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A bit behind the rest - Jul 2, 2004 at 3:13PM
Whiteous
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So I must be one of the few interns that has
yet to post things to this nucleus thing.  
As sad as that is I find it very easy to
forget with the memory that was blessed to
me by my father.  Anyway as for the summer.  
I, as most of you dont know, am currently
interning with AGU (American Geophysical
Union, if its in the Solar System it belongs
to us.)  where I am currently making a CD
for the magazine Earth in Space.  Never
heard of it, yeah me neither, it is a geo-
science magazine that is younger than I,
only by a little.  Basically all that means
is that is started in 1987 (I started in
1984) and stopped in 2001 (whereas I am
still kickin to this day, and hopefully the
day after).  Also it required a subscription
and normally was only subscribed by teachers
and future teacher wannabe's, but there are
always exceptions to that rule.  To make
this CD I have had to endure reading all the
articles, and let me tell you there are
massive amounts when you have 110 issues
with about 10ish articles per issue.  So
after that oh so great time, I was then able
to start converting them into html.  Which I
will tell you was a complete mystery to me
and a fun little adventure as I played with
various programs such as Adobe Acrobat,
Word, and Mozilla.  Currently though I am
actually able to prove that I am working as
the CD layout is slowly, but surely, coming
through.  I have about two and a half issues
posted to it, with working links and
everything, and have more then I would like
to think about left to put up into the
monster.  Unfortunately there is no quick
way to do this and I may discover after a
meeting I have on Tuesday that I have to go
back and redo stuff because it wont be clean
enough code, or I need to rename things.  
Basically if I dont get lucky I will have to
at the very least redo all the linking that
took me a while to learn.  For all you
computer html savvy people, I know that
coding is very simply, but when first
learning it you barely know how to create a
new document, and it only gets harder before
it gets easier.  As for the rest of my
spiel, I have two friends that are visiting
me.  Kristen and Angela, the Kristen is
actually interning at the Capitol with some
senator (they all run together after a
point), but the later, Angela, is coming
just for the fourth and then leaving Monday
morning.  I will attempt to remember to
update this thready thing and keep all
twenty people in the world that read these
updated.  Well thank you twenty people for
hopefully reading this, if less than that
check in on me at least I will have fewer
people judge me on my horrid grammar and
sentence structure.  Have a good one
everybody and Ill be rambling again here
soon enough

Brett :D


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Hey Brett!! - Jul 02 2004 3:44PM
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Alysson
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'Bout time you joined us!

And HOLY CRAP, I just realized you are younger than my younger brother!  Wow, that's crazy.

Have fun working on your CD.  At least its more exciting than checking metadata.  I'm so glad we are rolling new sites out soon, so I have something to look at and distract me.


-al


I guess I should be happy - Jul 06 2004 9:12AM
Whiteous
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So has anyone responded to your posts other than the already known interns.  I would like to meet my quota assigned to me by me of 20 people.  But maybe that is just a pipe dream



On the fourth day of the seventh month shall there be light in the sky - Jul 06 2004 9:21AM
Whiteous
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Well that is until a giant acidic cloud proceeds to block the colorful psychadelic fun from the people.  But then again that only happens when you are lazy like me and refuse to fight the crowds at the National Mall, from what I heard they were in the best spot, which of course would make sense.  Other than that little depression I found the weekend of the fourth to be very exciting and action packed.  My friends Kristen and Angela both came to visit me.  Angela stayed for the weekend and left on Monday.  Kristen on the other hand has an internship, which she starts today, and will be my dinner buddy from here on out.  We of course did all the touristy things monuments, memorials, monochromatic buildings, the basic three m's.  Mostly which we found ourselves just wanting to nap afterwards, which of course makes us old sounding, but oh the glorious nap.  I saw Angela off on Monday, which I had to wake up at 6:00 a.m., which is I feel a bit wrong.  Luckily she did make it home.  I am going to stop ranting now, work and all, and will hopefully have some massive entertaining thing happen to me within the week so I can proceed to retell it bard style.  If not you will just have to be happy with some slapstick comedy about me falling or something, but keep the fingers crossed and hope for the best.

Brett :D



- Jul 06 2004 9:31AM
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well, the only person besides al to respond to mine was my roommate adam.

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- Jul 06 2004 12:05PM
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I'm really good at getting post numbers up...Matt know what I'm talking about :)


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- Jul 07 2004 10:53AM
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Cheatery is what I know about you. :P





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- Jul 07 2004 11:07AM
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I


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- Jul 07 2004 11:07AM
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don't


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- Jul 07 2004 11:07AM
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know


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- Jul 07 2004 11:07AM
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what


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- Jul 07 2004 11:07AM
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you're


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- Jul 07 2004 11:08AM
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talking


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- Jul 07 2004 11:08AM
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about


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- Jul 07 2004 11:09AM
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I was wondering how Brett had suddenly jumped to 14 posts from 7, now it all becomes clear.

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- Jul 07 2004 11:13AM
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Just helping :)


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HMM - Jul 07 2004 12:03PM
Whiteous
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As was I.  Funny I imagine this is sort of like nucleus version of IM only much slower



hmmmm. - Jul 07 2004 1:09PM
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maybe *all* of you need more to do.

I'll have to see what I can dig up.  :)


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