monkey nonsense

A Taiwan stock trader mistakenly bought $251 million worth of shares with a mis-stroke of her computer, meaning her company is looking at a paper loss of more than $12 million and she is looking for a new job.

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goofy?

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so… a bunch of my friends all decided to (or perhaps i suckered them into it) enter the Hot 995 Floats contest. we had no idea what we were getting into. how to collect 99+ pepsi products?! (no one ever drinks pepsi! everyone i know drinks coke!) how to build a […]

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started the day off by waking up at 6:30ish to go wait in line for a free mini DVD player at the new safeway opening up. originally, we thought of going at 6:30… that got pushed back to 6:45… got there at 6:50ish… line was already crazy long! we felt we were already […]

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an email I received in response to my question to DMV about driver improvement classes:
Dear Ms. H,
Thank you for visiting www.dmvnow.com.
A customer can earn five safe driving points by attending a driver improvement clinic. If the customer’s record reflects the maximum safe driving points, the five safe driving points will not be awarded for […]

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it’s been one year since i joined the “real world”
couldn’t have gone any slower… and yet, at the same time, it seems to have gone by quite fast.

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annE (i think it was her…) once gave me a deck of cards that suggested good books to read… something like 52 great books to read… i am not quite sure why but most of the books i read (curious george, curious george takes a job, curi…) were not in it. i remember being […]

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… paintings by Congo the chimpanzee sold at auction for more than 14,000 pounds (US$25,620; euro20,917).

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so at work, i have to use linux/unix (what is the difference?!? … i’m such a failure of a CS major) quite a bit… so i had set up my own environment “settings in some file” that made it easier for me to use it… things like hitting the up button to repeat a […]

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you ever hear those horror stories of parents leaving their kids in the backseat on a hot, sunny day- they leave the house intending to drop off the kid at the daycare/school and head to work, but somewhere along the way… they forget the kid is with them and just head straight to work. […]

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