A job-hunting reader stumbled across this blurb while browsing Vault.com's career search literature. The screenshot above comes from a resume-writing guide written in 2003, just around when A-list blogger Anil Dash got his VP job at Six Apart.

Six Apart's Anil Dash:

Geeks are the best lovers — and not just because of those toned finger muscles from twelve-hour typing days. They're sweet-talkers too. Here are pick-up lines submitted by some of the Valley's smoothest operators.

Anil informs us that this was actually Lia's idea. Shame on you, Lia! Encouraging abuse of photoshop like that! The kids, Lia; think of the kids! ...Apparently, she did.

Wired Editor-in-Chief (and launch party co-host) Chris Anderson commenting on the possibility of having bloggers write pieces for the magazine. Anil Dash and I coughing loudly, whistling, pointing to ourselves, and spontaneously producing cardboard signs with "Will write Wired pieces for money," scrawled across them.*
(*Perhaps I exaggerate a bit. We were coughing quietly.)

We get the distinct feeling that someone may have airbrushed our GQ photos. We also get the distinct feeling that Anil Dash needs a hobby. Or something.