Another article courtesy Dave Schrubbe:
Bots on the Ground, from the Washington Post.
I wonder if the robot army commanders of the future will chuckle at throwing a “bag of meat” on the land mines…
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Beginning of the End
Started my last week at UWO today. I feel remarkably normal about everything. Had a couple people ask me today if I was nervous about starting a new job, or excited to be leaving Oshkosh. Had to say neither. Maybe it just won’t seem as “real” until I start in MKE, but for the time being, I’m feeling fine about the whole thing…
I forgot to bring new coffee filters in for the second day, and I tried to make due with about 3 cone filters cut up and arranged inside the basket. That didn’t work, either. I put a ziploc bag full of filters on the steps so I won’t forget them on the way out tomorrow.
The steps are nice and clean, too; I had to give the apartment a nice little ‘once-over’ this evening, cuz my landlord is showing it tomorrow. It made me think about some of the shit holes that I’ve looked at while searching for apartments. I know that I probably won’t meet ANY of these people, but I really think you need to have some pride, a little self-respect, and try to make it look like you don’t live like a complete slob. Even if you do sometimes. So I did the floors, wiped the counters, washed all the dishes, and spot-cleaned the bathroom. Everything looks better.
Brewers won their 4th game in a row tonight. That’s also 12 out of their last 15. Pretty impressive. Still room on the bandwagon, folks…
I heard an interesting story over the weekend, wherein Steve Schrubbe’s car burned to the ground. That’s right– his car.
I also saw the third Spider-Man installment, and I’m giving it a 6-out-of-10: entertaining, but with some glaring holes/points of contention for the casual comic book geek (which I am). I’m a little too tired to chart the exact measures on a graph for you, but from the rough sketch below, you can see that some slight geekocity will allow you adequate background to enjoy the film, but as geekitude exceeds 50%, the issues with Spidey 3 rapidly approach infinity. I’d mark myself as about half-geek, so I guess the chart is skewed a bit through my perspective. But you get the idea (clicky for biggification).
OK, night-night time then.
Enumeration
One of the things that goes along with getting my new job (and goes along with getting any state job these days, actually) is a criminal background check. The paperwork has been a little challenging for me so far.
I’m certainly not concerned about what will come up on this check, but the first thing they ask you to do is “list all addresses at which you lived in the past seven years. Continue on back, if necessary:”
Oh, and I continued.
What I thought was interesting as I made the list was thinking back to the days that I moved in and the days I moved out of all these places. I can remember each one. God-DAMN I have moved a lot in a short period of time. Seven years feels like it was a century ago. Here’s my list:
| DATES | STREET | CITY | STATE | ZIP |
| 7/1/06-present | 661 Division St | Oshkosh | WI | 54901 |
| 7/1/04-6/30/06 | 470 N Main St | Oshkosh | WI | 54901 |
| 11/1/03-6/30/04 | 2080 Dickinson Ave | Oshkosh | WI | 54904 |
| 6/1/03-10/31/03 | 2716 Woodridge Ln | Waukesha | WI | 53188 |
| 1/20/03-5/31/03 | 606 Nelson Story | Bozeman | MT | 59715 |
| 8/30/02-1/19/03 | Johnstone Hall, Rm 4415 | Bozeman | MT | 59715 |
| 7/21/02-8/29/02 | 3520 Shangri-la Rd | Eagle River | WI | 54521 |
| 1/15/02-7/20/02 | 6140 S 18th St | Milwaukee | WI | 53221 |
| 6/1/99-1/14/02 | 456 High Ave | Oshkosh | WI | 54901 |
Wow. Maybe next place I go, I’ll try to settle in a little while.
Catch It!
Milwaukee has a 4-0 lead in the 5th as I write this, and if they hang on, they will have swept the world champs.
… You are officially cleared to catch that Brewer Fever.
A Little Filler
Now that I’m only going to be working at UWO for 2 more weeks, I have tons of stuff to do every day over there. I thought I had prepared to leave on the down-low pretty well during the course of the semester, but it turns out I didn’t think things through very much. Lots and lots to finish up.
In the meantime, why don’t you watch a music video starring Charlie the Karate Chimp?