Recently, a friend of mine quit her job because she objected to the ethics of her most recent employer. For one thing, he’d ask her to post job positions on Craigslist, with no intent of ever filling the job. For him, it was a cheap research tool–he’d cull the incoming resumes for the most qualified [...]
A few weeks ago, I went to a job interview, and I was surprised how well-briefed all my interviewers were about me already.
Did they want a copy of my resume? Well, no thanks, they’d already downloaded it from my LinkedIn profile. How about examples of my previous work? No worries–they knew who I had worked [...]
A few days ago, I received a parking ticket in the mail. It was a surprise, especially since my car itself had not had a ticket on its dashboard after having been cited. I had parked in downtown San Jose in a metered parking spot, and carefully checked the meter, which was posted as only [...]
At the spur of the moment last month, Peter and I decided to get tickets to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the monster industry show where you can see and try out all the new gadgets and electronics goodies scheduled to come out in the next year and beyond.
Peter had told me it was huge, [...]
This year, it was Peter’s turn to hide our presents and put together the Christmas treasure hunt. I’m beginning to suspect he has ties to the nefarious G.N.O.M.E., which stole my presents in 2007, and surfaced this year, having taking presents from everyone except Peter, and leaving notes like this behind:
Our first clue was a [...]
Personally, 2009 has been a year full of the unexpected. I got a job; Neil discovered a math community; Kelly went to private school; and Peter may be on the cusp of a new direction. I’m not quite sure what to make of it all, much less what to expect for 2010, but it has [...]
Peter and I have discovered there is one sure way to kill a magazine: get Peter a gift subscription to it.
This first happened many years ago, when we were new parents. I found out about a new parenting magazine, called Dad, directed to fathers. In my experience (back when I was still a new parent [...]
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This tomato grew in my garden. Then Peter and Kelly gave it eyes and a smile.
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I found out yesterday that I could feed my latest blog postings to my Twitter feed. I could also feed every quiz, poll, and repost I put on Facebook to my Twitter feed too.
It must be annoying my Twitter followers like anything, since they all have better Twitter etiquette than this. On the other hand, [...]
