Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Sorry for the incontinence...
Have you ever emailed your boss and the spell check mistakes the word inconvenience for the word incontinence, so your sentence reads "sorry for the incontinence." and just as you hit send you see the error? yeah, i've done that. and if you don't know the meaning of incontinence go look it up.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
You start wearing blue and brown...
"The voices in your head are calling
Stop wasting your time, there's nothing coming
Only a fool would think someone could save you
The men at the factory are old and cunning
You don't owe nothing, so boy get runnin'
It's the best years of your life they want to steal"
Stop wasting your time, there's nothing coming
Only a fool would think someone could save you
The men at the factory are old and cunning
You don't owe nothing, so boy get runnin'
It's the best years of your life they want to steal"
The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations
from npr.org:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124251060
"As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct. Click through the gallery below to see examples of endangered professions, from milkman to telegrapher, and hear from people who once filled those oft-forgotten jobs."
We already have supermarkets with self-checkout registers, automated "customer service" lines for nearly every business or government agency you call. Kind of makes you think where we'll be in another 10-50 years. It's only a matter of time before we are living in a Jetson's like world, which in some respects could be a good thing, but not for the people who are unskilled at specific "trades" and even then...those guys may not even be safe.
and on that note, I'm going to go listen to some Jet Screamer:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124251060
"As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct. Click through the gallery below to see examples of endangered professions, from milkman to telegrapher, and hear from people who once filled those oft-forgotten jobs."
We already have supermarkets with self-checkout registers, automated "customer service" lines for nearly every business or government agency you call. Kind of makes you think where we'll be in another 10-50 years. It's only a matter of time before we are living in a Jetson's like world, which in some respects could be a good thing, but not for the people who are unskilled at specific "trades" and even then...those guys may not even be safe.
and on that note, I'm going to go listen to some Jet Screamer:
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Hai!
When I worked for a Japanese company and spent a week in Japan as part of my training, I learned all about the proper way to give and receive business cards. Apparantly it's a really big deal. However, I did not learn about this:
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