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Article posted on Mar 28
I found the perfect job.
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on March 28, 2005, 12:58 am
I can't remember if I mentioned this in my livejournal, but I was in Vegas last weekend (work, not pleasure). Sunday night, I took a cab to the airport, from the taxi stand at Mandalay Bay (I was working at Mandalay, but staying at the Excalibur, 2 hotels down). I got in line and observed what was going on. As each taxi was pulling up, the hotel employee asked where the person was going. When the taxi arrived, he opened the door for them, loaded the luggage, then relayed the destination to the cab driver. I also noticed most people were tipping $1 (I have to look out for these things, as I am horrible at tipping ettiquitte). This whole process took about 30 seconds per taxi.
My turn came, he loaded my luggage, and I gave him a dollar as I was getting in. It wasn't until this evening that I realized that job had to be the best job ever. Assuming you're working at a place as popular as Mandalay Bay, you have a never-ending stream of customers and taxis. Say each taxi takes 30 seconds to load, and maybe only 15% of the customers don't tip, that's still $102 per hour in tips. $8160 per week. $212,160 per year.
Obviously there will be times where it takes over 30 seconds to load a cab, or dead times... but still, that's a large chunk of change. Anybody know this compares to, say, a waitress job at a popular middle-class restaurant?
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Article posted on Mar 28
Hint: Don't use your Ultra1's memory slots as a foot rest
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on March 28, 2005, 12:21 am
CPU[0]: Correctable ECC Error AFSR[100000] AFAR[0000000013f4bf60] UDBL[0] UDBH[119]
CPU[0]: UDBH Syndrome[25] Memory Module "U0601"
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Article posted on Mar 27
I am at a loss for a witty comeback, and it's pissing me off
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on March 27, 2005, 11:15 pm
Seriously, there is no way you can make fun of this. It reminded me of this comic:
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Article posted on Mar 25
My Average Firefox Tab Bar
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on March 25, 2005, 11:49 pm
As you can imagine, it's even more cramped on my 1024x768 laptop.
Also, I'm using the Pimpzilla Firefox theme, as you should also be.
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Article posted on Mar 11
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- Posted by Ryan Finnie on March 11, 2005, 1:51 am
OMG! I'm totally talking on the phone!!!!11
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Article posted on Mar 6
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- Posted by Ryan Finnie on March 6, 2005, 8:48 pm
This post is friends-only so it can be archived on frienditto.
Update: Now this post is no longer friends-only. Thank you for your participation.
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Article posted on Mar 2
Warning: May contain politics. Do not read while operating heavy machinery.
- Posted by Ryan Finnie on March 2, 2005, 3:42 pm
It's nice to know our congressmen are representing their constituents with dignity and respect.
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Article posted on Mar 2
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- Posted by Ryan Finnie on March 2, 2005, 1:38 am
Building custom woody bf2.4 ISOs == teh suck
On the plus side, I now have an ISO that supports PIIX4 ATA, 3w-xxxx, ICH5 SATA, BusLogic and SYM53C8XX drive controllers (basically anything I expect to install on in the near future), as well as all 2.4.29 10/100/1000 drives in as modules (for eepro100, e1000, tigon3, and pcnet32).
This is because I'll be installing on a Supermicro (ICH5 sata & e1000, but using a 3ware sata card instead of the onboard sata), but should be useful for other stuff as well.
Notice also the inclusion of BusLogic and pcnet32, which is basically useless for anything except VMware.
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