Still AFK

Soon! Soon I shall have time to think again! MwahaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

BFF AFK OMG WTF RGB CMYK

So let’s review: The Internet is not your BFF.

Beyond that, still pretty much AFK until I catch up with the world.

Busy Week

Busy week.

AFK for a bit.

I've been Flickr'd!

Have started loading pictures of my builds to Flickr, where they are all organized and stuff.

And setting up my profile meant I had to find information on one of my favorite artists to ensure I spelled her name right, so here is the official Website for 大正九年, just in case you were interested.

Almost Caught Up

Almost caught up with the world.

Just 774 unread blog items and 139 saved ones in my RSS feeds for me to sort through.

Problem is I speed through the 4000 or so easy ones, and the 350 or so that show up every day, and am left with the ones I need to actually pay attention to.

Erk, back up to 778 in the time it took me to type this.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

AFK for the Holidays

AFK for a bit as my world gets insanely crazy for the next few weeks. Got the holidays, two major project deadlines, and some seasonal consulting work all hitting at once.

While I'm away, enjoy the view ...

Form Letter

Was cleaning out my mail boxes and found this. It was a gem. Brightened my day with a good laugh. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

Hello, my name is Gurn Blanston and I am a technical recruiter with the Computer Markup.

We are among the top 34 Information Technology Services Companies nationally with revenues approaching $200 million for 2008 and provide a variety of information technology consulting assignments, permanent placement, managed staffing and project services to our mature client base that include state, local and federal organizations as well as Fortune 1000 companies. We have over 5,000 consultants working at our clients today.

I am contacting you because your resume looks excellent for a technical position with a prestigious client for which we are currently sourcing. I’d like to speak with you at your earliest convenience and can be reached at 1-800-000-0000. If you prefer to contact me via email my address is gbl@markups.com.

If you’d like, please also visit our website, www.markups.com. It will be very helpful in having you learn more about us. I look forward to speaking with you soon.

Sincerely,

Gurn

POSITION DESCRIPTION

Mail Clerk

[the rest is omitted because there isn't much else to say.]

Something about all that hype, reaching someone with nearly 20 years of industry experience, then I get to the job description. Was too funny to be offended.

Busy Busy Buzz Buzz Buzz

I haven't forgotten my blog, honest. Just wrestling with a full-time job, another full-time job (it was an accident, honest, I didn't intend to hoard them and deprive other people of jobs), and involvement in a theater production, and getting caught up building some steampunk related artifacts in Second Life (yep, you guessed it, I'm venting steampunk), and more book reviews than normal, and getting ready to start filling out applications for Ph.D. programs this Autumn. Run around. Run around. Scream. Run around.

Things begin to lighten up next month and then smooth out nicely come the end of August.

So it is not like I have forgotten my blog. More that I am actively ignoring it at the moment as a matter of life saving triage.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everybody!

My real life minio- errr, counterpart has annual reports due in two weeks. And here I had more to add to my thread on the nature of the mediated self. Oh well.

I got, got, got, got no time.