The New Hobbit Hole

[Corin Stormhands]

Oh well. The Beaver is on.

[Overtaxed]

Gosh, Wally!

[HairOfTheDog]

Hullo Everybody! I'm home!

I see it was a bit slow in here today!

I did my little trip around the Kitsap Peninsula... and got to stop on the way back and spend a couple hours visiting my Dad.

We are having a bit of thunder here! - I hope it brings some rain. If the rain goes right around me I'll be fumed!

Oh.... and per our agreement, I added a few new keywords.

[Corin Stormhands]

Just wait until you father gets home boys.

[Overtaxed]

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

KSEN LOVES SPAM;

Gondor has no spam, Gondor needs no spam!

[Corin Stormhands]

[Overtaxed]

Stop that! You're being silly.

[ksen]

Hey! How come I was singled out?

But we still gots the Precious! Doesn't we my sweet?

[HairOfTheDog]

Good evening LCS!

Ksen, You were singled out because you won! - Consider it a prize!

[JenB]

Hullo sillies! Long day here, but I'm pretty happy. Things are going well. I need to decide about comp sci grad schools... mostly, California, Colorado, Indiana, or somewhere else? I hear good things about North Carolina at Chapel Hill; can anyone tell me about that? How about the California universities?

[Overtaxed]

I hear good things about North Carolina at Chapel Hill; can anyone tell me about that?

Been out of touch with the University scene for dogs years (cats years?) Afraid I don't know about the comp sci dept. It's liberal, though. It's the school that assigned incoming freshmen and transfers to read the sanitized Islam crap.

[JenB]

Oh, really? Well, I'm looking at the grad school so I don't care about the rest of the place. And CS is usually a more conservative branch... so it's a factor of where would I like to go and where will pay me to attend.

[Overtaxed]

I'm looking at the grad school so I don't care about the rest of the place.

Well that's the way to be! Worked for me.

[JenB]

Where did you go? You got a PhD, yes?

[Overtaxed]

UNC....just a BS. Don't like school. Phd = Pretty hurtin' dude.

[JenB]

Ah... ok.

Incidentally, if any of you wiser and more experienced people have brilliant ideas about my grad school future, please let me know. Really briefly, I'm in comp sci, will graduate from a good liberal arts college in May 04 with probably better than a 3.5 GPA. The CS program there is ok but not stellar. I'm good at programming and willing to work hard learning new things. I'll have two years of work experience when I get out of college, $10,000 in the bank, no loans, and be just 21. I'd like a school somewhere at least 400 miles from Pittsburgh, good programs, not in the Deep South - Eastern seaboard is ok but I'd die in Alabama, no offense to any southerners.

Any brilliant suggestions? My "dream choices" right now are Purdue, Stanford, U Colorado at Boulder, and Columbia.

[HairOfTheDog]

Hullo Jen! I dunno. We aren't grad school alumns in this house.

You could come to UW here, and probably slide right into a job at Microsoft!

[JenB]

Hehe, actually, I like Microsoft and since most comp sci people don't.... UW is a very good school, I might just think about that!

[HairOfTheDog]

We are a lovely place too, with good hobbity folk. We'd give you a warm welcome!