Librarian Avengers » layoff http://librarianavengers.org Ethnically librarian Wed, 05 May 2010 01:35:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Arr! Yahoo, prepare to be boarded! http://librarianavengers.org/2008/02/arr-yahoo-prepare-to-be-boarded/ http://librarianavengers.org/2008/02/arr-yahoo-prepare-to-be-boarded/#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:47:25 +0000 Erica Firment http://librarianavengers.org/2008/02/02/arr-yahoo-prepare-to-be-boarded/
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    • ]]>     pirate-flag.gifWith the recent news of Yahoo’s potential acquisition by vile Microsoft and its prior layoff of 1000 hardworking geeks, there was a bit of an air of piracy in the office last week.

    Linden Lab is going into another round of recruitment, focusing on web developers, QA folk, and other nerdy types. If any web developers out there (you, yes, YOU Joy!) want to work in a more stable, hilarious, and weird environment, you might want to fill out an application to work at Second Life. Free beer, the Love Machine, and a frightening amount of RockBand can all be yours!

    Linden seems to be where the socially-developed nerds go to work. There’s a much larger % of women, extroverts, parents, and charmers working at Linden than is considered industry standard. Which means you tend to not find yourself in conversations with dudes who can’t make eye contact with a girl, or folks who get REALLY EMOTIONAL about their code.

    It’s good to be a god, too, even if it’s only in-world. You can read more about our wickedcool office culture in the Tao of Linden.

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    ]]>     http://librarianavengers.org/2008/02/arr-yahoo-prepare-to-be-boarded/feed/ 2     14 Weird things I’ve learned this week http://librarianavengers.org/2007/05/14-weird-things-ive-learned-this-week/ http://librarianavengers.org/2007/05/14-weird-things-ive-learned-this-week/#comments Fri, 18 May 2007 20:06:16 +0000 Erica Firment http://librarianavengers.org/2007/05/18/14-weird-things-ive-learned-this-week/
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  • Queen Bees are expensive
  • It’s damned difficult to find a cat-sitter in Ithaca
  • Johnathan Lethem’s You Don’t Love me Yet is, so far, an absolutely perfect book
  • Tom Phillips is an artist who did a really great book painting featuring fictional books with titles stolen from Shakespeare
  • Roccapulco is a salsa club in San Francisco. I’m going next week with my friend Jake
  • The Lunch Meeting is the gold standard for interviews at eBay

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  • You can randomly teleport somewhere in Second Life and end up getting juggled by a large pink elephant
  • Hotels in San Francisco are way cheaper than hotels in NYC. Jobs in San Francisco pay way better than jobs in NYC.
  • All it took for me to get my finances in shape was to get some software with a decent interface
  • The only cure for pregnancy-induced hypertension is childbirth (hi clay!)
  • My friend Josh has taken over things digital at the NYPL
  • Adobe CS3 will steal your soul with its compelling beauty
  • Google Analytics has a new interface that will steal whatever bit of your soul is leftover after Adobe gets done with you
  • Half of you people are still using Internet Explorer. I’m saddened. Please, for the love of all things holy: Use Firefox 2

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