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!
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"?
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"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....
happy to distill their thoughts into short and frequent bursts of text.
That used to be called swearing.
That used to be called swearing.
Dude! The next communication sensation. www.swearing.com. You make short 70 character entries that must contain at least one profane word, and people can subscribe to your swearing. It would be something like this.
10:54am Gudanov is swearing: Fuck!
10:55am Gudanov is swearing: Motherfucking fucking fuck!
10:56am Gudanov is swearing: Why won't this piece of shit work?!!!
10:57am Gudanov is swearing: Shit goddammit why won't it funcking work?!!!!!
Obviously there would need to be cool Acroymns you use when swearing(tm). MFF - Motherfucking fucking fuck. FUF - Fuck you fucker. There's already POS.
The next time your computer locks up with an unsaved 10 page document in your word processor, get out your cell phone and text in some swears(tm).
I think I have done more brunches post-baby than pre. I had a small one last month, but I don't really count them unless we have the whole universe over. Also, it was spur of the moment, not really coordinated.
The last big one was a year ago. I just sent out preplanning notification to peeps over the weekend.
