Tidbits

Sleepover at Ikea - Maybe this is the only way to get to the $1 early enough…
A ramen bath - Japanese spa with special baths resembling instant noodles. I wanna play!
Old age homes for dogs - 1) Old dogs don’t like to be abandoned at strange places. 2) Playing with young puppies will probably cause the older dogs to die faster due to exhaustion.
A remote-controlled pigeon - Oh the poor thing…
An article on a brilliant method of teaching grade schoolers about bats and rabies. I smell a lawsuit.
Will trade beer for Crumpler bags. Tempted by the beanbag and messenger bags…

The Band Pilate Changed Their Name?

January 13, 2007, 3:54 am

Now they are known as “Pilot Speed”. I guess “Pilate” was all good until pilates became popular, and then everyone started mispronouncing their name.

Anyways, I saw perform live at the Bomber Thursday night. The second concert I’ve ever attended. The first being the Barenaked Ladies concert courtesy of work. This second time, also courtesy of work. Of course, I would have seen Pilate that time last year at Bomber if mahjong hadn’t won.

This time, it was a private concert sponsored by my company, I guess to raise awareness of our company’s name with ECE and CS people. That’s who they were targeting anyways: 3B and 4B Mechatronics, Electrical, compeng, and students taking CS444, CS452, CS454, and CS488, which are (for the non-mathies) the “Big Three” (Graphics, realtime, compilers), and distributed systems. I would qualify since I took distributed..

The event was suppose to be a recruiting/info session as well, except that the ticket for the concert doesn’t really say this. So I guess it wasn’t unexpected that the majority of people prolly did not fall into the target audience, and they also could care less about what the company does.

Which made it pretty easy to separate them from the ones who really were interested in job opportunities; those were the ones who came just to check us out, didn’t eat or drink anything, and left before the band even came on. In fact, that evening might even be the first time some of them ever stepped into the Bomber. When I was in school, I never went there either…

Yes, the other thing that wasn’t mentioned on the ticket: free food and booze. And I’m not just talking beer, it was open bar for EVERYTHING. The Bomber had a decent collection of hard stuff and mixers, I was impressed. Dude, why weren’t there recruiting events like this when *I* was in school??

A funny consequence to all this is that at the end of the night after the band, there were still some people who were interested in the company remaining. Except most were pretty drunk. Nothing is more amusing than trying to have a conversation with a plastered UW engineer trying to sell himself.

After this, I’m sure our company name will be pretty well known around the campus.