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Jimmy Johns supports false advertisement

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:44:00 +0000

For those of you in certain parts of america, there is a little sandwich shop known as Jimmy Johns.

I was first introduced to their product as a freshman in college. I lived in Eigenmann dorm, which is across the street from a Jimmy Johns that stayed open until 4 am. I bought many a sub on those late freshman nights.

My first issue with Jimmy Johns came a few years ago whenever my friend Trad and I took our guitars to play on the streets in front of their Kirkwood Avenue restaurant. I bought a drink, and we sat on the sidewalk outside their store playing guitar and singing. Soon thereafter, the manager came out and told us that he would call the cops if we didn't leave.

But for some reason, my hunger and cheapness got the best of me and I started eating there again this year. I always order a "slim" because all of their sandwiches are overpriced, and most of their extra ingredients don't appeal to me. The slim comes only with meat and cheese. They give packets of mayonnaise upon request, but nothing else.

One day, while ordering my slim, I confirmed a line on their menu with my memory. There is a line under "Side Items" that lists "Hot Peppers ..... Free". Here is an actual scan of the Bloomington Jimmy Johns menu taken from the local student newspaper. The Jimmy Johns in Bloomington list a side order of hot peppers as "Free".

Here is the full menu that this section was taken from (for all of the idiots who don't believe my story):

One would assume that this means that I can get free hot peppers on the side with my slim sandwich. So I ask for hot peppers on the side. The lady starts to argue, but then turns to the sandwich maker and tells him to give me a side order of peppers. Excellent! I can now get hot peppers with my sub! The next time I go in there, I try the same thing. This time a goofy looking and likely not too bright kid says that they can't give out hot peppers with a slim. I ask him what the line on his menu means and he ignores me, saying that the slims are meat and cheese only. I ask to speak to his manager, and he says that he is the manager. Realizing that if he is the boss than I stand no chance, I turn around and leave the store, frustrated and angry.

I immediately write to Jimmy Johns through two different contacts on their site and try to figure out why the hell I can't get free hot peppers with my slim. After a round of emails where my question was completely avoided, I finally got a real response from someone:

Andrew, you are correct. This line is a "loop hole" or idiosyncrasy in the menu. The goal of our menu and policy is not to offer any items on the side. We want to keep our concept simple and efficient and to offer the fastest and most accurate service for our customer. What you are asking adds a complexity to our operation. I will inform our corporate office of your concerns and work to correct this error.

Thank you, Sincerely,

Clay Longardner

followed by

Just to clarify one issue. Hot peppers are to be placed on the sandwich. All other side items are not put on the sandwich. Hot peppers should not be listed as a side item.

Clay

HE SAID IT! "Hot peppers should not be listed as a side item."

So wait. Not only are peppers not free, but they shouldn't be a side item all together. Even in Jimmy Johns that charge for their side order of hot peppers cannot sell the peppers on the side anymore?

What I know is this: Jimmy Johns claims to have the worlds greatest sandwich. This is in no way true. What you get from Jimmy Johns is cheap shitty food, stuck up managers, and reformed corporate businessmen that decided that giving free hot peppers isn't a good idea anymore, but are too cheap, forgetful, lazy, or oblivious to change their menus.

And so, again, I have effectively terminated eating at Jimmy Johns. Every now and again I get that craving for their cheap little carb-bombs, but I resist. And I strongly encourage you to resist as well.

To help me fight this injustice, contact your local Jimmy Johns or contact their head offices atthis page . I have received a response by filling out that form, and also by filling out the comment/suggestion form linked to on that page.

Go ahead, ask them why they advertise free peppers if they aren't allowed to give them!

Until this problem is solved by Jimmy Johns, I will continue to boycott. Please join me.

2010

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:30:00 +0000

Yes, another year. 2010. Another decade. This is a good turning point. Time to buckle in and write my thesis. Time to improve myself and my life. This sounds like a typical resolution but it is sincere. There is to much to do before we die and I have no time to waste. I must put the past behind me and make the most out of my world. Today marks the beginning of the rest of my life.

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:50:00 +0000

The last hour and a half has been spent trying to use my computer. I now remember why I leave it on for weeks at a time, despite the fact that I hate wasting energy. My wireless connection had been established for 22 days before I turned my computer off this morning.

And there is no good reason for turning the thing off, it isn't like a few hours will make a difference if I leave it on for nearly a month before then. I just gave it a chance to sleep. And in this cold house (62F) the old hard drive grew chilly. The metal components cooled and the metal casing and parts contracted. This hard drive has lived through at least three power sources, three processors, and three motherboards. The DVD drive hasn't worked for over a year so I couldn't repair or reformat the operating system without a major hardware upgrade. And with a system this old, what is the point? I couldn't get an XP disk anymore, anyway.

I have already purchased a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate (well before its release date and for practically nothing) thanks to IU and my student status. I got a 64 bit version, but I am still waiting for the prices of quad-core processors to drop a little. I do have limited funds, however there is no sense in buying a lower frequency processor...I want the most out of the cores.

So how long can this last? The first several times that I tried to boot up the computer today, it started checking the hardware and then stalled. I let it still try to load, because even if the hard drive isn't booting, at least things are spinning and the metal components are heating up and expanding. It is frightening how long it takes for the hard drive to warm up before it is able to boot windows xp. NOW I REMEMBER.

This time I am not shutting down unless it freezes, and then I will be sure to restart before the hardware cools. Even when this beast is on, it takes 15 minutes to load windows and once loaded I am lucky to run more than one program at once. Google chrome usually does pretty well once it is established, but occasionally it will have a brain-fart. Any heavy image or video editing is out of the question, and even viewing videos can be troublesome at times.

I could use my laptop, but I tripped on its cord last spring and knocked it on the floor, busting one of the hinges. With continued gimpy use, the hinge eventually broke completely off, with help from gravity again. It still works, but the screen is quite annoying. I could use the laptop and plug my monitor into it, only I removed the extra gig of ram from the laptop in order to boost the performance of its twin brother, the stand-in internet "television" for a house without cable tv. So even if I did fire up my laptop, its performance would be no better than this beast I currently use. But like I said, once it is running, it keeps running...

I just hope it will hold out until I can afford a decent quad-core processor. Everything else is pretty cheap now, unless I go for a nice video card. I hope to do some video editing with my new camera if I ever get a break, but I know that won't happen for months. So whats the rush? I don't need to distract myself with the trials of building a new system right now anyway. I just hope this guy stays on for a year or so.

In other news, grad school sucks. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

America the obese

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 03:04:00 +0000

So I want to be healthier. I want to resist temptations and eat the right foods and have an active lifestyle. But I am in grad school and working on my thesis and the spare time just isn't very forthcoming. To make matters worse, I have a 3 mile commute from the south side of town to the geology building, and back, every day.

So what? This is a short drive so I cannot blame that for my lack of time. However, along this 3 mile drive, there are a ridiculous number of eateries. Places that (mostly) don't care about how healthy a food is. Regardless, places that overcharge for the convenience of making food for you. And It is near impossible to resist stopping at some of these places when I am tired and hungry and depressed.

Here is a quick tally of what I drive within 500 feet of every day

2 Taco Bells
1 Dairy Queen
1 McDonalds
1 Wendys
1 Burger King
1 Arbys
1 Rallys
1 Waffle House

1 Ice cream Shoppe

2+ chinese restaurants
3+ Starbucks/coffee shops

2 Subways
2 Dominos Pizzas
2 Pizza Huts
2 Papa Johns
1 Avers Pizza
1 Pizza X
1 Rockits pizza
1 Mad Mushroom Pizza
1 Square Donuts
1 Sonic
1 King Gyros
1+ Diners
10+ Bars, most which serve food
1+ Food Courts on campus

3+ Liquor Stores!

There are probably several that I missed, especially if I include the downtown area and all of the restaurants I forgot there. I just wanted to hit the major chain places so you can see how gross my commute is. I am tempted by 30 different restaurants every day while driving six miles.

There is also a supermarket along the way...and a couple gas stations. The grad school life is pretty rough...No time to waste time, too much work to get done. Another exam in remote sensing Tuesday, and lots of grading remaining. At least I don't have to pay rent!

Three lost years

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:39:00 +0000

I am referencing a GLS song called Three days at sea (three lost years),,,

I have changed, I have...

Tomorrow is my first of three labs that I get to teach each week this semester. It should be pretty straight forward - scientific notation, unit conversions, and reading maps. I also begin my semester of spatial stuff with my two Geography classes tomorrow...I think I would rather work with GIS than be a hydrologist anyway...don't tell my advisor!

Too bad GIS work doesn't involve being outdoors unless it is GPS work...but I guess that is on the up and up, and even if its all remote sensing, at least I get to look at air photos. But this is all too long-term for right now, I have to shift back to third gear (a maneuver that is now impossible in my car, at least at mis-matched rpms). I need to take it a day at a time and stay on top of my work. How is that for self-motivation?

I think this will be a pretty easy semester. I hope.

an aside

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:25:00 +0000

This is a nice stand-alone entry about some memories I have conjured up. While in Elementary school I considered the group of kids that lived in nearby subdivisions to be my best friends. I would go over there to play on weekends and hang out. There were two subdivisions, the kids from each subdivision didn't really interact with each other, and I lived right between the two on a private drive.

I spent the most time at my friend J's house. Despite being physically shorter, he was the neighborhood kingpin, so to speak, and most people looked up to him. Little did I realize just how low I was on the totem pole with these groups. I can remember going to a pool with them and being abandoned. Sure, I was never the most fit kid, but I was always picked near the end of every backyard sports draft. Any time I had an opinion, it was unlikely to be heard. Even the kids that were younger than me tried to pick on me.

As soon as we moved on to middle school, J and the others quickly cut ties with me as their new-found popularity couldn't be weighted down by having such an outcast friend. I made a new group of more accepting and less accepted friends, and in some ways became one of the kingpins of my new group. This wasn't getting me very far, but luckily I was able to move away after my Freshman year of high school and reinvent myself at a new school. This move was good for me, but I cannot forget my roots.

I recently reestablished contact with J and a few of the other friends from my Elementary days. It was nice to hear from them again, but also evident that they had no desire to even be acquaintances online. I guess it is pretty disappointing that a stigma developed in Junior High can have such a lasting effect on someone's psyche. I don't know if I am talking about myself or my old friend. I guess in a lot of ways I am a little bitter now...and just saddened by how shallow our friendship must have been all of those years. And once there was popularity to be had, what a tarnish I was on their reputations.

I think despite all of this I have turned out fairly normal...If anything it has helped me to see through the facade of forced social situations and helped me to realize the unpleasant and selfish person that perceived popularity can create. I think for a lot of people, they peak too soon and never reach that point again.

At the rate I am going, I doubt I will ever peak. It is more like a gradual plateau. All I know is that I don't talk to anyone that I knew before college anymore, and that is probably the best thing I have ever done for myself. When you are forced to be friends with people you might not otherwise get along with, you are given just that, a forced friendship. Very little is real about it, and the relationships that you make seldom last.

Thanks for that lesson, J, and all of the other people that I was once convinced were really my friends. I wonder how you fared?

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:50:00 +0000

A simple rock song courses through my head this morning. The beat mimicking my heart, the guitar mocking my step. My cat purrs on my lap as I write this, wondering why my hands are making noise on the keyboard instead of petting him.

A routine is beginning to develop, yet it is unrelated to my cat or the simple rock song...a routine to carry me through this transition from late summer to early autumn. This year should be good, I know I have the power to ensure that. So much of what we experience is in our heads that you can take the same situation and interpret it in two completely different ways. It is all in our perception and our reaction. I am making more of an effort to control both of these aspects in my life, and so far it has worked pretty well.

Changes in attitude, changes in latitude, changes in elevation, changes in humidity. At least I have a car, can live the American Dream, go to college, make something out of myself. But there is so much that can be made without a Masters Degree...They lie. They make you think that everything worth living for is related to higher education and a career with good healthcare benefits. Don't let them fool you too...The secret to life is to be happy, you just have to figure out what that entails.

Try buying a cat!

And back again

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:26:00 +0000

Just like that, another summer gone. Scotland, Rock Glaciers, and now back to reality. Must go to work tomorrow and earn some money. Getting ready for the semester and to teach again...time to relearn what the bulk composition of an andesite is.

Got four games of racquetball in tonight...a good workout, even if the HPER is disgustingly hot and humid. Sort of like Indiana in general, really. I cannot say that I missed the mugginess. Or the increased probability of being mugged. I much prefer driving out in Montana too...cows are easier to see than cats.

I am still cooking some camp meals now and again. Ramen and tuna never tasted so good as when it is eaten at a table. I do miss camping and cooking meals with breathtaking vistas. I miss the vistas. And you can't have vistas without altitude...The way your lungs desperately suck each oxygen molecule out of the air and hand them off to the blood. more seamlessly than at a track meet!

But it sure in nice to be back with my cat...he seems pretty content himself.

ummer-say

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:47:00 +0000

The humidity a response to the sun and the water. Vapor fills every void and awaits to precipitate on you. Summer in Indiana is a great thing. The animals know it, the plants know it, and the humans (a special variety of animal, not really though) cannot attack or praise these temperatures and this mugginess enough. Outside of the sweat, it really is great. A walk in the woods and beginnings of work on the throne. But this is all just a distraction from the bigger picture, the imminent summer plans which creep less than a few days away. How will I ever get ready? Did I take too big of a bite with this one? I have a pretty big mouth, but this leather is getting tougher and tougher to chew. rawhide...heeeeeeeeyaw. I just have to go there and get used to the altitude and hike around and collect data. fill out one sheet after another with my trusty assistant and I have the beginnings of a full fledged thesis. greatest GIS statistical geomorphological thesis ever, if I get my way. I better collect a lot of data.....

The life of a geologist, the life of a masters student, the life of a dreamer, the life of a hiker, the life of a wanderer, destination unknown.

immobile mover

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:35:00 +0000

Just thought of this one - can God create a rock so large that even Time cannot eventually erode it away? I would say only if the sun or global warming boils all of the water off of our planet and geomorphology ceases to exist. Otherwise, NO! Time trumps God as long as there is water. And nearly all living organisms need water...not to imply that water should be God, but it might be thought of as the blood of the earth. However, all living organisms need time.

Scotland and on

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:31:00 +0000

I made it safely back from Scotland. Traveling is a blast, and alone it holds great potential for self-discovery. We all need to reset or correct our mindset every now and again. Now I have to bunker down and get ready for Montana. I am nowhere near that point. I don't even get time to reflect. Off of one adventure and on to the next.

The new Swan Lake album sounds pretty great on first listen...I never got too deep into the first, but this one has some real potential. crazy Canadians...A Hand at Dusk is the first song that pulled me in. I better be careful not to burn it out.

You know, when you get back from a vacation, it is easy to forget how liberating and enjoyable driving or even mowing the grass can be. When it is routine it is just a chore...but driving is ultimate freedom in reality. Unless you are on a toll road. I guess the limit to the freedom is the set of traffic rules you have to follow...but thats just common sense mostly. I don't feel too inhibited by the department of transportation rules of the road. Do you?

funny

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:35:00 +0000

I found this on a Christian website...
pretty funny...

hehehehehe

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0000

Who are you?

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:00:00 +0000

Parts of this writing was inspired by memories of a lecture by Alan Watts

Who are you? You are just an organism living on a planet in a solar system in a galaxy in a cluster in a supercluster in a universe…and who is to say that there aren’t bigger levels than a universe that we just cannot detect with light (energy)? We know that you as an organism can be divided into organs, composed of tissue, made of cells, governed by DNA, which is made of atoms, made of electrons, protons, and neutrons, which are made of quarks, and who is to say that this too doesn’t continue infinitely.

But as an organism, living on a planet for a finite amount of time, there are only three things that matter in your life. Your experiences, your memories, and your predictions.

Your experiences are a series of events which occur at a particular location in space, at a particular moment in time. Some experiences span large distances of space and time, others not. Whenever you remember something, the event occurring is “experiencing a memory”. The only memories that you experience (for any duration of time) are the significant ones - the ones that have shaped your life...or is it the other way around? The only experiences that you remember (for any duration of time) are the significant ones, the ones that will shape your life. Both statements must be true.

So with increasing time, only the most significant events remain remembered. And as you experience events in present time, only the most significant events are committed to memory for any length of time. The less significant the event, the sooner it is forgotten.

Experiencing a memory is living in the past, experiencing an event is living in the present. Using your memories of experiences in the past to predict the event that will occur is living in the future.

Knowledge is nothing more than a set of rules deduced from events to help predict future events. The better you understand the true physical nature of events which occur, the more accurately you will be able to predict future events / the more knowledge and understanding you have. But then you just spend your whole life dissecting past events, instead of living in the present.

So life is a balance, a yin and a yang. During events that you decide are enjoyable, you want to experience the events and not worry about remembering them…but then after the event you want to be able to remember experiencing it. What governs whether or not we enjoy an event/experience? Our predictions based on the memories of similar events in the past.

For an event experienced for the first time, there is a large amount of uncertainty, which leads to fear in most organisms, and bravery/aggression in some. The more knowledge/understanding an organism has, the more likely that they will have some memory of a similar event to base predictions off of. The less knowledgeable the organism, the more likely it will interpret events with uncertainty and caution.

So events are more likely to be enjoyable the better you understand them, however the more you understand the less there is to enjoy. Getting there is the fun part. The mystery is what keeps it interesting. But perhaps it reaches a plateau, a point where you have reached equilibrium. This is the tipping point, so to speak. Now the more you understand, the less you can enjoy. You have to find the balance.

Grad School

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:14:00 +0000

So i've neglected my blog for a month or two. Here is a brief update: The house is looking great, with a recently installed horseshoe pit, leak-free pluming, and paint on half of the walls. Work is still in progress, but its about 80% there. I've also started graduate school, and that has been a pretty drastic change. It takes some getting used to. I am slowly relearning the ways.

I was playing horseshoes the other night and threw a game-winning ringer. It hit just right so that it knocked the stake and wood out of the ground and then pinned the stake down. I thought it was photoworthy...

Water at Limestone

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:36:00 +0000

So on Monday I closed on a house and moved in a truck full of stuff. the house is great, although there definitely is some work to be done. Among a list of other "defects" with the house was the drain and hot water under the kitchen sink.

I replaced the drain, and was attempting to create a temporary plug in the hot water pipe so that the cold water didn't leak out of where the dishwasher was once hooked. In the process of doing this, the c-pvc pipe cracked where it connects to the copper line from the crawlspace.

Hot water started spraying out and flooding the hardwood kitchen floors. I tried to hold off the water with my hands and managed to decrease the flow while I thought of what to do next. For a few moments I couldn't think, stunned by the suddenness. The first thought that came to me was to go to the hot water heater and find a shut-off valve there. I ran to the utility room but was doomed by only copper pipe, without a valve in sight. To make matters more difficult, the hot water heater is positioned in a tiny closet the same size as it is, blocking view of the pipes in back.

I ran back into the kitchen and continued to hold the pipe and decrease leakage as I thought of plan B. Soon I remembered that pressure is my problem, so I ran to the bathrooms and turned on every hot water faucet. This fazed the leak down to a tiny pressurized spray, so I ran outside to get under the house and find the shutoff valve there.

As I walked through my front yard, a neighbor who I had just met called over to me. I told him that I had a water crisis and needed to get under the house. He came over and joined me, but to our dismay we found that there were no shutoff valves under the kitchen or utility room. We crawled back out and went down to the street to find the water meter. Luckily, the meter had just been read that day, and the water company didn't lock the lid upon leaving. Within a couple minutes, we were able to shut the water off.

The next day, I bought the c-pvc parts to replace the pipe. I read on the cement that it takes 1-2 days before you should apply pressure. To avoid waiting that long, I bought a metal stop-valve and screwed it on. Oh how nice that first shower was! Later my neighbor came over and helped build a new pipeline.

I let the glue dry and turned the water on this morning. The glued joints held fine, but the connection between the c-pvc and the metal shut-off valve wasn't tight enough and it slowly leaked. I cut the pipe and bought another piece and re-taped and re-glued the pipe and joints today. Hopefully tomorrow it will work!

The joys of being a homeowner...

barefoot driving

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:07:00 +0000

I strongly feel that driving barefoot is the best way to drive. Ninety percent of the time that I drive I am without shoes. It provides maximum comfort, allowing the feet to breathe and be free. This discourages athletes feet and foot odor. It allows for a more precise and safe control over things such as the brake, gas, and clutch pedals (as well as parking brakes and headlight bright switches for older cars). Being able to physically feel the pedals and wrap your toes around them permits the driver to operate more smoothly, and react quicker. Shoes distort the distance between your foot and the pedal, and also make accidentally hitting the wrong pedal easier (especially for those who drive a manual transmission). Let me clarify that I am not opposed to socks. Socks are flexible and still allow the foot to physically feel, while absorbing sweat and keeping the feet clean. In fact, even when I wear sandals I still wear socks. But as soon as I get into my car, off come the sandals until my destination is reached.

See, when I googled "barefoot driving" to steal an image for this post, I found one on "the fun times guide". Seems I am not the only person on the Internet that understands the benefits of driving barefoot! Fun times for all!

the power of water

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:04:00 +0000

It is Thursday of a working week, during a typical working time, and yet I do not work. What has given me this great privilege? The storms that ravaged Southcentral Indiana yesterday. Bloomington was hit hard, and at about 4:50 pm my computer and the whole Geology and Psychology buildings lost power and I got to leave work early. Turns out a service room flooded, and it still isn't fixed. Whats more, the loss of power caused a water valve to turn on on the 5th floor, and water flooded down all the way to the first floor. It just happened to go through the room 318, which is the suite that I work in. I hope my stuff isn't ruined. So with this beautiful day off, I set off in to the woods to clean up the flood damage caused by the rains yesterday. Some of my creekside stone furniture got partially destroyed, so I better get it back up to par. Maybe I'll take some pictures and upload them. We'll see.

Barack

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:08:00 +0000

Historically I have been fairly politically apathetic. Although I am pretty liberal on most issues, I haven't typically held too much interest in the whole process. However, due to political issues and the importance of this next election, I have started to pay attention. Barack Obama came to Columbus last Friday and I went to see him talk.

Not only is he a very skilled speaker, but the messages that he speaks actually make sense. I just got done watching him and Hillary fight it out in the Pennsylvania Democrat Debate. While Hillary has some good ideas also, she doesn't sell her points as well and authoritatively as Barack does. Barack also has the ability to bring the youth into politics, as he has done with me. I am convinced that he is the best chance that America has for the next four years, and I plan to vote for him. I hope you do too.

work space rearrangement

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:21:00 +0000

So I work for the Indiana Geological Survey, through the Center for Geospatial Data Analysis as well as for the environmental sector. At work, I have a computer that I work on daily. This computer sits on a desk in a corner of a windowless room. I have worked here for nearly a year now, but have only just begun to really make it home. Within the course of the past week, I have rearranged the entire layout of my immediate workspace, taking advantage of unused pieces of furniture and objects such as a small bookshelf and a chalkboard and a bulletin board. Now a bookshelf sits, although mostly empty, on my desk and a chalkboard sits on my left, just waiting to be filled with cross-sectional structural drawings and math equations. The bulletin board has been stripped of nearly all of its prior content (mostly IU's anticlimactic 2003 basketball season), and I have begun to reconstruct it with my own personal clippings. I did leave the picture of Bat Boy on the board, however...

With this newly designed and space-optimized workspace, I feel much more at home while at work, and enjoying your work environment is the first step toward workplace happiness. Even a redesigned corner cannot sugar-coat the mind-numbing experience of staring at a computer screen for 8 hours, however. And what do I do when I get home? Stare at a computer screen for a few more hours. Silly me.

Well

noreply@blogger.com (Argus) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:37:00 +0000

I got accepted into graduate school at Indiana University today for Geological Sciences. I guess since I started my blog on the very same day, that I will have to make an honest effort to document the next two years of my life in graduate school. We will see how this turns out!

This blog was inspired by a web-savvy friend who liked my website but suggested a nifty blog. I have recently updated my webpages www.andrewgustin.com and www.igity.com and added frames. I hope you enjoy my blog, movies, and theories.

Andrew Gustin