I don’t know if I am committing some huge nerd gaffe by liking Breville, but I am continually impressed by their products. I adore my Breville espresso maker. On a good day, I pull shots almost as good as what I pay $3.00 for at Cento.
“This letter is too well written.” He fiddle with the pen as he read.
“I’m sorry?” I must have misheard. This wasn’t a criticism I’d heard before.
“I mean, you sum yourself up completely in just a few paragraphs,” he reprimanded, “and you make yourself sound really impressive,” he further complained. He was looking at me like I was lacking in vital common sense. His brow was literally furrowed.
“Well, I’m trying to sell myself,” I argued.
“Yeah, man,” he was talking to me like a child, very slowly, “but you don’t want to sound more impressive than your potential employer. Ya know?”
So, he counseled me. He covered writing with red notes.
I remember this mentality from my dark time as a temp worker. On my credentials sheet I listed finishing high school and my typing speed (at the time, 98wpm). I was warned by the temp agency never to mention I had a degree, let alone a full bachelors of science. That was “the best way to lose your position.”
On one fairly consistent and well-paying gig, I let slip at lunch to one of the office folks I was a graduate of the local college, UCSB. That afternoon I got 2 visits from normal non-temp employees I had been working alongside, asking me why I was working as a temp processing credit checks. I explained that the dotcom bubble had ruined my profession and it was very hard to get work right now. I made sure to explain that I was not upset with my current job (a lie, I hated it with a passion) and I liked the people (also a lie, they were profoundly boring people), so it “all worked out.”
The fact that you can’t remove them is just crazy. Couple this with the Droid X’s anti-tamper seal on the firmware and you have a recipe for a terrible user experience.
Fair warning: This contains a lot of profanity. If that offends you or if you are in an environment where that could get you in trouble, keep scrolling.
It’s a generational paranoia because young people are doing something that old people didn’t, because they couldn’t, and now can’t, because no one wants to see them naked.
He makes some very good points about what each generation considers acceptable and how the outrage over “sexting” is itself so often rooted in sexism and the control and perceived ownership of women.
“This change actually presented itself in our numeric signal strength reports - there’s more dynamic range in these numbers too. Previously, the absolute lowest value any iPhone would report was -113 dBm. With iOS 4.0.1/4.1, the value is now a shockingly low -121 dBm. In the iPhone 4 review, I talked a lot about how although the phone is prone to dropping signal from being held wrong, it was measurably more sensitive in weak signal areas. I was shocked that calls and data worked seemingly unfazed at -113 dBm. It seems as though this increased 8 dBm of range below -113 dBm was meant to show really how much more sensitive the radio stack is - it undeniably is more sensitive. Both Anand and I were able to hang onto calls all the way down at -121 dBm.”
