Randomness

[theetruscan]

...and me dada is in the hospital. Pissing blood. How serious is that?

Can be anything from very serious to nothing at all. That's what doctors are for!

[Farkhanyassin]

Well, turns out it's infection of the bladder. Being such a workaholic he forgot to take enough water and ended up dehydrated. The poor guy's admitted for another 48 hours. Cancelling his US trip due this Saturday night. He needs the rest.

[laughed]

got "let go" at work. Fn bs. Time to finally find out what this unemployment payday is all about. had the flu for a week too. the worst part is not being able to crush a couple beers...today's the day to test the drinking beer while sick waters.

[Faust]

/\ I'm sorry to hear that. I've been laid off from two jobs in two years, getting good at this.

[Fade to Black]

heh, never been laid off from a job, mostly because I quit when I sense the heat around the corner

[whitney]

hope you get better soon laughed; and maybe something will turn up, the economy is supposedly turning

i've always held more then one job at a time and even then i always am looking--sometimes applying for fun just to see if i'd get it--surprisingly the small businesses i've worked for has held up a lot better then some of the bigger, corporation type..

[thehouseofdis]

I got laid off over two years ago (the firm I was working at ended up laying off 75% of the staff). As a retail designer the drop in construction really hit me hard. I've heard the design community in Portland was at 30% unemployment.

Based on the number of calls, job postings and interviews I've been on in the past couple of weeks it does appear that things are finally turning around a bit. If I would have realized how unstable the fields on architecture and interior design are, I doubt I would have chosen it for my career path. It's been a brutal decade.

[Faust]

Louis Vuitton set the bar high for its “core values” campaign by casting the likes of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and, more recently, soccer legends Pelé, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane, who appear playing Foosball in a Madrid cafe for the next series, shot by Annie Leibovitz and slated to break in June magazines. Next up is another towering and surprising personality, but one closer to home: Bono. Rumor has it the U2 front man and activist, whose eco-friendly brand Edun is partly owned by Vuitton parent LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, has agreed to appear in the next spots, which trumpet Vuitton’s travel roots and its monogram leather goods. Vuitton declined to comment.

[Farkhanyassin]

Bono Bono Bono

Steve Aoki is in town tonight. Should I go or shouldn't I!

[Bubu]

I got laid off over two years ago (the firm I was working at ended up laying off 75% of the staff). As a retail designer the drop in construction really hit me hard. I've heard the design community in Portland was at 30% unemployment.

Based on the number of calls, job postings and interviews I've been on in the past couple of weeks it does appear that things are finally turning around a bit. If I would have realized how unstable the fields on architecture and interior design are, I doubt I would have chosen it for my career path. It's been a brutal decade.

maybe it's time you be your own boss.

[Sombre]

I went to bed at 10:30 tonight (last night), exhausted from soccer. A mixture of thirst and party girls just woke me up, and now I'm not the least bit tired and can't go back to sleep.

[Faust]

maybe it's time you be your own zboss.

fixed

[Fade to Black]

If I could make a career out of zboss, I'd be in heaven.

[Faust]

I went to bed at 10:30 tonight (last night), exhausted from soccer. A mixture of thirst and party girls just woke me up, and now I'm not the least bit tired and can't go back to sleep.

I was supposed to go today again, but not fully healed yet and don't feel like playing goalie. Brunch and Atelier it is, I guess!

[sam_tem]

i've been enjoying reading the articles coming out against offshore drilling. it's a bit funny actually because the oil companies are just supplying a demand and it's up to the public to cut that demand if they don't like drilling. you can't just tell the gov't to stop offshore drilling unless we're willing to start making some serious lifestyle reductions and at this rate that's never going to happen unless our country goes broke (at which point everyone would be crying for more drilling to fill up the gov't tax coffers anyways). with many oil-rich countries becoming more hostile to foreign companies as they build up their own industry, there is a big risk if we wish to increase our oil dependence on others.

it mostly seems that journalists are just using it as an excuse to push for alternative energy, but we have to remember that the viability of that industry is still being subsidized (by taxes on oil companies most likely) so at this point the two must co-exist with each other for the foreseeable future. the costs for alternative energy to replace offshore drilling couldn't even be estimated at this point and i can't imagine any country will have the money to make a complete shift within the next 20 years. even then, a country will have to decide on the environment versus economic growth which impacts human lives as well.

it's also nice to see that when people try to list all these huge disasters in the industry that they all happened back in the 80's when the industry had collapsed and everything was underfunded. i can assure you that no other sector of the construction industry spends as much money to make sure that safety is a core value throughout the entire supply chain than the oil & gas industry. It's still a lot safer than similar industries such as logging and mining.