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A friend and coworker is leaving today. One thing that surprised us all about him is that, though his main vocation (or avocation, these things being what they are) is theater-- so is his educational background. Yet he took really well to his admin-assistant job, and its large left-brain elements including budget forecasting, accounts management, and an arcane fundraising database.

We asked him about this at his going away party, figuring all along that it was just his brilliant and authentic can-do attitude, but he told us that he worked for Goldman Sachs for two years, and according to him, Goldman Sachs likes to hire actors because they don't have designs on their bosses' jobs, and their ambitions lie outside the company. Ingenious!
--LAN3
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2004.12.10
Web Comic of the Moment
Building an artificial intelligence that appreciates Mozart is easy... building AI that appreciates a theme restaurant is the real challenge.
--Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life is a webcomic about two robots in a solar system after humanity has passed. Over all I thought it was just pretty good, with strange scrolling, but I really like the explanation of the setting of humanity ending and why robots are doing what they're doing. The clipping comes from this comic explaining why robots eat.

News Snippet of the Moment
He later told Brey that he planned to sue Pantera for stealing his identity. Brey and friend Dave Johnson said Gale's behavior frightened them and they distanced themselves from him several years ago. But other friends said they never considered Gale capable of violence. [...] On Wednesday night, the 25-year-old former Marine charged the stage at a show by Abbott's new band, Damageplan, and gunned down four people including Abbott before a policeman fatally shot him.
I have as much respect for the marines as the next guy, and I do believe Gale is an aberration. BUT... aren't Marines capable of violence, kind of by definition?