Recent content by qaa541

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    Travel time: San Fran airport to San Jose?

    Yep, I am a SoCal transplant... it will be my 4th year here in the Bay Area this October. It is strange to my ears to refer to a freeway without "the". I can tell Bay Area people natives by the lack of the use of "the" when referring to freeways (but that seems to be fading), the use of...
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    Travel time: San Fran airport to San Jose?

    If you get on the 101 and drive down to the 237 freeway it should not take more than an hour at 8-9PM on a Monday night. Getting to the freeway (depending on what side of the city you are on) may add 15 - 20 mins if you are on the far side of the freeway. Taking the Bay Bridge at that hour may...
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    How good are GT and Fuji road bikes?

    I bought a 2002 Fuji Team road bike from bikesdirect.com in 2003. It has been a great bike for me. I think I paid like $1200 shipped. The frame is a very light aluminum and it has ultegra compontents throughout. It is not carbon fiber, but it has been a great bike for me that is still going...
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    would you ever look down on someone because he has an online graduate degree?

    All the tests are proctored. There were strict guidelines about who could be proctors (no coworkers and especially no family or friends) and how they had to give the test. Pretty much the same thing as taking the SAT or any other test for that matter. My experience at CU Boulder is that the...
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    would you ever look down on someone because he has an online graduate degree?

    This. I got my Master's in Telecommunications from the University of Colorado at Boulder(CU Boulder) via distance learning. It is the same class, with the same teachers and students and the same content. The only difference is that it is taped vs. live. I have to do the same homework and same...
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    APA style annotated bibliographies - please kill me!

    APA citations are a pain. I went to a graduate school program that required APA format and it was painful to learn all the minutiae on the formatting. We used Diana Hacker's guide (which is like the Cliff's notes of APA/CMS/MLA formatting) but there was still quite a substantial section devoted...
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    lady gaga is kinda ugly

    When I was in Germany in July, all they had on German MTV over and over was that Lady Gaga was a hermaphrodite and they cited some German magazine which supposedly quoted Lady Gaga during an interview saying she was born a hermaphrodite. I found that somewhat amusing. Her music is okay but way...
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    Wusthof or Henkels knives?

    My fiancee and I love our Shun Classic set. They are Japanese knives that fit our hands better (we have average-small hands) and are light. We tried Henckels and Wusthof and we found them to be a bit heavy. *ANY* knife is better than the cheap $2 Ikea knives we were using before that would...
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    What CC Company do you use?

    I had the same thing happen to my Diamond Platinum Card. I got my card in the mail a few days later. When I activated the new card it automatically closed the old one down.
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    Does ABC have the worst online streaming player??

    SCIFI Replay/NBC's is the worst. They have no stream buffering so people without a "fast" (> 1.5Mbps? -- I don't know what they optimize for) connection get totally screwed with an unwatchable stream. I tried watching a replay of Battlestar Galactica over the free GoogleWiFi service in...
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    Guy pays $10k to post on billboard complaining about cell phone laws

    I see that sign going home from work everyday. Ironically that sign is extremely distracting because it has a lot of words for a billboard and some of it is in a small font. The first time I wanted to read it, I realized how distracted I was getting from the road so I stopped. I think this...
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    John Wayne airport, steep angle takeoffs

    My parent's house is in the flight path about a mile away from the airport. The county settled with the residents in the area by providing people within a certain raidus of the airport that were in the flight path with sound retrofitting to the houses (double pane windows, sound resistant doors)...
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    Anyone else here a fan of Stone Brewing Co.?

    I love Arrogant Bastard and Double Bastard. The UC Irvine pub used to serve it on tap! It was heaven! Stone Brewing Co also used to sponsor a lot of the UC Irvine events so there typically would be free beer there!
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    Any So Cal (gun) Shooters?

    You are talking about On Target Range That place is located down on one of the side streets (on the right going southbound) that parallels the freeway. If I remember correctly, it is in an industrial-commercial neighborhood. I always got there from Crown Valley Parkway and then turned...
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    CIS Major or Cisco Certifications

    The best answer is go to college first and also get Cisco certs. The college degree will give you job flexibility in case the Cisco thing does not pan out. The CCIE exam is no joke... it really means you are an expert in networking in all shapes and forms. You will not pass without real working...