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secret to avoiding rushhour

Posted by Jordan on August 16th, 2007

Step 1:
Drive to work at 6:15 in the morning. Discover lights faster, road more clear.
Step 2: Work 22 hours.
Step 3: Drive home at 4:30am. discover roads even /more/ clear.

This should be interesting

Posted by Jordan on June 14th, 2007

My job with the magazine is going to be fun (where by “fun” I mean “I have no idea what will happen”) for a little while.

Deeper and deeper

Posted by John on November 29th, 2005

I teach Chinese college students who are remarkably similar to what I imagine some of my friends were like in high school (it’s hard for me to be sure, as my memories of high school are tainted with the belief that I actually had my shit together which, in retrospect, was quite obviously not the [...]

Oops

Posted by Jordan on June 23rd, 2005

Comments you DON’T want to hear from the guys knocking a huge hole in the cinderblock wall 10 feet from the door in your office:
Is this one still live?
No.
Well, maybe.

And as an added bonus, you get to hear the sound of shrapnel hitting your door as they blast away at the wall [...]

Job Title

Posted by Jordan on January 7th, 2005

I’m getting new business cards at the office and was talking to my boss about changing my title. Currently, I’m listed as a “Network Security Engineer”. She (jokingly) suggested replacing engineer with “Agent”, an idea that I commented (not jokingly) would be perfect.
In the end, we came up with a variety of names, [...]