Shepards Prayer...

I knows it.* I said it over and over again today as I faced down my first major test of the semester. And for the life of me, I couldn't remember where the hell the access time is printed on RAM chips! Other than that, I think it went well.

*Shepards Prayer (NASA version): Please God, don't let me fuck this up.
Shepards Prayer (SGA version): Please God, let Rodney notice me!

You know that jet?

The one Gov Palin keeps yammering on and on and fucking ON about? The one she sold on eBay? Turns out, not so much. The thing didn't sell, and yet Angry McCranky is claiming it did, and for a profit. Straight Talk Express, my pasty white ass.

The best part is that the damn jet wasn't used all that much by the governor - it was used to transport convicts to a facility in Arizona.

H/T to Daily Kos

A few gunmen short of a grassy knoll

I got the rare privilege of listening to one of my teachers blather on for twenty cocking minutes about how Microsoft is trying to take over the communications world with their .NET platform and some company whose name starts with 'tele.' My eyes had glazed over at this point. WTF?!? If this continues, I'm going to his Department head, because the State of Michigan isn't paying good money for me to have to listen to some Novell demagouge ranting about conspiracy theories.

PSA for anyone with a CitiBank credit card

Out of the, you know, two people who read this damned thing. via Consumerist:

Citigroup's "account sweeping program" automatically removed positive balances from customers' credit card accounts, Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. said. For instance, if a customer double-paid a bill by mistake or refunded a purchase for credit, that positive balance was then taken from the customer without notification, Brown said.

In the words of a Citibank executive, “Stealing from our customers is a business decision, not a legal decision.” The same executive later said that the sweep program could not be stopped because it would reduce the executive bonus pool.

Step back and read that second paragraph again. Some executive justified stealing because it would REDUCE HIS FUCKING BONUS!!!!!! I read this story and was so totally gobsmacked I almost fell out of my chair. Where the hell were the accountants? And the worst thing about it is, as someone pointed out the comments on Consumerist, the execs stole, lined their own pocket with bonuses, and the refunds and fines are coming out of the company coffers. People who had nothing to do with this might lose their jobs or their life savings if the stock tanks.

Sometimes I just want to give up and not give a shit anymore. Then I read about people like these, who drove across the country to rescue dogs they'd never met and knew nothing about, and I think there might be hope for humanity yet. As Jimmy Tock said in Life Expectancy, "Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake."

I put that in my MOUTH?!?!

I assumed the wonderful cough syrup my doc gave me was bubblegum flavored... Or cherry, it's hard to get past the 'cough syrup' thing. Hubby was just reading the description that Target gives you on the bottle and it says that they syrup is 'peach-mint' flavored. PEACH MINT?!?!?! Gack. Just... gack.

School. Blech.

I now know that I don't want to work in the IT field. I'm the only woman in my networking class, and my PC maintenance teacher seems to think that 'ignore the ones with boobs' is an effective teaching strategy. What the fuck was I thinking?!?!