monkey nonsense

my coworker sent me this article:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/23/1746254
“Developers seeking job security in the years ahead could find an unlikely edge in Cobol. According to an InfoWorld report, demand for Cobol skills is surging, with salaries on the rise. More importantly, the short supply of offshore Cobol programmers and the fact that mainframes aren’t going away anytime soon […]

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washingtonpost had an article about using “airport business” as an excuse to use the HOV lanes during rush hour - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/15/AR2008061502136.html?hpid=topnews
darn it!! i’ve been using this excuse for about a year now. mostly for the afternoon. especially when i tutored in reston. i would just take the tollroad all the way […]

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interesting cnn article about whether or not you can tell if someone is gay from the way they walk.  a grad student is doing research into this by having people walk around with red lights on them in the dark and recording their strides.  because all you see is their outline and stride, you’re not […]

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interesting article in the washingtonpost today about a 20 year long study to see if your behavior as a 1 year influences
your future romances.
oh weird… i hadn’t even noticed but it mentions a researcher at CMU!
from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/11/AR2007021100931.html
Plagued With Relationship Troubles? Blame Your Parents.
By Shankar Vedantam
Monday, February 12, 2007; A02

So, Valentine’s Day is two days away, […]

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NY Times had an article (about a year ago, i just stumbled upon it) about my next door neighbor!! she is a student at yale and they interviewed her about what she wants to do. i think some people may view it as kind of anti-feminist because she wants to go to […]

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cnn had an article about radical vs. moderate muslims. they entitled it Radical Muslim: We drink our enemies’ blood. all i could think of was…. WARNING: 24 SPOILER!!!! well, jack bauer eats our enemies!
in any case, i was wondering whether middle eastern people get tired of playing the bad guys every season […]

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Surgery on Girl Raises Ethical Questions
By LINDSEY TANNER
The Associated Press
Thursday, January 4, 2007; 7:27 PM

CHICAGO — In a case fraught with ethical questions, the parents of a severely mentally and physically disabled child have stunted her growth to keep their little “pillow angel” a manageable and more portable size.
The bedridden 9-year-old girl had her […]

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i was reading an article about billy graham and his family trying to decide where to be buried once they’ve died. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ article/2006/12/12/AR2006121201338_pf.html) it was an interesting article… i guess the subject is a touchy one and it’s interesting to hear how families are dealing with it. it’s pretty cool that it seems […]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/20/AR2006112001376.html
Susan Kidd is leaving too!!!
NBC4 is upsetting me! you develop a bond with your news anchor… a relationship!! you see them every day, they report to you the news of the day cheerfully. they joke around with one another and you feel like you’ve gotten to know them a bit. you […]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/16/AR2006111600669.html
“Michael’s departure from the anchor desk will mark the end of the market’s longest-serving and top-rated news team of himself, news anchors Jim Vance and Doreen Gentzler and weatherman Bob Ryan.”
NBC4 was by far my favorite news channel. I used to start watching the news at 4pm with Jim Handly. Then 5pm […]

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