Andrew Leonard’s review of Diablo II discusses my favorite feature of the game, the fashion show aspect. The game itself is pretty simple, the real challenge is getting enough stuff to make your character look cool and distinct. The fact that your character appears at the bottom of the chat screen when you log into the multiplayer game only makes it more imperative that you find the perfect outfit to send the “I’m a bad ass” message to your fellow players.
Jon Carroll’s column today is about train whistles. I absolutely love train whistles, although I can’t say why. I can remember being up late at night working on various books, and hearing a train whistle far in the distance. It really is an incredibly lonesome sound, and is so particularly for me, because I have to be quiet to hear it. If I’m watching TV, or playing a game, there’s too much noise to hear the trains, but when I was silently working on those books, I could hear them every time. Writing books is really lonely work.
CNet has a good article about bad interviewees. I can tell you that if someone came into my office asking about money rather than the job duties, or behaved rudely, they’d be out of there before they knew what hit them. I really don’t care what people wear, I just expect an interest in the work, and basic courtesy. When I go to job interviews, I wear what I expect to wear to work if I get the job, or more likely, what I wear to my current job. Even if I wanted to wear a coat and tie, dressing up to go to work would be a sure sign that I had an interview somewhere else.
Need more evidence that VeriSign and Network Solutions are stupid, sleazy, and arrogant? This column about the future of Internet addressing. I would put most of the stupidity down to the writer’s ignorance, but fortunately there are direct quotes in the article that betray the utter idiocy of Jim Rutt and Stratton Sclavos (the CEOs of Network Solutions and VeriSign). For more criticism, check out Hack the Planet.