I know I just got done yapping about getting this new job. but I pulled a pretty big blunder in the interview. He asked me what kind of degree I have, and I told him I had a BS in Physics. He mentioned that there are a lot of physics guys that work at the company, which was good to hear.
then asks me to describe the last time I used my knowledge in physics in the “real world”. I made the terrible mistake of answering the question truthfully without thinking about what I’d be saying first. I described how I was in a long creationism/evolution debate and how I can’t stand it when people pick on the physical laws to argue creationism. namely using the second law of thermodynamics to show how we couln;t have evolved from simpler creatures to more complex creatures. I mentioned the concepts behind the second law and how they have no bearing on biological systems at all. Then he says “well I think the biological aspects of evolution are the biggest problem…” RED FLAG! RED FLAG! Go directly to neutral territory… do not pass go, do not collect $200!!! I immediately followed up his comment with “yeah, I know there are issues and I don’t try to take sides… I just hate it when people use physical laws in ways they aren’t meant to be used…” etc. I think I saved it pretty well.
NOTE TO SELF: lie through your teeth if you have to, but make sure you project neutrality and/or invisibility in all political/religious areas when interviewing.
I already have the job pretty much secured so I’m really not worried about this… but this is just the kind of blunder that could cost me a job in a blind interview with people I’ve never met before. I *greatly dislike* having to abandon my principles like that, but the general population doesn’t respond well to opinions that conflict with theirs. they take it as a challenge or an affront… not so much as an opinion. half the time people have no business carrying around the opinions they do. :ROLLEYES:
anyways.. that’s my story.
-IggDawg
Oh my fuck. It sure is raining.
It’s days like today that make me glad I’m not a medieval farmer.
-IggDawg
I’ll finally be going on permanent in this job in late Feb it looks like. one of the higher-ups came by earlier this week to do an audit on our ESD procedures and to do a formal interview with me. the guy is a car nut. the first thing he said when he got here wasn’t “hi” or “hello”… it was “CRX Si, huh? nice.” I figure’d we’d hit it off. and we did. we went out to a company lunch and it was all car talk. Bob just sat there in silence. she didn’t have a chance to say anything.
anyways, my only concern was pay rate. I can’t live off this crappy temp pay forever so I had to make sure that when I went on perm I’d be making a good chunk more. I offered up what I thought was reasonable and he agreed to it. it’s still not as much as I was making being a professional slacker (IT admin) at my last job, but it’s science. so I don’t mind the lesser pay since I’m at least doing what I went to school for 4 years to learn… Instead of riding the knowledge I acquired getting wing commander and hexen to work on my 486 box back in the day.
I’m actually doing something significant here, which is why I like science in the first place. we scan electronic parts for internal defects and whatnot. but the parts we get aren’t computer memory and whatnot. we get a lot of military and aerospace stuff since they need to be able to see if their parts will last in space or in a musty bunker for decades. we get all kinds of crazy stuff in here. It’s cool to feel like I’m part of a neccecary process or something. I hated working a “trained monkey” position at Pfizer, knowing that my job wasn’t significant in any way. it just made all my efforts seem futile. here, we’re making sure that space shuttle components won;t fail.
http://www.sonoscan.com <----- I'm with stupid
That's all I got.
-IggDawg
I drove the CRX today in the snow. For those of you who aren’t New Englanders, we’re getting dumped on hardcore this weekend. tonight is the prelude to the “big mother fucking storm” (nor’easter for short). Anyways, It’s my first time driving a FWD car in snow in ages it seems. I’ve been driving nothing but Subarus for I think 3 winters now. Oh my fuck, I am a spoiled little bitch. I still have my generic no-season tires on. Snow tires (Dunlop Graspic DS-1) coming tomorrow from tirerack.com thank the fucking lord. The roads in Boston were warm enough to get snow-on-slush. I had nothing. no control at all. even though the car is lighter than jsut about any other car on the road, if I even thought about touching the brakes all 4 wheels would lock right up. There was one hill where I was in 1st and just barely keeping the brakes applied and not locked… I had no control. if the car had pitched, I would have been entirely unable to recover. I’m so used to just countersteering and mashing the throttle. doesn’t work so well in a FWD car. no ebrake turns for me. at least not till I learn the car better. I’ll be taking it out to my “testing area” tomorrow morning when there’s a few inches on the ground. it’s a big dirt parking lot near a school. no telephone poles or trashcans, and it’s always entirely vacant. I would take the Impreza there to learn how to drive with all 4 wheels spinning, basically preacticing for racing rallycross courses. I want to take the CRX there just to learn how to handle the car in low grip situations. it’s just dirt so I’m not tearing anyone’s property up, and the cops don;t care as long as I do it on weekends when nobody is around. as far as they’re concerned it’s just another person learning his car better. they no I’m not just some punk blowing donuts.
clifnotes: Haven’t driven FWD in years. new to driving stick. got caught in the snow. in boston. safely got home. eagerly awaiting snow tires. learned I am a spoiled AWD bitch.
That’s all I got. Oh, I almost forgot… Courtesy of Kha0s:
“0h n0s!” pics pwnz j00w.
-IggDawg
So I’m getting real snow tires for the winter. which means I have a nice spare set of narrow crappy no-name “snow” tires. they’re pretty worn, but no matter. I’ll be making screw tires out of them for ice racing this year. I’ve been talking to Kha0s about the care and feeding of screw tires after teh success of his “RE-92 Evolution” tires. A trip to home depot and a few hours of labor should go a good ways towards making a nice set. apparently there’s mroe to it than shooting a bunch of hex-head screws into a set of crappy tires 😆 . I’ll be posting before and after pics for teh small percentage of you that give one, or even two, flying fucks.
It’ll be fun to ice-race the CRX. I have tons of experience on the loose surfaces in various Subarus, but never have I attempted anything like this in a FWD car with an open diff (or any sort of diff for that matter). it’ll be fun. I’m sure there will be videos of my antics.
-IggDawg
I’m listening to Kraftwerk pretty much for the first time. I’ve had a few albums kicking around, so I tore all the tracks to my HD with all intentions of taking an old-school pilgramige. I just hadn’t gotten around to it. I’ve listened to “Autobahn” a few times through. I really dig the title track, so I was looking forward to listening to a whole bunch of stuff. So I listened to a bunch of clips from a bunch of tracks and tossed together a mix to listen to on the way to work. These guys are everything I was told they were. simple, old school, and very anti-familiar. by that I mean that every time I listen to one of their tracks I can swear I’ve herad it before… It’s like listening to Joy Division. I’ll hear a progression of beats in a Kraftwerk tune, and I can think of several more recent tracks from all kinds of different artists that have a similar beat. Just like listening to rock, I can hear Joy Division drum beats in just about every band’s material. I can see how influential they were.
but yeah, I like these guys. again, like Joy Division, it’s kind of an acquired taste since the sound has moved so far forward since their time. but I really like it.
-IggDawg
Note to self: Stabbing westward != happy-feelgood-music. not so good when one isn’t in the best of moods.
-IggDawg
Fun with Ebay’s feedback system:
Feedback given to user:
http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=phoneloser-rbcp
Feedback given by user:
http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedbackMemberLeft&memberId=phoneloser-rbcp&items=25
I gave it a chuckle. so if you dojn’t chuckle, that means I’m better than you. but as long as you’re ok with that, I guess we don’t have a problem now do we?
-Igg
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