Photo courtesy of ImagePoop.com.
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Month: October 2008
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And Now, the New Job
An apt metaphor for the new job.
As promised, I am announcing my new job today. But not here: you’ll have to go to Global Nerdy to find out what it is.
Ever since I announced that I’d been laid off, I’ve had a lot of kind offers from people who wanted to take me out for a beer. I was IM’ing with one of those people yesterday.
“Sorry to hear about the job,” he said. “Did you get my email offering to take you out for a beer sometime? I was wondering if it ended up in your spam folder.”
“Thanks, and yeah, I got your mail,” I replied. “Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I’ve been busy with interviews, and I’ve accepted an offer. I’ll announce it on the blog on Friday.”
“Cool,” he said, and we both went back to work.
About ten minutes later, he IM’d me again.
“Holy crap. You’re not going to believe this. I just got laid off.”
“What?”
“I got called into ‘the meeting’, and they started talking about my severance.”
“Just after we were talking about me getting laid off?”
“Yeah. Weird, huh?”
“You know what? I will now buy you that beer.”
The timing of our conversation and his getting laid off were incredibly weird. It’s one of those things that makes you wonder if you’re not really alive, but just a character in a novel whose author has a mild sadistic streak.
Perhaps the new job will help me help him.
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What’s Up with “Senator McTongue”?
Take a look at these photos taken after last night’s presidential debate. What’s up with McCain and his tongue? Dry cough? Hairballs? The next step in his public metamorphosis into Grampa Simpson?
Photos courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Millvina Dean, last living survivor of the Titanic.
Millvina Dean, age 96, hopes to raise 3,000 pounds to help cover the costs of living in a nursing home. She’s doing this by selling her mementoes from the aftermath of the Titanic, which include a hundred-year-old suitcase full of clothes given to her family after they arrived in New York. Her family took the Titanic to emigrate from the U.K. to Kansas; her mother and brother also survived, but her father did not.
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Changes are Coming
The new look on my tech blog, Global Nerdy, is just the tip of the iceberg. Big changes are in store for both the blog and its author, Yours Truly. It’ll all be made clear in a post tomorrow, which will include an update on my employment situation.
It’s Tuesday, October 14th, 2008 and it’s Election Day in Canada. While the race here hasn’t been nearly as entertaining as the one our neighbours to the south are having, neither is it as agonizing or drawn-out. Neither will it be a confusing to vote, because there’s a uniform country-wide system of simple paper ballots, like the one shown below:
Even in this modern age, much of the world’s population is still under the rule of autocrats who were installed without even the pretense of a democratic process. Even if only as an exercise in Thanksgiving (which we just celebrated yesterday), get out there and vote!