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Job hunting and trying something new

 in Tech  tagged coverletter / jobhunt / projectmanager by

Fueled by insomnia and inspired by late night tv, I’ve decided to try something new on my job hunting technique. Recently found a number of perfect fit job postings on boards like Indeed.com or Dice.com. I would submit my resume and write a formal cover letter and never hear anything. Weeks go by and crickets. So it’s time to switch it up a bit.

Since project manager job hunting is all about selling yourself. I decided against the typical formal resume & cover letter in favor of a proven, tried-and-true selling technique: “The Infomercial”.  (more…)

3 summer movies I want to see

 in Movies & Music  tagged cars2 / movies / muppets / pixar / summermovies2011 by

I plan on taking the nephews to a bunch of movies this summer.  Here are 3 summer movies that aren’t targeted to me but I secretly want to see.  Raise your hand if you’ll never out grow Disney movies and big thanks to the nephews for giving me an excuse to see them in theaters 🙂

 

 

 

Cars 2

Cars 2.  I love everything Pixar (but who doesn’t?).  Unfortunately rotten tomatoes reports this one fell a little short.  Personally I enjoyed the movie but I can see why people would say this was sub par.  I don’t want to pick apart the movie (because I enjoyed it) but I would like to make a few small observations:

  1. Adult-ish themes – The whole secret agent / spy /James Bond thing kind of went over the kids head.
  2. Adult-ish jokes – There seemed to be more jokes aimed at the older audience members.  Not dirty jokes, but jokes that kids wouldn’t get.  Like one car thought another car was attractive and said “she needed to go get some coolant”.  I laughed but my nephew leaned over and asked me “What’s coolant”.
  3. I didn’t cry – Ok fine, I’ll admit it.  I’ve teared up at least once during all the other Pixar movies.  I didn’t even come close here.
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In theaters: June 24, 2011

The Muppets

The Muppets – coming this Thanksgiving (November 23, 2011).  Can’t wait to see this one.  Been a huge fan of the Muppets my whole life.  Check out our Halloween costumes from 2009

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Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh – in theaters July 15, 2011.  Tut tut, looks like a movie I want to see.

My Favorite Safari Extension – Ultimate Status Bar

 in Tech  tagged apps / extension / mac / review / safari / software by

I love Safari as my default browser.  But there was one little tiny thing that drove me nuts: you don’t see the URL when you hover over a hyperlink.  I often found myself right-click > copy link > paste in text editor.  Annoying.

I finally decided to see if anyone else shared my annoyance and if anyone else did something about it.  I came across the Ultimate Status Bar extension and immediately tried it out.  Simple, Perfect and Exactly what I was looking for.  I love it when I get small wins like this!

[rating:5/5]

Heres a screen shot from the Ultimate Status Bar download page:

Cheap and Easy Puppy Cam with iCam 1

 in Puppy / Tech  tagged android / apps / mac / Puppy / puppycam / software by

Yeah, she’s cute isn’t she?  She’s about 5 months old in that picture.  During the early weeks/months of crate training she would whine when we left her but when we came home she would be sleeping like a little angle.  So we were wondering how long she was whining when we left.

A couple of our friends had a similar situation with their dog crying and destroying things while they were at work.  They ended up installing a web cam so they could check on him during the day.  I was intrigued and was looking for a weekend project, so I decided to look into “puppy cams”.

I did some googling and ended up on a bunch of hybrid technology + pet lovers message boards (yeah, the internet has everything).  Most of the suggestions involved dropping some $$ at Best Buy and calling Comcast to get a static IP address — neither of these things sounded like fun.  But eventually (buried on some message board somewhere) I came across iCam by SKJM.

This was perfect!   (more…)