Silicon Valley is horrible shit
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who the hell is Cliff anyway?
He is a guy with a short attention span who did not like writing book reports.
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Wasn't he the guy with a seagull on his head?
Are you thinking of Heathcliff?
"Gertrude and Heathcliff, the Two Seagulls", which he performed by crossing his eyes and sticking his thumbs into his armpits for "wings".
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He is a guy with a short attention span who did not like writing book reports.
Given the number of them that he wrote, I suspect at least one of your assertions is incorrect.
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Maybe he didn't like other people writing book reports?
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Are you thinking of Heathcliff?
All kidding aside, if you don't have something like "Ability to quickly research new topics and drill them down to the most pertinent information" on your resume, you are skipping over an extremely valuable skill.
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All kidding aside, if you don't have something like "Ability to quickly research new topics and drill them down to the most pertinent information" on your resume, you are skipping over an extremely valuable skill.
Thanks. That's a very good point. My resume does need some work, and I will be sure to add that.TBH, though, most of the times I'm really successful at it, the topic isn't really new. In that case, I knew exactly what to Google. Thought process went something like, "That seems familiar ... comedian, seagull ... What was the name? ... Heathcliff ... Red Skelton. Open new window. 'red skelton heathclif Enter' " (Yeah, I realized I tyoped it as I hit Enter, but Google found it anyway. How about that?) Most of the time was spent exploring the search results to find something suitable to link1 or paste here. My head is filled with a lifetime accumulation of mostly-useless trivia like that I can sometimes dredge up to do something somewhat useful with. That one was pretty easy, because it wasn't buried too deeply. (In fact, my monitor is sitting on a TV cart (and I'm being lazy on the futon) that has a couple of Red Skelton DVDs literally 3 inches from my leg.)
It's still a valuable skill, though, and I appreciate your pointing it out. I don't always recognize the "soft" skills that I have.
1I would have liked to link a video, but the first result wasn't a particularly good example (a fair bit of it was OOC recovering from a joke that fell flat, and the audio level was so low it was hard to even hear the jokes), the second wasn't "Gertrude and Heathcliff" ("Pledge of Allegiance" ), and the rest were a present-day impersonator (not bad, but not the original).
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TBH, though, most of the times I'm really successful at it, the topic isn't really new.
That is beside the point though. Unless you go in a completely different direction in your career, you will most likely still have some familiarity with the subject. You seem to have a knack for such things. Even if you mostly use the skill for being pendantic on here. ;-)
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My head is filled with a lifetime accumulation of mostly-useless trivia like that I can sometimes dredge up to do something somewhat useful with.
Why are you calling my head your head?
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I think my head has probably been accumulating trivia longer than yours has.
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I think you should make another 574 posts about head-trivia in the silicon valley thread. Why not.
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This will be the 61st (undeleted, unmoved) post in this topic, assuming nobody else posts before I submit this. @Polygeekery @mentioned me in post 44, which was on-topic; my response is 46. So, at most 16 posts have been off-topic as a result of anything I posted. However, I am more than happy to end this sub-thread and let the discussion continue on the original subject, if anyone has anything further to say about it.
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Instead, some silicon valley trivia!
Q: Where did the name Silicon Valley originate?
A: It was coined in 1971 by journalist Don Hoefler, who was famous for his newsletter Microelectronics News. Hoefler was often found at the Wagon Wheel gathering information for his stories.Q: Which city served as California’s first state capital?
A: San Jose. In 1849, the first legislative session was held in San Jose in a two-story adobe hotel no more than 40x60 feet during one of the wettest winters on record. Due to the inclement weather and less than ideal accommodations, the lawmakers resorted to spending most of their time in the local saloons giving this session the name “Legislature of 1,000 drinks.” Because of this poor experience, the capital was moved to Vallejo the following year and then permanently to Sacramento in 1854.Q: Prior to the 1906 earthquake, how tall was the Winchester mystery house?
A: Seven stories. It contained 160 rooms, 47 fireplaces, 10,000 window panes, 17 chimneys and three elevators.Exciting!
Source: http://www.7x7.com/arts-culture/silicon-valley-trivia
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: Prior to the 1906 earthquake, how tall was the Winchester mystery house?A: Seven storie
AND AFTERWARDS? THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME!
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Indeed. I don't remember. I've only been there once, when I was 10, long before I lived in the area. It's one of those things for tourists only; the locals would just as soon forget it exists.
Edit: Wikipedia says four stories.
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I think you should make another 574 posts about head-trivia in the silicon valley thread. Why not.
That sounds like a plan, but 574 seems a tad high. At most, we could probably come up with about 300.
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Instead, some silicon valley trivia!
Thank you for the history lesson. ...but I hates history, ...sorry I'll be quiet now.
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On the OP topic, I don't think it's bad per se for them to look for people as crazy as them. I mean, I wouldn't even think about living there (I'm a fairly quiet person and a nice neighbor and even I can cross off a few items from their "no" list).
It's one thing to make fun of them, another thing entirely to get outraged by it.
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another thing entirely to get outraged by it.
Are we not supposed to get outraged at everything now? I didn't get the memo.
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..but I hates history
Nice start on the Gollum impression. Needs more "we".
Overall, 6.4/10
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Blakeyrat's umpteenth law or something?
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Blakeyrat's umpteenth law or something?
I usually go with "umptieth" in that type of statement. The problem with "umpteenth" is it sort of implies there might be less than twenty.
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since the number changes week to week, it seems unlikely that there are more than three standing rules at any one time.