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Comments (2) Effective today, I finished moving my entire blog over to my little ubuntu box running at home. This one will no longer be updated. Check out all the new bells and whistles:
Ciao!
10 Killer Job Interview questions and Answers
Leave a CommentBehind every interview question there is a concern or
another question. Your job is to process the question
thinking about what the interviewer’s concern might be. In
other words, why is the interviewer asking you this
question?
Some interesting late summer reading…
Leave a CommentI’ve been so busy that I haven’t been able to spend time updating my blog or catching up on some reading. So… here are a list of articles I haven’t read yet… lol
What’s best and fastest way to break in a new baseball glove?
Why is the rest of the world using A4 sized paper and the US is still using “Letter” sized paper?
- http://duggmirror.com/design/A4_vs_US_Letter
(blog is down most likely because it was dugg… luckily duggmiror caught it)
Why Max Roach was jazz’s greatest drummer
Pick the Brain – An analytical approach to self-improvement: 21 Proven Employee Motivation Tactics
Bernanke: The un-Greenspan
- The Fed may well end up slashing interest rates, but the Greenspan era of pumping up market bubbles with repeated cuts is over, predicts Fortune’s Peter Eavis.
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http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/22/magazines/fortune/eavis_fed.fortune/index.htm
Enjoy.
The Nice Guy Paradox [Solved]
“Quite simply, women like powerful men to be nice to them, not feminized pseudo-men…”
“…To get the true benefit of “nice” in the way that women enjoy, one has to be able to attract that same woman without being nice…”
The 213 Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed To Do In The U.S. Army
Taken from Skippy’s blog:
The Skippy List
Explanations of these events:
a) I did myself, and either got in trouble or commended. (I had a Major shake my hand for the piss bottle thing, for instance.)
b) I witnessed another soldier do it. (Like the Sergeant we had, that basically went insane, and crucified some dead mice.)
c) Was spontaneously informed I was not allowed to do. (Like start a porn studio.)
d) Was the result of a clarification of the above. (“What about especially patriotic porn?”)
e) I was just minding my own business, when something happened. (“Schwarz…what is *that*?” said the Sgt, as he pointed to the back of my car? “Um….a rubber sheep…I can explain why that’s there….”)To explain how I’ve stayed out of jail/alive/not beaten up too badly….. I’m funny, so they let me live.
A couple of my personal favorites:
33. Not allowed to chew gum at formation, unless I brought enough for everybody.
34. (Next day) Not allowed to chew gum at formation even if I *did* bring enough for everybody.
101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed
Taken from the blog:
6. Your source code control system is a series of folders on a shared drive
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23. Every bug is prioritized as Critical
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40. The company motto is ‘Do more with less’
41. The phrase ‘It works on my machine’ is heard more than once a day
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72. The deadline has been renamed a ‘milestone’…just like the last ‘milestone’
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84. All performance issues are resolved by getting larger machines
And of course the obligatory (and applicable):
101. “Oh, oh, and I almost forgot. Ahh, I’m also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, too… thanks”
I swear this guy must be working at the same place I am… He’s probably just a cube over…
Loon Lake – A Terrific Secluded Retreat
On a whim last weekend, I ran away to a secluded alpine reservoir resting a top the vast expanse of the great Sierra Nevada mountain range. Loon lake (and the adjoining Pleasant Lake depending on the water levels) is a man made reservoir situated over a mile above sea level in the El Dorado National forest and less than 30 statue miles from Lake Tahoe. Its remote location makes for great camping: the high altitude chases away most types of flying insects, the lake water is pristine and clear (and drinkable with an appropriate water filtration system), and although the access road ends at the north dam of the lake, the forest service’s designated campsites and campgrounds are limited to the south shore. Naturally, one does not drive 4 hours out of the bay area to rub elbows with other fellow campers so I’ve always set my sights on the north shore beyond the reaches of the north dam and the gravel access road that leads up to it.
For all you off-roaders out there, the north dam is coincidentally the trailhead for the highly popular Rubicon jeep trail that snakes its way through the Sierras and then dumps its human cargo on the shores of Lake Tahoe.
The lake truly offers a little of something for everyone… Read more »
AIRLINERS.NET – Heavy Metal Never Looked So Good
The ultimate website for commercial airline enthusiasts.
Boasting the largest collection of hi-res photography of commercial aircraft on teh internets, some of the photos posted are absolutely stunning and breathtaking. Makes me want to pursue my childhood dream of flying again. I believe the resolution is good enough for desktop backgrounds.
Silversun Pickups – Carnavas
So I attended Live105’s BFD concert last weekend and came across some new music. This group has been described as the-Smashing-Pumpkins-gone-slightly-indie. Replete with a unique vocal timbre similar to the Smashing Pumpkins’ head man Billy Corgan, the Pickups’ debut album “Carnavas” has turned some heads (and ears) since arriving on the scene in 2006.
100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know
Does the name Houghton Mifflin ring a bell? Does it make you break into a cold sweat, have shortness of breath, and lucid hallucinations of all-nighters topped off by gallons of Mountain Dew? Yes, this infamous textbook publisher has compiled a list of words to help you feign intellect. How many do you already know?
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/100words/
