For some reason this sounds appealing to me.

But I doubt that they'll have McCrepes Citron...

Update(Dec. 2, 2003): McCafe opens in Mountain View, CA

Today I went to Corner Bakery for lunch. They had a sign displaying the witticism:

Stressed is Desserts Spelled Backwards.

Now think of how much easier a language would be to learn if it all worked this way, if opposites were spelled backwards, or causes and effects, or conditions and cures. No more wondering how to combat Evil, you just Live. No more wondering what to take for a headache, just grab some ehcadaeh. And so on.

Of course many, many people will need to relearn the language, and no one else will think it's a good idea, and it will fail just as the metric system did (though I've heard they still use it somewhere), and we'll all end up speaking Esperanto.

Or just pretending? MexiJew points out some good tips to help you land the job you really want. I'm not sure that I agree with the thank you letter, they always seem pretty empty to me, but I have seen other decision makers respond to them.

In addition to his tips, I'd add:

• Keep your resume short. If your experience isn't in the same field and it's ten years old, it's not going to make much of a difference.
• Know how to use Word if you submit your resume as a Word Doc. If you can't layout the page correctly without getting red squiggles under each sentence, know that I'll see those same squiggles when I pull up your resume in my word.
• Don't apply if you're greatly over qualified. Many of my coworkers seem surprised at this one, but I don't want to spend weeks or even months hiring and training you, just for you to get bored and look for a new job, leaving me with another vacancy. I also don't want to pay for experience that I'm not going to use.
• If the job is in IT, don't fax in your resume, it make you look archaic or lacking the skills to submit your information electronically.
• And language skills are very important, so Word spell and grammar check aside, get a human to proof it as well, if not two or three.

If you are lucky enough to get past this first step, and you get a phone interview or even an office interview, here's a few things that you shouldn't do:

• Miss the phone call. It doesn't look professional.
• Ask the interviewer "Which company was this again?" followed up with "I've applied at so many, I can't tell them apart". Or anything in that vein.
• If asked why you applied for the job at their company, don't reply "I need work" or "I'm getting desperate", or "I can't remember", none will get you the job, even if it's the truth.
• Although a follow up call or thank you letter is appreciated, stalking, hounding, etc. is a sure way to lose a job that you almost had, so limit the calls to check on the job, and don't try to oversell yourself either, it makes you look cheap.

Apparently daveGruska decided that .Text didn't deliver on its promises, and he's trying out dasBlog.

N8 (of Spork fame) says that he heard that Charlie's Angels and Barbarian both suck.

Anyone have any info to the contrary?

Generally this makes them a rental first game, but neither one of these are on my must buy real soon list, so if they drop to $10 or so, and other people have given them good reviews, I might still pick them up.

I don't expect much from Charlie's Angles, but first glimpses of Barbarian looked like it could be good.

As for what I've played lately:

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem which I haven't played too much of, because it's a wee bit scary. Can't play it with Iman around, and once she's in bed I don't need to be hearing eerie noises out of the dolby 5.1 speakers

Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour is quality, but it seems like I never feel I have enough time to play a full 18 holes. Hopefully I'll get back to it soon.

Vexx makes me feel a bit oogy, so I expect that the frame rate is kinda slow. The game seems to be a decent enough platformer, if only it didn't give me the queasies.

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow was first rate up until the last drop. I've actually started playing it through a second time, but due to the "super item" that I'm allowed to keep from the first game (the "chaos ring"), even hard mode isn't much of a challenge.

And I love it.

John Bliss suggested that I find out if there is a "scent free" version of my beloved Corn Hustkers Lotion and I come to find out it's made by Pfizer, through their subsideary Warner-Labert.

But then, I ask, why has the label not really changed in 50 years or so? Or has the label been designed that way to fool me into thinking it's an age-old cure developed by the grandmother of some Iowa Corn Husker?

Any-which-way, it doesn't seem like it comes in different flavors, so he'll just have to get over his brain's association with its odor.

The Brothers Chaps
Bonus footage of the Homestar creators interview from G4TV

STREAMING: Windows Media - HI - LO

Yet another editorial regarding the evil of EULAs, and this time it's my Dad's.

It's got to make you wonder if one of these things could ever hold up in court.

The web is a ever growing, increasingly sophisticated medium. Blogging is certain to change the face of the web, and now I've stumbled on GeoURL.

GeoURL has informed me about other websites that are "near" me, and I've checked out a few. One of which is VSBabu's blog which, details his experience with c# after a few days of learning, and his comparison with other oo languages, java and python.

I know I like c#, but it's my first foray into oo programming. Being a Microsoft invention, I've assumed (perhaps unjustly) that it wouldn't appeal to people familiar with other oo languages. V's blog entry seems to contradict that assumption, which I think is a good thing.

Update: He's a he, so I've updated the his/hers...

If you are a network admin, email admin, systems admin, etc. you might need to check your blacklist settings:

As of today, Osirusoft, distributer of the SPEWS and open relay blocklists, among others, is no longer operational. Servers using these lists (including the FTC) are currently rejecting ALL email. [slashdot]

And every month on the 4th Tuesday.

But I'm tired, so maybe I'll go next month.

No doubt no one will notice, but the navigation section of my site, which previously had links to what appeared to be a web based aggregation of my blog roll, has disappeared. It seemed to me that, with the inclusion of the blog roll, there is little reason why anyone but me would use that navigation, and therefore, it seems like it should be removed. Plus, it aggregated each feed individually, without decent sorting of unread vs. read, it didn't aggregate until the page was hit and the cache was old, and it didn't work on my sidekick.

So it's all been redone. There is now a background process that aggregates all feeds listed in my blog roll, and stores them in my SQL database, which then drives a reworked aggregation reading page. That page, unavailable to everyone but me, only displays unread articles, in reverse order to when the were first discovered by my aggregation code. The page also has "mark item as read" or "mark all as read" functions, and should work swell from my sidekick.

If, for some odd reason, you were using my page to read these feeds, feel free to ask me for some recommendations for a replacement RSS aggregator for you.

Building up to the Late December release of The Return of the King, New Line will be rereleaseing the first two movies extended editions in theatres:

From December 5 - 11, the studio will release 100-150 35mm prints of the Special Extended Edition of The Fellowship of the Ring in cities across the country. On December 12 - 15, these prints will be replaced with Special Extended Edition prints of The Two Towers. On Monday, December 8, and Monday, December 15, both films will be presented back-to-back. Then, on Tuesday, December 16, participating theaters will show a one-time-only marathon of both Extended Edition prints followed by an 11pm screening of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The official opening of the film will commence at 12:01 AM on Wednesday, December 17, 2003.