Morning Discussion

by Chris Faylor, Apr 16, 2009 6:15am PDT

Yesterday, someone--you know who you are--attempted to get the music from Super Mario Bros. 2 stuck in the heads of his or her Twitter followers. "Ever have one of those days where the Mario 2 music gets stuck in your head," they wrote.

It was evil, more so when they linked a video a bit later, even more so when they asked "how about now."

But then something weird happened. Later on, when I was trying to recall the Super Mario Bros. 2 theme, I found myself humming the Bubble Bobble theme instead. Which really makes me wonder--is the Bubble Bobble music more virulent than Mario 2?

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We received a resume in our IT dept today. Under his skills, he actually put "Netscape". Fucking NETSCAPE.

Apr 16, 2009 1:21pm PDT

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We received a resume in our IT dept today. Under his skills, he actually put "Netscape". Fucking NETSCA... : industro
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- hahah amazing : Clay
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  what about the gopher protocol? : wvuong
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    hah. was this ever useful? : dirge23
    - sure, before the web took off. : GloriousCow
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      Gopher was awesome :( : electroly
      
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      University of Michigan (or Minnesota) had a Risk game you could gopher to and play, circa 1994. Great times.
      
      Apr 16, 2009 1:40pm PDT
      
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      University of Michigan (or Minnesota) had a Risk game you could gopher to and play, circa 1994. Great ti... : bipolar
      
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      University of Minnesota also maintained a huge list of MUDs via Gopher. : ChibiJosh
      
      <3 : disposition
- Oo let me know if he gets the job, I used Netscape to surf the intertubes back when Clinton was in office... : The_Archon
- Lynx bitch : askedrelic
- 3/1/2008 - Rest In Peace my old friend : Spoetzl
- Maybe he part times as a webpage designer. That's net scaping, right? : lolpatrol
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  I'm going through a stack of them myself. One lists email as a skill. What? : Rauol Duke
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    there are plenty of people in any company who have not mastered this skill : dirge23
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      This job is to be my bitch right hand man/woman to take over my technical duties in a fast based IT compa... : Rauol Duke
      
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      if anything, listing "email" as a skill on your resume implies that you are one of those people who hasn'... : dirge23
      
      Haha that's what I was thinking. If you think that skill differentiates you from other applicants somehow... : riptyde
      
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      So does taking over you tech duties include shacking while working? : NukemFornever
      
      No that's part of my managerial tasks. : Rauol Duke
  - I'm skilled in the internets : Morgin
  - I telnet to port 25. : yonderboy
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    I'm skilled in DOS 6.0 : deadfish
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      and fat bitch fucking. : Rauol Duke
      
      pity fucking is a talent. You can't learn not to feel. : deadfish
  - Writing a proper email in a corporate environment is almost harder than programming sometimes. : TheNiXXeD
- interview him just so you can grill him on his netscape skills : dirge23
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  On my resume under skills I have "snarky internet humor" : ejectorpod
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    yeah, everybody lies on their resume : dirge23
    - Hahahaha. : Ormsbee
    - looooooollllllllll : orgcaptainnemo
    - hahaha : AlexXdude
    - Buuuurrrrn : Mad Brahmin Disease
    - pretty good : ejectorpod
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      from downtown! : Bamtan
      
      Its good! : bashildy@speakeasy.net
    - lol hilarity : prime8
    - ziiinnnggggg : brewsterdog
    - Giggle : heartsauce
    - zing zing zingeroo : disposition
    - Winner! : Sailor of Fortune
    - goddamn : randomposter
- these days, that's a rarity : Deathlove
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  there's a netscape branded web server. maybe that? or was it under browsers. :( : festivalman
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    If you have a browser section in your resume, I'd hope you were a developer of some sort. : trove
    - Pretty much this, you would either have to be optimizing sites for browsers, developing apps for browsers... : one random winner
  - anyone that knows how to run the netscape web server would not put it on a resume : zakk
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  You'd be surprised how many people still use it. I get probably one customer a month that's still using i... : g0nk
  - are you a time bandit? : heuristic
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    Compuserve still exists?!?!?!?!?!!?! : Toraz Chryx
    - Sure, just ask 9434765643452384348364380348934730296434 : heartsauce
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  I do that, but I worked at Netscape :/ : dognose
  - The rule is this: You spot a man's tell, you don't say a fucking word... : massdev
- Some of the resumes at Amazon were fucking loltastic. : Iwannaacura
- Maybe he's trying to show you he's old school? lol, netscape. Did he put AOL 2.0? : freakynipples69
- I don't know what's worse, his thinking that was resume worthy, or you reading from a resume that you are... : Xin Jing Client 1a
- Hire me I have Mosaic experience. : Crimsonbeak
- Let him know in a rejection letter he was one of two final candidates but was beaten out because your tea... : grandmasterlee
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  fuck that guy I still use pine for e-mail : halophoenix
  - haha we used to use pine in college : meesterbill
- "World of Warcraft Guild Leader" : azenmaster
- I think I may put some random funnies in my resume too. : Rigg5
- Once towards the end of my college career I was in a class where they brought some people in from the car... : Schnapple
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  guy we hired actually had LUNIX :( : mikecyb
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    also people who work in IT/programming/web dev etc seem to super love padding their 'skills' with garbage... : mikecyb
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      LOLcats, Twitter, Shacknews... : Rigg5
      
      oh shit I need to add those last two. I never learned lolcats though :( : mikecyb
      
      yah I saw someone who put Google on their resume under Certifications. LOL : Shadowdane
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    Well, evidently the hiring standards practices allow for some flexibility. : Xin Jing Client 1a
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      well I think it was some kind of bizarre typo because this guy has been doing web and database stuff sinc... : mikecyb
      
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      does he actually know linux or not? : epit
      
      yes he is very old school and hates windows. he spent his first day getting cygwin up and running! : mikecyb
      
      maybe it WAS lunix! http://lng.sourceforge.net/ for the C64 : hamachi
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  I had a guy list notepad as a skill =( : TheNiXXeD
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    that does it, I'm listing emm386.exe and autoexec.bat : Downforce
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      hahaha, writing my own autoexec.bat file to play a game was good times. : deject
      
      Not really : WadeMcLain
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  I telnet into port 80. I don't even bother with a browser. I'm hardcore like that, yo. All I see now : Maddog_Delphi97
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    i bet you use some fancy ssh client u poser : podizzle
    - Damn, you found me out. :( : Maddog_Delphi97
- nutscrape 3.0 was pretty good. : podizzle
- A few years ago we had some kid come in with his resume and it had his computer specs listed under skills... : warcrow
- I love it when recruiters list "5+ years of Visio experience" under job requirements... wtf, you can lear... : MagicWishMonkey
- I've seen p2p used as a skill... along with copy/paste and bittorrent : rmjackson
- im skilling in various forms of internetting and youtubing. : burning eye
- Clicking, double-clicking, reading emails, sending emails, the box thingy on the floor. : capt tripps

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