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I just scarfed down almost the entire can of these:

Which SOMEBODY left in my bag this weekend!!!!  And, um… they were pretty dang tasty.  Spicy, salty, and yet sweet… hahahahha!!!!  Anyone going to visit Korea soon?  Or seen these anywhere in the US?  Let’s talk…

And, while we’re on the topic of yummy man parts… (As you can see I’m trying *very* hard not to get a million folks hitting my website on dirty google searches)  We celebrated Erica’s Bachelorette weekend in style.  In addition to the aforementioned snacks we also had the pleasure of enjoying the first inaugural ‘Speedo Sunday’ courtesy of WET rafting company - our two guides Jeff and Kyle were trying to convince all the other rafting guides to follow suit (haha, get it? I know, I know… couldn’t stop myself) but I don’t think it will *quite* catch on the way they were hoping…  but for your viewing pleasure I present Jeff in his hot pink speedo with yellow smiley faces, complete with www.raftwet.com screenprinted on the rear… oh and that’s me, Irene, and Erica (with her veil and matching hot pink ‘Bachelorette’ sash) along with Jeff’s gf in the raft (counter-clockwise from the bottom right).

The WET guides were pretty awesome though, speedos or not - I highly recommend!!

Yes, it’s time for another one of my infamous rants. Buckle yourselves in.

Back to hp.

They are one of the evil companies that sell you (or even give you - oh, how generous are they) cheap crap printers and then rip you off on the $50 ink cartridges.

I’ve been holding out on buying those ridiculously priced ink cartridges… but that meant I couldn’t print anything at home for the last 6 months, which is kind of a problem.

Enter Office Depot.

They entice you with their Office Depot brand ink… significantly cheaper than the official hp ink. I fell for it and bought them. (Note to self and all (5) of my readers: DON’T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I knew things weren’t going to go well when I look at the contact portion of the color cartridge. Kinda crusty looking… hm… oh well. I load it into my printer. 5 seconds later: fatal error: color cartridge failed. #*$&@#(*!!

I take Office Depot on their ‘100% Satisfaction Guaranteed’ offer. I return the crap cartridges to the surly OD employee. I buy the real hp ones. I wanted to buy them from Staples or something, just to piss off OD by not giving them my $$ after all that, but I admit it, I was lazy. I just wanted my damn printer to work. I even sold my soul by selling my old empty cartridges back to OD for the $3 off/cartridge discount. (which they will use to make MORE crap OD ink cartridges… argh!!!)

Finally. I load the new, authentic hp ink cartridges into the printer. They work fine.

Then I try to hook the printer up to Ryan’s new fancy schmancy new double screen computer that he spent $$$$ on. I can’t figure it out. Ryan to the rescue. He goes to the hp website to download the driver for the printer… enters the printer model, selects the windows operating system, and then:

We are sorry to inform you that there will be no Windows Vista support available for your HP product. Therefore your product will not work with Windows Vista.

The majority of HP products not supported in Windows Vista are beyond seven years old.

If you are using the Windows Vista operating system on your computer, please consider upgrading to a newer HP product that is supported on Windows Vista. HP has numerous products on the market that support Windows Vista.

For more information on the different options, click the How to Buy link at the top of the page.

And Office Depot - you just plain suck at trying to make money off the cash cow that is printer ink…

I was referring to my doctoral dissertation as a thesis. Well, a kind friend (who also happens to be working on her dissertation) and this document from UC Berkeley has set me straight. And, according to wikipedia - which we all know is the absolute authority on everything (and anyone) worth mentioning:

At most [US] universities, dissertation is the term for the required submission for the

doctorate and thesis refers only to the master’s degree requirement.

Ha! Obviously the author of this wikipedia entry has a doctorate! Why are all the master’s students out there sweating bullets? It’s only a thesis.

Gotta love the social hierarchy of academia.

You have to admit though - ‘dissertation’ just sounds more important than ‘thesis.’ Plus, it’s a much longer word. 12 letters versus a measly 6. Twice as long - it must mean a dissertation is twice as snooty.

I guess we have to grasp at something after all these years… I mean, it’s taken me 6 times longer to get my phD than it took Ryan to get his masters - which, by the way, was a two year program he finished in one.

Damn overachiever.