, No Comments
Finally, avoided all the suck outs to “cash” in the World Blogger Championship Of Online Poker event #6, the mixed game. I went out in 141st place and won a $11 tournament signup ticket for the Pokerstars Spring Championship of Online Poker.
Events #1 – #5 all went the same way. I chipped up early, got [...]
World Blogger Championship of Online Poker
January 7th, 2010, No Comments
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! PokerStars.com is the home of Free Online Poker Games, bloggers can play for free in the exclusive WBCOOP tournament, register here to play: WBCOOP
Registration code: 896782
Got Engagement?
January 6th, 2010, 5 Comments
I’m indescribably happy to announce that I got engaged to my sweetie over Christmas vacation. We have no idea when we are getting married yet. She finished her Ph.D. this fall and is now looking for work after completing her school obligations and is currently in College Station, TX interviewing for a postdoc position. She [...]
World’s Worst Eye-Searing Campaign Website
November 3rd, 2009, 3 Comments
Republican George Hutchins is challenging Democrat David Price for his NC 4th District seat in Congress in 2010 and has published the most eye-searing, horrid, ugly campaign website I’ve ever seen. I think he’s trying to single-handedly revive Geocities or something and have a hard time seeing him as a serious contender against Rep. Price.
Irony
October 17th, 2009, No Comments
Is playing ‘Flight Control’ on my iPhone while waiting to board my flight to MN.
iPhone MMS Problems solved
October 14th, 2009, No Comments
When MMS for iPhone landed last month, I tried it out and it failed repeatedly. The send progress bar would reach 90% or so,stall, and then pop an error message instead of sending the picture.
Today, I tried again after learning the AT&T Carrier File 5.6 update was supposed to fix this very problem, but still [...]
