Émigré in waiting

[pyesetz]

My application has been sent to the Canadian Consulate.  They're a little backed up right now; supposedly it will be about four months before they send an acknowledgment of receipt.  Then it's 2–16 more months until a decision.  Maybe my passport will get stamped by next summer.

I really, really don't want to move to Canada and *then* look for a job, but the only jobs that can be obtained a year in advance are academic.  I've been trying to soften up the chairman of a certain Comp. Sci. department by writing analysis programs for a language he invented.  Here is my latest result.  Note the inscrutable underlying syntax that shines through all the pretty colors and boxes I've added.  His response to my previous emails has been faintly positive; I'm hoping for a "Wow!" for this work but I suppose I may have to be satisfied with an "interesting...".

I've spent the last month on this (in case any of you were wondering why my journal went silent).  The project ran into many problems—I'd be quite surprised to find out that anyone has ever suceeded with this approach before.  The very last problem I ran into today was that my result files are in XML, which is not an acceptable language for pages served from Comcast home-user accounts.  If you put an XML file on a Comcast homepage and then read it with your browser, Comcast's computer tells your browser that the file is plain text, so it looks like colorless gibberish.  Furtopia gets it right, but I didn't want to send him a URL that mentions "pyesetz" because (as explained by bitch_phd) it's not a good idea to tell a prospective academic employer that you have a blog, even an innocuous nonfurry one.  So I looked around the web for a free hosting service for low-volume non-furry no-advertising web pages.  I almost picked www.cjb.cc, but their FAQ lists specific file types allowed and XML isn't on the list (must be a Windows-based site...).  So I went with freewebs.com.  Like porsupah, I tend to use the same name at every website, so those of you who know my RL name can easily guess what name my files are under at freewebs.  As for the rest of you, don't worry about it—this crap is all academic anyway.

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[mrcougar.livejournal.com]

I was wondering where you had gone to. there's no other places of work where your're at now?