Going Back To Winthrop

It’s Ben’s (Name_Removed’s brother) birthday celebration this weekend. To celebrate his birthday, he is bringing one of his buddies up to Winthrop. Name_Removed’s parents are already up in Winthrop right now. Name_Removed and I are going to drive up later this afternoon. We are basically going to lounge around, BS, and drink a couple of [...]


Apple Pissed Off; Again

Apple is having all of it’s company owned retail locations pull books from the shelves that are from one certain publisher. Why? They wrote an “unofficial biography of Steve Jobs”. Cry me a river!! Apple sues it’s own employees for leaking information about up-coming products. Sure, it does violate the trade secrets law in California, [...]


Stem Cell Research

I was watching an interesting show on PBS this evening on Stem Cell Research. It was in the news a lot last year as one of the points of debate between Kerry and Bush for the presidential election. While surfing the Thomas site, I found the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005. We hear [...]


In New Building For Work

We moved into building 5. I now have a window seat!! It is nice to not only have to look at a computer screen; especially when you are stuck on conference calls. The new building seems to have a little more room.
I also heard that they management folks for Cingular are trying to get me [...]


ICOS Interview Completed

I had my ICOS interview today. I thought it went very well. Met with a few people (about 6) and then had lunch with the hiring manager. The HR person told me that they would be able to compete with my current salary + bonus that we receive at Cingular. The position would be running [...]


Cardinal Ratzinger of Germany Is New Pope

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany, a longtime guardian of doctrinal
orthodoxy, was elected the new pope Tuesday evening in the first
conclave of the new millennium. He chose the name Pope Benedict XVI.

Full story is available at all news websites, but I found out at ABCNews.com. Stories are already starting to come up on how conservatives love [...]