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Jan 24th, 2012 @ 4:38 pm

Thought You Should See This: Submit a Résumé? Pfft. How last century

*I hope that ideas like this catch on. The world is changing. So much more information is available. Sell yourself to employers. In the long run it will work out better.

No More Résumés, Say Some Firms is an interesting piece in the Journal looking at how companies are trying to implement more rigorous filtering systems for their hiring processes and avoid having to wade through countless impersonal CVs. Fred Wilson and his New York City-based VC firm, …

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WORLD WAR II. The entire planet’s fate hangs on the outcomes of massive and not-so-massive skirmishes. Guadacanal. Messina. Iwo Jima…

…and skirmishes left moldering in classified files, even today.

One such story is uncovered by an Army researcher, hunting the whereabouts of several MIA “dis-honorables”, who seemingly fell off the face of the Earth in the mid-40’s.

The 12 - known to Eyes Only researchers as “Arkham’s Arsenal” - allegedly completed a joint US/British mission deep into Germany, where they killed a number of high-ranking officials at a top-secret meeting, prior to D-Day.

These 12 were:

“John Doe”, a special forces operative gassed by the Germans with an experimental compound which killed his entire platoon. He managed to get a gas mask on, but ended up with bleached skin a permanent rictus. Since his unit was required to undergo missions without dog tags or service flashes, no one now knows his identity. It’s said that “John Doe” took on the other 15 personalities of his dead platoon, all of them trained killers, all of them slightly psychotic.

Sgt. Dent, half of his face blown off by a grenade.

Pvt. Nigma, an encryption expert, caught selling codes to the Nazis

Cpl. “Killer” Crockowski

Cpl. Floyd “Deadshot” Lawton

Pvt. Jonathan Crane

Pvt. Maxie “Maggot” Zeus

Pvt. Victor Zsasz

Pvt. Aaron Helzinger (Amygdala)

Pvt. Joseph Rigger (Firebug)

and…

Pvt. Dick Grayson

Act One

Col. Bruce Wayne breaks the 12, and turns them into a fighting force.

Act Two

The War Game, against Wayne’s rival in the Allied alliance - Col. Henri Ducard. Arkham’s Arsenal comes out on top, defeating Ducard’s forces (which will contain some cool cameos of other DC heroes and villains)

Act Three

The Mission - killing the gathered VIPs at the Chateau al Ghul. Some of the visitors - all of them contributing to the Nazi death regime - will include Dr. Hugo Strange, Deacon Blackfire, Dr. Victor Fries, Professor Milo, etc.

In the end, only Col. Wayne and Pvt. Grayson survive.

Well…”Jon Doe” goes missing - but he’ll turn up somewhere else. You’ll see…

***

Goddamit, I really wish they’d let me do Arkham’s Arsenal. Oh well. I was going to model Bruce Wayne after Lee Marvin, and Dick Grayson after a young Charles Bronson. And The Joker would’ve been Cassavettes (re-watch the movie, especially the scene where Donald Sutherland is impersonating a general - some of Cassavette’s facial expressions are eerily Joker-like).

I would’ve done that 14-point “attack poem” that Lee Marvin does to map out the mission. Would’ve made the “war game” scene in Act II a battle royale between a lot of serious DV villains. And I would’ve stocked the chateau with lots of cameos by not only other DC character, but Vertigo characters as well.

And John Doe? He would’ve been on a private train car, commandeered from the Calais Coach, entertaining perverted Nazi high commanders as the war wound down, like a demented Master of Ceremonies from Cabaret. Or not. Now that I think of it, there’s better ways to use him in a coda. That’s the one thing that doesn’t work about the original Dirty Dozen - that last scene in the hospital room. They deserved a coda. Something violent and ironic.

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Sep 13th, 2010 @ 3:45 pm

What the Fuck Should I Make For Dinner?

What the Fuck Should I Make For Dinner? offers meal suggestions with links to recipes.

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Sep 2nd, 2010 @ 1:48 pm

Canadian government rewards public servants for cost-cutting ideas

Companies have long recognized that the best ideas can come from those in the figurative trenches, since they’re the ones closest to the organization’s day-to-day operations. That’s a less common notion in government circles, but recently we spotted an example in the form of Canada’s new incentive program to reward public servants for their best budget-cutting ideas.

Beginning this fall, the new Employee Innovation Program will offer cash awards to public service employees with creative and practical ideas that lead to tangible savings and improved services to citizens. Through the two-year pilot program, which is being implemented in eight departments of Canada’s federal government, individuals or teams will need to develop an approved plan to deliver a required service in a better way while reducing costs. They will then have an opportunity to put that plan into action. If an audit after six months can show real savings and improved service, then the employee(s) will be given 10 percent of the savings measured in the first year of implementation, up to a maximum of CAD 10,000.

There’s nothing better than a win-win proposition—and never more so than when it’s effected in government. Other governments around the world—what are you waiting for?

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