I just noticed that one of the remixes of one of my favorite happy hardcore songs, I Wanna Be A Hippy (Ilsa Gold mix) makes extensive use of my favorite bit in Desmond Dekker’s Israelites. Now the question becomes, is the Ilsa Gold mix my fave version of the hippy song because of the sample, or do I like the Israelites because of Ilsa Gold? I know which one came first chronologically, but which one I was exposed to first? That’s a harder question to guess. It seems an unlikely song to hear on AM radio in Texas during the ’70s, but what do I know.
Archive for October, 2008
Which Way Does It Go?
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008The Mickey Bus Is Coming
Thursday, October 9th, 2008The Mickey Bus is coming
And everybody’s jumping
A crazy colored yo-yo
A pumpin pumpin disco
The bus is coming closer
No time to be a poser
Forget The Vitamins, Pass The Soap
Thursday, October 9th, 2008It seems that washing your hands is better for you than taking lots of vitamins, at least in terms of preventing getting a cold. That seems to match with my recent experience watching the vitamin-C nut in our lab going through her sniffles.
Don’t Eat At Jillians
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008I want to give people the benefit of the doubt. When I went to Jillians some months ago, and ordered the special “Italian Sausage and Chicken pasta”, and it came back with a hot dog instead of the itallian sausage, I was peeved, let my server know, and took a 6 month break from stopping by.
I’m on my way back from REI, and I want to get something to eat that isn’t boring me to tears, so I decide I’ll give them another shot. Totally stupid idea on my part. Jillians sucks ass these days. Despite the fact that the place is mostly dead, it takes over 30 minutes to get me my food, and when it comes, they’ve pulled the same stupid stunt, using a hot dog instead of the sausage. I mention how peeved I am at this turn of events, and the staff, while trying to be helpful, wasted another 15 minutes trying to figure out how to give me a refund.
I suspect it will be a much longer time before I give them another chance, if ever. I would strongly discourage you from going to any Jillians or Dave & Buster’s location, at least if you want food. If you’re just going to drink and play games, they probably can’t screw that up too much.
Oh, and how pathetic is it that they don’t have a email address on their contact page?
No Hire
Friday, October 3rd, 2008As someone who has been unemployed in the tech industry before, I have perhaps too much sympathy with interview candidates. This week at work, I’ve been mentoring a guy in a one-week-try-before-we-buy scenario. He’d only done so-so in our original round of interviews, but some people hadn’t had the time to get as deep into their questions as they would have liked. It seemed like a good idea at the time; what better way to determine if his evasive answers were excessive nerves, or insufficient knowledge, than to let him give it the old college try.
Yeah.
That’s just fine for the other 5 people who interviewed him. I had to spend a week trying to get him up to speed, while also evaluating his suitablity, and doing my own work. I spent last weekend coming up with an accelerated training/intro course. I spent hours this week holding his hand thru debugging some very simple test failures.
In the end, it was all a waste of time. He just doesn’t know UNIX like we need. We’ve got the slashdot-crowds’ jeans-creaming job sitting open, and there’s not a single worthy soul around. It’s what we get living in the shadow of the Jolly Redmond Giant.