TAKK Fyrir! today, i am a very happy little man! Thank you!

„After reviewing all applications, your resume and working experience is especially interesting to us. We therefore would like to welcome you in Iceland, and offer you a volunteer position at the Whale Museum from 1st May – 30th September 2008.“

um mal wieder an den verdammten alchimisten zu denken: „When you want something – the whole universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.“ Nochmal tausend Dank an Marcie und Frank, für die Hilfe beim CV.

seht ihr, das kommt davon wenn man immer brav sein vegemite-sandwich aufisst

„“why bother having a resume?“

„This is controversial, but here goes: I think if you’re remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn’t have a resume at all.

If you don’t have a resume, what do you have?
How about three extraordinary letters of recommendation from people the employer knows or respects?
Or a sophisticated project they can see or touch?
Or a reputation that precedes you?
Or a blog that is so compelling and insightful that they have no choice but to follow up?

Great jobs, world class jobs, jobs people kill for… those jobs don’t get filled by people emailing in resumes. Ever.

weil ich mich gerade mit so einem scheiss rumschlagen sollte, stolperte ich beim live.hacker über den hinweis zu seth godins blog und sein posting zum thema „why bother having a resume?“ – nice!

the day, gary gygax died (and all nerds cry)

he was probably the most influentiel person of my youth: D&D Co-FounderGary Gygax died yesterday as Laughing squid reports

in the 80s and the beginning of the 90s, pen & paper roleplaying-games like D&D, Rolemaster, MERP, Shadowrun or Tabletops like Battletech where, before the rise of the computer and electronic game culture, the official playground for all things nerd.

we gathered together, played and drunk, more chitchat than dice roling, but with a lot of DIY-approach and restless souls, to create characters and worlds. sadly, twenty years later, the kids have no clue, what a TW+3, or 1D20 means. we are old, man! And youth is gone

…D&D was the beginning, WoW is now the end. sleep well, gary!