Surely You're Joking

Just found out there's gonna be a Feynman stamp. One of my regrets in this life is getting to Pacific Tech too late to meet him. He was a character, that's for sure.



If you haven't read Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, you're missing out. Don't worry, it's actually comprehensible.

Death to Charter

It figures that they'd pick my day off to break the cable system in all of Hoover and Homewood. I guess that counts as being relevant to somebody other than me, but I'm not sure.

Anyway, I've put up another of my billion-dollar ideas over at Halfbakery. It needs a picture to go with it.

Also, I dumped some more pictures in my bucket. I keep meaning to annotate them and put them in some kind of order, but that seems too much like work, and, like I said, this is my day off.

The Difference in a Recruiting Firm and a Staffing Firm

is that you have to wear a tie for an interview with a recruiting firm. Also, they're much pickier about who they send to their clients, and mainly concentrate on managerial types. Turns out Leslie made the right call in that regard; if they don't specify business casual, a suit is the way to go. Not to mention that I have to wear the suit like 60 more times before it goes out of style if I'm gonna make it as cost effective as the rest of my wardrobe. (One of the things I'm learning by being destitute is to appreciate all the stuff I've already acquired).

I had an interview with one of the recruiting firms this morning for a project manager position at an industrial locality. Obviously I don't have any experience designing industrial equipment, but I think I was just called in to help train the new recruiter. She just sat in on the interview and nodded vacantly, but it was fun.

On an interesting side note, the interviewer was once a manager at another gadgeteria I used to work at. Small world.

The most exciting thing I did today was get a free T-Shirt from Old Navy. They don't do that for just any old customer, only those of us who are ranked first mate or above. I've just been promoted to rear admiral, and all the cashiers have to salute me when I come in.

My internet connection got really slow this morning, so I had to go next door and use the Colonel's ISDN line. That made my cable modem jealous and forced it to cooperate. My poor machine is lonely with me being away all this time during those long working hours. Not to mention in need of a makeover in the worst way.

I'll post more interesting things later, including some comments on the rest of the world for those of you who aren't enthralled with my inward analyses. I for one am sick of me, so hopefully this will be the last narcipost for a while.