Month: January 2008

Sorry, Right Number

I think, at some point early in my job search a couple years ago, I added my resume to Monster.com. This was almost definitely a mistake. What I’m wondering, though, is why all the spammers, scammers, and fake job fair people are picking now to crawl out of the woodwork and call me.

Randomosity

Here’s how this works. I post these:

  1. “Doctor Robert” by the Beatles, guessed by Eric
    You’re a new and better man
  2. “The Jealous Kind” by Joe Cocker
    Don’t be angry if I seem rude
  3. “Rain King” by Counting Crows, guessed by Kim
    I belong in the service of the queen
  4. “Journey Through the Past” by Neil Young, guessed by Eric
    Now I’m going back to Canada
  5. “Low Place Like Home” by Sneaker Pimps
    You talked it over from your bedroom throne
  6. “Black Hole Sun” by Soundgarden, guessed by Eric
    And I’ll hear you scream again
  7. “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” by John Lennon, guessed by Eric
    I hope you have fun
  8. “Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind” by the Lovin’ Spoonful, guessed by Eric
    There’s so many changes and tears you must hide
  9. “Still the Same” by Bob Seger, guessed by Kim
    You’re still damn good, no one’s gotten to you yet
  10. “I Want Tomorrow” by Enya
    They came before me, those men from the sun

And you guess the songs that they’re taken from. Easy as that. Here’s how it played out last week.

As always, best of luck!

Bond issues

Quantum of Solace? Who’s in charge of naming these things?

Oh, wait. Apparently, that was Ian Fleming’s original title. It’s one of the short stories in his collection For Your Eyes Only. According to the Sci Fi Wire, the new movie “picks up where 2006’s Casino Royale left off,” but that doesn’t seem possible if they’re actually adapting the story — which, according to Wikipedia, “is not a spy story and Bond appears only in the background.” If they’re not adapting it, and they’re just adopting the next available name in the Bond franchise — after skipping over six other novels that have already been adapted…well, why bother? If you’re coming up with a new plot, and it’s Quantum of Solace in title only, why not just come up with a new and better title altogether?

Maybe it’s just me, but Quantum of Solace seems sort of lame.

Ledger, Gilliam

Man, Terry Gilliam just can’t catch a break:

The future of Terry Gilliam’s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus has been thrown into question following the sudden death of its star Heath Ledger, Variety reported.

I’m not trying to make light of Ledger’s untimely and shocking death — unlike, maybe, some people — but Gilliam has probably had more projects fall apart during or before production than any other director I know. The closest thing he’s ever had to a hit was over ten years ago.

Speaking of Gilliam, though, it somehow managed to escape my attention that PythOnline is back and completely new. In the sidebar, Eric Idle writes:

As founder of this virtual organ I feel like the father of a gifted idiot – I can no longer remember the act of passion that created it, but I’m glad that it still persists. I don’t want to look after it, or feed it, or wipe its little butt, but I do admire its refusal to go away.