JavaJennifer

Spilling the Beans

Vern vs. Federal Procurement

javajennifer | March 4, 2009

Government contractors are a weird lot.  For those of you living outside the beltway,  Government contractors include companies  SAIC, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, CACI, SRA, EDS, Perot Systems, General Dynamics  Boeing and the nefarious Halliburton.  They are infinitely large in resources, hire to fill obscurely named position, Tier III Operations and Supply Chain and are [...]

Rejection-Jection

javajennifer | March 2, 2009

I’ve only ever been fired from one job and ironically it was the job I held from the age of 14 or 15 until I was out of college which would have made me 21 ish.  The ax fell on a Sunday afternoon when my boss showed up unexpectedly and asked me for my keys [...]

Snow

javajennifer | March 2, 2009

Snow fell last night in popcorn sized flakes.  The Federal Government is on a two hour delay/ unscheduled leave which loosly translates into not going to work because you don’t wanna and the major school districts in the area are closed.  It is the only news item that’s been covered since the 5 o’clock news [...]

Review of Heaven

javajennifer | March 1, 2009

The back of Phil Traynor’s CD, Heaven reads, ” Heaven is a musical interpretation of a soul’s journey from the moment of death to the moment of redemption.  It is intended to paint an emotional picture of an uncertain path; one traveled with tentative steps, fraught with fear, trepidation and loss, but leavened with hope [...]

1959 Interview with Ayn Rand

javajennifer | March 1, 2009

http://perfectlyhuman.multiply.com/video/item/11 http://perfectlyhuman.multiply.com/video/item/12 http://perfectlyhuman.multiply.com/video/item/13 My mom forwarded me this interview between a chain smoking Mike Wallace and  Russian novelist Ayn Rand, The Fourtainhead and Atlas Shrugged hosted in 3 parts by a blogger, Perfectly Human’s Subterranean Circus.  Since I don’t know this individual and do not have permission to link to his/her site, I want to at least make [...]