sara - incoming.

I seriously feel bad for kids graduating right now and trying to go out and get jobs. The job market was total shit in '91, but it's probably worse now.

I seriously feel bad for kids graduating right now and trying to go out and get jobs. The job market was total shit in '91, but it's probably worse now.

The difference I see now is that many companies are choosing to replace older, experienced (read: expensive) employees with new hires fresh out of college (read: cheap), whereas in the early 90s that was not so much the case. So in some cases it may be easier for a recent college grad to get a job, but they're probably going to be paid in Amazon gift cards.

We got in three of the four soccer games this weekend. My daughter's team got trounced. It's kinda tough for them, they only had a couple of their experienced players and their all girl team was playing a team that was mostly boys that look like they had experience. I think Emaryn is probably the best first time player on the team, a couple of others act like they are afraid of the ball.

Leif's team got in two games. They don't keep score at that age, or really in my daughter's league either, but Leif's team just destroyed the other teams. In the second game their coach told them to only use their left foot when shoot goals, to try to slow them down. I felt bad for the teams they were playing.

So in some cases it may be easier for a recent college grad to get a job, but they're probably going to be paid in Amazon gift cards.

Heh.

I have a whole rant about the 90s "slacker" stereotype for Gen X related to that -- some of us were graduating from college into a recession, and some of us were still in college!

How would Shakespeare say 'WTF?'?

"Talk Like Shakespeare Day" Declared For Thursday In Chicago

This is cool: Braille e-reader concept a neat idea — for now

This may or may not be cool: Pig-based speaker system ready to make your iPod audio warm and fuzzy

Continuing the fine tradition of cute tech currently infecting the industry, Lanchiya has unleashed its digital pig device called the MIP. The white orb is actually a multi-media car speaker designed to look like a pig.

The equally cute controls allow you to touch the pig's right ear to raise the volume and its left ear to lower the volume. Featuring a docking cradle on top of its head for iPod devices, the MIP also comes in pink, yellow and black and is available for just $119 here.

But at least technology has created new intern categories....

Tweeting Becomes a Summer Job Opportunity

JOB TITLE Summer Twintern

JOB TITLE, TRANSLATED A summer intern who uses Twitter.

JOB CATEGORY Hot pizza/social media

SALARY Competitive (with other Twitterers).

JOB PURPOSE To attend advertising shoots, product meetings and other corporate events. “They’ll be our social media journalist, chronicling in 140 characters or less what’s going on at Pizza Hut,” said Bob Kraut, the vice president for marketing communications at the company. The Twintern must also play social-media defense, monitoring Twitter for any mentions of the brand and alerting superiors whenever anything negative about the Hut is being said. (Applicants should study last week’s YouTube gross-out video posted by Domino’s employees, which was quickly passed around Twitter, to understand why.) The successful applicant will speak fluent OMG and LOL and correctly use the terms DM (direct message), RT (retweet) and # (hashtag).

JOB REQUIREMENTS Applicants must be currently enrolled in college, willing to move to Dallas for the summer, and happy to distill their thoughts into short and frequent bursts of text. Applications will be accepted on PizzaHut.com beginning Monday. Job seekers must demonstrate social-media skills through some kind of creative response. Pizza Hut is prepared for an onslaught of YouTube videos, and “I guess if we melt the servers on this kind of thing, it’ll be a good thing,” Mr. Kraut said.

OPPORTUNITIES “Realistically, because there are these tools out in the marketplace, and they have a multiplier effect, to have us looking and monitoring this in a more dedicated fashion makes sense for us,” Mr. Kraut said. “Once there are a lot of people using any form of media, large advertisers such as Pizza Hut gravitate towards it.”

"Twintern"?

eta:

"The Twintern must also play social-media defense, monitoring Twitter for any mentions of the brand and alerting superiors whenever anything negative about the Hut is being said."

"The Hut"?

Now I wanna joint Twitter and tweet bad things about Jabba the Hut all day. Which reminds me of the character "Pizza the Hut" in Spaceballs....

The Best Business Card Ever: Steve Martin’s Card

The Best Business Card Ever: Steve Martin’s Card

That is pretty awesome.