Recruiters; Technology ups and downs
Jun. 8th, 2008 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jbaileyDear Recruiters,
While I appreciate being contacted with interesting opportunities (at the moment I'm not looking. It's a lovely cross between being happy in my current job and hoping for a particularly uneventful 12 months on the home front), emailing me from noreply@saic.com is just going to make me mock you. It's at moments like these that I with I could channel Matthew Garrett. When I try, I just sound like Overfiend from the good old days ;)
The family went up to the City today with some friends of ours and I had the most amazing thing: I walked into an Apple store, and the greater at the front solved my iPhone problem. The phone decided a week or so ago that there was always a headset plugged in. The greeter pulled up a clever tool that looks like an 1/8th inch to 1/4inch adapter with tiny holes milled in it for blowing air in. Seems they have this problem often. Being with 3 kids and two families, I couldn't reliably book a time to see someone at the Genius Bar, but he just blasted it out and it worked wonderfully.
Of course, I came home to plug it in and have discovered that the cord to connect to the charger appears to have corroded and won't charge the phone now. So, AppleEmployees++, AppleHardware--. I now will make the distinction.
Next technology FixIt: Convince my Bluetooth headset and Bluetooth stereo to go into pairing mode again. Both seem to have decided they won't do this anymore.
While I appreciate being contacted with interesting opportunities (at the moment I'm not looking. It's a lovely cross between being happy in my current job and hoping for a particularly uneventful 12 months on the home front), emailing me from noreply@saic.com is just going to make me mock you. It's at moments like these that I with I could channel Matthew Garrett. When I try, I just sound like Overfiend from the good old days ;)
The family went up to the City today with some friends of ours and I had the most amazing thing: I walked into an Apple store, and the greater at the front solved my iPhone problem. The phone decided a week or so ago that there was always a headset plugged in. The greeter pulled up a clever tool that looks like an 1/8th inch to 1/4inch adapter with tiny holes milled in it for blowing air in. Seems they have this problem often. Being with 3 kids and two families, I couldn't reliably book a time to see someone at the Genius Bar, but he just blasted it out and it worked wonderfully.
Of course, I came home to plug it in and have discovered that the cord to connect to the charger appears to have corroded and won't charge the phone now. So, AppleEmployees++, AppleHardware--. I now will make the distinction.
Next technology FixIt: Convince my Bluetooth headset and Bluetooth stereo to go into pairing mode again. Both seem to have decided they won't do this anymore.
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