the interview

After about 3 weeks and the creation of a website that ended up being well beyond what the guy was expecting me to produce in a week, I finally got an interview. Before I go on, I would like to say I made a website about an illustration company in order to kill 2 birds with one stone. I showed off both my graphics design skills as well as my programming abilities.

I took the day off work to do this because I had no idea how long the interview would take. It consisted of a test and then 2 interviews. The test itself took an hour, well they gave me an how. There were 7 questions. One involved proof reading, another asked me to make a webpage, and there were 2 more programming ones. The remaining were logic questions. As you know they are my thing, they are what I do, so they were cake.

1)If the word FINITE can be represented by the number 5910, then what number represents the word ZENITH?
2)

1
11
21
1211
111221

what comes next in the sequence?
3)Tower of hanoi with 4 disks.

They were not terribly hard. After that they told me that it was more than an hour's worth of work. As they are telling me this, I am in the process of sliding it across the table, completed. They were quite impress that not only did I finish it, but it was all correct.

The interviews then proceeded after that. And just under 2 and half hours later, I walked out anticipating a phone call the following week.

Update:It turns out that I was the only one of the top three choices to respond to set up an interview. I was also the first person to complete the test under an hour and have it all correct. I got my phone call the following Monday telling me that formality-wise he could not offer me the job til 4/4 but it was pretty much mine.

st patrick's day

It comes but once a year and I actually did something this year. Instead of playing video games in the late hours of the night me and my friend Tony met up with a guy i work with some of his friends and went to a few bars downtown. We were supposed to me up with a girl from work and her "15 hot friends", that fell through and I later found out it was more like 5. Anyway, there were people everywhere. Solid people spilled out of all the bars. We only managed to make it 4 of them before last call. I think we could have done more had we not started at 10pm.

I got a drink called "The Flying Irishman". I little fruitier than I would have liked but it was like drinking liquid green so I did not mind. I saw I guy use a sink as a urinal and then saw others follow in his footsteps standing on their toes to make it in. There was no washing hands after seeing that.

When it came time to wander towards my car I had to pee so bad. I looked over and saw a shadow off the sidewalk that looked good. There was even a potted plant to knee behind. This plant was so not big enough to conceal me and people prolly thought I was throwing up. Little do they know I was peeing in public. As I stubbled away and looked back, I was hit with a sense of irony when I realized I had just peed on a church. I had to stop on the way to drop my friend off at his apt because he had to pee. He ended up peeing on a Rite Aid.

All in all I had fun and am looking forward to next year.

homework

I recently applied for a job as a Web Developer. I have had a few communications with this prospective employer. The first was to see examples of my work. No problem I sent him shit I did at MU. A week later he gives me another assignment. I have to create a website for a ficticous company. To do this I have to use either ASP or ASP.NET. I know neither. I also need to be able to access a database, which again I don't know how to do. These things are not really a big concern for me. I mean how hard could it be. My big problem is that I have no idea what to based the website around. I am usually running off at the mouth with bunches of ideas but this time I am at a loss. I kind of need to know that so I can model the website. This is due by Monday and I have yet to put fingers to keys.

issues with my car

1) 3 weeks ago I pulled out of my drive way and for no reason at all my airbag light started flashing. To remedy this I turned the car off and then turned it back on. Problem solved. I drive off with thinking that was kind of weird.

2) 2 weeks ago I am returning home from my friend's apartment at 3am. I pull out of the parking lot making a mental note that I have a quarter of a tank of gas and I need to get more after work on Monday or in the next 100 miles, what ever comes first. My car had other plans. I happen to glance down to see the fuel light staring back at me. The needle had dropped well below the E and the display that tell me how many miles I can go says "---". I'm thinking "Great! My car had no idea how far it wants to take me". So I was a little concerned as to whether or not I would make it to the gas station. I did make it there and then got to pump gas in breezy 13 degree weather. I had to bow out after $10 because I could not feel my fingers. This put me up about 2/3 a tank. This makes not sense but it solved the problem.

3) Last Monday on the way to work my check engine light came on. I pulled over and restarted to car just to have to shining clear and bright for the rest of the trip. It stayed like this for 2 days, then decided to mix it up a bit by blinking for periods of time. I thought maybe it was trying to go out but alas this has continued all week.

I plan to have it looked at this week, because a blinking engine light surely has to be worse than a solid one right?