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Johnny The Paperboy
“Four weeks, twenty papers, that’s two dollars. Plus tip.” – Johnny The Paperboy, Better Off Dead There are certain things that make me sit back and really wonder what has happened to people over the course of their lives. For all of my ranting about how dumb people can be, I actually try and be…
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Don’t Be That Guy – Mister Magoo
“If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank. Those of you around my age probably remember the old Mister Magoo cartoons. The lovable old guy voiced by Jim Backus (aka “Mister Howell”, the millionaire from Gilligan’s Island) who was severely shortsighted…
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Don’t Be That Guy – Baron Von Shush
“I don’t know WHAT that was…but it wasn’t a ITintheD.com event” – Recruiter, during an email exchange about the event in Flint I wasn’t going to write this. We chatted briefly, and decided that the event in Flint was best handled like a blind date gone horribly awry – take the lessons learned (there are plenty) from…
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Don’t Be That Guy – The Bad Recruiter
“Every man should have the last word when arguing with his wife. In fact, he should have the last two words. And they should always be ‘Yes, dear’ or ‘I’m sorry’, trust me on this one.” – Advice from my grandfather “It’s only a mistake if you do the same thing twice. You get to…
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Not Necessarily The News
“If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank. “I regret that, in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn’t make them stick. We couldn’t find a way to pass them on to another generation, really.” – Walter Cronkite It’s probably…
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Witty Title Guy
“…A walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” -Macbeth I knew it would come to this. We’ve become the assassins of the IT industry. People are too…
