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Recent tweets

For those not playing the Twitter game:

  • Ordered dinner to bring home to my wife. Working near my old apartment makes this feasible. But carrying sushi on the subway...? --06:30 PM September 23, 2008
  • New best resume note, seen in a cover letter: " I am documentation incarnate. If documentation was a casbah, I would surely rock it." --03:31 PM September 17, 2008
  • the web 2.0 expo floor feels awfully web 1.0. Flashbacks to "who can get the best swag" contests circa 1998 --11:33 AM September 17, 2008
  • My least favorite resumes are the ones that make me go, "Why did you send this to me?" I prefer the purely horrible to the clueless --05:22 PM September 16, 2008
  • If I made "no typos or grammatical errors" a criterion for granting interviews, I'd lose two-thirds of my applicant pool sight unseen. Sad. --11:51 AM September 15, 2008
  • "Other skills" seen on resumes this morning: driver's license; reside only 2 miles from the train; wrote for Shecky's bar guide --11:22 AM September 15, 2008
  • I still call it Ofoto, don't you? --02:05 PM September 09, 2008

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