job
just got back from the job interview. it went reasonably well. it was mostly pretty casual, really. the worst thing about it, apart from my usual reckless blathering, was the fact that, being a printer, he necessarily uses a Mac for his office computer. being that one of his main programs isn’t yet compatible with the aging OS X, he’s running OS9, which apparently doesn’t have it’s own IE 5.2 (and probably never will). all of which means that he couldn’t view my translucency-based sites as they were intended. hey, even after several years, PNG may not be bleeding-edge tech, but most iterations of MSIE just don’t do them, or don’t do them well… and CSS translucency is probably out of the question, though i can never find good documentation for browser/OS support of Microsoft’s alpha-filter property.
also, i was nearly two full minutes late, but luckily, i had accidentally taken Route 201 instead of 202 – which turned out to be flooded. so i told him i took 202 and got detoured. rock.
oh, and in the upstairs offices were life-sized cardboard cutouts of Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Captain Picard, Data, and Seven of Nine.
goonism
interestingly, on the way back, i pulled up to a stoplight right next to the Troy police station just as i was shrieking along with Elvis Costello’s “Goon Squad” (from his utterly BRILLIANT Armed Forces LP), and for the next ten or so miles was followed by a cruiser. coincidence? probably… but if there’s been any era since that of Senator Joseph McCarthy (may he rot in hell) that had a scarier goon-to-general populace ratio, it’s this one – the one we’re in now.
