tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73119112066199215142024-03-13T20:54:53.597-07:00Critical thoughts about stuffSome thoughts on soccer, beer, books and more.Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.comBlogger202125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-15795425281613748032014-03-07T15:04:00.001-08:002014-03-10T23:16:49.827-07:00DRAFT I'm applying for a position with Mozilla, part 3For background on this, see Part 1 and Part 2.
DRAFT
And here's the final page of notes. This has been a pretty refreshing experience, actually. Now I just have to tweak my CV/résumé. (Yes, there are two accents. Attention to detail: check.)
My current résumé is largely focused on project management, so I don't think I'll have to make many changes.
Format
I like Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-41723030312008661352014-03-07T15:04:00.000-08:002014-03-10T22:37:37.505-07:00I'm applying for a position with Mozilla, part 2Below are my notes for the actual application for the project management position with the Mozilla Foundation. See Part 1 for background.
Part 2
The Mozilla world feels very similar to the political world:
Working with disparate groups
Tight deadlines
Focus on financial sustainability
Idealism supported by strong pragmatism
An absolute need to get shit done
Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-64252065558783945062014-03-06T20:24:00.001-08:002014-03-10T22:45:19.968-07:00I'm applying for a position with Mozilla, part 1TL;DR
What follow are three posts outlining my thoughts on my application for a project management position with Mozilla.
Part 1: background
Part 2: application process
Part 3: résumé and application form
I used a work open approach, and found it refreshing.
The position responsibilities and qualifications are great. I have rarely felt as good about applying for a position.
The Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-54613628344151819022014-01-28T01:17:00.001-08:002014-01-30T09:49:56.871-08:00Why Steven Beitashour is a great signingSteven Beitashour made all of $49,612.50 last season playing for San Jose. He is set to make a sight more than that in 2014 playing for the Whitecaps ("upwards of $200k", says MLS writer Ben Jata), and deservedly so.
Some people are questioning that amount, and in a salary cap league, all salaries should be judged on their value (though not necessarily on their replacement cost - the Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-61591242592291228962014-01-20T22:19:00.001-08:002014-03-04T23:12:00.353-08:00Whitecaps roster - 2014 salary cap edition
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@Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-31303085160680433262014-01-19T17:01:00.002-08:002014-01-19T17:01:24.544-08:00Waiting for Godot - Samuel BeckettThe plan was to read Waiting For Godot, then read about it, and see how much made sense. I'm currently 50 pages through (it's 60 pages long), and I'm now convinced that it will much more valuable to me to have more background info.
So now the plan is to write down some thoughts/observations, then read about it, then finish it and finish my thoughts below. Here we go:
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Vladimir and Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-61650575158050352142014-01-13T01:46:00.000-08:002014-01-13T11:28:12.457-08:00We won! or why fans identify so closely with their teamsA friend of mine (we'll call him "Darren" for the purposes of this piece) wrote this:
I'm a big sports fan, but I try not to refer to the teams I support as 'we'. In this context, I'm a consumer, not a creator. This Mitchell and Webb piece is a wonderful illustration of this idea.
Haha, quite funny, etc. (Especially the bit about Spurs as a rival for the title. C'mon, you're havin' a laugh.)
Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-39498814959113532152014-01-10T00:32:00.002-08:002014-01-13T11:51:01.915-08:00The Miracle of Castel di SangroJoe McGinniss - The Miracle of Castel di Sangro (soccer history/memoir)
I started this on Tuesday while Sylvie was playing with toy food. It's going to be a fun, quick read. Part fish-out-of-water, part travelogue, it's a pretty simple story so far, and the writing matches it.
Joe McGinniss is an American writer who was completely new to soccer. He has a bestseller that I almost read called TheBrentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-31948820443599459452014-01-01T13:50:00.002-08:002014-01-01T13:51:45.742-08:00Beer in 2013Beer in Vancouver in 2013:
Brewery: Brassneck, hands down. Stellar beer after stellar beer, produced in just a few months since they opened this Fall. Growler fill-ups available in 1.9L, 1L and 473mL sizes. Necessitates a weekly visit.
Beer: Driftwood Sartori 2013. Ridiculously good. Fresh, gorgeously hoppy, wonderfully balanced.
Go-to: Brassneck Passive Aggressive. I always fill up one bottleBrentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-29946280678376823672013-12-31T01:07:00.000-08:002014-01-19T02:22:01.501-08:00Books for 2014EDIT: Further purchases that I'm excited to read...
Michelle Orange - This is Running for Your Life (essays)
Bought this on a whim at the bookstore (yay, Pulpfiction Commercial Drive). I love essays, I like the cover, and the first essay is called The Uses of Nostalgia and Some Thoughts on Ethan Hawke's Face. I know nothing about the author.
Adam Gopnik - Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-27709226733554396382013-12-24T22:58:00.002-08:002013-12-30T01:23:36.799-08:00Vocabulary in Borges' LabyrinthsI decided this needed its own spot. Here are the words I'm looking up as I read Borges' Labyrinths. Most are words I've never heard or never known, though some I've known or looked up in the past but forget.
Nina thinks he's using words just to use words - I'm not sure if it's Borges or the translator. I appreciate his use of language, but I'm not sure why. In some instances I think she's right.Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-68352729755636562172013-12-23T01:30:00.000-08:002014-01-03T14:32:11.505-08:00Themes in Borges' LabyrinthsFor now this will just be a repository of thematic sentences or phrases from the stories in Jorge Luis Borges' Labyrinths, which I am quickly falling in love with.
The God's Script
The presence of god in everything, the religious experience, finding salvation, etc. There's a lot going on in this that I'm missing.
The Waiting
A haunting tale about waiting for fate, about dreaming reality. ThisBrentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-43735023044305264822013-12-17T23:49:00.001-08:002013-12-28T00:39:42.967-08:00Reading Borges' LabyrinthsUPDATE - Argh, I appear to have lost some of this. Not worried about the vocab, as I've now published it elsewhere. But I had added two other thoughts that I can't recall now. Bah.
I'm going to post the random thoughts I have as I read Jorge Luis Borges' Labyrinths.
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1. Quote on the back from David Foster Wallace, saying Borges is the link between modernism and post-modernism. Two stories Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-37706395387169968282013-12-16T21:25:00.002-08:002013-12-22T00:07:37.926-08:00You can shave when you want toThis afternoon I bought this safety razor.
I have been pretty fed up with the costs of Mach 3 cartridges for years and constantly buying and throwing away packaging and old cartridges, and after browsing at Revolucion a few weeks ago, I was ready to take the plunge. A quick stop at their store in Yaletown on the way home...
$39 later, I was the proud new owner of aBrentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-5239227830357956882013-09-18T12:01:00.000-07:002013-12-22T20:16:57.510-08:00Books 2013Books I've read this year:
Fiction:
White Teeth - Zadie Smith (debut novel)
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman (novella)
Death: The high cost of living - Neil Gaiman (comic mini-series)
The Dilettantes - Michael Hingston (debut novel)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard (play)
Non-fiction:
The Signal and the Noise - Nate Silver (statistics and Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-21591790350710625162013-06-20T20:18:00.002-07:002013-06-20T20:18:39.205-07:00The best campaign email I ever receivedSubject: Harper=Hitler=HAARP= TORY STAFFORD NATION. WAR CRIMINAL is going to JAIL, NOT to OTTAWA
Full Moon MOONday 04 18 2011= 04:9:2011 or 6:9:11 or 04:11:11=8 moon (luna not lilith).Another day dedicated to the man in the moon -ALLAH=SIN=SIoN. Let's see what Bilderberg SATANIST STEPHEN HARPER has in store for CANADA today!? The real Canadian Bilderberg Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-68973821368446723002013-05-25T21:24:00.000-07:002013-05-25T22:12:47.117-07:00Bon Jovi: Still slippery when wet
Inspired by some late-night karaoke, I just listened to Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet from start to finish. And then the first side of New Jersey. That is more Bon Jovi than most people can handle. The following are random thoughts inspired by this listening session.
Slippery When Wet has actually aged fairly well, considering.
One of the classic albums of 80s guitar/hard rock (it's not Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-2458754887391309712013-04-25T21:12:00.001-07:002013-04-25T21:12:57.188-07:00Two Fat Bastards: The Lost Tapes
For your sort of listening pleasure, I present to you the infamous lost Episode 5.5
With apologies.
For an actual episode of Two Fat Bastards, your local podcast about soccer in Vancouver, go to www.maple-leaf-forever.com
CheersBrentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-81249589931457619002012-09-02T19:08:00.000-07:002012-09-02T19:09:08.751-07:00Vancouver Whitecaps, with and without Davide ChiumientoI thought someone should do some analysis on Davide Chiumiento's record with the team, seeing as there is quite a bit of unrest right now about the state of the team. So I took a look at the team's record with and without Davide Chiumiento.
Our home form with and without Davide is pretty similar:
w/ Davide: 4W-3D-1L-12GF-7GA
w/o Davide: 3W-1D-1L-7GF-6GA
If, in the next few games at homeBrentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-4907259954898599812012-04-19T20:48:00.002-07:002012-04-19T20:59:44.252-07:00#bcpoli liveblog for the by-elections!!!!Here we go:
&lt;p&gt;&amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php/option=com_mobile/task=viewaltcast/altcast_code=0af2856ab8" &amp;amp;amp;gt;Liveblog 3000! The By-Election edition&amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-58556955130061071022012-02-08T17:26:00.000-08:002012-02-08T17:26:00.527-08:00Placeholder...I am currently developing another site to house my writings, CV, etc, over at www.brentonwalters.ca. Right now it's just a placeholder Wordpress site.
Cheers,
BrentonBrentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-60546568252421508092011-04-03T17:51:00.000-07:002011-04-03T17:51:44.268-07:00Elect Meena Wong, NDP, in Vancouver South
As some of you know, I am managing Meena Wong's campaign in Vancouver South. For the NDP, in case that was in doubt.
We are having our Campaign Office Official Opening this Wednesday, from 5 - 8pm. Please come on by and enjoy some wonderful samosas, chai, campaign material and friendly campaign talk.
Where: 6655 Main Street, between 50th and 51st on the east side of Main.
When: 5pm - 8pm. ComeBrentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-28129630179328704012011-02-24T20:32:00.000-08:002011-02-24T20:32:31.365-08:00Barbara Yaffe, Vancouver Sun, anti-union hacksBarbara Yaffe is a columnist in the Vancouver Sun. Halfways intelligent, she nevertheless has some serious ideological blindspots when it comes to unions. Her recent column merely parroted a report from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, a "conservative/libertarian think-tank" (their words, not mine) in Winnipeg.
The report claims public sector wages have outgrown private sector wages Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-53398790686574389462011-01-06T12:10:00.000-08:002011-01-06T13:02:10.582-08:00Some interesting things I've read latelyHere's a quick blog entry to share some interesting things I've been reading:John Hickenlooper, former mayor of Denver and the newly-elected Governor of Colorado, is a loony. This New York Times piece shares some pretty creative stunts he has pulled, both as an entrepreneur (micro-brewing) and as mayor and gubernatorial candidate. And he seems like a smart guy.Actor and one-time Republican Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7311911206619921514.post-87566288169738669602010-11-28T22:10:00.000-08:002010-11-28T22:15:19.018-08:00Liberal insider blogs about Carole James...... then deletes the page when he's wrong. Brian Keiran is a Liberal insider-type that many of you will know more about than I do. He has a blog, writing about BC politics and such. The other day he posted a piece saying that Carole James was likely done by last Sunday, November 21st. Surprise, surprise, she survived a call for a leadership review, with 84% in support of her. That piece that Brentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440076723309223822noreply@blogger.com2