Sloan
People of the Sky (1994)
Random linkage for a Thursday night spent with Netflix and a cookie:
- This may be the vaguest job posting I’ve ever read for what you might assume would be a fairly specific position. This is my field and I imagine I’m probably somewhat qualified for it, but I have absolutely no earthly fucking clue what they’re looking for nor what the person they hire might actually do on a daily basis. Not that I’d consider doing whatever it is in Texas, anyway.
- I really despise “news” pieces like this. They don’t
define theirhave any methodology at all. Apparently, misery is caused exclusively by either a bad housing market or by crime. Yes, Detroit is probably somewhat miserable. But Sacramento? Sorry. I just don’t buy it. - Speaking of Detroit and misery, though, this seems a fairly reasonable assessment.
- I think I want to see this.
- Tagline heard on the way home: “CBC Radio 3: For whenever you need nonstop Canadian indie rock.” Funny thing: I never realized quite how much I needed nonstop Canadian indie rock until I had it so handy. Sort of like the iPad, I guess.
That it should be so warm at 9PM in February makes me just a little unhappy. That it has been freakishly warm pretty much all winter long makes me feel just a little bit cheated.
Sorry. The headline just amused me.
I’ve had my new iPhone for more than a week now and I have three thoughts on the subject:
- I’m glad I still have the unlimited data plan because now that I have an iPhone that actually works, I’m using a lot of data doing things like…oh…listening to Canadian radio stations in the car on my commute to and from work, etc.
- I have not yet done FaceTime. I’m not sure that this fact particularly distresses me, but some part of me feels that I should try it once before determining that I don’t like it any more than I like talking on the phone without visuals.
- I find an insincere “My pleasure!” just as annoying from Siri as I do from a cashier at Chick-fil-a.
So the Sears death spiral continues. I’ve had sex in their bathrooms, sworn at their lawyers, and occasionally even bought stuff there. I predict that by 2020 (if not sooner) none of these will be options anymore.
…if I might soon be rewarded with one solid month where everything doesn’t suck?
It would be cool if I could schedule that for March, please.
Luke Doucet
Thinking People (2010)
Sorry I was whiny earlier. I’ll shut up and play some music now…
At the end of a mildly insomniac week, I find myself on the verge of dropping off to sleep in the midst of this daylong data curation workshop. I think my whole table has pretty much moved on now and is surfing, tweeting, and sometimes even just openly conversing, but there’s an hour yet to go.
Things I’ve learned during the workshop:
- Dick Clark’s rock house is up for sale.
- I’d somehow never noticed it, but there’s a “find on page” option within Safari for iOS 5. That’s a big and much-needed improvement.
- Data curation is not as exciting as it sounds.