Ned Batchelder posted a job description of sorts… If you want to hire the best, that is how you get them.
It’s about the people, on both sides. I don’t want to work with someone having N years experience in X Tech, Y Tech… I want to work with good people. […]
I’ve started working for a new company as a SDET (software development engineer in test). This means my short one block commute to work at http://www.onvia.com has become a brisk 30 minute walk. I’m really happy with that amount of walking though, it means that I’m now getting at least an hour of […]
A new series, by Wes Maldonado… quotes. Yippy.
sawzy is the drunk pronunciation of sawzy Ryan
What Wes Read on the morning of 2006-02-21
Pillow Fight Club - Just like it sounds. AAAS presentation on MySpace data - Danah Boyd sums up a talk she gave on “Identity Production in a Networked Culture” Configuration ExceptionHandling without using an external configuration file - .NET configuration stuff… Will Mouse Gestures […]
Update (04/13/2006): Good luck you woot fanatics!
For the past couple of days, one of my former co-workers has had her IM name set as “Will you be my woot-off alert?” I didn’t understand what it meant; I know woot is a site that sells overstocked “stuff” every day at very very […]
Parkert links to a very amusing public service announcement in the Internet archive:
The American Social Health Association was always experimenting with new ways to educate the public about venereal disease. (. . .) Although this popular TV public service announcement informs the public that everybody is susceptible to venereal […]
I am talking about taking on courier jobs without asking questions. There have been several times in my life when mysterious yet somehow trustworthy people have asked me a very simple question:
Could you do a favor for me? I need something delivered.
It actually is similar to the movie The Transporter. […]
Friday
Got the job I wanted. Skied and snowboarded on ice. Had horrible times during ski racing.
Saturday
Rode my new snowboard some more… Nearly died in the super pipe. Wore an inflatable flamingo on my head at a luau party.
Sunday
Enjoyed awesomely sunny skiing. Did a good job being a ski instructor I think. Watched an interesting electronica show. Witnessed a wreck.
Monday
Enjoyed happy hour […]
Just stumbled across this collection of 50 writing tips and realized that I overuse ‘ings.’
. . . why is this list:
Wish and hope and think and pray
better than:
Wishing and hoping and thinking and praying?
Go learn more from Poynter Online
I was walking back from The Juan Maclean show and headed to my local bar when I hear an amazing roar. I turn around just in time to see a full size Dodge Ram 4×4 catch some air off the top of Mercer St, attempt to make a 90 degree turn to the inevitable […]