Monthly Archives: June 2007

Getting Noticed Means Getting Hired

That’s the gist of this post and it cer­tainly is true in the techie uni­verse I live in. One of the fastest ways to get noticed is to have a decent resume. I read my fair share of resumes as a tech lead at work and let me tell you, most of them suck balls. …

June 27, 2007 – 3:09 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (0)

Destroying Motivation

One meet­ing at a time.  It’s truly amaz­ing how big com­pa­nies just don’t seem to com­pre­hend what makes devel­op­ers happy.  Instead, they tend to go out of their way to make them unhappy.  My com­pany is no different.  This list is a pretty good start on ways to make your pro­gram­mers unhappy. Around here, peo­ple …

June 25, 2007 – 2:57 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Programming | Comments (0)

Microsoft Rules (or Does It?)

Go here and watch The Power.  Then go here and be amused. UPDATE: This is an old post. I’m clean­ing up some things on the blog and remov­ing some cat­e­gories which means posts like this get updated. That’s why it might show up in your news­reader this morning.

June 21, 2007 – 7:35 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Internet/Technology | Comments (2)

Note To Self

It is ok to carry bananas to work in your backpack.  Nec­tarines, how­ever, are off-limits. On the pos­i­tive side, my back­pack smells like smushed nectarine-y good­ness now.

June 20, 2007 – 8:26 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

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A must read arti­cle on the causes, effects and final out­come of the Duke non-rape case. Hat Tip: Chicago Boyz

June 20, 2007 – 7:15 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in National Issues | Comments (0)

Sacred Linens

While we’re talk­ing about God (but not to God, he answered that one time and man did I freak out), there is appar­ently a short­age of holy saints, holy retreats and holy matri­archs so the Epis­co­pal church in Cle­burne had to get cre­ative. When look­ing for church names that give you the warm fuzzies, what …

June 20, 2007 – 7:00 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (2)

More Proof That God Hates Mobile Homes

He’s try­ing out floods as an alter­na­tive to tornadoes.

June 18, 2007 – 7:10 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Random | Comments (0)

What Is So Hard About Money?

I lis­ten to WRR on my daily com­mute and Smith Bar­ney cur­rently has a com­mer­cial out with some woman appar­ently whin­ing about how she and her hus­band don’t know how to talk to their kids about money. They can talk about sex, drugs, smok­ing but money? Not a clue. The ad tries to con­vince you …

June 15, 2007 – 7:51 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Money | Comments (0)

Poker Lessons I Must Learn

Give up mid­dle pairs when they are beat. Give up mid­dle pairs when they are beat. Give up mid­dle pairs when they are beat. Give up mid­dle pairs when they are beat. Give up mid­dle pairs when they are beat. Give up mid­dle pairs when they are beat. Give up mid­dle pairs when they are …

June 12, 2007 – 10:15 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Poker | Comments (2)

Abominations of Nature

Typ­i­cally, any­thing with that descrip­tor is hyper­bole designed to incite spe­cific responses.  For exam­ple, if I say that a three-way between two women and a horse is an abom­i­na­tion of nature that God will surely pun­ish, that’s clearly just a sign of my bias against alter­na­tive expres­sions of sex­u­al­ity and an exhi­bi­tion of my clos­eted kinks. …

June 1, 2007 – 1:06 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Food | Comments (0)