LOL.
[Thanks PB!]
Artist Pablo Picasso drawing a centaur in the air with a flashlight at Madoura Pottery, Gjon Mili, Vallauris, France, 1949
Kevin Merritt writes:
9. Do extracurricular work that showcases your abilities. What’s better than telling a prospective employer how good you are? Show them! If you’re a software engineer, contribute on an open source project, develop an iPhone application or develop a robust website. If you’re an online marketer, prove your good by showing me that you have a site that gets a lot of traffic. I met a man earlier this year who’s a program manager at Microsoft. He wanted to move into a new role as a marketer, but didn’t have any day-to-day responsibilities at Microsoft that showed he could do the job. So he bought a domain and set up a website dedicated to Caribbean travel. Soon it was attracting lots of traffic and ranked high in organic search. It was a great way to show doubters that he was qualified.
10. Avoid being laid off in the first place. Last but not least, don’t relinquish the pole position. An incumbent has an edge. It’s easier to keep a job than find one. We’re hearing about companies cutting 25% or 33% of their headcount. That means you need to be in the top 67% or 75% to avoid a pink slip. Other than an entire plant, division or office closure, the decisions about whom to keep and whom to let go are based on performance, salary and redundancy of position. Boost your performance by getting meaningful things done. Come in earlier. Stay later. Be more visible. Start sending your boss weekly status reports showing your accomplishments. Exhibit leadership.
[Thanks Kaizar!]
This is amazing: The Mona Lisa recreated using just 50 semi-transparent polygons.
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My all time favorite movie in the holiday month of December is the Christmas Story, that classic tale of Ralphie's Christmas wish for a Red-Ryder B-B gun rifle, despite his mother's admonition that it'll shoot his eye out.
So what's Peter Billingsley aka Ralphie up to now?
Did he succumb to the Child Actor Syndrome of overdosing and joining a reality TV cast? No, he's now a successful executive producer with an Emmy award nomination under his belt. He recently worked on Iron Man.
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Jessica Cox, 25, missing her arms due to a birth defect became to first person to pilot a plane using just her feet.
That's quite a "feat."
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Advertising Agency: Storåkers McCann, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Director: Jonas Frank
Copywriter: Hanna Belander
Account Director: Michael Storåkers
Account Manager: Anna Wallin
Assistent: Simon SvedArtist Kamila Szejnoch installed a swing on an old Communist era statue. I propose that the next Big Public Installation in New York City be one gigantic communal swing that can seat hundreds of people at a time.
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John Milton (Paradise Lost) holds the record in the Oxford English Dictionary for the most neologisms.
Milton is responsible for introducing some 630 words to the English language, making him the country's greatest neologist, ahead of Ben Jonson with 558, John Donne with 342 and Shakespeare with 229. Without the great poet there would be no liturgical, debauchery, besottedly, unhealthily, padlock, dismissive, terrific, embellishing, fragrance, didactic or love-lorn. And certainly no complacency.
If he were alive today, what with him being a poet and mastery at inventing new words, I bet John Milton or J'Millionaire would be a sick free style lyricist.
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Keep watching until the end of this video for the two-fer-one payout. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ8fTgQvrMA&fmt=18]
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Read them all here. Also, the vast majority of the Calvin & Hobbes merchandise you see everywhere are bootleg and unauthorized. Here is the complete and full list of all the merchandise officially sanctioned and approved by Bill Watterson.
- Books
- Two calendars (1988-1989 and 1989-1990)
- A textbook called Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes
- One t-shirt for a traveling art exhibit
More fun Calvin & Hobbes facts.
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I'm having a tough time believing this is legit, but it's still hilarious.
[Thanks Paul!]
Once you go black, you don’t go back.
- New York Governor David Paterson in a recent speech.
Full Disclosure: I was a serious ultimate frisbee geek from high school through college. The ultimate song about the ultimate sport.
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