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Weekend in SF
2004-04-15 01:03 in /photo
We took a trip up to SF this past weekend to visit a few friends, and relax a big over spring break. On Saturday, we got up "early" and headed to the farmers market at the Ferry building. Outside at the Embarcadero, I snapped this picture of a sculpture in front of one of the buildings.
I really like the way that the reflection takes on the appearance of Damascus steel. If you grant a little interpretive license, the sculpture even looks a little like a fancy sword guard.
Later that afternoon we were walking around Chinatown when the girls started giggling. It's a shame the best specimen didn't come out so well in this photo.
In case you might be thinking those aren't really what you think they are, check the close-up
Finally, a little low-brow humor (err... a little more low-brow humor) from outside a pub in North Beach.
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Do not operate heavy machinery or administer job interviews ...
2004-04-15 00:44 in /tech
I've been experiencing a little vertigo here and there for the last week.
This afternoon, I was interviewing someone and in the middle of asking a question that I've only heard asked once and hadn't prepared to ask (a bad idea, but my usual questions were hitting dead-ends) my head started swimming. I managed to finish asking the question, but then for the life of me couldn't remember which was the right answer. Fortunately, the world settled down before the candidate finished answering, so I managed to recover okay.
On the topic of interviews, about two weeks ago, I had the somewhat unsettling experience of a candidate referring to something I wrote here several months ago. I guess that turnaround is fair play in this world of companies ... uh... Yahoo!ing prospective candidates, but it really put me off-guard for a moment.
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