orthogons Aeonity Blog

Happy birthday to meeeee

Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:58:10 -0500

Whee, 23, one year closer to the grave. I think I preferred being 22... Hey, at least I'm employed, have a great girlfriend, a nice house with a posh address in a good neighborhood, and relative financial independence.

"Feds Fear Air Broadband Terror"

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:11:44 -0500

"Feds Fear Air Broadband Terror," proclaims the headline. "Ah Jesus, fuck off, you paranoid fuckin dweebs," proclaims the pundit. This is just another node in a seemingly neverending string of paranoid delusional wannabe-postapocalyptic hype put out by the US government in an effort to retain and increase its ever-growing stranglehold on the freedom of US residents and citizens, and do whatever it takes - be it world-ending war, blackmail, murder, whatever - to keep the present Christian right-wing conservative wehrmacht in power. Whatever happened to the bill of rights? In five years or so, I ought to have EU citizenship, after which I will have absolutely no use for my country of birth.

London go boom

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 07:06:15 -0500

Terrorism goes multinational:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4659093.stm

Dell. <-- note the period

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:14:07 -0500

I'm hired, by Dell Direct in Cherrywood (suburb of Dun Laoghaire, suburb of Dublin). Granted, there are still two points of failure: a) references not, for some reason, coming through for me; b) work permit being denied. It's really inconvenient being an American trying to work in Ireland. Yet another obstacle that must be surmounted...

Bonfire night!

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:38:11 -0500

A many-thousands-of-years-old pagan tradition that somehow managed to escape Catholicism, or just extremely ingrained Irish pyromania? You be the judge. That's not mist out there, that's smoke... http://community.webshots.com/album/377141061KEvtNA

Xilinx?

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:02:38 -0500

Got called by a recruiter (!-- that's never happened) this morning about the Co. Dublin branch of an American company called Xilinx wanting a UNIX/Linux helpdesk tech. I made it through the grilling session, so he's forwarded my CV to them & I'll hear back Mondayish. He seemed slightly desperate. Apparently, they aren't scared of my 'Stamp 2' student status: according to 'Ben,' getting a 'work authorisation' for IT, post-September, is 'fairly easy; [he]'s done it before for foreigners--' takes 10-15 days, EUR50, and a trip to London (STR0.99, or STR1.89 return, from Dublin). Xylinx made the 'Forbes 100 best companies to work for' list. EUR28-30k/year. Fingers crossed. Alternatively, my cousin Roger has offered to put my CV in for a 1-year tour in Iraq doing helpdesk support, which (says he): > Have him send me a resume and I'll see what I can do here for > something like a helpdesk position. One year tour could net him > enough to go back to school for a couple of years, even in a place > as expensive as Ireland. Has he led a clean life so he can get a > security clearance? Sure, what the hell, it's only decapitation!

Yay, I passed!

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:25:19 -0500

I got an e-mail from the Department today confirming that I will, in fact, be graduating with the rest of my class, this September, recieving the degree of a Bachelor of Arts in Music and English (but in Irish and Latin). Still no word on what sort of honours I've managed, but I'm assuming it's some form of a second (mostly thanks to Paul Everett's evilness-- all of my other submissions have gotten firsts). Oh well, nothing to be done. Still trying to get a job. Dell is meant to be calling me Any Second Now Really for an interview. I'm getting my Perl, SCSI and RAID knowhow back up to snuff, in preparation. Alternatively, the Apple European headquarters is just up the road from my house, so that's another place to poke at for employment. Failing that, I'm stuck going back to the US for as little time as possible before September. If I can manage it, I'd like to be here in August as they're sailing a Viking longboat down from Norway and I (and Joni) alone from Cork have been invited to Ferrycarrig for the event. Looks like I'm going to miss Pat's wedding. This situation is shit as that's only going to happen once. Arse crap feck shit hell damn...

Consummatum est.

Sun, 15 May 2005 10:27:47 -0500

There, college is finished. Crap! I don't want to have to get a job! Bloody hell.

More things should explode

Wed, 03 Mar 2004 08:16:09 -0600

That's what I have to say.

The Pope loves break-dancers

Tue, 24 Feb 2004 14:02:23 -0600

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/01/26/pope.breakdancers.ap/index.html