American Football.

I just cant take a liking to this game even after being here for close to 6 years. I have tried to watch it friends and take an interest but to no avail.

First of all, there is so little continuity in the game ( unlike say compared to soccer). Secondly it seems to me that this game requires more of brute force than skill. Someone who has a lot of skill in say dodging and catching the ball would still be not able to make it big. One can argue that most games today require a lot more power than the yesteryears eg tennis etc but nevertheless I think the skill ratio is lacking in this game. A small guy like Pele can become a soccer superstar but he would be severley punished in american football ( And I hate to type american before football so that I dont call it just 'football' ).

Thirdly there is too much of attitude display in the game and players are constantly indulging in physical "embraces" even when the game is not in play. Guess thats in the nature of the game.

There are more of these, but right now its time to get back to work..

Imagemakers

Saw this program on KQED. Its a collection of short movies. I just managed to see a couple:
Zen and the Art of Landscaping and

The Last Attack of the Beast

Both were amazing short movies. They are 15-20 minute movies but its amazing how much you can put in that small a time frame. I actually liked the later a lot. Cool plot. And while reading about it on KQED I came upon this thought muncher: When you're the only one around, do right and wrong exist? Hmmm....

Do see it if you get a chance.

Interviewing

So, my project got canned at the company where I work.

Lots of interviewing in the past week. It sucks. What should one judge a prospective employee on?

So I am being asked all these specific questions about my knowledge in computer languages/operating systems. Who remembers all those minute details anyways ? What the hell is google for ? Agreed, you need some amount of proficiency with the fundamentals but drilling it down to minute syntax and other stuff.. gimme a break!

After one of these interviews, I had an idea ( just a little late as always) to ask the interviewers back some well prepared tricky technical questions to judge how smart they actually were ( after all one needs to know how smart a group he is gonna be working with). Next time.

So far I had only one good interviewer. He tested the fundamentals for sure. Went over each and every thing I had written in my resume ( Got to be careful with all the crap I write in the skills section). But he was more interested in how was reasoning, attacking problems on the fly etc. We interviewed for around one and a half hours but it was nice to be interviewed by a guy who knows how to evaulate potential.

Or maybe I am just cribbing coz I dont interview well and just cant remember the details well enough.

But then again, those who dont crib dont have a life...