I came into my office on Monday to find some materials from my Intel days had fallen off my bookcase onto my desk. I have an interview to conduct today so I'm reorganizing the desk mess to look like an organized person. So I flipped through the old Intel ParAide: The Parallel Integrated Development Environment leaflet. Ooo, there was a picture of my boss at Intel, Judy Guist. I did a quick Google search (sorry MSN) and came across this article: GAL Twirler Feature Story - December 2005

And there's Judy's picture at the bottom!

So Elisa and I went to go see Brokeback Mountain this past weekend. It was at one of my favorite nearby theaters (well, now nearby since we're not in the middle of BFE). It's a fine cowboy movie. Once I saw coyotes I was really hoping to see some coyotes go to heaven. Tails. All I got were tails.

I could have dealt with a little bit of romance. All the relationships in the story seemed so doomed and broken, except maybe the relationship Ennis has with his daughter... mostly thanks to his daughter.

When I was younger, I liked my films dark and full of angst about the human condition. After having lived a few more years on this earth and getting to experience my own darkest moments of the soul, I don't seek out films about other people's failings near as much. So, I can't imagine standing to see Brokeback a second time.

Same thing with Capote. I enjoyed it (a lot more than Brokeback) but there wasn't anything rewarding in seeing it other than to appreciate the experience.

Wow, it's interesting to read about other people having the same reaction to When Interviews Go Bad on The Daily Show: Presentation Zen: Pitching in the "no-spin era". I watched this with Elisa and it was just painful

Jon and Torie just weren't communicating very well at all. Near the end of the interview, I remember Mr. Stewart saying something like, "Okay, I think we've made it past the cover page!"

All I can say is that it reminds of the days when I presented to a group of people way more than I do nowadays. Sometimes, I'd get an obtuse hard-to-understand just what the heck the person was asking kind of question. My crude attempts to do some active listening to replay back to them what I understood their question to be usually resulted in frustrated "Oh, never mind" from them.