So the jobs thread doesn’t get too messy and non-jobby.
Random fact: My favorite web search which led someone to my blog this week:
“fuck+at+the+convent”
by Sarah, Proud and Tall| 151 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads
So the jobs thread doesn’t get too messy and non-jobby.
Random fact: My favorite web search which led someone to my blog this week:
“fuck+at+the+convent”
by Sarah, Proud and Tall| 84 Comments
This post is in: Balloon Jobs, Election 2012, #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Good News For Conservatives
Friday afternoon seems like a decent time for our (semi) regular job thread…
If you are looking for work, looking for talented people, or just have ideas as to how the aforementioned might contact each other, you know what to do.
Our first two threads are here and here in case anyone wants to go back and check if someone responded to their message. If you posted before, feel free to post again. As my great uncle Rupert (the pretender to the Perrott Baronetcy of Plumstead) used to say to me when I was just a young girl, “No one ever got their end in without asking. Several times, if necessary, eh what?” No matter how many times I kicked that man in the groin, he always tried on his next visit. Still, he came to a sticky end, so that all worked out alright.
Oh, and if I was asked, I would say that this is an open-ish thread. Don’t stomp on the job talk, my little loves, but feel free to chat amongst yourselves. ETA: Oh, and don’t feed the you-know-whats.
You might also like to go and visit the lovely Mr Clark at Slacktivist and see what’s happening on his jobs thread. Go for the jobs, stay for the glurge. Great post, even better word… “Glurge”. Like “moist”, only more so.
Speaking of work, this is an opportune moment to explain why I haven’t been posting as much. I have a job. Well, at least a volunteer one. I am, get this, traveling with Michele Bachmann’s campaign entourage.
Now Madam and I have a little bit of a history, but I’ve been playing good Republican woman for almost seventy years now, so it wasn’t hard to talk my way on to the bus. I just dropped a few mentions of “Dear Karl” and the odd “As Nancy said to me at the funeral…” into the conversation with her campaign manager, and flashed around the 4 carat Tiffany (which I won from Nancy Astor in a game of strip cribbage), and before I knew it I was gazing into those crazy snake eyes and being pressed against a perfumed and shapely bosom. That Marcus sure does smell good.
I even have a business card. “Sarah Howard” it says. “Community Liaison”. The other side has a picture of Michelle looking notably crazy (and that, my dears, is an achievement) and staring up at a dyspeptic-looking eagle. I’m not sure if the eagle is supposed to be America or Jesus or what, but whenever I look at the damn card, I hear Rush playing in my head and get a brief sense-memory called “3am-pot-smoke-filled-Mystery-Machine”.
I am liaising with the community. In particular, a rather cute, but horribly conflicted Log Cabin Republican youth with gold-dusted Idaho farmboy thighs, who appears to want only two things in life – to elect Michele Bachmann as President, and to crush out the last flickering flame of his heterosexuality on little old me. I live to serve.
Would you believe that on the first night, they wanted me to stay in a Motel 6? I just found out which hotel Michelle was staying in each night, and then booked into the biggest suite they had. You should have seen her envious glances at my complimentary fruit baskets. However, it used to make the oranges sour and the strawberries positively mealy, so I stopped inviting her to visit after about a week. There was no more mention of the Motel 6, let me tell you.
Anyway, I have my weekends free, so I will be posting here and at my little blog then, and keeping you all up to date on the goings on.
Finally, a couple of you have asked how to get in touch. You can email me from the link on my About page. I do try to respond to emails and website comments, but I’m an old woman who spends her days trying to win the Republican nomination for a pair of false eyelashes, a blouse and a grudge, and her nights pressed against a boy who smells like fresh mown hay and squeaks when you bite his nipples. I barely have time to eat, let alone respond to things like lawyers’ letters, so please be patient with me.
Oh. Finally, finally, I created a new category for the job threads. I hope John will forgive me. A box of hash brownies and a meat offering for the Tunch are on their way by courier.
Much love,
Sarah
Balloon Jobs – I pull to the left, I heave to the right…Post + Comments (84)
by $8 blue check mistermix| 234 Comments
This post is in: Republican Stupidity
Steve Benen highlights this three minutes of stupidity from Rick Perry. The guy just repeats his belief (“abstinence works”) when faced with statistics showing that Texas has the third-highest teen pregnancy rate in the country. Steve adds:
In a case like education and lessons on sexual health, the left tends to look at this in terms of results: what works in preventing teen pregnancies and the spread of sexually-transmitted diseases? For the right, the question is philosophical: what’s consistent with their morality.
This is basically right, but I’ll add that the elusive and oft-courted “center” is also concerned with, and will vote for, pragmatism, if it’s presented to them in the right package with the right kind of bow on top. That’s a huge and sometimes under-appreciated part of the Obama administration’s rhetoric and style.
Also, too: I haven’t watched much Perry on video, but after watching this one, I’m struck with the force of will that it must take the DC Perry-fluffing contingent to ignore just how much he looks, talks and thinks like Bush.
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by $8 blue check mistermix| 172 Comments
This post is in: General Stupidity, Get off my grass you damned kids
When I need to do some calculating, I pull out my 20-year-old HP calculator and calculate the fuck out of whatever needs calculation. When I need some marks on paper, my five-year-old HP laser printer prints the living shit out of that piece of paper, and I expect it will be fusing toner for many years to come. I’ve also got a couple of HP computers that work just fine, and they’re a slight cut above the usual commodity crap you get at Best Buy — that is, they appear to be the product of an engineering team that had a little more on their mind than wringing every last, single penny of optimization from their PC design.
So, it’s hard to watch yet another American company that is clearly capable of producing decent products get run into the ground by the morons in charge. First, Cara Carleton Fiorina bought Compaq with a big flourish, and all that got HP was two of everything in its PC line. HP never integrated Compaq, so it ended up selling PCs that looked like HP PCs, and PCs that looked like Compaq PCs. That’s death in a commodity business where making a lot of one thing is the key to profitability.
Then, Leo Apotheker flew in and bought Palm (WedbOS) almost exactly a year ago. Yesterday, he announced that they’re killing the Palm unit they just bought, in part because the rushed-to-market, crap Touchpad that was introduced a couple of months ago was a flop. From what I’ve seen, WebOS had a lot of potential if it was running on the right hardware. It takes more than a year to get that right, so Leo might as well have invited Carly to a bonfire and burned the $1.2 billion he paid for Palm.
I get that the commodity PC business is morphing into a non-commodity device business, and that Apple is eating everyone’s lunch because they’re building 30 million of one thing instead of one million of 30 things, but weak management at companies like HP is making it really easy for them. The rumbling sound being heard around Palo Alto today is Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard spinning in their graves.
by $8 blue check mistermix| 135 Comments
This post is in: Glibertarianism
Here’s one of the ACLU’s advocacy efforts for the week:
Here’s one from Reason:
August 20 is Lemonade Freedom Day! In response to a rash of kids’ lemonade stands shut down for lack of licenses, permits, or other bureaucratic devices, father-of-two Robert Fernandes launched a site to promote a big citrusy celebration this Saturday. So go find some young ‘uns and get ready to help them set up a lemonade stand for liberty.
If anyone ever asks why we use the term “glibertarian” around here, give them a link to this post.
(Both via EDK)
Update: Just in case it isn’t clear, the point is that the ACLU is doing their usual excellent advocacy job on a substantive issue, while Reason picked some sideshow to highlight.
This post is in: Garden Chats, Open Threads
(Yeah, but if I’d posted this any sooner, I was afraid of being found strangled with an ipod cord.)
Since nobody sent any pics this week, you’re stuck with mine. Roughly top-to-bottom, left-to-right: Persimmon, Stupice, Great White, Ramapo, Black Plum, Black Prince, Kellogg’s Breakfast, Tomatoberry, Japanese Black Trifele, Sara Black, Golden Sweet Plum, Rose, Sweet Treat, Black Pearl, Carbon, and Juliet.
What’s going on in your garden, this week?
Or just in your neighborhood?
by DougJ| 224 Comments
This post is in: Readership Capture
Hilts requests another “what’s on your Ipod?” I’ll start, I can’t remember how that works, if it’s what’s on your Ipod right now or what comes up when you shuffle, so I’ll mention both. Little Red Corvette is what was on my Ipod to start with and when I shuffled Windfall by Son Volt came up.
And Cleek has a new Name That Tune up.
Update. Okay, it’s the first *ten* songs that come up on shuffle.