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And now for something completely different. (Else, why you shouldn't write wank reports at 1:47 am)
The theater of war: Slashdot a veritable breeding ground for spitting hate, pseudo-intellectual discussion, and whining about how generally, things suck.

Cue a post about the Washington State Linux User Group's little idea of a Nerd Auction, a certainly lovely idea, and apparently one that was come up with in the shower by the group leader: Ben.

All is fine and well, until anonymous shows up.

Apparently for somebody out there, the accusations of the anonymous, (and possibly the not so anonymous burntpenguin) hit a bit close to home, and are srs buisness.

And then for bonus points, the ex-fiancee of Ben the leader shows up.

No godwin's law invoked yet though. I'm pretty sure it's there somewhere.

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frequentmouse
2007-10-01 10:36 pm UTC (link)

Things have changed over the past (hrmmahrrm) years, especially that. There was zero grad school performance history to go on when I was applying, and, to make things worse, it was harder to get into graduate school in-state than out, for reasons having to do with institutional conflicts (most of the founding faculty was from out of state, for one very big thing).

But coming off Evergreen, 300-500 level classes at WSU were pretty easy; not nearly the amount of writing to do, for one thing.

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zinkchan
2007-10-01 10:50 pm UTC (link)

I can't wait to get in to the Jackson School at the UW because I won't have to write as much as I do now. Three separate notebooks for book notes that have to be turned in every three weeks, a giant research project on top of weekly response papers and work.

There are still some insitutional conflicts from what I've heard but it's much easier to get into grad school instate now. Although I would like to go to the University of Hawaii-Manoa for grad school but it's too expensive.

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