While watching something on PlutoTV, I saw my first Halloween commercial of the year. It was from HomeGoods.
If you know me well, then it’s no surprise I watched the rebooted The Naked Gun this weekend. Thankfully, I watched it with a close friend. In high school and college, we watched the original on VHS several hundred times. I no longer go into these movies with the expectation of whether it’s going to be better or worse than the original. Now, I just like to be entertained and see what they can do with the source material and make it their own. Overall, I’d say it was pretty solid. I was pleasantly surprised it wasn’t raunchy at all.
It’s official, I’m old.
I had a job interview scheduled last Monday that I was really looking forward to, especially since it dealt with my background and the emerging AI field. It was the one in which I had to take a two-and-a-half-hour assessment that I mentioned before. Wearing a nice dress shirt and sport coat, I log into the Microsoft Teams meeting a few minutes early. Surprised the meeting hadn’t started after a few minutes past the scheduled time, I checked my email, where I found this in my Inbox:
OK, no big deal, stuff happens. I replied, saying sure, and I was available the rest of the afternoon or would be happy to reschedule for the next day or a later time in the week. Not hearing back from her on Monday or Tuesday, I followed up with another message to touch base on Wednesday. The rest of the week goes by without me hearing a word. However, on Sunday, I received a message thanking me for taking the time to interview with them, and while I was talented, they decided to go with another applicant.
I struggled to get excited about the other interview I had scheduled last week with a different company because it was with an AI avatar. At first, it asked me some basic questions, and I’d reply as if I were talking to a computerized customer service phone tree. It asked if I had any questions, so I tested the system by asking some non-generic questions and was slightly impressed at the detailed, customized answer. As it started to ask me more challenging and complex questions, I changed my demeanor and spoke to it as if it were a real human. After each question, it would then audibly summarize my answer and then move on to the next question. It was hard to get a feel for how I did overall. I am curious how a hiring manager will get the results of my answers. Will he just listen to an audio recording of what I said, receive a summary created by the AI interviewing tool, or something else?
Someone told me the State of Texas is doing a lot of hiring, so I’m going to explore that.
A USA Today exposé on the Dallas Stars – ‘They control everything’: How the Dallas Stars monopolized Texas youth hockey
Unlike the NFL, NBA and MLB, a handful of NHL teams are intimately involved in running the youth levels of their sports in their regions – perhaps none more than the Stars. In Dallas, the Stars spent decades turning what was once seen as a community good into a lucrative arm of their for-profit enterprise.
This whole Sydney Sweeney “controversy” is stupid. Very, very, stupid. And, I have a feeling Micah Parsons isn’t going anywhere. But if he does, I’m sure he’d prefer to go to Washington to play for his old coach, but I’d like to see him in Buffalo.
A guy wanted to adopt a cat, but he wouldn’t leave his brother’s side, so he had to take both of them.pic.twitter.com/Z4YqwB12OI
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) July 28, 2025
Thirteen-year-old BoyGeeding wanted to cook dinner for us this weekend. He took it seriously, even making his own alfredo sauce instead of opting for a premade version in a jar.
Good point.
I think Willow Bend is the newest mall in the area, opening 24 years ago yesterday. It’s looking pretty barren.
I visited the mall today 8.3.25 and it is not looking too well. There were a lot of vacant spaces. The food court is completely devoid. Probably 75% of level 2 was vacant.
byu/MrTacocaT12345 inDallas
Here’s a summary of the drama that’s going on in The Ticket’s subreddit.
