MAY 24TH, 2005
By PSEUDOSANITY
Ok.. I have had about 3 hours of meeting so far, and have learnt NOTHING. Zilch. Zero. Nada. For every single question I ask, the reply is “Sorry, we cannot tell you that. Its proprietory information.” WTF?? What did these guys think I was going to ask about, the weather?? There is this moronic lawyer sitting in all of my meetings making sure no one is telling me stuff they arent supposed to. I have known him for less than 4 hours and I already hate him. I think hunting lawyers should be a legal sport.
MAY 24TH, 2005
By PSEUDOSANITY
Stuck in a pressurized tin cylinder 33000 feet above ground, I have run out things I can do within the 5 inches of “personal” space I have. I am incapable of working in any space where I cannot spread my papers and scratch sheets around, and there is only so much Tetris I can play on my iPOD. Thank god for corporate policies that permits the use of insanely overpriced satellite internet services.
I want to apologize for yet another unannounced absence, but I am going to hold back on it till I am sure this isn’t going to be a recurring thing. Bloging, I realized is a lot like working out. You don’t do it for two days straight and its near impossible to get back to it. In the last week I have opened the blogger interface atleast a dozen times, and just couldn’t get myself to type in an entry. I drew perfect blanks. I stared at the screen for a few minutes and then just give up. I was never one for planned writing sessions. For me writing irrespective of what it is about or what kind it might be, has to be spontaneous. If I am not in my groove, the words are bland, the flow is blotchy, and in general the whole thing is a piece of crap not even worth the paper it is on.
Right now I am on my way to attend a workshop where I will learn the details of the family jewels of the company I am interning at. Needless to say they have made me sign a gazillion non disclosure documents and a whole bunch of legal papers which I didn’t understand. I could have sworn there was a mortgage application somewhere in that pile. I really didn’t mind them anyways. At the end of this workshop, the information I will have will be worth more than the net worth of half the country. I am fairly surprised that they are letting an intern gain access to such privy stuff. Some one in corporate is going to get reamed for this one day. I just know it.
Life has been unusually good to me for the last 2 weeks. I finally finished the book chapter with QoH and his advisor. I am going to call him Carleone for two reasons, one he is old and wise, and second he actually runs an academic mafia. Now I realize why he is the top ranked professor in this field. That guy is a machine. I sent him a draft of the book chapter after QoH and I had gone over it like a billion times and fixed stuff. It’s a 48 page dense document. Within a day of sending it to him, he faxed us a list of 76 things that he would like modified. Seventy fuckin six. After a week of bouncing drafts between him and QoH , I finally got them to agree on most of the issues. The manuscript is undergoing review process right now. Fingers crossed.
Ok, the stewardess is bringing out the goodies now. Time to gulp down all the peanuts and pretzels humanly possible. Adios.
MAY 6TH, 2005
By PSEUDOSANITY
I am going to let you finish that title. If you listen really hard, you can almost hear the whole world going “obnoxious prick.” For the better or worse I am back, and am here to stay.
First I would like to apologize for my unannounced hiatus. Things got really crazy last week. I was left fielding two open houses, a conference, a gazzilion lunches and dinners with Industrial collaborators, and a job interview. Right now I have a picture of my bed in my wallet. I so miss it.
I know I am way behind on my comment responses, and havent even started catching up on your blogs. I promise I will get it done by this weekend. However, I do want to thank you all for your supportive comments and emails. You have no idea as to how much they helped.
Lets see, first order of business. The counter issue. As of May 1st, the numbers were 4:1 for the counter. So the counter stays. I apologize to the person who wanted it gone. However, I am going to tell you in my next post how to setup a proxy connection. You could consider that as your compensation.
Lets see.. Oh ya.. my internship.. so I got this really cool idea for a device a while ago. I bounced it off J and a few other big heads, and they liked it. Now we have abandoned the entire plan and have made a shift to the new idea.
QoH has been QoH. The sweet nerdy devil. He hooked me up with a few industrial big shots last week, and one of those ended up interviewing me. Fingers crossed.
The date went well. We met quite a few times after that too. I really dont want to talk about it. It sounds SO like “high schooly.”
Well I guess thats the gist of the past week. More later.
