{"id":96,"date":"2002-05-30T07:26:54","date_gmt":"2002-05-30T11:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/spaceman_and_girl"},"modified":"2002-05-30T07:26:54","modified_gmt":"2002-05-30T11:26:54","slug":"spaceman_and_girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2002\/05\/spaceman_and_girl.html","title":{"rendered":"Spaceman and Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day my little sister had her first professional modeling job.  It was a photo shoot for a print ad for <a href=\"http:\/\/encarta.msn.com\/\" title=\"Microsoft's encyclopedia software\">Microsoft Encarta<\/a>.  They shot the whole thing in the Powell street BART station, and the roles in the shoot were:  Spaceman #1, Spaceman #2, Spaceman #3&#8230; and Girl.  I think we&#8217;re all going to have to trust that those ad wizards at Microsoft know what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m naturally very proud of Sarah, and it looks like she will soon be appearing in a major Magazine Near You. As for how <em>my<\/em> life is going, I got a flat tire last night.  Maybe there&#8217;s only so much karma to go around in one family?<\/p>\n<p>I had been talking about blogs recently, and I thought I would mention one here that I really like:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconvalley.com\/mld\/siliconvalley\/business\/columnists\/gmsv\/\" title=\"Mercury News 'irreverent' tech blog\">Good Morning Silicon Valley<\/a>, by John Paczkowski of the San Jose Mercury News.  It&#8217;s one of those &#8220;mostly-links&#8221; blogs &#8212; the commentary is essentially the titles and the links themselves.  I have to give Paczkowski some credit for creativity in this department.  You would think he would get bored &#8212; after all, how many variations are there on saying, &#8220;Company X lays off Y people&#8221;?  Well, let us count the ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IBM layoffs actually &#8220;job resource action&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>HP messes with Texas<\/li>\n<li>Reason for leaving last job: &#8220;workforce rebalancing&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s raining SBC employees<\/li>\n<li>7,000+ careers to be claimed in freak IBM workforce rebalancing<\/li>\n<li>1,100+ Genuity employees released into wild<\/li>\n<li>2,000 JDSU employees to adapt to challenging marketplace<\/li>\n<li>Sun to 1,000 employees: &#8220;What color is your parachute?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Third prize is: you&#8217;re fired<\/li>\n<li>Worldcom to declare employee surplus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just in the last couple of months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we&#8217;re all going to have to trust that those ad wizards at Microsoft know what they&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}