Hairball: Where the Spittin's Getting Goodknitting, politics, and other stuff that sticks in my crawan entire knitted room!- February 7, 2005 K. sent this link to me...he found it on BoingBoing.http://blogs.salon.com/0002085/2005/02/07.html#a219 puppy bowl- February 7, 2005 Last night we were flipping through the channels and noticed that Animal Planet's programming for the entire evening was the Puppy Bowl--hours and hours of puppies playing with each other. If you missed it, you can buy a copy for a mere $9.99. The water bowl-cam was quite thrilling.http://blogs.salon.com/0002085/2005/02/07.html#a218 on the bright side...- February 5, 2005 Top reasons why blowing the interview was all right: 5. I can continue my poor sleeping habits--up until late, then sleeping in. 4. I can continue procrastinating on my schoolwork. 3. I don't have to worry about getting dressed up and making my hair look presentable. 2. Work won't eat into valuable knitting time. And the number one reason that completely screwing the interview pooch can be seen as positive is... 1. No waiting by the phone hoping for a call-back.http://blogs.salon.com/0002085/2005/02/05.html#a217 interview, intershmoo- February 4, 2005 Well, I pretty much all-out bombed that interview. I've never been so inarticulate in my life, except perhaps as an infant. The whole experience was incredibly painful. Imagine this: American female interviewer, and British male. Good copbad cop. The woman is all like, "I'm just so glad that I found someone who's heard these words before." But the guy is asking me questions along the lines of, "When you have a document, how do you approach the metadata" Quietly, from behind. Or, did you ever..http://blogs.salon.com/0002085/2005/02/04.html#a216 hangin' on the telephone- February 3, 2005 Tomorrow I have an interview with a large pharmaceutical company. Yep, selling myself to the man because they're offering an internship in something I never see internships offered in--ontologies and taxonomies, also knows as "what I want to do when I graduate." This is a conference call interview, and I have no idea what to expect; I've never done a phone interview, for one thing, and I imagine more than one other person will be involved, since we're not using the contact person's desk...http://blogs.salon.com/0002085/2005/02/03.html#a215 even the square and the yellow, the dinosaurial and the purple- February 3, 2005 I'm sure half the blogs have a link to this, but I can't resist: Spongebob is loved by the UCC! You may recall the United Church of Christ being in the news a month or so ago for its ad campaign stressing its acceptance of everyone. And they do mean everyone: For that matter, Thomas explained, the 1.3-million-member church, if given the opportunity, would warmly receive Barney, Big Bird, Tinky-Winky, Clifford the Big Red Dog or, for that matter, any who have experienced the Christian message...http://blogs.salon.com/0002085/2005/02/02.html#a214 girlie girls- February 2, 2005 I have a terrible 9:30am class that has a whole basket of girlie girls in it. The class is required for everyone, so you get both LS and IS people--and they are definitely LS. Nothing wrong with that, but they're like a cross between social workers and librarians: we want to make readers feel good! They chat about clothes and things before class until the teacher stares them down because everyone else is silent. I could see that one of them was doing a knitty pattern and I asked her which...http://blogs.salon.com/0002085/2005/02/02.html#a213 profiles of the racially stupid- February 2, 2005 So yesterday I go up to this guy from the dept. whose name I know is Hailie and say, "Happy name birthday!," and he looks at me like I'm crazy. I explain that it's Hailie Selassie's birthday and that I thought he might be named after H.S., and then I explain that "Hailie Selassie" just sticks in my head whenever I hear it, for some reason--I just like the sound of it. Dude was named after his dad, but he said he'd always meant to ask his grandmother where she got the name. I'm actually...http://blogs.salon.com/0002085/2005/02/02.html#a212 |