@kdfrawg He was. An accomplished sailor, a top-notch engineer, and ended his career doing consulting and acting as a Designated Engineering Representative for the FAA. He could have been the model for the Most Interesting Man In The World in the Dos Equis ads, except with bad hair and an Aussie accent.
@kdfrawg The craziest resume I've ever seen was the full version of one belonging to a family friend. It ran to something like ten or twelve pages closely spaced, went all the way back to his service in the Royal Australian Navy during the war, and included all of his patents, his memberships in various professional organizations around the world, and some honors he'd accrued. For obvious reasons, that one didn't get used very much. ?
// @literary
@literary Mine is also two pages, and that's highly edited. I figure that's pretty short for 35 years of work experience.
@literary The only way I could have a one-page resume would be to put it online and have the resume just show the link.
This is an example of unfortunate column placement:
In other news, two new pairs of glasses have been ordered. ??
@JeremyCherfas Weird. I'd say it's georestricted, but I got the link from someone in the Netherlands. Here's what I see:
@hazardwarning I'm not sure what's worse: knowing the end is coming, or knowing they could last another five years getting progressively and slowly worse. It's rotten either way.
@hazardwarning As someone with a failing 97-year-old mother-in-law, I sympathize.