Michael R. Barrick's blog

I spelled "etymology" wrong in my interest list.

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/12731.html

A friend of mine is applying for a job with the NFB and told me she has to go write an exam today as part of the application. It got me to thinking... what sort of questions would be on an NFB exam...?

Are you Canadian enough to work for the NFB?

After taking the fashionable quiz du jour at MentalHealth.com my diagnosis came out as follows:

DISORDERS DIAGNOSED:

* Uncomplicated Bereavement

DISORDERS RULED OUT:

everything else

It bothers me that something this short and apparently meaningless could render such apparently accurate results. (My comments in italics)

Your view on yourself

Other people find you very interesting, but you are really hiding your true self. Your friends love you because you are a good listener; they'll probably still love you if you learn to be yourself with them.

...another comic.

I've got some drawing to do to get Evilyn's birthday present together today. I can't decide which of the 437,000 pictures there are of her on my Gothic BC site to use, not mention all the others that I have from converting files for her and other things.

Don't even ask why or how I happen to have a political cartoon from March 14, 1978 kicking around, but here is definitive proof that things just don't change.

And here is today's regularly scheduled cartoon.

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/11253.html

I did it again... got my ass out of the fire just in the nick of time. Here I was this afternoon wandering around the apartment looking for things to sell, wondering if Evilyn would be interested in buying the wonder wagon, and such things because I didn't have rent together. Then a small contact comes through and I will be getting exactly the amount I'm short by courier Monday!

Sit and spin

OK, it seemed like a cool idea, but this spinning animated head gets annoying quickly. I think I'll go back to a static picture.

Oringinal post: http://mbarrick.livejournal.com/10748.html

Another day, another interview. This one was a second, shortlist interview with the HSBC. It looks very much like I am going to get this one. Turns out their Notes development team lead knows a lot of the same people I do, particularly my two most important references, through the now defunct Pacific Northwest Notes user group. This definitely helps.

Or perhaps the Daleks... something like that anyway.