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Read more: Series of Quotes: Behave
Series of Quotes: Behave
2 comments on Series of Quotes: BehaveWorking at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn’t the bum on the street drinking Sterno; it’s the working poor. They don’t look any different, they don’t behave any differently, they’re not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that’s it. —Mario Batali To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave…
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Read more: A Periodic Welcome Post
A Periodic Welcome Post
Welcome! Hello and thank you for reading this blog. This post is to explain some things so’s to avoid confusing newbies. What’s this blog? I started this blog to have a place to talk about fat acceptance and how my life is and isn’t affected by being very fat. Some notable sub-sections are the “Day in the Life” section and my posts on exercise. Do you look like the…
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Read more: Sadly Fitting
Sadly Fitting
Despair Drives Guantánamo Detainees to Revolt Obama Joins 4 Predecessors as Bush Library Opens It’s sadly fitting that these two stories are together on The New York Times homepage.
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Read more: “Big data” and hiring
“Big data” and hiring
Having job-hunted recently I found this article in The Economist interesting: Evolv mines mountains of data. If a client operates call centres, for example, Evolv keeps daily tabs on such things as how long each employee takes to answer a customer’s query. It then relates actual performance to traits that were visible during recruitment. Some insights are counter-intuitive. For instance, firms routinely cull job candidates with a…
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Read more: N things make a post
N things make a post
17) It’s the 17th week of 2013. I think. 12) I’ve been married 12 years. 11) My car (which currently isn’t starting) is 11 years old. Probably needs a new battery. 8) I’ve interviewed eight potential coworkers recently. 5) Five loads of laundry today. This is not counting the mattress cover and comforter, which went in the dryer on high to kill dust mites. 3) I worked…
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Read more: Friday Fun
Friday Fun
OK, let’s talk about some fun stuff. @52stations tweeted this link: I also think today’s a day for Matt: Because Anything you want to share?
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Read more: Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursday
[An occasional exercise in gratitude.] It’s Thursday. I made it to Thursday. Monday I took 5 hours out of my day for a training class on interviews (with a special focus on behavioral interviewing, joy) followed by working late. Then my carpool buddy and I drove to the 1 post office still open so he could drop off his tax extension. Tuesday I conducted two 1-hour interviews and a…
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Read more: Music Monday
Music Monday
I discovered Jeff & Maya Bohnhoff’s parody of “Get Off Of My Cloud” this summer at Westercon. Lately I’ve been listening to it a lot more. Why? My birthday is coming up. I’m going to be 47, which moves me kinda-sorta-maybe closer to my “late forties“. Most of my coworkers are in their 20s and 30s, which increases my feeling old. And I’m in software, and yes, a…
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Read more: Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursday
[An occasional exercise in gratitude.] 1) Getting things done at work. 2) Realized I was feeling a bit fuzzy-headed and tired everytime I took my SSRI. Being able to notice this sort of thing is somewhat new. 3) Successfully tapered down to a low dose without problems. (Why? It’s been nearly two years since I started on them again, I wasn’t having symptoms, and seeing if it…
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Read more: Series of Quotes: Disease
Series of Quotes: Disease
Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease. Bill Maher Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. William Osler I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things. Teri…
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