A co-worker sent me this want ad for smart engineers that comes from StrangeBusiness.com. I like it. I may have to do this with my next want ad.

I have been watching friends, famous people and famous friends on both Twitter and Jaiku recently. Both are micro-blogs that allow you to answer the question “what are you doing right now”. I rarely post myself as either:

a) what i am doing is boring even to me
b) I am working on something interesting at work but can’t talk about it

Most of what gets posted is the banality of every day life, but amidst the “I am going to bed” and “I am eating pizza” notifications I spotted these memorable quotes:

notstevenwright In school they told me “practice makes perfect.” Then they told me “nobody’s perfect.” So then I stopped practicing

GordonWSmythe Bush says we’ll leave Iraq if they ask us. In unrelated news, White House cuts off communication with Iraq.

hotdogsladies Talking to smart people throughout your day helps mitigate the corrosive effects of dealing with the unapologetically dim-witted remainder.

GordonWSmytheScientists discover the origins of deja-vu. Is it just me or have I heard this story before?

notstevenwright A friend of mine has a trophy wife, but apparently it wasn’t first place.

As well as these that offer an interesting insight into the human condition (and make you want to support those fundraisers that are trying to address it):

hotdogsladies I’m with scottsimpson; Facebook is a lot more fun if you imply you’ve had sex with every person on your friends list.

Veronica Some dude is standing outside my apartment Tasering his friends. He got one guy in the butt. Wow.

hotdogsladies Let’s make a deal: you keep saying “user-generated content” all you want, but I get to punch you in the throat every time you say it. Fair?

Queensboro Shirt company makes embroidered shirts for companies with logos on them. Today they sent out an email advertising their latest offering which is a deep sea diving suit. I like the fact that the embroidery is free.

There has been a lot of speculation from outside Google as to how the system works. Since Google ranking can be so important to a web site it is worth understanding how the system works to better know how to utilize it. Google has this helpful page on its website that explains how they use pigeons to drive the system that determines which pages are the most important. This page has been up on Google since April 1, 2002.

My wife works for our church which was having trouble with its web site today. She called the company that hosts the site to complain that the site was offline. They put here on hold. Now I don’t know who decided that “Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off” would be a good song to play for someone who is on hold calling to complain, but I think they might want to rethink that one.