cant.wash.away.the sin

A little more than a week left of school. All of my precariously positioned classes are wrapping up, so I really can’t act too indifferent towards the assignments. Introduction to Computer Science’s last report is a fresh take on an old degrading history. One last paper, it's based on a class lecture given by representative of Valero and it has to summarize itself in an ending with a personalized opinion. This assignment can be most tactfully summarized as an obligatory blowjob to the oil giant. The presentation was breezed through and contained three or four presenters with no contact information given, even the stories and accounts given (that were on topic and might be relevant) were dumbed down to the effect of a cheap commercial and always ended with ‘we waved money around… and paid people to do ridiculous things overnight’. Get the mind frame a Duracell battery commercial and read on...

Valero, when our power blinks out, we spend 8 million dollars to rent the largest cargo plane in the world (out of Russia) to fly a generator (that could power a small city) into Fort Worth Texas overnight. Why? Because Valero makes more than 8 million dollars every day... on weekends... during a recession. Velero, you'd be surprised how causally spending massive amounts of inconsequential money can run a business...

At this point I've conceded that any valuable information on the field of computer science won't come from any (of the several) oil company presentations comprising the core of this class. I’d like to just power through it, have it over with, and move on to other classes. The work I get assigned from this one makes me feel... dirty.