Muy Anti-Bueno
I don't know what I'm talking about.Thursday, December 28, 2006
Vampyroteuthis infernalis
WiFi
Jan and I spent today around the Lloyd Center area with her laptop hunting out MetroFi spots.
I was again amazed at just how many wireless networks there are in Portland now. It seems everyone and their grandmothers have one. Right down to the 'John Richard Powers' kiosk in Lloyd Center.
I eagerly await the construction of a gargantuan monolith in the crater of Mt. St. Helens (for steam power, naturally) to provide WiFi to the whole area.
I was again amazed at just how many wireless networks there are in Portland now. It seems everyone and their grandmothers have one. Right down to the 'John Richard Powers' kiosk in Lloyd Center.
I eagerly await the construction of a gargantuan monolith in the crater of Mt. St. Helens (for steam power, naturally) to provide WiFi to the whole area.
Labels: portland, technophilia
Why I Need and Want to Get Back Into Lego™s
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Scholarships
I went to an informational presentation about scholarships on Tuesday. The hour of talking was superfluous, given everything had already been condensed into a packet of papers and a few URLs.
Being white, male, heterosexual, and middle-class means I don't qualify for that many scholarships right off the bat. Still, there's thousands available, and between scholarship search engines like FastWeb and this booklet I've found some good ones.
Illustrators/Writers of the Future: Write or illustrate an original sci-fi story and get up to $2,500. Provided by the L. Ron Hubbard estate.
Wine Scholarship: Major in something wine related, and you're set.
Several from the Ayn Rand estate if you write an ideologically pure enough essay based on one of her books (for a rather hefty $5,000 each).
$250 if I watch Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and pass on a quiz about it.
The sites also ask some strange questions about hobbies and association memberships when determining what scholarships you could apply for. If I blog, play video games, am against the death penalty, am involved in historical reenactment, collect coins, or (and it said simply this) interact I am eligible for more scholarships.
The sites are certainly useful, even with the repeated prompts for me to join the military. They also provide information on local job or internship opportunities, and (couched between eight offers from Wal-Mart) there's one's like an internship at the Naval Historical Center.
College is promising to be utter chaos.
Being white, male, heterosexual, and middle-class means I don't qualify for that many scholarships right off the bat. Still, there's thousands available, and between scholarship search engines like FastWeb and this booklet I've found some good ones.
Illustrators/Writers of the Future: Write or illustrate an original sci-fi story and get up to $2,500. Provided by the L. Ron Hubbard estate.
Wine Scholarship: Major in something wine related, and you're set.
Several from the Ayn Rand estate if you write an ideologically pure enough essay based on one of her books (for a rather hefty $5,000 each).
$250 if I watch Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and pass on a quiz about it.
The sites also ask some strange questions about hobbies and association memberships when determining what scholarships you could apply for. If I blog, play video games, am against the death penalty, am involved in historical reenactment, collect coins, or (and it said simply this) interact I am eligible for more scholarships.
The sites are certainly useful, even with the repeated prompts for me to join the military. They also provide information on local job or internship opportunities, and (couched between eight offers from Wal-Mart) there's one's like an internship at the Naval Historical Center.
College is promising to be utter chaos.
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