All the week’s briefs that are fit to tweet:

Travel

• thinking about trips to Rio, Buenos Aires, Vancouver & Melbourne. Someday! #
• See Resume, See Door, See Applicant Run: why really stupid crap from recruiters should make you stand your ground or walk http://bit.ly/NsjC #

Career

• got email request from the joint chiefs of me at day job for my delivering training to the Bangkok office via web. Would prefer miles or OT. #
• with the market being what it is, it will be another destination on my resume of cities where I will have trained and coordinated training. #
• At an ILTA lunch meeting regarding Office 2007 in law firms. The meeting is in Microsoft HQ in downtown Los Angeles. #

Around Town

• at the Griddle Cafe for a quick breakfast before work with Dad. Slow service & empty. Staff was with police because of attempted robbery. #
• Brought out the space heater & turned it on. Layered another coverlet on bed. Wrapped myself tightly. Realized winter is early this year. #
• the construction going on inside the new Kitson store on Melrose is going fast. Pretty soon there will be more celebs & even less parking. #
• meeting my Dad for breakfast which I’m doing a lot since he moved out. He used to meet me for Chex before work when he was my age. #
• Three piece string band playing Oasis on Canon Doctor in Beverly Hills outside Crate & Barrell. Very cool! #
• Another three piece band, but jazz on Canon Drive in Beverly Hills across the street from the Gap. Badges show it’s a Beverly Hills effort. #
• Left a happy hour party with major food at McCormick & Schmick’s in Beverly Hills. Beggar woman asked for cash or food. I gave her 20 wings. #
• in Los Angeles it’s 55 F in the shade & 60 F in the sun. Didn’t wear a jack walking to lunch so staying on the sunny side of the street! #

Television

• CNN: Bush kisses Streisand during hug. She didn’t barf, so it looks like he went back for seconds on the lips. She bent back to get away. #
• decided not to go to CPK for lunch today. Sliding glass door opening into the bar area would have effectively meant air conditioning. Not! #
• BSG returns in 5 weeks. BSG Webisodes available at mobile.scif.com/bsg & scifi.com. #
• watching Heroes. The cheerleaders parents really, really look 16 years younger with the time travel. Is there a 1 day botox? Can I get some? #
• seeing there’s a plot point on Heroes for a Japanese dish — tamogayaki, I had to wikipedia it because it might be delicious to try it soon. #

Blogosphere / Twitter / Social Networks

• sweet compliment tonight on my Tweets / Facebook updates. Friend said she had a rough day, read my parasailing drag queen update & laughed. #
• seeing Magilla Gorilla, reading Sookie Stackhouse #4, sipping iced tea & eating habanero mango chicken chilli at the Griddle Cafe with Dad. #
• I’ve been going through recent followers. One has a blog post with this line: Innuendos of whoredom and fornication can be seen everywhere! #
• Reading an article called RSS: Really Simply Shallow (against RSS feed reading). If you read blogs a lot, do you agree? http://bit.ly/NQY3 #
• Mobile Facebook Tip: when friends’ updates merit a yap, don’t Wall — use Facebook’s mobile site & Comment. More fun to join commentary. #
• Petty or not? Debating unfollowing two people recently added on Twitter have humongous avatars when viewed from TinyTwitter. #
• Can updates be bitchy? Default MySpace update: “is in your extended network.” I changed it to NOT & appended “spends more time on Facebook.” #
• have decided just today to auto-follow everyone who follows me after reading @guykawasaki ‘s post. Saw him speak when I was 13 & he’s great. #
• Noticing that on Twitter, Direct Messages arrive much faster by text than by email. Sometimes 10-60 minutes faster! #
• my aunt sent me an email urging women to wash new bras because of flesh eating bacteria. Thanks, great way to finish breakfast! #
• I’ve spent 62940 Seconds or 1049 Minutes or 17.48 Hours or .73 Days with 2098 Tweets on Twitter! Grandma did more. http://tweetwasters.com #

Marriage Equality

• U.S. Supreme Court lets stand VA ruling enforcing Vermont court order awarding child-visitation rights to a lesbian mom. http://bit.ly/17wYs #
• Blame The Gays: NY Senate Deal DEAD, Anti-Gay Dems Cut Off
  http://tinyurl.com/5ejovz #
• I agree, INNUENDOS of whoredom and fornication are bad. Let’s trade them in for the real, unvarnished and indisguised things. Praise Jesus! #
• my new favorite Twitterfriend is @wshakespeare — the Bard shows 140 characters are enough for immortality several times a day! #
• wondering if anyone on the web has done a cost benefit analysis of buying an XM portable device for car & home versus iPhone & Pandora. #
• Joe the Plumber: McCain appalled me – & Joe dumbfounded us. We found him, he was dumb.
  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16385.html #
• only 1 present from an employer says, “I love when you’re alert.” A Starbucks gift card. Addict of tea with soy, so bribed into alacrity! #

Technology

• If you’re looking for a new WordPress theme, this article has 70 Free or Premium Themes: http://bit.ly/M2tn #
• Watching a movie in a bar without sound. Computers are important to the plot. DOS! Looks like 1909. Should have used Macintoshes! #
• thinking that Twitter & Facebook updates are a modern day miracle connecting us with very dear friends who we might not see everyday. #
• just started making plans with a friend to catch up after the holidays, which means next year! Where did 2008 go? Whoosh! And… scene. #
• reading How Twitter’s competitors do what it doesn’t http://bit.ly/kLVn #
• noticing the guy in front of me at the lunch meeting has on his BlackBerry home screen an image of someone else’s butt crack. #
• Exxon has gas for $1.79 in West Hollywood. Feels like time travel or mental regression for suppressed memories. #
• When you allow people to text you from your website, you know that you’re a texting ho! http://www.BriefEpisode.com #
• made an offer on a domain for $125 earlier this week. Still haven’t heard back. Kinda hoping no news is great news. #
• Steeling myself for meeting when I walk in the door. Settling details for my working with translator in Bangkok for remote Thai trainees. #
• Ex-Mormon Jon Powell calls on musicians & artists to stop licensing their work to groups associated with the LDS Church. http://bit.ly/sUTo #

Celebrity

• Sexy S&M pin-up star Betty Page dies in LA at 85. Many great pics on the web. Search results in this link may be NSFW. http://bit.ly/EeMi #
• After midnight it’s so hard to decide anything. Go home? Sober up & sleep it off? Have one more? Grav tacos? Hot dogs with bacon? Decisions! #
• I like your turn of phrase, news from noise. Sometimes news feels like noise, though! @Scobleizer #
• Read 83 Must Read Articles for Bloggers http://bit.ly/2Dk8 — I’m finding interesting new blogs to explore by looking at theme gallery pages. #
• OMG!!! http://www.GetSnuggie.com commercial for a blanket with sleeves commercial. Family roasting marshmallows looks like a monastery of monks! #
• Looks like the Museum of Television & Radio in Beverly Hills was bought out or renamed as the Paley Center for Media. Ending of an era? #
• Seeing new Doritos Collisions: zesty taco & chiptole ranch released when I just conquered my nacho cheese flavor addiction. Must. Not. Try! #
• At Hollywood & Highland, an arrangement of flowers stands on the star of Beverly Garland. Wonder who she was & if it’s her birthday. #
• Sipping a cosmo & watching a movie with a very young Alan Alda. Waaay before MASH. He looks very cute! And there’s an adorable dog, too! #
• Oprah’s in the news, confessing she has weight problems, it’s up & down for 20 years. Hello? Think we didn’t notice? We just didn’t care. #

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Breanne Potter over at the Brazen Careerist network has a gripe about job applicants who write “see resume” on forms:

On an application, never write the words “See Resume.” If I wanted to look at another piece of paper I wouldn’t have requested the information on the application. I may have a good reason for wanting the information written in your own handwriting (i.e. background check paperwork) or I may not (I’m crazy like that). Either way, if you want the job- when a recruiter says jump you say how high! The underlying impression I get if you act like filling out paperwork is a bother is that my efforts are not worth your time. I worked my bootie off for a star candidate, and I expect nothing less in return!

This is in her list of 15 things from inside the mind of a hard core recruiter.

I couldn’t disagree more. Here’s why:

• any recruiter who insists on the same information written in multiple spots in a job application above and beyond the resume is not working her “bootie off.”
• any recruiter who can’t flip to the resume with the answer probably isn’t smart enough to get great placements
• any recruiter who insists (or simply believes) that demonstrably working hard is highly important in the interview process is the kind of recruiter who probably doesn’t understand the kind of working culture where results are rewarded, regardless of face time for work
• any recruiter who disparages an applicant for filling out forms isn’t hungry enough to make it in sales

A real life story:

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I did contract work.  Registering with a recruiter is a tedious process.  I probably have dyscalculia but definitely am mathphobic and after taking my distribution requirements in college for math and doing well, I promised myself never to take another math test again.

At the recruiter’s office, they had a dumb test: spelling, filing, and math.  I did the spelling, the filing, and left the math questions blank.

The receptionist told me to fill out the math test.  I told her I wasn’t interested in any placements requiring math skills. She said I couldn’t meet with the recruiter until I’d filled out all the forms. The recruiter came out and asked what the problem was.

I told the recruiter that any job that requires I fill out a math test is a place I don’t want to work, and any recruiter that required I fill out the forms is a recruiter I don’t want to work with.

The recruiter looked at my resume, saw where I’d worked in New York (all Fortune 500 companies) and the kinds of skills I’d demonstrated and she decided that the dumb test was pretty dumb because she could place me right away.

And she did.

[Full disclosure: I identify as ENFP on the MBTI and Breanne identifies as ISTJ, for those who know or care about such things.]

[Images by SocialISBetter via Flickr under a Creative Commons License.]

Amazon Wish List Options

Remember how a little while back the blogosphere was abuzz about FaceBook’s efforts with Beacon?

Like this article about How Facebook Ruined Christmas:

A group of irked Facebook members filed a class-action lawsuit against Facebook Tuesday that said the company’s controversial Beacon advertising program violates several laws, including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), and the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA).

I was updating my Amazon Wishlist for a secret Santa exchange, and I noticed that there was a new column for whether an item in the wish list had been purchased.  Everything was marked Hidden.  I clicked on the Hidden and the options above appeared.

How thoughtful! Amazon does right in so many ways.  And the ways it does wrong I haven’t been noticing, if there are any.