I saw Autodesk at the job fair I went to awhile back. I didn’t think much of it. They said they were hiring interns but it didn’t look like I had what they wanted for experience.

I received an e-mail today:

Ray,

Andrew

Tualatin is about 45 minutes away from I live, compared to University of Portland which is 20-25 minutes. I already have a fall back job lined up at UP but I was hoping I wouldn’t have to take it, as the experience isn’t the best for what I want to do. We’ll see how this goes…

Thought this was funny, taken from a forum.

At a recent computer expo (1996 COMDEX), Bill Gates compared the computer industry to the automotive indusrty by stating: “If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving cars that cost $25.00 and get 1,00 miles to the gallon.”

In response to Bills comment, General Motors issued A press release making the following statement: “If we (GM) had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1) for no reson whatsoever, your car would crash twice per day.

2) Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3) Your car would occasionally stop on the freeway without reason. In order to get started again, you would have to pull off to the side of the road, close all the windowsshut off the car resart it and open all the windows again. For some unknown reason, you would simply do this without question.

4) Occasionally, executing a maneuver, such as a left turn, would cause your car to shut down and refuse to resart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5) Only one person could use the car at one time unless you bought “Car95″ or “CarNT”, but then you would also have to buy more seats.

6) The new seats you would need would force everyone to have the same size butt.

7) You would press the “start” button to shut off the engine.
The oil warning light, water warning light, and alternator warning light would all be replaced by a single “Unidentified System Error” light.

9) The air bag would ask ur freshly mangled body “are you sure” before going off.

10) Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you back inuntill you simultaneously lifted the driver side door handle, turned the key, and grabbed the radio antenna.

11) The radio antenna would be internally mounted on the passenger side of the car.

12) buying a new car would force you to also purchase a new set of Deluxe Rand McNally road maps, dispite the fact that you niether need nor want them. Attempting to delet this otion would immediately cause your cars performance to diminish by 50% or more.

13) every time GM introduced a new car, people would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the old controls would function in the new car.

14) Macintosh would make a car that was five times faster, ten times more reliable and easier to mantain, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.”

Half of my finals are done. So far I did ok on my Asian philosophy final. I expect an A- or A in that class. I did pretty good on my Computer Science final, I expect no less than an A in that class =\.

Two more finals, both tomorrow. Fine Arts *puke* and Modern Physics. I’m most worried about the Modern Physics, it seems like no matter my grade in Fine Arts I’ll get a B in the class, so I need to concentrate on the Physics tonight and write up my crib sheet.

Fun Fun

Woohoo, school for the most part is over. I just have 4 2 hour finals left and I am done!

I’m trying to get an internship for the summer… I signed up to work for the school, but they stiffed me for location. I have a feeling that my boss doesn’t like me, heh.

So, I’m on the lookout!

Found this at a forum.

-At the beginning of the scene where the sheriff walks into the church after the wedding massacre, there is music playing. When the singers say “Donde esta..” there is a static sound like a radio changing station. Quentin used this same sound effect in the opening credits of Pulp Fiction to change from “Misorlou” to “Jungle Boogie”.

-The whole idea where Uma Thurman (wearing Bruce Lee’s yellow track suit) fights a whole gang of Japanese is an homage to Bruce Lee’s movie “Fist of Fury/The Chinese Connection”.

-The sword of “The Bride” is the same sword Butch uses to kill Zed’s buddy in “Pulp Fiction”.

-The masks that O-Ren’s henchmen/woman wear are a tribute to the green hornet series, which starred Bruce Lee as a mask wearing martial arts hero.

-The Japanese version of “Kill Bill” is longer and contains even more violence and gore.

-The yellow track suit that Uma Thurman wears during the tea house scene is a replica of the suit worn by Bruce Lee in the movie “Game of Death.”

-At the wedding slaughter, the Texas Ranger refers to his son, another Ranger, as “Son Number One”. This is surely a homage to Charlie Chan, the Chinese detective who was assisted in his investigations by his eldest son whom he referred to as “Number One Son”.

-The church scene was shot in the Mojave Desert outside of Lancaster, CA. Keep an eye out during this scene for a cameo by Samuel L. Jackson (Jules in Pulp Fiction, another Tarantino movie) as a dead organ player and actor/director Bo Svenson as the preacher.

-The tune that Elle Driver is whistling in the hospital is the theme from the movie ‘Twisted Nerve’ (1968)

-All of the members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad are named after snakes, however Elle Driver’s codename, California Mountain Snake, is the only non-venomous snake of the bunch. This is perhaps a cute Tarantino-esque reason for her inability to poison Black Mamba in her sleep.

-When the Bride calls out for O-Ren at the House of Blue Leaves Restaurant after encountering Sophie, she yells O-Ren’s name out, followed by the phrase explaining that they had unfinished business. This was all in Japanese, since there were subtitles present on screen at the time. However, traditionally when speaking someone’s name in Japanese, the last name comes first. (i.e. Ishii O-Ren)

-Well, I guess we finally know what the K in K-BILLY stands for now (K-BILLY being the radio station in Reservoir Dogs).

-The radio station that the sheriff is listening to, while driving to the murder scene, is KTRN radio in Wichita Falls, Texas. This radio station was also used in the movie The Last Picture Show. However, that radio station doesn’t exist anymore in Wichita Falls.

-The psychedelic swirls at the beginning of the film stating “Our Feature Presentation” was common at drive-in theatres of old.

-In the scene when Lucy Liu is walking with her gang into the restaurant (towards the end of the film), her obi (the belt of her kimono) was tied too loosely and too low as well. This may be because she is going to be a doing a fight scene later, but Japanese women do not tie their obi in that way.

-The scene where Go-Go stabs a man in the crotch and asks him if he still wants to “penetrate her” is a homage to Chiaki Kuriyama’s infamous scene in another Japanese movie, Battle Royale.

-You may have noticed that the Texas Ranger who is in charge of the ‘wedding slaughter’ also stars as a Texas Ranger of the same name in From Dusk Till Dawn, another film written by Tarantino. He dies in that film, suggesting that the films occupy the same “universe”, and this film is set before From Dusk Till Dawn.

-In the opening credits it mentions the story is by “Q & U”, this is Quentin and Uma, the director and lead actress.

-The cereal box Vivica A. Fox shoots out of is “Kaabooom” cereal. A little foreshadowing, no?

-The real name of Uma Thurman’s character is Beatrix according to Vivica Fox. It can be surmised that her name is ‘bleeped out’ in respect to nameless hero movies like Clint Eastwood’s ‘Man With No Name’ westerns or Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi movies. The main characters all have nicknames, like The Bride, but their real names are never known.

-Since this movie is supposed to be a tribute to old kung-fu movies, spaghetti westerns and other B-movies, many of the mistakes may be intentional to add to the “low budget movie” feel.

-Anybody else catch the “square” thing? Uma Thurman did the same thing in Pulp Fiction.

-Sophia was also a name of one of the Fox Force Five girls in Pulp Fiction.

-One of Tarantino’s infamous plug-in’s to his movies. In one shot of The Bride walking when she arrives in Tokyo there is an ad for Red Apple cigarettes behind her. Red Apples were the cigarette of choice in Pulp Fiction. All cigarettes in that movie are Red Apples.

-Vol.2 credits RZA and Robert Rodriguez for the original score