Odds & Ends
General site info, personal blog entries, and other stuff that doesn’t fit within techcommdood or beercommdood.
Job Opportunities Favor the Employed
July 26, 2011 Odds & EndsThis shouldn’t be news to anyone who has found themselves job hunting over the past 3 years, but the New York Times recently posted an article highlighting the issue of what I like to call “employment discrimination”. Yes, companies will ignore or set aside unemployed applicants in favor of employed applicants. It was troubling during [...]
Does this mean we’re still swimming upstream?
January 26, 2011 Odds & EndsThis really is a fantastic (and sadly humorous) mash-up between what was said at the State of the Union Address and what viewers heard. All America Heard Last Night: ‘Salmon’ — Daily Intel
Buzzword bingo time
January 25, 2011 Odds & EndsImage via Wikipedia Top this: MacroCorp leverages industry leading widget deployment synergy to leverage dynamic next generation profit center ROI silos for macro KPI strategist deployments. And before you run screaming, yes, it’s fiction.
Beery beef stew
January 10, 2011 Odds & EndsI was in the mood to make another big crock of something delicious for the week. I’d followed a recipe for a beer-braised beef stew that was good though (to me) needed some tweaking. Here’s my version, and I must say it came out quite good. Ingredients: 1.5 lbs stew beef, cut into 1″ chunks [...]
The obligatory new year’s diet
January 3, 2011 Odds & EndsImage by ryry9379 via Flickr Once again I find myself entertaining perhaps the most popular of new year’s resolutions: lose weight and get in shape. Unlike previous years, I’m not setting a hard goal. This time I’m simply making it a point to eat smarter and move more. I’m using MyFitnessPal to track my progress [...]
New Year’s reinvention?
December 29, 2010 Odds & EndsImage by DailyPic via Flickr Hi there! Given most of my techcomm-focused blogging from now on will be happening under the GlobalScript banner, I’m going to be re-designing this blog to be more a reflection of myself rather than focused mainly on techcomm topics. I’ll be looking at new categories, pages, and content options. Perhaps [...]