The Mind of Boz

I just got in touch with a friend from college that I haven't seen since 1998. In passing, he asked what I'd been up to, so I gave him this list :

• 1999 - 2000 Grad school, Pittsburgh. Computer engineering, very cold.
• 2000 - 2001 San Diego, working for big corp.
• 2001 - 2002 laid off, got a job at a ski resort in Utah for the olympics
• 2002 - 2003 San Diego, working for a smaller corp
• 2003 - 2005 started a company with a couple guys from grad school. Lots of fun
• 2005 - 2007 random contract and startup jobs in SD. Started dating Lindsay
• 2007 - 2008 moved to Seattle with Lindsay (seemed like a good idea at the time)
  

Looking it over, I have to say that I'm pretty proud of the breadth of stuff. Moreover, I love my life.

Just thought I'd share.

Is it national tech recruiters month or something?

Seriously, I've gotten about three recruiter emails a day for the last 2 weeks. It's ridiculous. And a little flattering. But more ridiculous.

The worst part is, most of these emails are totally vacuous. Here's a quote :

Hi Matt,

I am a technical recruiter working with some clients in both the Seattle and Bellevue area. I think your background is very interesting and I would love to discuss a new opportunity with you. Let me know when it is a good time to talk.

Looking forward to it,

Robin

That, followed by 30 lines of signature. Oh, and don't look at the code. I copied the html directly from the mail, but it hurts. It's got a font tag.

So after a phone call and three emails yesterday, I decided something needed to be done. And LindsayDayton gave me the answer -- an open letter! So here it is A message to recruiters. Go take a gander. Then write your own! Maybe together we can stem the tide of time-wasting, content-free crap flung around the internet. Well, maybe not, but at least we can point at it and snicker.

So I watch the things that hober shares via google reader. And all of the people (that I know of) who watch the things that I share, also watch what hober shares. So is there really a point in me clicking the share button on something that I see in hober's shares?

LindsayDayton thinks that maybe my mom will one day use Google Reader and not watch hober. Sad thing is, that's the only person I could think of either.

Why doesn't everyone use RSS? There should be big articles in newspapers and magazines! Oh, wait, RSS is killing newspapers and magazines. . . Now I get it.

At some point I might do a full thanksgiving review -- all the people we saw, the family madness, etc etc. For now, I think everyone should see a picture of the Thanksgiving bird(s).

That's right, it's three birds in one! A stuffed chicken, stuffed into a duck, stuffed into a turkey. All lined with stuffing to create the most ridiculous symbol of capitalism gone deliciously awry. The Turducken. I admit, I've wanted to try one of these since I saw it on Slashdot in 1999. And it was gooooood!

As I'm sure many of you have seen on the news, or on Lindsay's blog, the weather here lately has been pretty crazy.

When I walked out of the LSAT on Saturday morning, it was snowing. And not a little, but serious, "yeah, I'm a snowstorm, what are you going to do about it" snow. Not a whiteout or a blizzard or anything, but definitely white flaky stuff from the sky. Weird weird weird.

Then it proceeded to rain. Now everyone knows it rains in Seattle. I mean, people talk about Seattle and they're like, "blah blah Starbucks, blah blah rain, blah blah Amazon, blah blah rain, blah blah Microsoft, blah blah rain, blah blah UW Pine" Ok, so no one uses Pine anymore. But all the rest is true. Anyhow, the point is that this was like RAIN. Like break out the hip boots rain. Like soaked to the skin in the time it takes to get the mail rain. Not the grey drizzly, misty pseudo-rain that you expect in Seattle. I was having Tulane flashbacks!

Today I find out, it's the most rain in recorded history for this city, or some ridiculous statistic like that. So there, I'm not crazy for thinking the levies are going to break.

Oh, and I took some pretty pictures while it was snowing. Like this one