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Feb. 17th, 2003 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishGoogle and Larry Page: "Google has been profitable since the first quarter of 2001. Why did we make becoming profitable such a priority? It's good that we did, because we might well be gone if we hadn't. The real reason is that we became profitable in the first quarter of 2001 because Sergey Brin made it a priority. You see, Sergey would try to go out on dates. He would call up women. And to impress them he would say, 'I'm the president of a money-losing dot-com.' But in Palo Alto in 2000, a huge number of people were presidents of money-losing dot-coms. And so they would not call him back. And he thought, 'If only I were president of a money-making dot-com, things would be very different...'"
'I lit the match': "Who did they think they were? God? Surely God can fight his own battles." --READ THIS
Had an exciting trip to Wal-Mart yesterday during which the power went out. I didn't think it did that at Wal-Mart; I always assumed that they had hordes of underpaid workers to run on treadmills and power their generators. Afterwards watched After Life with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
uilos, nixve, zerblinitzky, and Davebob who hasn't got a LiveJournal. It was pretty good. Slow, but thought-provoking. It would have been cool to have sat around and talked about it for awhile, but it's a fairly personal kind of movie; it more easily inspires thought than conversation. So instead we (along with laughin) sat around until four AM talking about ... stuff. Yeah. Hanging out with cool people makes it easy to forget that various aspects of my life are down the drain, and to generally feel good about existence. (Note to scathach and others who a) care and b) are a bit lost: Nixve == Kelly.)
Of course, we only stayed up until four instead of going to sleep so we could get up and go to class (well, except for Davebob the insane) because Tech is actually closed today, for the first time since I've been here [1]. So I actually managed to sleep in 'til eleven. I ought to spend (at least some of) today working on a three-page summary of Kierkegaard's arguments in Sickness Unto Death, but that's less than a thousand words, so it's trivial. And I have The Macarena Of Time.
[1] According tovt_komainu, it's the first time in eight years. I'm not sure if he means '94-95 or '95-96; I don't remember classes being cancelled in '95-96 but there's a lot about my first two years of college that I'm fuzzy on, and there was that big blizzard.
'I lit the match': "Who did they think they were? God? Surely God can fight his own battles." --READ THIS
Had an exciting trip to Wal-Mart yesterday during which the power went out. I didn't think it did that at Wal-Mart; I always assumed that they had hordes of underpaid workers to run on treadmills and power their generators. Afterwards watched After Life with
uilos, nixve, zerblinitzky, and Davebob who hasn't got a LiveJournal. It was pretty good. Slow, but thought-provoking. It would have been cool to have sat around and talked about it for awhile, but it's a fairly personal kind of movie; it more easily inspires thought than conversation. So instead we (along with laughin) sat around until four AM talking about ... stuff. Yeah. Hanging out with cool people makes it easy to forget that various aspects of my life are down the drain, and to generally feel good about existence. (Note to scathach and others who a) care and b) are a bit lost: Nixve == Kelly.)Of course, we only stayed up until four instead of going to sleep so we could get up and go to class (well, except for Davebob the insane) because Tech is actually closed today, for the first time since I've been here [1]. So I actually managed to sleep in 'til eleven. I ought to spend (at least some of) today working on a three-page summary of Kierkegaard's arguments in Sickness Unto Death, but that's less than a thousand words, so it's trivial. And I have The Macarena Of Time.
[1] According to
vt_komainu, it's the first time in eight years. I'm not sure if he means '94-95 or '95-96; I don't remember classes being cancelled in '95-96 but there's a lot about my first two years of college that I'm fuzzy on, and there was that big blizzard.
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Date: 2003-02-17 10:50 am (UTC)Blizzarding: 1996, President's Day weekend, is what my parents have told me. I think that was the year that Fairfax county added 30min to the end of every school day for the rest of the year rather than (logically, i thought) just add a few days into June.
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Date: 2003-02-17 11:24 am (UTC)And I distinctly remember longer school days in 1994 (my junior year); if it happened after '95 I have no recollection of that event, Senator. :)
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Date: 2003-02-17 11:28 am (UTC)(My mom probably knows, but she's on the phone.)