Mood:
cheekyTopic: I can has topik?
Did I mention yesterday that I had an earache? I did. I felt like a three year old because toddlers get at least five earaches a year. So I had a terrible earache in the morning. By about three in the afternoon I realized I had an earache because I was coming down with a cold. So this morning, I have a cold. Not too bad, yet. Dave has a cold, too. He has a co-worker who is off because she had a cold and then developed complications. So in the interest of not getting bronchitis, I will take the next couple days easy and try to recover from this cold. I still have the earache, too.
It's leap day! Here's a brief history of leap day, complete with something about Julius Caesar and Cleopatra and how their affair is responsible somehow for the extra day in February, and why it's also such a short month. I dunno, I've never been able to sit through that whole movie, it's about five hours too long and about ten times too over acted and way too bloated for its own good.
I cut out my purple fabric after testing the design in muslin. It looks quite nice and it will look good with the blouse and bags I made. The bengaline has a wonderful drape that gets softer every time it's washed. I washed it several times to remove the stiffening that was in it, and I noticed that washing improved the fabric. So I will post a picture of the design when the sketch is coloured and the pencil lines erased.
Every once in a while our local newspaper publishes a story that ends up in one of those "stupid headline" aggregator, or there will be a line in a story that is poorly researched or poorly worded and inadvertently funny. Once again they have a story with an inadvertently funny paragraph. I will give the record credit, it's merely quoting someone else, so the stupidity is not theirs. This time. The story is an interview with someone from Monster.com, the guys who were trying to hijack all my open browser tabs with their pop-ups. I hate them. They are notorious for third and fourth party tracking cookies trying to insert themselves on the computer merely by going to a page with a monster ad on it. But that's not the stupid part.
The stupid part is when this so called expert talks about the hiring practices of many businesses. He says, and I quote:
many employers still take the same passive, old-school approach to the recruitment process, he said.
When they have a job, they simply post it on an online job board or company website, and hope the best talent will come to them.
Back in the 1960s, that worked, "but those days are gone," he said
here's a link to the story with the quote. Uhhhh...websites? online job board? In the sixties? what else is this guy clueless about? I remember computers in the sixties, those mainframes were horrible web servers...no. There was no web back in the sixties! There were no BBS's for that matter. There were mainframes and to get data from one computer to the other you had to use big hard disks the size of truck tires(that maybe held 1KB) paper tape, or punch cards. Damn, the internet was slow back then, you had to snail mail you e-mail, install the hard disk in the reader and then run it through the main frame and then place all the punch cards it spit out in the...you get the idea. Perhaps a well worded and well researched e-mail should alert these people to the error of their ways. I have the Wayback Machine's archive of the first true http posting bookmarked and it's 1992. The date is on the top of the page. I'm looking at it now and it's not very impressive, just plain text with blue underlined links. it's a very basic blog entry.
And that's all for today. My nose in running and my ear feels funny. I think I'll go and plant my butt on a chair and do nothing but draw. It requires little in the way of physical effort and I still accomplish a lot! I think I will also place my little box of lettuce and spinach seedlings beside me so I will have something living and green beside me. And That's all for today!
