Archive for July, 2010
A Quick Prediction for the Fall TV Shows: We Have a Winner
Language Alert. I have liked William Shatner since he was Captain Kirk beaming that doofus Spock around the Galaxy, and I am so looking forward to him being Justin’s dad in the new comedy S*#$ My Dad Says. I am not sure how they are going to clean it up for the TV, but I [...]
The Productive Office, Circa 2010
How LinkUp Works, ReDux
Today, I posted over at Laurie Ruettimann’s PunkRockHr with a semi-serious post on jobs. Some questions have come up from her readers, mostly HR folks. 1. You can get your company’s jobs into our sponsored listings by contacting us. We are basically like Google and are leading the transformation from the pay to post model [...]
Joe Mauer vs Lebron James
Up here in Minnesota, we have arguably the best baseball player in America in Joe Mauer. He’s a good kid, too. True story. Some group had a special luncheon where the guest of honor was Joe Himself. All ten guests were excited to meet him. If Lindsay Lohan were in the hotel, they wouldn’t have [...]
Late Summer Blues for the New College Grad Job Seeker
At first, you wanted to be a vet. But that one class turned you off, actually, that one teacher. So, you switched to “communications.” The classes were easier it seemed and everything made sense. It was all pretty much common sense and you did well. You studied Facebook (“New Technology and Communications 101″) and you [...]
Is Monster the 8 Track Tape of 2010?
When I was about 22 or so, I had a car with an 8-track tape player. I had a mini-suitcase full of 8 track tapes that held about 20 tapes. It rested on the console, all that music, pre-cassettes and certainly pre-CD’s. Steve Jobs was in high school and ITunes was decades away. Still, in [...]
Rock Stars at 65, 70 and 73
Keith Richards at 65, Do you really think he gets up in the morning, looks in the mirror, and says “Keith, you marvelous looking rock star, don’t you ever die?” He might have already died, don’t you think? Ringo Starr turns 70 today. Tell me he doesn’t look better now than he did in 1964. [...]
Scott Adams and Me: Brothers-in-CFS
You may have read Scott Adams’ post the other day “In Search of Coconut Milk,” where he admits to suffering from CFS (Can’t Find Shit). His story is about his wife sending him to the store for coconut milk. There is not a man in America who can tell you where THAT might be located [...]
Open Jobs, State by State, as of 10 am, CST, 7-1-2010
Thousands of companies have job openings that are never advertised on Monster, Yahoo et al. Estimates are that as many as 70% of the available jobs are NEVER advertised BUT on the company’s own website. State by state, I have created a special list of the open jobs that are right now available. Click on [...]
