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bloke wrote:

I just have to vent a bit about a certain 'tradition', which has been labeled 'Blackout Thursday'. As the name suggests, it involves consuming large amounts of alcohol, (legally and otherwise) on a Thursday night, following the last day of classes.

I believe it has been mathematically calculated that if those who have no business going to college would get a $10/hr. job right out of high school (this is the amount that a friend of mine and I have to pay a guy to keep him around...basically to dig with a shovel and do odd jobs)...perhaps making $11/hr. the second year and by the fourth year possibly $12/hr. ...If those non-college types would stay at home with their parents those four years and - for JUST those four years - put ALL of their earnings in decent (not spectacular) mutual funds and KEEP them there,

by c. age 50 or so, the typical college graduate could not hope to overtake the net wealth of the non-college attendee who follows this plan.

Almost makes the case for compulsary military service, doesn't it, Bloke?

Coder wrote: I didn't participate in said event, obviously, with my jury this morning, and the whole, 'I'm 19' thing, but, it is college, and it's there if I so desire, (which I don't, particularly),so the jury was the primary reason.

A jury is no excuse! Religion, maybe age, sometimes girls, etc.... but not a jury! Drink a lot of dark, thick beer the night before your jury! It definitely helps the nerves, and makes the mouthpiece smell super fresh! Look what espresso stout does to you....

bloke wrote:
those who have no business going to college

But with interest rates on student loans at all-time lows, figuring out who those people are is pretty tough.

Coder wrote: I've got my harness out, and I plan to make up for it tonight.

Harness?







You must have an interesting personal life coder.

I forgot about performance juries...

I was thinking about jury duty...

They do that so differently now than the way they did it the first time I had to sit through a boring embezzlement case...

In California (or Riverside County, to be exact), jury duty always begins on Monday, but you don't get paid for it. You are told to call, not visit the courthouse at a certain time. At the time, I had a cell phone that had an Idaho phone number, so the county's 800 number didn't work. I had an Idaho number because I bought a new Tracfone at the Goodwill for a buck and the SIM card in it didn't work with California phone numbers. Anyway, I finally got through, which took about six hours (in the middle of the night) by which time the automated recording stated: "Thank you for calling the Riverside County Courthouse. We have noted that you are calling from out of state and that automatically puts your jury service on hold for 90 days. If you are calling from a cell phone, please call here again between the hours of noon and 6:00 this evening. All the preliminary jury members have been selected by phone at this time."

I ended up having to call twice a day: once before 11:00 AM and once before 6:00 PM. My job had already given me paid time off!

So I got a vacation, sitting by the phone.

For my Thursday 6:00 call, the automated reply was, "Thank you for your patience. We don't need you at this time. You have fullfilled jury service through July 2007."

Beat me, mistreat me but don't lie to me, baby.