Our final stop for our Friday evening outing in Ybor City — first dinner at the Tampa Bay Brewing Company with friends, then upstairs to watch Snow White and the Huntsman — was karaoke night at the Doppel Decker. A Jagermeister flag hangs near the bar, and someone’s added some sage advice to it.
A few days ago, I wrote that Eduard Khil, better known to the internet as the “Trololo Guy” for a video of his 1976 lyric-free song performance that made a splash in 2010, was in critical condition after suffering a stroke. The reports are coming out that he died in a hospital in St. Petersburg.
Here’s the video that made him internet-famous:
Russia Today posted a tribute to Eduard Khil, which tells his life story.
Eduard Khil performing in 1965.
Requiescat in pace, Mr. Khil, and thanks for all the tro-lo-los.
Click the photo to see the original.
When your phone needs charging and the only outlet is way up on the wall (it’s probably for a wall-mounted monitor), you have to get inventive.
From the incredibly unconvincing “punk” characters at the start of the commercial (with even more unconvincing hair) to the decidedly non-punk bands and songs in the compilation (for starters, what is Huey Lewis and the News’ I Want a New Drug doing on this album?), Punk is pretty much punk-free, but at least the promo is hilarious.
Even the fake punk rock in that anti-punk-rock episode of Quincy, M.E. was better:
Somebody needs to write a love song titled Don’t Treat Me Like Potato.
Click image above to download my resume (107KB PDF).
My summer vacation continues nicely, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have an eye out for my next opportunity. I’ve spent a little time fielding calls from recruiters and other interested parties while still enjoying my time off, marvelling at junk food, hitting flea markets and going to the beach.
I’ve been getting requests for my resume, and when that happens, I say “my LinkedIn profile is my resume”. As a living document within LinkedIn’s web application, it’s always up-to-date, easily found either via Google or LinkedIn’s own search feature and accessible anywhere and on any device that can view web pages. LinkedIn profiles have a reputation of being more honest than a paper resume; as public documents, it’s much harder to lie, exaggerate or otherwise “fudge” since it’s all too easy for people to call you out.
There are those who still would prefer a regular-format resume from me, so I’ve created one, and you can download it here (107KB PDF). It’s in PDF format, so it should look good no matter whether you’re viewing it on a computer, tablet or mobile phone or printing it out. It has the same content as my LinkedIn profile; I simply copied the text from my LinkedIn profile and pasted it into a resume document and then formatted it a little.
If you’re either wondering if I’m the right guy for your company or if you’re just plain curious, feel free to take a look at my resume.
Harrison Ford es Armando! Carrie Fisher es Esmerelda! Mark Hamill es Pepe! Y Anthony Daniels es “El Robot de Sexo”!
I was greatly amused by this re-arrangement and subtitling of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in which the hot-loined Armando must leave the Hoth system, as it is frozen and completely devoid of passion. After being rejected by Esmerelda, he drops a bombshell that will shock Pepe and concern El Robot de Sexo.