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(1st 1 swiped from bdu, 2nd one swiped from the 80s)
November 2008 Archives
i slept in a bit and headed to best buy expecting not to find parking and for people to be killing each other over the last nintendo wii in the place. senseless slaugher, mayhem and consumerism!
well 1 out of three i guess. it was pretty tame, and the GPS i wanted was still in stock with bins to spare. i feel so misleaded by the advertisers who implied that each store would only get 30. shocked i am that they would do such a thing to lead me early (2pm) into their store!
and by sleeping in i missed this musical gem.... i am saddened indeed...
(swiped from dana)
(swiped from tintop lizzy)
it's looking very likely that i'm gonna be hopping in the car and driving either cross country, or down south. or somewhere entirely different? any ideas there either? thinking of doing route 66 again or new orleans / ybor city / miami. even though i hated the humidity in florida when i was there before, i figure it's gotta be better than ohio!!
i'm thinking of dropping 150$ on a GPS and so far everyone i've talked to has a garmin. they seem to work pretty good, but seeing if anyone else has any other opinions.
and as a bonus a GPS will make driving in pittsburgh not as bad!
in the last 3 weeks i've looked over probably 50 resumes and emails from people interested in a couple positions here. i figured with the tough economy and layoffs in the area people would have put some extra effort into polishing up their resumes to really jump out at nitpicky people like me.
the postings were for people who could do some HTML and layouts, so the layout of the resume was something i wanted to really get a good look at. so here's some resume pointers for people claiming to be able to design web sites:
- make sure you're resume isn't cut off down the right hand side. it looked like a sloppy cut/paste into word from something else.
- your sample pages shouldn't look like you ripped them off someone on geocities
- if you're gonna steal someones web site, be sure to strip out the original designers name
- if you're gonna fob off a template as yours, remove the template sites link you found it at
- yahoo's sitebuilder or whatever it's called is not a real html editor
- "my sequel" - lololol
- don't tell me "If you are using firefox as your browser some applications may not work properly". the sites i have stats on show 35-60% firefox use
- make sure the links for sample work is not a 404
some general resume pointers:
- don't put that you worked at taco bell for 15 years doing food prep, a manager okay i can see... i hope that was a typo?
- don't use frilly lacy fonts that are unreadable, even if you think they're cute
- if you list 8 jobs over 2 years, i gotta wonder how stable of an employee you are
- putting your name on your resume is important, phone # and email are nice too
- those little squiggly colored underlines in word are the spell checker saying you might have a typo
- a few power words are okay, but using them every 4 words is overkill
- don't put course numbers. i have no idea what math 256 is, i didn't go to your uni
- don't get offended if i ask to see some sample work. seriously. wtf?
i know the site is "funny or die" but i sure hope this gets on the ballot out in california
See more funny videos at Funny or Die
aids cured. some caveats on their methodology. but its progress. yay science!
Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
as always, free stickers when you vote!
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by
Jackasses." -- H. L. Mencken
that was my fortune when i logged into one of my shells tonite. how utterly appropriate on this voters eve.
