Shouzer

Well, I’m sitting in the Champaign airport right now, as my flight has been delayed for a while. Apparently there were strong winds and ice all day in Chicago, and it’s slowing everything down. I figured it was about time to give an update.

As I mentioned a couple (few?) weeks ago, this semester has been crazy for me. I’ve had interviews like you wouldn’t believe, and a lot of that has meant me having to fly out of the state for a few days at a time. The interviews themselves are bad enough, but then I’ve got homework I need to catch up and exams I need to study for. It’s been hectic, to say the least.

This should more or less be the final interview trip I go on, though. After that, my schedule actually lightens up quite a bit. Hopefully once that happens I should be able to get back in the swing of posting.

So, what’s new? Well, not too much really. School is school, and work is work. I have recently switched over to using Google Reader for my RSS love and to Google Calendar for my schedule info. The reader just got a big upgrade a few days ago, and it flies like a native app now. I liked it when it originally came out, but it was always too slow for me to give it any real use. When the calendar went public over the summer, it didn’t have support for Safari, and that kept me away from it. They’ve since added that support, and it’s worth checking it out if you have any interest in a calendar app.

That’s it for now.

I would love to say that I find this story ridiculous, but I have no trouble believing it. I have long given up on the mainstream news media as they clearly suck. I think this story gives credibility to Jon Stewart’s tyraid on Crossfire in 2004. Check out the video here if you haven’t seen it.

I think the news media has a responsibility to be critical of our leaders to keep them in check, and they are clearly failing at that duty. I like this quote from the story:

“The Daily Show was much funnier, with less of the hype—references to photo ops, political endorsements, and polls—that typically overshadows substantive coverage on network news, according to the study.”

I think that tells it all.