I seem to develop crushes (for want of a better word) far too easily. Which, I suppose, is par for the creepy-old-man course...

Huh. So this is still here.

I'd half-expected that my LJ would have been deleted in some purge of inactive accounts sometime in the last few years. (Though, I guess it's only been five years since I last logged in. "Only." I'd thought it was longer. Shows how well I keep track of anything. Yay brain.)

Thanks to prompting from burgunder, I've been ( Read more... )

What should one do to prep for a technical phone interview at [major online retailer]? (Mostly rhetorical, but...)

Went to the Covenant show at El Corazon last night. For some reason, the "No Stage Diving" sign on the wall there reminded me of all the shows I'd seen in that same building almost 20 years ago when it was the Off Ramp... mostly bands that I'd have absolutely no interest in hearing nowadays, but hey, tastes change ( Read more... )

It seems that I've been largely out of touch for quite some time now, except for the handful of people I've seen out at the club and such. It's been a time of changes, some of which are still underway, and one of the changes I hope to be able to implement is to do better at keeping in touch with friends, both online and off - of course, I've been ( Read more... )

( Hey, waiter... that ain't no crab... )

On April 12, 1961, a young (27 year old) Russian man (to borrow a now-hackneyed phrase) boldly went where no man had gone before - into space. Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the Earth; in the 48 years between then and now, many others (men and women, of many nationalities & ethnicities) have followed, and have stayed there much longer ( Read more... )

Yesterday I began to create a resume/profile on Monster. I say "began to" because after something like 45 minutes struggling with the site ( ...[cut for long snarly rant of rantiness]... )

Well, crap.

Just got word back about the interview I had on Monday... and I didn't make it.

Back to the drawing board, I guess.... Anyone know of any entry-level (and preferably non-web-dev) software dev positions that are open?

So, I got to do the job interview routine yesterday. Four technical interviews with a couple of different sub-teams within the same group. Everyone seemed fairly like-able, I don't think I made a complete fool/ass of myself at any point, and there were no crash-and-burn issues. Some of the whiteboard-coding questions (one extended problem per ( Read more... )