Whatever's tugging at my brain handles
Posted in Job Hunting, Just Personal on Apr 28th, 2008
So I've got a new "keep my sanity while I wait to hear if I got the job" song that's calming me down better than "Don't Stop Believin'" And not only that, I found I can embed a sample of it it in my blog courtesy of imeem. If you click the song [...]
Posted in Job Hunting, Just Personal on Apr 28th, 2008
I had an interview for a perm job (as opposed to the contracting I'm doing now) about a week and a half ago. The hiring manager wanted to meet with a lot of candidates, so they just finished the interviews late last week and a decision is going to come down most likely today.
It's [...]
Posted in Cooking & Recipes, Just Personal on Apr 22nd, 2008
So, they've had this woman, Pim (or is it Pym?) as a judge on Iron Chef America recently, billing her as a food blogger. She speaks with an accent and I'd say her English is pretty good except for the fact that she seems to know only one adjective.
It's the Iron Chef drinking game... [...]
Posted in Just Personal, Society on Apr 7th, 2008
So, I was driving along in my car, listening to AM news radio because its commercial breaks are shorter and less whiny than public radio's pledge breaks (I'll get to that in a moment), and I heard a commercial for QFC's pharmacy offering $4 generics (like every other Wal-Mart imitator) that sounded wrong to my [...]
Posted in Art, Just Personal, Technology & Life on Mar 30th, 2008
READ ALL THE INSTALLMENTS: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 [here]
So, originally the plan had been to do 8 separate art pieces for my wife for our anniversary (which was today), then combine them all into one big piece and print and frame it for her. Eight is still the eventual goal, [...]
Posted in Just Personal, Stupid Thoughts on Jan 21st, 2008
So I started a new contract at Microsoft last week. Basically the first day or two on a Microsoft contract are wasted time because you're still waiting for the necessary accesses and permissions to populate through the systems, even though you had to wait a week after the contract was offered just to get [...]
Posted in Just Personal, Stupid Thoughts on Aug 29th, 2007
So, I'm watching TV tonight. My wife and I are addicted to "Eureka" on Sci-Fi. And, as the credits roll, we notice that tonight's episode was directed by Tim Matheson. If the name isn't familiar, he was Otter in Animal House.
That's not weird. He's been doing a lot of TV directing [...]
Posted in Just Personal, Stupid Thoughts, Techno Thoughts on Jul 19th, 2007
I had the strangest dream and I can still remember a lot of details, so I'll share...
I was in a house in a beachside community with a view of the ocean (not on the beach, but on a hill a few blocks away) and I was looking out the window at the water, when many [...]
Posted in Just Personal on Apr 4th, 2007
Today I realized that I listened to WAY too much Dr. Demento in my childhood and teen years.
How do I know? Well, I saw this story on the Reuters "Oddly Enough" wire, and it had the headline "Falling woman saved by pile of..."
The first thought through my head, to finish that sentence, was the [...]
Posted in Just Personal, Techno Thoughts, Web Programming on Jan 9th, 2007
So, yesterday I sent out the notice to a few friends and family that my Flash drawing tool was ready for them to try. Wow has it been a long road getting there. And in a few more days, the first ad will appear in "This Is True" and the public will have officially [...]