Im on ur blog

Hijacking ur posts

Tell me what you can hear
and then tell me what you see
everybody has a different way to view the world

I would like you to know
when you see the simple things
to appreciate this life that's not too late to learn.

Thank you TIME

I'm humbled. :)

Haha

For some reason, this article is really cracking me up (you won't be able to read it a day from now, I'll get excerpts later). But suffice to say, this one quote says it all:

Wendy Davis of MediaPost describes the presentation as a “a culture clash of near-epic proportions.” She recounts how UBS analyst Ben Schachter wanted to know how Craigslist plans to maximize revenue. It doesn’t, Mr. Buckmaster replied

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“I think a lot of people are catching their breath right now,” Mr. Schachter said in response.

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Following the meeting, Mr. Schachter wrote a research note, flagged by Tech Trader Daily, which suggests that he still doesn’t quite get the concept of serving customers first, and worrying about revenues later, if at all (and nevermind profits).

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Larry Dignan, writing on Between the Lines blog at ZDNet, called Mr. Buckmaster “delightfully communist,” and described the audience as “confused capitalists wondering how a company can exist without the urge to maximize profits.”

I'm actually, quite literally, cracking up. And this coming from a business major. Oh god.

(And on a more serious note, give the article - or at least the parts I quoted - a little thought. And then consider the consistently growing trend of privatization of government services. You might just become a tad bit scared.)

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Now Playing: The Crystal Method - Bound Too Long

Meta

The funny thing about cryptic blog posts like the one I just made is that they seemingly defeat the very purpose of blogging. For instance, there really isn't anyone who has any idea what I was talking about with my last one liner. Besides myself of course. I mean, you could sure as hell spend a good amount of time thinking about it and you'd still be nowhere close to actually figuring out what the hell I'm talking about. Given the fairly public nature of blogging - and the fact that there are still people besides myself who actually do at times go to echelonv.blogspot.com - it begs the question as to why I posted in the first place.

Well go figure, I'm not telling.

*sticks tongue out

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Now Playing: Sasha - Baja

PS. Yes, I am oh-so-bored. I'm about to go clean my car.

In my almost 21 years of existence, I didn't think it was possible...

I guess it is.

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Now Playing: Darude - Feel The Beat

Either my tolerance level is dropping or...

I'm not the kind of person to ordinarily hold anything against anyone. But it does get a little tiresome when the same select person (or should I say people?) gains perverse pleasure in, well, going through your stuff - in more ways than one - when you're away.

Though I guess leaving my computer switched on and not locked when I left the country, and not doing something about certain highly incriminating video files (yes, those) was probably the biggest mistake on my part. Especially when you know that there WILL be attempts by said person/people to get his/their jollies off.

At some point, what with all the constant attempts (both successful and otherwise) to invade your privacy in more ways than one (omg he has a webcam! and it's running! and there's someone at the other end!), you wonder when to say "guys, that's just not cool".

Because it's getting fucking annoying now.

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Now Playing: Keane - Nothing In My Way

Hello

It's been too long. And it going to be a while again - off to the gay capital of England The World The Universe I go. Can't be too different from Austin then can it?

Since last time:

- Interviewed with Microsoft. Probably a freak accident seeing as how they don't accept international students for their Finance internships. I decided to interview anyway, why turn down an opportunity?

- Applied to, got an interview for, and interviewed with the FAP. I really don't know what my chances are. Everyone I know in the program right now is a BHP overachiever.

- Democrats took control of both houses of Congress. *

- Skipped an LEB test. Now my hopes for yet another 4.0 basically rest on a single final. In other words, so much for that perfect GPA. :(

I hear my roommate playing Sonic. Time to go harass him.

* Democrats are incapable of winning anything. At all. This is nothing more than a minor glitch in the proverbial matrix, soon to be resolved.

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Now Playing: Oasis - Turn Up The Sun

Now Playing: Sasha - Rabbitweed

(Yes, you can have a refund - less a 15% restocking fee.)

Swan song

Not a pole position, not a race win, and not a championship win. But still one of the greatest drives ever. From one of the greatest the greatest ever.

Nothing else to say. The past 15 years have said it all.