They wern't pregnant after all so it is okay to post this now.
me:
are you preggers?
them:
im gonna take a test tomorrow to make sure
but i think not
I've had my period
and havent done it in way long
and on the pill
its the christ child!!!!!!
ok gotta go
drink wine
and kill the christ baby
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10/26/2008 12:12 #46342
Killing Jesus with WineCategory: abortion
10/26/2008 11:13 #46338
Hiring Your In Your Networking CircleCategory: work
This is my repsonse to (e:jim,46321). I was going to make it a comment but in the interest of reaching 25,000 - its a new post.
I agree with you on most of it. Well, the part that this is what actually happens most of the time, but I don't think it is always the best approach.
As you know at my company, so many of the people hired were based on relationships with other people already working there. You can easily draw a flow chart of how most of the people were related in one way or another before working together at Roswell. I am constantly amazed at the back story for each of the people I work with. Its like watching an episode of Lost
when they do the backstories.
Unfortunately, that doesn't always work out so great. We hired a couple related people in the past that used a lot of of available resources and delivered nothing. It actually happend twice in a row.
So during the last round of hires I didn't even think about people I know and went strictly off of interviews and resumes that came from public job postings. The two programmers that I had a hand in hiring turned out to be great. They are both getting stuff done fast and figuring out stuff easily.
While I agree that hiring poeople you know is what happens most of the time, I actually think mixing a little randomness into the selection really helps development.
My own hiring (e:paul,32326) was like a random mix of randomness and relationship. One of my students found the job posting for Roswell in the Buffalo News and brought it to me so I applied randomly not knowing anyone - or so I thought. It turned out during the interview, that my to be boss's wife was a child hood friend. I like to think I was hired on my portfolio, code samples, resume and education.
Anyhow, I radically changed the way we work and if I was a yet another Buffalo State ASP classic programmer I might have just accepted the status quo.
Wasn't it the same with your new job? Imagine instead that the visual fox pro people hired their visual fox pro friends, are there any of those even around, lol? Anyways, I am sure you get what I mean.
Not that people you know can't be qualified. I just think there are so many qualified programmers out there that its a bad idea to not have public interviews to get an idea about the competition. We actually don't have a choice about this being a government institution so at least we always get resumes from those related and those not to compare.
Universities recognize this too. The reason you traditionally cannot be hired by your Alma Mater is because they figure you ascribe to the same techiques and doctrine as the people who you studied under. If you are hired the ideas never really change and evolve as rapidly as they would with fresh blood.
Moreover, I find it way easier to work with new people that I do not know whatsoever, as I am not as concerned about hurting their feelings or they about mine.
Still I think you are right that most hiring is based on relationships/connections.
I agree with you on most of it. Well, the part that this is what actually happens most of the time, but I don't think it is always the best approach.
As you know at my company, so many of the people hired were based on relationships with other people already working there. You can easily draw a flow chart of how most of the people were related in one way or another before working together at Roswell. I am constantly amazed at the back story for each of the people I work with. Its like watching an episode of Lost

Unfortunately, that doesn't always work out so great. We hired a couple related people in the past that used a lot of of available resources and delivered nothing. It actually happend twice in a row.
So during the last round of hires I didn't even think about people I know and went strictly off of interviews and resumes that came from public job postings. The two programmers that I had a hand in hiring turned out to be great. They are both getting stuff done fast and figuring out stuff easily.
While I agree that hiring poeople you know is what happens most of the time, I actually think mixing a little randomness into the selection really helps development.
My own hiring (e:paul,32326) was like a random mix of randomness and relationship. One of my students found the job posting for Roswell in the Buffalo News and brought it to me so I applied randomly not knowing anyone - or so I thought. It turned out during the interview, that my to be boss's wife was a child hood friend. I like to think I was hired on my portfolio, code samples, resume and education.
Anyhow, I radically changed the way we work and if I was a yet another Buffalo State ASP classic programmer I might have just accepted the status quo.
Wasn't it the same with your new job? Imagine instead that the visual fox pro people hired their visual fox pro friends, are there any of those even around, lol? Anyways, I am sure you get what I mean.
Not that people you know can't be qualified. I just think there are so many qualified programmers out there that its a bad idea to not have public interviews to get an idea about the competition. We actually don't have a choice about this being a government institution so at least we always get resumes from those related and those not to compare.
Universities recognize this too. The reason you traditionally cannot be hired by your Alma Mater is because they figure you ascribe to the same techiques and doctrine as the people who you studied under. If you are hired the ideas never really change and evolve as rapidly as they would with fresh blood.
Moreover, I find it way easier to work with new people that I do not know whatsoever, as I am not as concerned about hurting their feelings or they about mine.
Still I think you are right that most hiring is based on relationships/connections.
10/25/2008 20:23 #46331
Food ContrastCategory: food
Anyone who has eaten army rations knows how discusting they are. I have this distict memory of turkey cubes in gravy. Anyways, we were at the Uncle Sams Army Navy
surplus the other day looking for costumes and they have a multitude of rations for sale. Who the fuck buys and eats rations for fun? You couldn't pay me. To make it even crazier, they were so expensive. Check out this tray of potatoes and gravy for $30 freakin dollars.

I was also grossed out by the dustiness of the used gas masks. I mean how do you know what they are covered in?


So I didn't find a costume. I am now down to the toga idea.
On the other end of the spectrum was this yummy lunch special from Saigon on Elmwood.



I was also grossed out by the dustiness of the used gas masks. I mean how do you know what they are covered in?


So I didn't find a costume. I am now down to the toga idea.
On the other end of the spectrum was this yummy lunch special from Saigon on Elmwood.

10/25/2008 19:52 #46330
Reusable shopping bagsWe decided it was time to break down and buy the reusable wegman's
bags. They are $.99 per bag and we got 8. Now to see if we can
remember to bring them each time.

janelle - 10/25/08 22:09
We keep them in the trunk of our car. When we walk through the parking lot to the store we see others with their bags and then we remember to turn back and get ours.
(e:Libertad), I've never had anyone wrap things in plastic and put them in our bag. How funny.
We keep them in the trunk of our car. When we walk through the parking lot to the store we see others with their bags and then we remember to turn back and get ours.
(e:Libertad), I've never had anyone wrap things in plastic and put them in our bag. How funny.
tinypliny - 10/25/08 20:27
Don't you think the woman in the background looks really anxious?? I wonder why...
Don't you think the woman in the background looks really anxious?? I wonder why...
libertad - 10/25/08 19:56
Wait and see how often the cashiers will wrap things you are buying in plastic bags and then put in the reusable bag. It happens to me almost every time I go.
Wait and see how often the cashiers will wrap things you are buying in plastic bags and then put in the reusable bag. It happens to me almost every time I go.
10/24/2008 13:58 #46303
Fatty Asshole, Carny Teen TransferCategory: science
I am working on the new surebert toolkit while (e:terry) listens to his BioChemsitry class online. I swear it sounds like she keeps talking about a "fatty asshole, carny teen" but I think it is something else.
I have been working on the toolkit for like four days now. I think today is the last day.
Here is a fun pic form halloween 1994. What was (e:iriesara), raggedy ann or a prostitute? What was I? What was Heather?

Here is the up close.

I have been working on the toolkit for like four days now. I think today is the last day.
Here is a fun pic form halloween 1994. What was (e:iriesara), raggedy ann or a prostitute? What was I? What was Heather?

Here is the up close.

lilho - 10/25/08 22:29
still laughing...
still laughing...
lilho - 10/25/08 22:28
holy crap! fatty asshole carny teen! i haven't laughed that hard in a while, thanks!
holy crap! fatty asshole carny teen! i haven't laughed that hard in a while, thanks!
iriesara - 10/25/08 13:25
I think that you thought you were like a punk rock dude, and I think heather was some kind of warrior. which is funny because Elijah is going to be a samurai this year.
I think that you thought you were like a punk rock dude, and I think heather was some kind of warrior. which is funny because Elijah is going to be a samurai this year.
iriesara - 10/25/08 13:23
I was totally a prostitute. whore is always an easy last-minute costume for a girl. went a little nuts with the rouge, though, apparently
I was totally a prostitute. whore is always an easy last-minute costume for a girl. went a little nuts with the rouge, though, apparently
terry - 10/24/08 14:40
for the record no carnie assholes were harmed in the course of this lecture...
She was actually talking about carnitine-acyl-transferase :::link::: which is involved in transporting fatty acids from the cytosol into mitochondrion for eventual oxidtation. Fun times!
for the record no carnie assholes were harmed in the course of this lecture...
She was actually talking about carnitine-acyl-transferase :::link::: which is involved in transporting fatty acids from the cytosol into mitochondrion for eventual oxidtation. Fun times!
I thought you where going as the Lead Singer of queen also. You could have got the gas mask then went to a sex store and got a plastic or leather suit to go with it and been a fetish dude or what ever that fetish is with the bag.
Maybe people bring rations on camping trips? Brr.
I second Freddie Mercury.
- Z
But weren't you going to dress as Freddie Mercury?? You really do look like him!