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RightSite Rejects Harvard PhD as Underqualified

Michael Cole — Sun, 09 May 2010 14:53:21 +0000

As many of you who have read this blog may know, at RightSite, we take our recruitment very seriously. However, in case there are any would-be applicants out there who are unaware of our stringent requirements for new team members, I would like it to be known that today we rejected a Harvard PhD as lacking the necessary qualifications to make the cut at RightSite.

Here is actual proof of our selectivity in action:

Yup! Smart, beautiful and educated just isn’t enough to land a job at RightSite. You have to show some style too.

Until next time, enjoy life in China and keep looking for the fun in every situation.

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Today’s Sign of the Media Apocalypse

Michael Cole — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:15:50 +0000

Comma Spasm at SI.COM

I hate to pick on one of my favorite media outlets twice in seven days, but something definitely is going wrong over at Sports Illustrated.Â Earlier in the week there were strange reports of Peyton Manning discriminating against teams that ate blini. (Possible anti-semitism)? And today there appears to have been an outbreak of a new strain of punctuation virus.

While it is possible that the editors at SI.COM are engaging in some kind of contest to see who can fit the most commas into two lines of text, our inside sources tell us that this may be evidence of a new form of the H1N1 virus that causes media professionals to sneeze commas all over the page. Two periods and four commas in two lines of teaser text is a sure sign of a sick mind. When things slide into semicolons it may be time for hospitalization.

As a native Minnesotan, I think Joe Mauer deserves better than this!

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SI.COM Gets the Scoop on Slavic Pastries in the NFL

Michael Cole — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:21:08 +0000

One of the few time wasting pleasures that I have maintained even during our start-up regimen here at RightSite is my daily scanning of the NFL news from the US. Reading about the drama of football gives me a break from sifting through the latest real estate data and investment news and gives me some insight into what is really going on back home in America.

Slavic Pastries Put Players at Risk

Today I found out that what is really going on is that there is either a severe shortage of proofreaders, or that NFL star Peyton Manning loves to pick on teams that have grown fat and happy on traditional Slavic pastries.

According to what we see on the popular website SI.com today, the strategically-minded NFL star Peyton Manning has refined his game to a new level, by specifically targetting players on the opposite team who have grown fat from eating too many blini.Â A blintz (or blini if you’re having more than one of them) is a pastry of Slavic origin that’s a bit like a crepe and sure to load you down with extra carbohydrates.Â Easy to see why defenders might lose a step by ingesting a few too many of these, but many of us slip a bit as we near the holidays.

No word yet on whether other teams plan to adopt this strategy or whether Peyton plans to later victimise Vikings who love their lefse a bit too much.

Today’s Sign of the Media Apocalypse