Xorton's Rant

Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge Space Quest III: The Pirate's of Pestulon Released : October 1986, November 1987, March 1989 Publisher : Sierra Platform : DOS, Mackintosh, Amiga Type : 3-D Graphic Text Adventure Graphics : Narly Game Play : Narly Originality : Narly  How many hours I’ve wasted : Narly The Nostalgia Factor : Narly Tied in 6th place in my list of favourite video games are the original first three games in the Sierra Space Quests series. Ahhh, Roger Wilco… how I miss mis-adventuring with you on all those 8-bit graphic planets. I enjoyed many Sierra 3D adventure games during the late 80’s and early 90's such as Police Quest and Kings Quest, but the Space Quest series has always been my favourite and I still have a serious soft spot for them. My brother and  I playing Space Quest II** For the unititated, 3-D Graphic Text Adventure gaming was exceedingly popular in the late 80's and early...

Certainly interviewing for a new job ranks rather low on the majority of peoples favourite things to do. There's nothing quite like being jammed into a room with a bunch of complete strangers who will spend the next one or two hours scrutinizing and criticizing you and your achievements to shrivel up your ego into a little dry mummified token of its former self. I can't say I've always had the best interview experiences. There's nothing worse than having a good interview that lasted two hours only to find out that they picked an internal candidate and were only interviewing outsiders to pad out some stupid HR policy. I've made a list of things that I've come to realize over the course of many years of bad interviews: 1.  I have very low tolerance for having my time wasted by people that are less qualified than I am. 2. People don't appreciate honesty as much as they say they do. 3. If your prospective manager informs you that he or she wi...