Posts tagged “work”

Offspring

Why Don’t You Get a Job – Offspring Thanks to everyone that pointed out that this was a Song of the Moment a few weeks ago, but I thought it was a great choice since I am – once again – looking for a job!

Kudos

In an eMail I just received from my boss: I bow to a superior intellect!!!

Addiction is …

I really hope you read this one. He got fired for writing it. He’s probably going to get a few million hits on his web counter – it’s already been linked on me-fi and elsewhere. And it deserves to be. If you read it and don’t get it, consider yourself lucky.

Problems

There’s a fascinating article at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology called Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments. This is the sort of essay that makes you wonder about yourself. Just in case you weren’t already wondering. Or in case you thought you were

Work

I do not like this article. Not one bit. [link via BrainLog]

Crappy Meme

I don’t know about it being a meme, Ernie, but compare this to this to this. Sucks, no?

FBI Director Louis Freeh Resigns

Coincidence? On May 1, 2001 FBI Director Louis J. Freeh resigned. On May 1, 2001 HRI MIS Director Kelly Bakst (my boss) resigned.A strange and interesting coincidence, eh?

Visual Basic SQL Los Angeles

Got Skillz? My company is looking for a VB and / or SQL developer in the Los Angeles area. Want more info?

Girl Scout Cookies

Girl Scout Cookies went on sale last week. Apparently I missed the ordering phase of the event so I didn’t have any waiting for me when distribution time arrived. But how cool is this? The man in charge of our office heard me whining about missing the boat and bought me three boxes over the

Crazy Elevators

I work on the fourth floor of a six-story building. At six o’clock every night the elevators go into some wacky funky-logic mode. The two on the right will only travel between floors 6 – L (the Lobby) and the two on the left will only travel between the three underground parking levels and the

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.