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Last last night around midnight, I dug out the printed application for the EBMUD job and realized the deadline was 4:30 PM the next day. Doh! So I jam online to their website and, amazingly, their online application form is TOTALLY online; don't have to submit anything by snail mail! So I stayed up another 2 hours filling it out: had to find and dig out my old applications as reference for filling in this one online. So My answers for the supplemental questions are a bit sloppy but what can you do in the middle of the night? I had ~3 hours of sleep before I got up to go to work. So now I await to see if they recognize that I actually have a comparable skillset or if my general crap-answering of questions will get me an interview.

EBMUD

I visited BAAMA's site and see this job opening. I am kinda lacking in the database side but I think I should be able to hold my own if I had this job. Pros are that I'd be taking BART to work = more time to read/game/do SOMETHING aside from starin' at the rear end of another car and the pay would be higher than what I'm gettin' now. And it'd be Chinatown area! Could frolick around that area. Cons are that I dunno what the culture is like and of course, the ppl & place I'm at is ok, aside from bleh commute. And what is their turnover like. And.. other factors. I think I'll submit an application anyway and decide later what to do if I even get a call.

Restaurant Thingy Thingy

Here's a project that I've had in my thoughts but haven't done anything about: I've got these paper menus I've taken from restaurants I've patronized. What I'd like to eventually have is a site where a user can see:

• a map of these sites, symbolized by food type
  
• scans of the menus
  
• diner comments and reviews
  

To do this, I'd need either something like MapServer or ArcIMS. Prolly also figure there's gonna be some kinda database in there somewhere, and maybe something Wiki-ish? Anyway, thoughts for now, but I have no real online space that I'm actually paying for so I dunno...