2010-03-05 15:18:26 // The Operator
Interview questions span the intractable, the thoughtless, and the inane – test some skills to find out if a candidate can do the job… the interview only tests patience and personality.
Human Resources Drone versus The Operator
How would you move Mt. Fuji?
Subcontract fissible material disposal to a third-rate Ukrainian outfit after bribing officials to secure disposal rights under a program with an innocent-sounding name like “Mount Fuji Waste Reclamation and Beautification Initiative”, dispatch a black-ops merc team with a warhead for wetwork once enough of the material’s buried on-site, nuke the fucker, blame the subcontractor, and mandate cultural sensitivity training across the organization after our PR team spins up a campaign about it not being as-bad because the reconstruction has created new jobs for local economies or at least what’s left of them… Oh, sorry, thought you said “remove”.
What is your greatest strength?
You have no business interviewing me if you can’t figure that one out – and if you believe anything I tell you, they should just take you out back and shoot you right now before you embezzle company funds in response to a Nigerian 419 scam. Bullshit question. You should be fired. Next.
What is your greatest weakness?
Another bullshit question? … but I’ll play along. I don’t work well with groups unless I’m in charge of ‘em… and then I’ll bleed each and every member of my team dry until they’ve scraped together enough sweet-smelling shit to net me a promotion; when they screw up, I’ll fire off any of the ones who would finger me and keep the drones. Lather, rinse, repeat.
We’d be honored to have you on-board here at the . You’re hired.
Great. Hello, security? I need this man removed from the premises.
Fuck the popularity contest – pay me, I’ll be your slave for a while.
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2010-03-04 09:45:45 // The Operator
2010-03-04 09:19:41 // The Operator
2010-03-04 04:50:20 // The Operator
2010-03-03 04:07:30 // The Operator
Walls
Table
Shadows and cats
Green eyes
Many eyes
Millionfold eyes
The woman
Nervous scattered cravings
Inflamed life
Swollen lamps
Dancing shadow
Little shadow
Great shadow
THE SHADOW
Oh—the leap over the shadow
It tortures [me] this shadow
It martyrs [me] this shadow
It devours me this shadow
What desires this shadow
Cocain
Outcry
Animals
Blood
Alcohol
Pains
- Kokain by Sebastian Droste
from Empire of Ecstasy
You can probably survive for: a week without food, a few days without water, a few minutes without air.
If addiction is the easily-subverted basis for perpetuating life, what would happen if you quit everything – the cocaine, the heroin, the marijuana, the sex, the religion, the television, the dreams, the hope, the love, the ego, and the pursuit of happiness?
… and could you survive having everything that you desire?
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2010-02-17 05:22:13 // The Operator
I enjoy Don Peck’s attempt at capturing the zeitgeist of the American empire’s decline – the article over at The Atlantic Online includes more than a few choice observations and anecdotal truisms for a generation losing its grasp on the American Dream and its alternately apathetic and unprepared antecedents:
Some neighbors were at the Walmart a couple of weeks ago, he said, and he rang up their purchase. “Maybe they were used to seeing me in a different setting,” he said—in a suit as he left for work in the morning, or walking the dog in the neighborhood. Or “maybe they were daydreaming.” But they didn’t greet him, and he didn’t say anything. He looked down at his soup, pushing it around the bowl with his spoon for a few seconds before looking back up at me. “I know they knew me,” he said. “I’ve been in their home.”
- How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America
by Don Peck for The Atlantic Online
March 2010
Economic Recession as Vampiric Entity
How does one invite such malaise? The boom years, the lives unexamined, the wrong prescription, and complacency.
Will the ignorance and susceptibility to manipulation cultivated in the US population finish sucking the value out of the dollar and lead the country to the relative wasteland of a developing nation?
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2010-02-15 06:17:25 // The Operator
2010-02-13 23:43:13 // The Operator
Now with more somnambulism!
Ideas rattling around in my skull…
Hypothesis: Intestinal flora imbalances cultured with refined foods are a basis for systemic failure in the human body (there is already plenty of flim-flam out on the ‘net to this effect)
Project: Intricate wood-burning project involving ouroboros design, ceramic inlay, complicated system of gears which slowly changes the color of the snake’s scales and segments to indicate time (fun!)
Systems: Security profiling suite (rootkit, antivirus, user authentication and process profiling) to append to existing infrastructure, integrate with network hardware for covert channel detection (far too much work but it’d be fun nonetheless)
Recipe: Discovered a combination of black bean soup and canned soup which has the color, consistency, and (for the most part) taste of bacon gravy (MAD SCIENCE SUCCESS!)
Project: Should I be making T-shirts? If I were making T-shirts, what would I be making? Probably some really offensive designs… (yes, it’s always a good time to sell out)
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2010-02-13 02:16:31 // The Operator
2010-02-12 17:07:59 // The Operator
If you want to be happy, you must be a happiness machine.
- The Operator
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