Oh, here's another work-related story.

I had an interview with some big gaming company, a place I actually interviewed with years ago (something, actually, which is happening quite a lot as I've been interviewing with places I interviewed with years and years ago). Anyways, the place has a huge, huge campus and the recruiter who set up the interview gave me the wrong building. So not only did I get incorrect instructions from Yahoo Maps (the building was way in back, away from the front of entrance and any sign that it was part of said company) but I went to the wrong building. Unfortunately, the campus of the place I was to interview with was huge (HUGE) and as a result, I got lost on the friggin campus and couldn't find the correct building.

Fifteen minutes later and drenched in sweat from frantically running around trying not to be late, I made it to the correct building.

So one of the things about Lost that amazes me is how come none of the castaways have said something like "Jesus Frickin' Christ, out of all the islands we could have landed on, why did we have to land on some crazy-ass island with a smoke monster, some weird science group that is trying to kill us, weird laboratories, and a polar bear on it?"

Anyways, before an interview I actually cut myself shaving. On my lip. First of all, how does one do that? Second of all, OUCH. And naturally, it bled like a mofo so I had to somehow dress all the while trying to keep blood from getting everywhere.

Which I managed to do, thank you very much.

Holy friggin shit, the black guy just might do it. Go, Obama, go!

I would say "yes, we can" right here but I don't want to be that cheesy.

Alright, one job related post, just for the heck of it:

That agency that didn't prepare for me when I went in for an interview? Well, they never returned my emails about the status so I had to hound the person over the phone. Sometimes I'm like that-- if they ain't going to take the trouble of returning calls, then I'm going to make them. Anyways, I got an email from the main person there saying that they decided to go in another direction and so they weren't going to hire for the position.

All things considering, I can see that so I don't think they were BS'ing. Plus, the women sent me an email on saturday night telling me this and I figure if she's emailing me on a work-related issue on a Saturday, there's something seriously going on there.

I actually almost felt like sending her a thank you note just because she took the trouble to email me on a Saturday night.

Since I've heard that this blog has been a bit too depressing lately (and for those who care, the job situation is all good. Also, I haven't felt like writing too much so there's good stuff going on too), here's something I wrote on SFist:

ng the number of beards per customer, multiplying it by the size of the crowd, and then dividing it again by the square footage). The HBQ was not quite Boogaloos high but high nevertheless. We also noticed that there were also a high variety of beards seen, meaning that the beard craze has gone from it's "classic" phase to "gothic" phase.

Like all things hipster, we wondered just how this beard thing works and the meaning of it all. Like, the guy checking IDs at the bar had a very scruffy, mountain man beard that made him look like Zach Galifianakis. Does this make him "hipper" than some dude with just a normal beard just because it was thicker? Is that worth, say, five hipster points on the hipster/coolness scale? And what about the dude we saw riding a bike down 16th street who had some sort of Hasidic Rabbi/Matisyahu thing going? Is that considered the high end of hipsterdom, like fifteen points or twenty, because his beard was way longer than most beards? Would this, then, make him hipper than the guy checking IDs? Then there was another guy at the bar who had a normal looking beard, but topped it off with a Rollie-Fingers style handlebar moustache. How hip would he be considered? Would he be somewhere between the Zach dude and the Matisyahu dude because his beard was normal length or would he be considered hipper because while it is easy to just grow out a beard, doing the handlebar thing takes work and effort?

We could be wrong about all this but our guess was that the handle bar dude was higher on the hipster scale because he was able to attract his faux-mullet wearing, sort of 70's swept-do, girlfriend, Together, they gave off such an aura of hipness that we wanted to stand by them and bask in their hipster, halo-like, aura. We felt cooler just being in the same bar with them. Were these two the offical King and Queen of Hipsterdom? Were they the Patient Zero of hipsterdom, you know the two hipsters in the Mission from which all hipness emanates? Either way, to them we say, well played, hipster couple, well played.

It took us years to figure out how the trucker hat trend worked but unfortunately, we figured it out way after it was trendy. Now that the beard thing is still happening, we'd like to understand it now before it becomes so 2008. Among other things, we want to know if we'd be cooler just by growing a beard. Anyways, can anyone explain all of this to us?

So you know how earlier I said I had a problem with sports shows that had some over-the-top finale by the underdog team that is won with an over-the-top play? That actually kinda described the Superbowl. That play where Eli almost got sacked, then slunk away, then threw that what-the-hell pass that the receiver inexplicably caught was pretty much something you'd only see in those sports movies but never actually see in an actual game.

Except for today.

And as for Tom Petty, he looked a little overwhelmed by performing, which makes some sense as he's not the kind of performer who plays to those kind of big crowds. On the other hand, he's one of the few performers out there anywhere who is in some way pretty much liked by everyone. Not like-like (well, there are a few) but I can't think of many people who don't like him in some way, a pretty rare feat for any musician who's been around for thirty-odd years.

But one thing, though, he played three songs from his one certifiable masterpiece, Full Moon Fever, a disc he actually recorded as a solo artist without the Heartbreakers so I always kind of wondered what the rest of the band felt knowing that he wrote his best stuff without him. The thing about that album, though, is that it doesn't really hold up that well because it was produced by Geoff Lynne who is without a doubt the worst producer to ever set foot in a recording studio- all that cheesy overdubs and fake background singing all edge being whithered away by whimsical cuteness. Listen to that album now-- it doesn't sound right. Which is why I much prefer "Wildflowers" which I think is a brilliant album, albeit a little too long.

Oy, yes, it's twelve and I'm rambling but today got me all riled up.