I don’t know if you’ve seen those books entitled, “Where’s Waldo?” Basically you have to find waldo in a sea of look-alikes. You search each page (sometimes for a long, long time) until you find him. Of course the rest of the characters are designed to disguise Waldo and distract your attention from him. Once [...]
I put myself through college working at a sporting goods store. I was the department manager for ski equipment in the winter, and camping / hiking / climbing / biking equipment in the summer. Transitions between seasons left the store in a shambles for a few days each spring and fall as we took down [...]
I’m amazed at how many people post degrading, demeaning, offensive, self-incriminating stuff on my space and face book and then wonder why they can’t get a job. Do they think employers are so stupid they don’t check those places? There’s no need to call references when all you really want to know about a potential [...]
My son buys everything (almost literally everything he buys) over the internet. The powerful search tools allow him to buy everything from electronics to cars over the net. He makes painstaking searches to ensure he’s getting the best deal, then places his order.
The problem I see with that pattern is that if nobody shops locally, [...]
In today’s volatile economic climate, it seems everyone is looking for greater job security. Some have mistakenly withdrawn into a shell, keeping what they do “secret” as it were, finding security in the fact that only they can do what they do. The believe (erroneously, in my opinion) that because nobody else can do what [...]
It was just brought to my attention that we have had some problems with the way the blog interacts with explorer (and potentially other browsers.) Apparently some of the words are garbled. We are doing everything possible to rectify this problem. In the meantime, if you have had trouble reading, please use firefox until we [...]
That’s what Daniel Gross over at Slate.com is predicting. In his piece entitled, “Death of the Credit Card,” he postulates how the current credit crunch may be the end of using credit cards as we now do. I can’t say I agree with everything he says, but it’s definitely worth the read. Something like that [...]
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