Posted on June 24, 2008, 11:17 pm, by Reid, under
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Today, I did the work thing, got an REI membership, and played GTA IV. One year ago, I packed for a trip to China and Thailand. Two years ago, I moved into my new dorm room and went through RA training for Summer Research College. Three years ago, I went with Jenny down to Santa [...]
Posted on May 22, 2008, 11:13 pm, by Reid, under
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Today was an interesting day. Some of our tools were scheduled to go under maintenance today, but I did some checking throughout the day and found that they weren’t. The office was surprisingly empty throughout the day (where did everyone go??) and I don’t think anyone wanted to tell our managers that the tools were [...]
Posted on May 6, 2008, 8:00 pm, by Reid, under
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I don’t understand why mail-in rebates exist. Why not give you the rebate up front, when you purchase a product? I suppose the asinine reasoning is that the process and time required to mail-in a rebate is so frustrating that many consumers will simply choose to forgo this idiotic exercise. But, I wonder how much [...]
Posted on April 13, 2008, 11:12 pm, by Reid, under
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Boy oh boy, it was an action packed weekend of fooding, driving, and walking. To recount: 1. Relay for Life – thanks for Koklynn for setting this up! Koklynn, Nelson, Wysz, Charlene, and I joined Team Google for the 3AM to 6AM shift of the 24 hour walk to raise money for the American Cancer [...]
End of March. In lieu of some substantive post, let me comment on a few things that have happened recently. 1. My memory card for my camera finally came today. And to revise my previous post, I’m blaming UPS for the package mishap, not Amazon.com. I plan to take my camera out with me sometime [...]