Hitting the big Five-Oh

No, I'm personally not hitting 50 yet. However, with this entry, I have proudly hit 50 posts for the year, surpassing my 49 in 2006! Woo-hoo! Okay, okay, I know some of you can do 50 posts in a week, but hey, I'm a busy bunny.

Anyway, congrats to me! You may all return to your regularly scheduled lives now.

"Working in a Winter Wonderland..."

It may have been mostly rain and rain trying to pretend to be snowflakes at my house, but up here at work, it definitely dumped! I was told that over the weekend, it was probably 18" total. Pretty to look at. Not so fun to drive in...

"I've never heard such a stupid question!"

Well, I've never heard such a stupid response!

In this tough economy, there are a number of people out of work. Some maybe for the first time in their careers. However, even that is not an excuse to provide some of the answers that these people did.

Some of my favorites...

Why did you leave your last job?

"I have a problem with authority."

What are your weaknesses?

"I get angry easily and I went to jail for domestic violence. But I won't get mad at you."

Tell of a time you made a mistake and how you dealt with it.

"I stole some equipment from my old job, and I had to pay for its replacement."

There are quite a few good ones there. If you're interviewing for a job, make sure not to use these responses...

Awww... how sweet.

I follow a deal site called DealNews that gives readers info on sale items it finds. Here's a typical example.

What's sweet was a one-person deal that showed up the other day.

Everybody all together now. Awwww....

So how does this make sense?...

I got an ad for computers via email today. Pretty normal, eh? But here's something I just don't understand. Take a look at this ad...

Windows. Life without walls. Now, if we don't have walls, why do we need Windows? Hmmm?

Pop Quiz time!

Okay, here are four questions. Let's see how you do. Correct answers to be posted in a few days. (No cheating by looking them up on the internet...)

1. A pencil and a pad of paper costs a total of $1.10. The pad of paper costs $1 more than the pencil. How much does the pencil cost?
2. If it takes five do-hickies 5 minutes to make five widgets, how long would it take 100 do-hickies to make 100 widgets?
3. In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of it?
4. Joe is checking out Jill. Jill is checking out Jack. Joe is married, Jack is not. Is a married person checking out an unmarried person? (a) Yes, (b) No, (c) Cannot be determined.

Check back in the comments in a few days and I'll have the answers for you. :)

Something doesn't make sense here...

(#15) Lambert said. "This is in no way indicative of my character or the soccer player that I am."

So do her words speak louder? Or do her actions?



By the way, Lambert is "suspended indefinitely," for now. Good for UNM. But if UNM's "character" is anything like Lambert's, I'm afraid we'll see her for the first game next season. Too bad UNM lost so there are no more games for Lambert to miss this season despite her best efforts...

I've got my reason now. So what's yours?

Software developers are just naturally weird.

There are worse ways to spend a late afternoon...

Sunset at Laguna Beach

A great commencement speech

So, I'm a little late. What else is new?

Here's a great commencement speech from Ellen DeGeneres at Tulane University this past summer. In it, a great message we should all remember.

Believe it or not, it seemed to work better in IE than FireFox, but that just may be because of all the security I have on FireFox. Either way, in the Table of Contents, go down to "Key Note Speech by Ellen DeGeneres" (at 1:16:46) and go from there. Be sure to stick around for the dancing!