"Vintage Systems" Engineer job at Vulcan

[Jim Battle]

Rich Alderson wrote:
> Jim Battle <frustum at pacbell.net> wrote on Wed Apr 30 10:42:01 CDT 2008:
> 
>> Sellam Ismail wrote:
>>> Well, here it is, an invitation to apply to your dream job :)
>>>
>>> Server Engineer (Vintage Systems)
> 
>> Who are these people, and what are they doing?  Their website explains
> it all succinctly:
> 
> Well, in point of fact, there is a website that explains what we are
> doing in a great deal of detail.  Maybe it's not as much fun to know
> that.
> 
>         http://www.pdpplanet.org/

Rich, I think you are doing good stuff, and Paul Allen is doing 
interesting things with his money.  No offense was intended.

As an engineer it is always tempting to make fun of the marketing 
blandness that creates things like: "Vulcan creates and advances a 
variety of world-class endeavors and high impact initiatives that change 
and improve the way we live, learn, do business, and experience the world."

Engineers in collusion with patent attorneys produce their own version 
of this.  In an attempt to create super broad claims, the resulting 
overreaching blandness ends up not really describing something specific.

Hopefully, the thought process that has effected a compact yet 
meaningful stream of multi-purpose ASCII symbols on your information 
display device has conveyed with greater clarity the original 
semi-whimsical statement which was formerly intended.