Bacon: Take thrice daily.

In the last week or so I was asked to convert a couple document files, a .docx and .pages.  After asking what they were for I was informed that they were resumes that recent college grads sent us. 

WHAT?

So let me get this straight.  You want me to go out of my way to help you read one of the hundreds of resumes that were sent to us?  This is clearly natural selection at work here.  Do we keep letting these people unknowingly eliminate themselves from jobs before their resume is even open or should we educate them?

In the pages example I told the person to write back saying that they didn’t have the skill set we were looking for (having a clue) but in the future they should consider sending out resumes in a more standard format like PDF or backwards compatible .doc files.

What exactly are people learning in school?  Isn’t the whole point of school to prepare you for real life?  Is there anything more "real life" than having to find a job when you college meal ticket runs out? 

Having trouble finding a job?  Try making sure people can even see your resume!  Do yourself a favor and send it to a friend, a former coworker, a stranger on the Internet, anyone who uses a different computer than you do.

Tags: resume, iwork

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I’ve seen these things on the counter at various convenience stores and always wondered what the deal was…so much to the disapproval of my coworkers I’m going to try it! There were two varieties there normal and extra strength…

“Hey Tim, since you’ve never taken it before why don’t you try the normal on first”

“Pfffft…no way! I’m going all in on this one!”

Recommended use: Drink one half bottle for moderate energy. Drink one whole bottle for MAXIMUM energy! One whole bottle coming up!

1:51pm

So it doesn’t taste all that gross…kind of like a more tart flat red bull. Not feeling any immediate effects, I think I’ll eat my spicy chex mix now.

2:16pm

My coworker says I’m talking fast…I don’t really see it. Then again I don’t really talk to myself that often. Ok, so that’s a lie I talk to myself all the time but I’m not very conscious of the speed. Any ways I’m feeling a little jittery I’m hoping this is just the initial shock to my system and this doesn’t persist for 5 hours…Its a good thing I’m not scheduled to perform surgery this afternoon.

2:51pm

I’m less jittery now but I feel like I’m on a mild dosage of speed. Sitting bores me.

3:20pm

Coding has become effortless! I can’t make a habit of this but once the initial shock was over the caffeine/scandinavian power metal combo really seems to work!

3:31pm

For the record I’m updating this using Ecto Very very cool!

4:30pm

Meh…feeling more or less normal now. But that’s good! This is the time of the work day that usually seems to drag. Hopefully there’s a little left when I get home

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Alex and I are going to drink our way from the village all the way up to the UES. In the interest of keeping track of our carousing I’ll post every bar!

12:45
Standings- blue point larger. Crazy college football bar. Red sox fans welcome!

1:25
O’hanlons- on the way here we saw a couple goth kids get out of their parents bmw 5 series on st. Marks. Oh yeah, that’s punk. This place has their own ale! It’s ok, drinkable. Ooohh. There’s a red pool table in the back.

2:45
Wine me up- on broadway.
Early afternoon on a Saturday, perfect wine time! We saw tons of street markets from union square all the way up park. Some fedora shopping took place but no purchasing. At one place they were selling paintings of “the catch” from the superbowl. I considered picking one up for Reggie but could not bring myself to do it despite the very nice giants fan trying to talk me into it. Eli still sucks. This 04 chiliean cab is awesome.

3:30
Space billiards- 12th floor of a building in ny’s version of Korea town. Drinking some ob being the only white dudes here. Tables are actually really nice! There some crazy Asian street festivial taking place below us!

5:00
The Ginger man
Holy shit. After some amazing street food from the Korean festival we find ourselves here. BVM cuvée du 8ème… Sweet Jesus, Swiss micro brew with a hint of Swiss cocoa… I’ve discovered beer drinking perfection.

7:00 ish
Dinner! Gyu kaku! Epic Japanese cook it yourself BBQ! Sake, kiron…
We collected three other people at this point. Woo hoo!

9:00
Pig and whistle.
After swinging on a flagpole we found our way here. There’s five of us now! Moved on from beer, it’s jack and coke time. Still seven hours of drinking left!!!!

Whenever:30
Karaoke bar. Alex did whiskey in a jar Christine was awesome as usual I’m mostly drunk. Tonight is just getting started!

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My friend G-Money pointed out that I have:
a.    A webpage
b.    An iPhone
c.    An insatiable thirst
d.    A sixth sense about finding great bars

Therefore I’ve decided every time I visit a new bar it will be documented – as well as I can remember it anyways.

Doc Holliday’s – NYC – East Village

I had just arrived in the city after working a full day in Boston and driving down straight form the office.  Hungry and thirsty we put our name in at Shabu-Tatsu a few blocks away and drifted down to Ave A to spend the 45 min wait for a table.  The bar is dark, and not terribly busy for about 9:00 on a Friday night.  After ignoring the sign about knowing what you want before approaching the bar I ask for a PBR…no PBR.  “Ok, what do you have?”, she runs down the list and as I’m about to stop her at “Natty Ice tall boy” she says “Genesee Cream Ale”.  Sold.  My girlfriend opts for the classier Stella, $8 for the round (You can probably guess how much of that $8 is for the can of Genny).

Clientele:

We only interacted with one other patron there – mostly because it wasn’t that busy.  This was a blue collar gentleman who had apparently been at the bar, went home, realized he lost his keys somewhere, and decided the only logical thing to do was to go back to the bar.  To look for his keys?  Nooooo  of course not!  For more beer!  Man I love NYC.

Rating: 4/7 – Small sample set but seemingly douchebag free.

Ambiance:

This is a dive.  Its dark, dirty, a little sketchy, and the beer is fairly inexpensive by Manhattan standards.  I have a feeling it might be some kind of country-ish bar as there were cowboy boots on the ceiling and the overall décor felt like a western saloon meets college bar.  Thankfully they were playing the Reverend Horton Heat and not Garth Brooks.  I think there was a pool table there too.

Rating: 5/7 – “You need to tip at least 60% for bartenders to consider sleeping with you”

Staff:

Bartenders were really cool and I didn’t have to wait much for any of my three cream ales.  We apologized for not following the clearly posted directions about having your order ready but were informed that was more for the big group of dudes who gets to the bar then decides to ask everyone what they want.  The tatted-punk-bartender-chick then tried to steal my girlfriend.  Awesome!

Rating: 6/7: I suspect my partner in crime would rate her a 7…

This place is a solid 5/7 I would absolutely drink here again although I’ll probably skip the Genny Cream Ale…

Where my iPhone’s GPS thought I was

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They are selling certain seats from Fenway park this offseason!  I know I’ll have some authentic Fenway seats in my living room!  Here are the details:

The Boston Red Sox are selling all Red Dugout, Field Box, Loge Box and Roof Box seats between sections 14-27.  We can not guarantee season ticket holders their exact seats due to the removal process which includes the destruction of every third seat.

Seats are sold in pairs (two seats, three armrests)

You can purchase seats for $795.  Taxes and shipping costs are included in price point.

First come first serve basis until sold out.

Please call 617-226-6800 to speak to a sales representative or email seatsale@redsox.com with your day and night time phone information and someone will get back to you if your order can be processed.  If chairs are still available we will contact you over the week of September 22^nd.

Seats are going quick, act soon!!!

Now I just need to figure out what they are doing with those sections…ponder.

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http://www.reddit.com/r/Bacon/

“Nuff’ Said”

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Dear Terry Francona,

I realize you do your job very well but from an interested third party I submit the following for your consideration:

1. Pedrioa

2. Youk

3. Drew

4. Ortiz

5 Lowell

6. Bay

7. Lowrie

8. Tek/Cash

9. Jacoby

I know Ortiz might complain but he’d be PERFECT batting 4th because more often than not at least one of those guys will be on base!

Thanks,

Tim

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First thing:I’m posting this from my iPhone! Solid.

I’ve found something annoying. If your phone is set to vibrate and while you are talking on the phone you get a text message… Buzz! Holy shit it scares the crap out of you!

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Allow me to start with a brief description of how I use my phone.  Outside of phone calls (duh) I check both my personal gmail and my work email (imap), send a ton to text messages (even more when drinking), and surfing the net to resolve bar room disputes (usually imdb.com), and the occasional photos.  I keep my phone in my front left pocket, I don’t do any of those belt holders or anything.

So I moved from a BlackBerry Pearl that I had had for about two years on T-mobile to an iPhone 3G on AT&T.

First impressions:

• The iPhone is noticeably heavier than the pearl bit its not uncomfortably heavy.
• The iPhone is taller and wider then the Pearl but significantly thinner.
• The touch screen keyboard is taking some getting used to but it hasn’t frusterated me too much yet.
• I haven’t got the coordination of texting with one hand down yet but I’m sure with practice that will come.
• I took less than an hour for my number to be moved from T-Mobile…that’s pretty impressive!  Last time I moved my number from Sprint to T-Mobile it took about a day and a half where I had to carry both phones around as one got all my incoming calls and had to make the outgoing ones on the other.

Unboxing/Setup:

The first thing I had to do before I could even consider leaving the house was move my contacts from my BlackBerry to the iPhone.  This was easier than I thought it would be!  I installed the PocketMac Sync Manager from BlackBerry’s site and that loaded all my contacts into my mac’s address book.  Then it was just a matter of checking off the “Sync Contacts” in iTunes and voila!

Next, setting up gmail…also very easy!  I just clicked the “mail” icon at the bottom and selected “gmail”  couldn’t be any easier.  The setup for my work email was essentially the same except selecting “other” and plugging in my imap/smtp server addresses.

The only thing I couldn’t figure out on my own was how to set it to vibrate.  As it turns out there’s a little switch on the left top.  Very cool.

Ok, now it was time for the fun stuff!  I click the “App Store” icon… I installed the following free Apps:

FaceBook
AIM
Google Search
iPint
More Cowbell
PhoneSaber
BubbleWrap
Shazam
SportsTap
WordPress

I had the FaceBook, AIM, and Google apps for the BlackBerry so I can directly compare them.

FaceBook App:
No comparison, the iPhone version is really, really cool!  The BlackBerry version used to wipe out my status whenever I logged into to…suboptimal.

AIM:
I try to avoid being on IM on my phone anyways but the iPhone app has a much cleaner UI.

Google:
iPhone version = really cool!  I installed it thinking “Why the hell do I need this? Can’t I just to go google in safari?”.  Well everyone needs this app!  It drops down a list of popular searches as you type very handy.

More Cowbell:
Ok, this is just dumb…it pops up a picture of a cowbell and Christopher Walken says “I’ve gotta have more cowbell” then you tap the cowbell and it makes a gratifying clank noise.  Hey its free.

Shazam:
Another “mostly useless but good for impressing your friends who don’t have an iPhone” app.  What you do is hold the phone up to a speaker and it identifies whatever song in playing.  Really.  It actually works!

Ok, now the bad stuff:

• I like the blinking red light on the BlackBerry so I could quickly glance to see if I had messages without touching the phone.
• I can see the “Slide to unlock” feature getting real old real fast.
• It’s only been a day but the battery life doesn’t impress me.
• I don’t get 3G at my house, but it really doesn’t matter cause its connected to my WiFi.
• There’s one number to tell me how much email I have from both my accounts combined.  I’d rather see separate numbers for each account.
• I think I prefer the gmail app on the BlackBerry over the mail interface on the iPhone but I’ll give myself a little time before final judgment on that one.

Ok, that’s all for now.  More updates soon.

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Ok, I’m not British (at least that I know of) but I feel things would be way more fun if we (Americans, or even just Bostonians) had a little more Brit about us.  We tend to ruin everything British (Who’s line is it anyways, The Office, soon to be Top Gear, etc)…lets start giving back.

Lesson one:

“I think we can fit that in with the rest of them”
“That’s what she said!”

Funny?  Yes.  Over used? Definitely.

Let’s Brit this conversation up a little bit:

“I think we can fit that in with the rest of them”
“Said the actress to the bishop…”

Enjoy and be sure to impress people with your new found Britishness.

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