Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz looks like an alien.

That is all.

I <3 Huckabee?

I'm rather surprised that I find myself typing this, but I like Mike Huckabee. This might perplex anyone who knows my political leanings don't exactly coincide with his (to say the least); in fact, it's safe to say that I find some of his views, particularly his views on gay marriage, to be entirely offensive. Nevertheless, I can't help but feel that Mike Huckabee is a genuinely nice guy. Here's an interview he did on the Daily Show last week:

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Part 3

It makes me sort of sad that honesty and the ability to carry on a civil, reasoned debate is so rare in a politician that it's such a pleasant surprise to find one that holds to those ideals. Even someone who's just so damn wrong.

Japan is Mocking Us

So I was being followed by a car today, a Toyota FJ Cruiser, I believe it's called. If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's a big SUV-y thing, looks kinda like a Hummer but brighter and less angular. It was raining today, so it had its wipers on, and I noticed it had three wipers, as opposed to the traditional two. And I realized that I can't take a car with three windshield wipers seriously. Once you've made a car so big it requires an extra wiper, it becomes a parody of itself. The car ("car") has crossed over from "big" into "ridiculous." So I got to thinking, maybe Toyota did it on purpose. Some Japanese engineer says to himself, "Americans like big cars? Well, I'm going to build the most ridiculously large car I can think of. It's going to be so big, it'll need three goddamn windshield wipers." Except we didn't get the joke. We already had the Hummer, an armored troop transport that someone thought would not at all be a silly way to transport the kids to school. You can't parody that. So somewhere in Japan there's an engineer laughing at us, and the only evidence of it is that one silly extra wiper.

Online Job Applications, They Suck.

I have a message for any company that forces job applicants to go through an online application process:

Stop it.

I never thought I'd long for days when pen and paper was the norm, but you've turned what should be a simple and straightforward task into the most convoluted and poorly designed process I've ever encountered.

I like pen and paper applications because, on the whole, they look as though they've been designed by someone with a functioning left brain hemisphere (that's the logic and language one, FYI) instead of the result of a 6-year-old with ADD trying his hand at web page design.

Seriously. Hire a web page designer. Give me enough space in a text field to enter a coherent answer. Don't make me take a 100+ question personality test, especially if you're only going to put one question on a page at a time. For that matter, don't make me press the next button after every question I answer or piece of information I enter. And here's a crazy thought, have a tester actually try to use your application process before casting it off into the ether that is the Internet. If they haven't clawed out their own eyes, trashed their own computer in frustration or simply passed out from the tedium before they're done, then you know you've got a winner.