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Microsite rating: C- (cute idea but shallow execution, particularly a lack of any kind of body and skin tone diversity that might make your guy interesting and representative enough for you to want to send this around to friends)
Greg Grunberg: A++
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Archive for November, 2007
Earlier tonight on Torchwood Captain Jack Harkness got MAJOR man on man kiss action in the second to last episode.
And just now on Battlestar Galactica Razor it turns out that Admiral Cain is getting a lil cylon #6 love.
HOT HOT HOT.
Sphere: Related ContentFor Nicolas Orbovich, losing his violin was like losing a member of the family. A concert violinist, Orbovich said he left his instrument, made in 1892 and worth $100,000, in its case and on the backseat of his car Saturday in a parking lot in this northwestern Indiana city. He left the doors unlocked.
He said he returned less than five minutes later and, as he drove off, he realized it was gone. (Read More)
Really? Really?! This is sad and awful, but come on. This seems to be a holiday evergreen sort of article, and you’d think folks would learn.
I have a much easier time sympathizing with Joe Lally who very recently had his tour van pillaged. It’s a bit difficult to take all your shit inside to keep it safe. But when you have a single and extremely expensive piece of equipment which can easily be carried on your person, there is no excuse to leave it in a car. Especially anywhere in say, Indiana, the toe jam of the world.
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Sphere: Related ContentCOPY EDITOR/PAGE DESIGNER: The Times-Standard, the Redwood Coast’s premier daily newspaper for 154 years, is looking for an entry-level copy editor/page designer to join an award-winning staff covering a 3,600-square-mile area stretching from Mendocino to the Oregon border. In this intensely competitive media market, we’re looking for someone who can deliver accuracy on deadline, but also has an eye for impactful layout and a wire report that helps readers understand key issues. Top candidates will have a college degree and copy editing/pagination experience. Extra points for living on the West Coast and being familiar with QuarkXpress software. As part of MediaNews Group, we offer a competitive benefits package.
http://www.cnpa.com/classified/classified.html
Salary $22,800 to $25,000, depending upon experience. (Read More)
Of course I wanted to ask
- why is the ticketing site broken/not showing me the options I need (assumed answer: because you’re on a mac, and no one uses them, except 2000+ designers, front end folks, and other smart people, therefore our intranet isn’t optimized for that weirdo niche OS)
- why can’t you route the ticket appropriately (assumed answer: because they’re totally separate ticketing systems and you should have been smart enough to know the difference between a printer, copier, and multifunction. duh.)
- why is this difference not made unambiguously clear when looking for the right place to file a ticket (assumed answer: not my job. also, i put beans in my nose)
… but I know it’s not this guy’s fault. IT in a big company is a thankless job. Front line IT folks are in the best position to know how jacked the internal systems are, and are usually in no position to influence or fix them. Just business as usual. Sigh.
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I’m watching KTVU news this morning for no reason whatsoever. Every once in awhile I turn it on to see how long I can stand to have my news chewed up, editorialized, injected with extra fear and/or religion, and regurgitated back to me. I think my current record is about 2 minutes.
The pertinent facts of the current story is this: A woman in Oakland was hit and killed by a car overnight, which did not stick around the scene of the accident or call it in or anything.
Not interesting enough for morning news apparently. Frank Somerville and the (allegedly) dickhead writers of KTVU chose to add this unnecessary bit of fluff: “at Grand avenue and Lennox, which is [tense and knowing emphasis] very close [/] to Children’s Fairyland.”
Because it could have been YOUR CHILD who was viciously run down. In the middle of the night. At 1:15am. Going to Fairyland. As they tend to do at 1:15am.
The fact that a woman was killed isn’t funny, but that the TV news is sensationalizing it is. In a terrifying way.
A few days ago I heard an interview with Mike Gravel on NPR. He noted that the American public has been kept in a state of continuous fear by our government since the beginning of the Cold War, and that the mainstream DNC candidates are not likely to change the status quo.
Sphere: Related ContentI’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. Very steep hills, perpendicular parking, and folks driving recklessly fast wherever they can to compensate for the stupid layout of a 7 x 7 mile sity that can take over an hour to traverse. I chide myself about 6 times a day as I try, but am unable to release the parking brake until my seatbelt is in place, but then hear my mom say “Most accidents happen within 2 miles of home or work. Always wear your seatbelt.” And I always do. Thanks mom!
Sphere: Related ContentThe collision occurred about 3:50 p.m. [11//18/2007] when a man driving a Dodge sedan came rushing downhill on Arkansas Street and plowed into the back of a Volvo station wagon, sending it hurtling through the intersection with 17th Street, according to San Francisco Police Lt. Dave Smith.
The people in the Volvo - a woman, a man and two young children - were wearing seat belts, and the younger child, a 2-year-old, was riding in a car seat, said Smith. Also in the Volvo was a black poodle.
“The dog didn’t make it,” said Smith. “And the back of the car was just gone.”
The passengers were taken to San Francisco General Hospital, with injuries that ranged from moderate to critical in severity, though none of them were life-threatening, officials said. (Read More)
Gosh I didn’t even have to make up a snarky headline…
Sphere: Related ContentSan Francisco police are investigating four apparently unrelated shootings that happened over the weekend in San Francisco, leaving two dead and injuring eight otheres, according to law enforcement officials. (Read More)
Donda West, mother of Kanye West and former chairwoman of Chicago State University’s English department, has died, a spokesman for the rapper said. She was 58.
Donda West died Saturday night in Los Angeles, said the spokesman, who asked for anonymity because not all family members had been notified.
“The family respectfully asks for privacy during this time of grief,” the spokesman said. (Read More)
I am having trouble parsing this. A family spokesman has asked for anonymity? How does that work? Not to mention the callous nature of the leak.
Sphere: Related ContentAn 18-year-old Oakland man was shot to death at San Francisco’s busy Metreon shopping center Sunday night, after an argument with at least one other young man just inside the building’s entrance. (Read More)
That’s it. I am done with the emm effing Westfield/Sony Metreon. Hailed as manna from geek heaven when it opened, the mal became low rent and creepy within a year of its opening: Understaffed, rude, filthy theaters, unspeakably disgusting bathrooms with no mirrors, and incapable of handling crowd control (for “gala” openings like Transformers).
The only thing they did right was make widespread use of self service ticket kiosks.
Shut it down Sony. Raze the ugly building to the ground, and let someone else make use of the space.
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