I'm on the free-public-email list for Humor Labs.  They haven't updated their website recently, but they're still cranking out the daily joke-emails.  Except they're on vacation right now until October 6th so they're re-mailing old lists.  Here is the one from July 10th, 2001:

The Top 5 Least Popular Street Names:⑤ Vicious Circle ( Read more... )

I didn't do much today.  The wind-chill was nasty all day, but most of the things I was supposed to have done were on the telephone.  One item: I was supposed to call one of the local "Chamber of Commerce" type places to ask if they know of any other Job Fairs like the one they held a month ago.  (They had 55 vendors, I handed out 5 résumés, went ( Read more... )

Sometimes an entire week goes by between moments when I feel like working at Company 𝔾.  The situation is starting to look similar to my last few years at Company ℱ, where I didn't want to leave because I like being "a big frog in a small pond" and hate job-hunting due to poor health, but I wasn't happy with management so I never felt like working ( Read more... )

From:[me]
To:[recruiter]
Date:August 9, 2006
Subject:Interview

[Name] Industries is a squat building in an industrial area outside of [Town] PA.  The building's entrance leads to a small waiting area containing four plush chairs, a plant, a receptionist behind a glass window, a stairway leading up, and a door with a digital combination lock.  On ( Read more... )

Jakob Nielsen does some serious analysis on his logfiles!  I'm mainly familiar with Zipf curves as they apply to vocabulary usage: typically half the words used in a book are used only once, one quarter are used twice, etc.  But the dozen or so most-used words in a book (a, an, the) occur far more often than Zipf predicts, just like Google is five ( Read more... )

My dK post was rated 60th most impactful of its weekend.  Actually it had zero impact because it discussed how to respond to a situation that never arose because US Senators wimped out.

I don't quite understand why my comment on this post got several replies suggesting that "4" wasn't a high enough rating for it (for historical reasons, "4" is the ( Read more... )

So I went to Human Resources on Monday to sign my short-term contract, but the VP of HR didn't have a copy of it.  The secretary to the VP of Engineering had a copy, but the VP hadn't signed it before leaving the country for two weeks.  She was going to take an image of the VP's signature and electronically add it to the contract, but the contract ( Read more... )

I have selected Stephen Console LLC to represent me in severance negotiations with company ℱ.  I will be meeting with them next Thursday to discuss my options ( Read more... )

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