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April 2001

Another day...

Sun, 2001/04/22 - 12:24pm

...another comic.

I've got some drawing to do to get Evilyn's birthday present together today. I can't decide which of the 437,000 pictures there are of her on my Gothic BC site to use, not mention all the others that I have from converting files for her and other things.


Things just don't change

Sat, 2001/04/21 - 11:09am

Don't even ask why or how I happen to have a political cartoon from March 14, 1978 kicking around, but here is definitive proof that things just don't change.

And here is today's regularly scheduled cartoon.

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/11253.html


Oh, man!

Fri, 2001/04/20 - 7:58pm

I did it again... got my ass out of the fire just in the nick of time. Here I was this afternoon wandering around the apartment looking for things to sell, wondering if Evilyn would be interested in buying the wonder wagon, and such things because I didn't have rent together. Then a small contact comes through and I will be getting exactly the amount I'm short by courier Monday!


Does it make you dizzy?

Fri, 2001/04/20 - 12:17pm
Animated spinning head
Sit and spin

OK, it seemed like a cool idea, but this spinning animated head gets annoying quickly. I think I'll go back to a static picture.

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/10748.html


Begging for Lattés

Fri, 2001/04/20 - 10:53am

Another day, another interview. This one was a second, shortlist interview with the HSBC. It looks very much like I am going to get this one. Turns out their Notes development team lead knows a lot of the same people I do, particularly my two most important references, through the now defunct Pacific Northwest Notes user group. This definitely helps.


The Borg are coming!

Thu, 2001/04/19 - 7:34pm

Or perhaps the Daleks... something like that anyway.


News on the job front.

Thu, 2001/04/19 - 7:16pm

I have another interview with HSBC tomorrow morning. This time meeting with the MIS and head of their development division. This'll be the technical interview. I wonder what they will hit me with. Not that it matters. I'm good at what I do and it isn't hard to show that. Things continue to slide slowly forward...

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/9818.html


More buried treasures!

Thu, 2001/04/19 - 2:23pm

Hehe! I found my collection of comics clipped from various newspapers and magazines. I think I'll post them with my entries until I run out. There are a lot of them so that'll be long way off!

Here is the first. One of my all-time favourites (the link will open a new window).

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/9499.html


Too bloody funny!

Thu, 2001/04/19 - 1:45pm
NBC Notes
My NBC notes from basic training.

I was scrounging around for an article I wanted to read and came across my old notebooks from basic training. I was, without a doubt, so not suited to being a soldier as these pages of my chemical warfare notes will attest.


Like this is news to me

Thu, 2001/04/19 - 1:06pm

Gee, looks like people who do what I do are having a tough time all over. I ain't surprised! Nonetheless I have another interview at HSBC tomorrow morning. I'll find out later today if it is simply a "meet the staff (so we can tell if they hate you)" second interview or whether they are going to table an offer.


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