Archive - Nov 2006

How to hire a web developer

"A good web developer does the minimal amount of work to achieve and acceptable result. To test this start by just looking at your interviewee, good web developers will find a balance between their god-given looks and choice in clothing to find a minimally passable level of attractiveness. Better looking candidate should have crappy haircuts and mismatched retro skater -wear, whereas those that god forgot should be wearing diesel and a really really big watch."

I am feeling better, I worked all week-end except for the dinner hours which were spent with loved ones in a reflexively healthy reaction to too much screen time. But I got lots done.

I read for example; "Why Brands Cause Trouble" and "Poststructuralist Lifestyle analysis: Conceptualizing the Social Patterning of consumption in Postmodernity" both By Douglas B. Holt. (Luckily someone else has taken some notes for me), "Brand Community" by; Albert M Muniz Jr, Thomas C O'Guinn, and "Subcultures or Neo-Tribes? Rethinking the relationship between Youth, Style nad Musical Taste." by Andy Bennett. These readings are possibly some of the most interesting consumer study theory I have read. Here's the Wikipedia entry on Brand Community.

I have found what I need to do to make something that's given me pain in the tuchas work, and I am going to make it %$%&work tomorrow.

I have listened to December in New York 10 times

I have had so much tension tamer tea to drink I now have to pee every 3 seconds, which is actually making me a little tense.

"It's not my job to be sentimental
yeah I swear it was accidental
It just turned out like that
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And though I should be spitting bitter
Just for interest
It's not fitting for a girl like me

SO people, well my friends anyways, are bugged that I stopped writing highly expository posts about my state of mind.

Here are two possible reasons for their displeasure.

#1 / My personal angst and confusion they regard as stellar reading material and an excellent diversion from their no less demanding and exciting lives and livelihoods.

#2/ Now that I am no longer an exhibitionist about my personal life online, I actually take up more time calling them up on the telephone and whining about more or less the same stuff I used to write about - except now I use proper names and swear more. Those phone calls have gotta get stressful especially as now, when I am usually sitting around with le petit cellulaire pasted to my ear screeching about some new school or work catastrophe.