Yesterday, the wife and I drove out to Sunnyvale (right past Yahoo! headquarters) and went to WeirdStuff. WeirdStuff is like an old computer and office version of an auto parts pick-and-pull.
I brought home a much-needed file cabinet:
Stacey got a chair for her classroom:
At the company I work for, we’re hiring for a web designer position. As the person who will be getting this person (or persons) up to speed, and handing over some of my non-coding workload, I have been evaluating the resumes and portfolios of work as closely as my boss has.
One applicant really took himself out of the running because of the lone picture of him on his home page (which served as his portfolio). The picture was of him at his computer, wearing something looking like a Mexican wrestling mask over his head, with sunglasses over the mask. It’s hard to do the picture justice in text.
EDIT: After going back and forth over it, I decided to post the picture, but only after copying it over to my blog instead of hotlinking directly to it (so as to not expose the poor guy’s homepage URL):
The photo really chased off my boss and the other designers. They’re very concerned about personalities of the “tech” people they bring in, as they had a very bad experience with the programmer they had before me (which is what led to there being an opening, and me stumbling into the job). We’re not a stuffy corporate environment; our office is decorated like a jungle, and I get to come into work every day wearing shorts and with my (well-behaved) dog, who spends the day curled up under the adjacent desk. So it’s a bad thing when the way you present yourself chases off this group of people.
OK, given that my last few blog posts include professed “love” (we’ll call it love) of the 17-year-old redheaded German curling girl, and a photo of the “sorry, no EBT” sign on the door of the nearby 7-11, I’m probably not speaking from high ground here. But think about what you put out there, especially when you’re applying for a job.
While browsing the web on my laptop at Panera Bread in Gilroy, I encountered a very strange content block when trying to load the homepage of the KDESVN project:
KDESVN? Nudism?
My SVN client usually just crashes.
EDIT: When I got home, I just had to double-check the site:
Hmm. I’m just not seeing it.
EDIT #2: Mystery solved. If we look at www.alwins-world.de, we find a photo gallery with:
PROTIP: While I’m all for photos of nude females, it might be wise to host your open source project on a different domain, for reasons exactly like this. Come on. A domain name is $10.
I’m always pitching the Big Love idea to my wife. Why put up with me all by yourself, when you can have some teammates to help manage my needs? Astonishingly, she still doesn’t see it as the way to go. Nevertheless, I am always on the lookout for new talent to add to this team.
I saw one as I watched the German women’s curling team. Here’s to you, redhead:
(The young one in the front, not the kneeling banshee in mid-scream)
Her name is Stella Heiss. Actually, her last name is “Heiß”. I’ve always wanted a chick whose name requires Unicode. She’s also only 17, so she can spend a year in the minors before we call her up to the big leagues. Her dad is former German ice hockey national team goaltender Josef Heiß.
I’m not alone in liking Stella. Bleacher Report ranked her #7 on their list of Hotties of Olympic Curling. (Stella’s teammate, Melanie Robillard, ranked #1, and with good reason. But redheads hold the key to my heart.)
(Melanie and Stella)
Stella is most certainly welcome to bring Melanie along.
(Melanie and Stella bookend a group that drops off severely between the endpoints)
