Journal entries in 'Ruminations' for October, 2004

My wallet likes to fall out of my pocket when I'm sitting down. Luckily, so far I've always noticed before disaster struck, but eventually it will find a chink in my armor of attentiveness and make good its escape. I think it may be time to breach the drawer I swore would never again be opened, and withdraw, gleaming in the setting sun, my trusty wallet chain of old.

Whenever I come across the website of someone who is interested in photography, their photo gallery tends to only contain the few outstanding pieces they're really proud of. This stands in stark contrast to my own, which contains pictures of anything and everything. As a result, the few pictures I take that aren't just snapshots are sort of lost amid the malestrom of the mediocre.

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I learned today that well-known linguist, human rights speaker, and every political band's favorite source of samples, Noam Chomsky, an Institute Professor of linguistics at MIT. Just one more reason I'd love to have spent time there.

As for Google, my score on the SAT, the only saving grace of my academic career, would be irrelevant to them. What they're interested in is an employment candidate's performance on the GLAT — the Google Labs Aptitude Test. In case their URLs change, I've got the four pages here:

• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Page 4

I love working at Xapiens, but I can't help but swoon at a company that clearly has so much nerdy fun in what they do, and look for the same in their prospective employees. Though I feel terribly inadequate, perhaps someday I'll work up the nerve to send them my resume or something. In the meantime, I'll continue to gaze on them from afar with heart-shaped eyes.