Comments on: Our AOS Experience

By: tdaxp

tdaxp — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:52:26 +0000

ATB,

Many thanks!

Everyone we managed to personally meet in Homeland Security — from the security guards to the case officer — was kind, courtesy, and went out of our way to help us.

Back-office processing sucks, and that may be a function of the government not understanding quality control as a scientific, industrial process. It’s a hard thing to understand, and being a good and helpful person is not enough to do that job.

Our lawyer caused us more problems than anything. At best, he was a very expensive Microsoft Word template, that helped us organize information we already had into the form that Homeland Security accepts.

By: ATB

ATB — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:11:48 +0000

Congratulations Dan!

Sometimes I wonder who in our government sits there and decides to make the citizen’s interaction with the gov’t so difficult…or ludicrous, lol.

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By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:54:28 +0000

Aaron,

Fei’s laptop been operational from early on, after I removed most of Dell’s junkware. Vista’s graphics become “fuzzy” if the shell is closed before selecting hibernate, but I”m pretty sure that’s a bug of Vista on the hardware.

Mother of tdaxp’s laptop was much easier to work with, has far less junkware, and doesn’t have the annoying graphics bug. Hers is a Compaq from Best Buy [1], instead of a “direct fro Dell”

Eddie,

What program are you thinking of in Victoria?

[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/01/25/laptop-shopping-time.html

By: aaron

aaron — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:37:36 +0000

Incidentally, Fei is still waiting for her laptop to work, as Dan has a master’s degree in Computer Science, which provides no actual practical ability

( Myself coming up on five years as a professional programmer/system administrator and still no degree )

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:54:06 +0000

I won’t be flying to HK for the interview. (sure wish I could though).

Thank you for the heads up on the employment authorization and advanced parole. Once I get this batch of documents sent to her this weekend I’ll get to working on those.

I’m sure this will all get very interesting when I want to go to grad school in Victoria, Canada in 3 years….

By: Eddie

Eddie — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:48:41 +0000

Your grandkids will hear this story and ask, “what’s a laptop?” and probably, “what’s the internet?”.

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:39:01 +0000

I met Fei on my first day in Nebraska, really my first minutes. I arrived at one in the afternoon, because my new Dell laptop would be delivered no earlier than 1:00. After the person who let me in, and the R.A., Fei was the third person I met. I was filling out paperwork near my laptop (which had come earlier), when this absolutely gorgeous student came down, and asked if anyone knew how to connect her laptop to the internet.

“I have a Master’s degree in Computer Science,” I responded.

And the rest was history!

By: Seerov

Seerov — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:11:35 +0000

How did you and your wife meet? I’m thinking it must have been in college? If its not to personal, do you mind telling us how and where you two met? You can leave out all the mushy stuff = )

By: Dan tdaxp

Dan tdaxp — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:28:16 +0000

Rob, lol!

The closest I came to cheekiness was answering “Not that I’m aware of” to the (ludicrous) question of whether Fei was a Nazi between the years of 1933 and 1945, and interjecting “I want to hear this!” when the officer asked her if she was previously married.