I got an e-mail from a fellow ’techer the other day because he saw my last post on his Plaxo Pulse.
It made me remember how I ended up in physics—the the real reason.
What’s on one of Andrei’s shirt always gives me a laugh
[Being a physics major after the jump.]
I got this cold-email from a Hank Z…
Mr. Chay… (Ms??)
We are the deleted
We saw your resume on the Web…
We are urgently seeking candidates who are SW engineers, and have a background in database SW development, and also expertise in mySQL.
Boy, Hank, (or is it Ms. Hank?) you recruiters know how to bring back bad [...]
I open wide our refrigerator door and start the stare, “Hmm, what to have today?” Okay, what’s the worst thing to be having at 8 in the morning?
“I usually get the Talking Rain. It’s the only thing in there good for you.”
“It’s all bad for you. Haven’t heard of dihydrogen monoxide?”
“What’s that?”
Wait for it.
“Is that [...]
The first time I saw this, I didn’t think it was that good. But then I actually paid attention.
So pay close attention…
(Yes, I’ll be at Zend Conference this year. No, I won’t be drinking heavily else I’m liable to tell Keynote speaker, Joel on Software, what I really think of his software. Hint: not good. [...]
My first twitterstalk.
When I woke up, just as I was heading out from McDonald’s, I noticed Scott Beale’s tweet about being at the only In 'N Out in the city. That was just three blocks away from me.
I first met Scott when he showed up to the Hitachi Lunch 2.0 Web Expo last year. Ever [...]
“Hey, What’s up? How’s your Mickey D’s?”
Me: “I haven’t left yet. You know me, I’m such a fuck up.”
“Haha.”
“I think I’m an affront to San Franciscan’s everywhere eating stuff like McDonald’s, but I got to flush out the nice food I ate today. I think I had butternut squash soup or something for lunch.”
“That stuff [...]
Here are two jobs in the city. If you are interested contact Debra: datandassoc [at] this site or call 415 246 1979.
Senior Software Engineer [PHP]
Senior Interface Designer / Developer [Ruby on Rails, Ajax]
My blog is becoming a job board in this bubble, and that's bothering me. I’m barely posting a fraction of the e-mails I [...]
For those of you who asked after this appeared, my first AT&T wireless bill was only 66 pages long (33 double sided pages).
Thanks, Justine Ezarik, for reminding me that I’m still as unpopular as I was in high school.
Oh well, I better sign up for online billing.
The Steve and the Al would be happy.
[My iPhone [...]
I’ve been achingly close to reaching that fabled "500+" in LinkedIn for a while now—that icon reserved only for a select few recruiters (13), marcom/sales peeps (5), product/program managers (5), founders/CEO (3), professional networkers(3), VC (2), and Adam Glickman (dude, I see you at Lunch 2.0 all the time, but still haven’t figured out what [...]
Here is another random one in my e-mail box.
PHP Developer
Duration: 1 year
Experience: mid level
Location: Foster City, CA
Start Date: ASAP
Experience with Linux/Apache/MySQL/PostgreSQL/PHP5.
[Description after the jump]
