ACT III
Government: Well we did some checking around and decided to pay you after all, but it won't be until December.
Jon: Christmas bonus!
Showing posts with label jury duty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jury duty. Show all posts
21 October 2006
16 October 2006
court trouble, part II
ACT I
Government: You have to give us eight weeks of jury duty. But as compensation we'll give you $25/day.
Jon: Fine, whatever.
ACT II
Jon: You said I was going to get like $300 but you cut me a check for $2.80. What gives?
Government: Oh yeah, we forgot to tell you we have an obscure subsection in this law that says you automatically waived your juror's fee and we just have to reimburse you for mileage. Here's a copy of the law. Share and enjoy!
Jon: What.
Government: You have to give us eight weeks of jury duty. But as compensation we'll give you $25/day.
Jon: Fine, whatever.
ACT II
Jon: You said I was going to get like $300 but you cut me a check for $2.80. What gives?
Government: Oh yeah, we forgot to tell you we have an obscure subsection in this law that says you automatically waived your juror's fee and we just have to reimburse you for mileage. Here's a copy of the law. Share and enjoy!
Jon: What.
15 October 2006
court trouble
I got the check for my jury duty today. For a whopping $2.80. (It should be more like $280.) Now I'll have to go harass the courthouse and make them move some decimal points.
05 September 2006
cutting the voltage to your powerlines
I went up to Salem a couple days ago and test drove a Saturn Aura. The dealer only had one, an XE model with no options, so there weren't any toys to play with. It was pretty nice except the steering wheel kind of hit my knees and I couldn't see out of the thing as well as my Malibu, although the stupid sticker on the windshield may have been part of the problem. The salesman said he was getting some XR models (what I'm interested in) in a few weeks. The Aura XR has the same engine as the Cadillac CTS and a six-speed semiautomatic gearbox. (Those are good things.)
In other news life has pretty much been jury duty and screwing around, with a little bit of getting important stuff done. School doesn't start for another three weeks so this is a good time to take care of stuff before I get bogged down with classes. Now that my fall schedule is done, all I have to do is work out a student loan and then I can focus on finding an internship for spring.
Guess what, more jury duty tomorrow.
In other news life has pretty much been jury duty and screwing around, with a little bit of getting important stuff done. School doesn't start for another three weeks so this is a good time to take care of stuff before I get bogged down with classes. Now that my fall schedule is done, all I have to do is work out a student loan and then I can focus on finding an internship for spring.
Guess what, more jury duty tomorrow.
29 August 2006
sunspot cycles
I discovered that deep within the submenus of Photoshop CS is a tool called Photomerge for putting pictures together as a panorama. I put a couple rough panaoramas from my recent Oregon vacation together. The best part is that as long as you have Photoshop open you can smooth over the seams. I tried putting together a 360 degree panorama from La Jolla, and it looked like it was going to blend pretty well, but Photoshop complained about RAM and quit so I will mess with it tomorrow.
I also wrote a Java program that solves Sudoku puzzles. I needed the practice in Java and I wanted to see how hard it would be. The code is hideous but it can solve the last problem in my Sudoku book in 129,000 operations, which is a trifle for the computer. I guess the algorithm I made up isn't that bad after all.
The rest of today was spent playing Ratchet: Deadlocked and We Love Katamari, but I did register for ECE 417 so I can claim a little progress for the day. More jury duty tomorrow.
I also wrote a Java program that solves Sudoku puzzles. I needed the practice in Java and I wanted to see how hard it would be. The code is hideous but it can solve the last problem in my Sudoku book in 129,000 operations, which is a trifle for the computer. I guess the algorithm I made up isn't that bad after all.
The rest of today was spent playing Ratchet: Deadlocked and We Love Katamari, but I did register for ECE 417 so I can claim a little progress for the day. More jury duty tomorrow.
09 August 2006
gone fission
So today I got to apply an important grad student skill - raiding free stuff. Some prof retired and left a bunch of old books for people to take. This was last week sometime, but apparently not many people have bothered because there's still piles of them. I went through them today and got a bunch of good stuff. I found an instructor's solutions manual for Marion/Thornton and Halliday/Resnick, but they are 2 and 3 editions out of date respectively. I just like acquiring what used to be contraband - they have the answers to every single problem in the texts.
There was a lot of miscellaneous stuff too, like microcomputer manuals from the late 70's and early 80's, and some books on the nuclear arms race. I took a couple books that opposed Reagan's SDI. I also took a book called "The Discovery of Nuclear Fission" which looks very interesting because it has excerpts from the original research papers. That book is from 1971 though, I think it underplays Lise Meitner's role. I'm still looking forward to reading it
In other news, my dumbass neighbor moved out yesterday, so I'm pleased with that. I also went in for jury duty orientation and got assigned to the circuit court's grand jury. I have to go in two days a week for eight weeks and here about all the horrible stuff going on in the county, but at least it's not hard and it fits in my schedule. I even get a little bit of cash out of it, though that probably won't show up until early November.
There was a lot of miscellaneous stuff too, like microcomputer manuals from the late 70's and early 80's, and some books on the nuclear arms race. I took a couple books that opposed Reagan's SDI. I also took a book called "The Discovery of Nuclear Fission" which looks very interesting because it has excerpts from the original research papers. That book is from 1971 though, I think it underplays Lise Meitner's role. I'm still looking forward to reading it
In other news, my dumbass neighbor moved out yesterday, so I'm pleased with that. I also went in for jury duty orientation and got assigned to the circuit court's grand jury. I have to go in two days a week for eight weeks and here about all the horrible stuff going on in the county, but at least it's not hard and it fits in my schedule. I even get a little bit of cash out of it, though that probably won't show up until early November.
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