Jet Ski
July 19th, 2010 by coreyjf
My dear friend Laurie Ruettimann has me thinking about Jet Skis and winning the lottery.
I love Key West.
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Someone was googling Corey Feldman
November 3rd, 2009 by coreyjf
Someone was googling Corey Feldman and I think this time they were actually looking for me, or at least my Facebook page. I’m relatively hard to Google due to the a certain 80’s actor with whom I share a name. But I do have a big enough online presence that with certain key bits of information I’m actually pretty easy to find. Simply add DC (as in Washington) to a Corey Feldman search string e.g. “Corey Feldman DC” and my Facebook page is top of the list. Add my middle initial, even with out the DC – “Corey J Feldman” and you get my little website as the top hit, at least at the time of writing this post. Anyway, I was looking though my logs the other night and I found a google referral from the search string “Corey J Feldman DC Facebook”.
Clearly whoever was looking for my FB page knew enough about me to add my middle initial and hometown, yet they were not already a Facebook “Friend”. This eliminates a large percentage of people I know, personally at any rate. I don’t have any current coworkers, not for any particular reason, there are no embarrassing photos or status updates, I guess being in HR I tend error on the side of maintaining professional boundaries. I suppose it could be a Twitter “follower”, but I have not exactly been particularly active as of late. I’m also surprised that they googled it versus searched from within Facebook, although it is possible they don’t have a Facebook profile – I do actually know a couple people not on FB.
I am not sure why this caught my interest other than I find it fascinating and surprising when anyone actually looks for me. Though I am the consummate Leo (for the record I do not put any stock in Astrology, just using it here as a shortcut description of my personality) and I am drawn to center stage, I’m not always conformable being there. Yet I keep tweeting, blogging and facebooking and I occasionally read my site logs to see what my visitors are reading and what brought them here. So maybe I doth protest to much, or maybe like everyone else I am slightly messy and have conflicting personalty traits.
Are you ever surprised to find out someone has googled you? Or if you have a small/smallish blog, do you look at your site stats.
25 random things about me
January 26th, 2009 by coreyjf
I was tagged and completed one of those “25 random things about me” and true to #25 I decided to repost to my blog.
1. Someday I will finish and publish a novel.
2. I have finished many shorts stories over the years and have never attempted to have any of them published.
3. I have an irrational fear of birds.
4. That said very few things in this world truly frighten me. I have driven a buck twenty bumper to bumper on a tortuous road, gone bungee jumping, cliff diving, skydiving and countless other youthful indiscretions.
5. And that said I have been terrified on a couple of occasions. The first was a month before Josh was born and we were driving to Holly Cross to do a tour of the maternity ward. We were stopped in traffic on 495 near magical kingdom AKA the Mormon Temple. Melissa stated screaming as a SVU plowed into us at highway speeds. The accident put her into early labor and it was hours before they were able to stop the labor and give us any assurance that she and the baby would be OK. The second time in recent memory was when I held my son for the first time.
6. Even though I am pro-science and highly critical of religious dogma, I am surprisingly religious. I have never doubted in G-d, only humanity’s ability to understand.
7. Most of my life I preferred to read what Academics call literature and now I prefer speculative fiction. I can even admit to truly loving some urban/dark fantasy that could just as easily be housed in the romance isle.
8. I am a terrible insomniac and Lunesta has changed my life.
9. I have been contemplating giving up meat on moral grounds but am not sure I have the will power to make it happen.
10. I’m a Mac, and a PC and a LINUX
11. As a kid I used to take things apart to to figure out how they worked, I still do.
12. I used to build PCs before it was considered easy.
12. I am very mechanically inclined but have never changed my own oil, mostly because I don’t like getting dirty.
13. I love to garden. I know that sounds contradictory but I don’t mind dirt dirt. It is the greasy and/or sticky things I don’t love.
14. I have studied Christianity more in depth than Judaism.
15. I hated being Jewish as a child but happily identify with Judaism as an adult.
16. My favorite game is Gin provided I am playing with my wife. She is a knocker!
17. My mind works best when I am multitasking.
18. I can listen to an audio book or watch TV while reading and follow both. I know this makes me a little odd but I was a multitasker before modern communication necessitated it.
19. My wife never ceases to amaze me.
20. On any given day Lifeguarding was my favorite job. Bar-tending was the most fun, and Teaching the most rewarding.
21. Even though I don’t LOVE it I am very good at HR an assume I will keep doing it forever unless I do #1 more than once and really really really well.
22. I am terrible with names.
23. Having a child (soon to be children) has changed my life in unbelievable and indescribable ways.
24. Yes I do get asked about the other Corey Feldman all to often and how funny is it that my best friend’s name is Tony Orlando.
25. Most of my life I have shared easily but with few. With Social media (blogging, facebook, twitter) I now share with many but no longer with ease.
Job Hunting at work – Good Idea? I think not
December 12th, 2008 by coreyjf
The always funny and insightful Laurie Ruettimann AKA Punk Rock HR and I are having a slight disagreement regarding internet use at work. Laurie was blogging about Signs You Need to Start Your Job Search. Basically Laurie is saying never stop looking. I couldn’t agree more – network, grow or die. However she ended her post with “This is the sign you’ve been waiting for, yo. Start your job search today. Look for a job from the comfort of your warm cubicle with free, company-sponsored high-speed internet and your cushy Aeron® chair.” Here is where I disagree. My response “Agreed except for the part of doing it from your cubicle/office over company internet. While you have those things sure, but not on or with company property. Never know who in IT or otherwise is watching.”
This of course lead to Laurie’s latest blog post Using The Internets on Company Time in it she asks HR professionals and Managerial types if you have or would fire an employee for browsing Monster.com at work. For me it is simple, your company most likely has a policy against it, you are most likely an employee at will and Job Hunters are not a protected class. Don’t do it at work.
What do you all think, post here or there.