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November 15, 2003
Useful telemarketing
I know, the title sounds crazy — how could telemarketing be useful? But they could sell pizza!
Continue reading "Useful telemarketing"True Story
So I'm sitting at Applebee's, mostly minding my own business, when this young woman sits down next to me. Yeah, I know what you are thinking, but Applebee's really isn't a pickup bar.
Continue reading "True Story"**** that job
Lousy economy getting you down? Tired of potential employers demanding the moon (from a PHD) in return for slivers of cheese? Then step on down to **** That Job, and enjoy the best of the worse job offers.
Its just what the post-****edCompany world needs.
The new, new economy?
So I'm looking through my referral logs (and wondering why November has been such a hot month when I've only just started writing today) and I see that I'm listed on Blogshares.
I can see Andrew Orlowski sneering, but I think it's kinda neat.
Continue reading "The new, new economy?"November 18, 2003
An Army story
The site may be in mothballs, but I keep Suck in my bookmarks. Today I re-read Catcher in the Wheat, an essay on what we have or have not really learned from Vietnam.
I just hope we are getting what our soldiers are paying for, not only in Iraq but in the cold mountains of Afghanistan.
November 23, 2003
Welcome back Opus
As you might know, I work at a newspaper when I'm not puttering around the house or reading the Internetweb. And I have an interest in the continuation of newspapers, as lord knows, I hate job hunting.
So, it is with mixed emotions that I see that "Opus" is back in the comics, as a half-page Sunday strip. Mixed emotions because I know Berkeley Breathed has little faith in the future of newspapers. I'm wondering why he is doing the strip ... but I'm glad he is doing it.
I don't want the things that newspapers offer (including comics) to be irrelevant. And I'm as fustrated as he is over assembly line comics and Peanuts reprints from the 1970s. But can a 1980s icon bring back relevance (and readers)? We will see, I hope so anyway ... Opus is a good bird.
What follow are two good Breathed interviews I've found, with quotes.
Continue reading "Welcome back Opus"