Saturday, May 31, 2008
Why we need to leave
Tens of thousands of Iraqis protested in a number of cities Friday against the proposed agreement between the puppet regime of Nouri al-Maliki and the Bush administration that would codify a long-term US military occupation.
They don't want us there so let's leave. They didn't have WMD's so let's leave. If the people of Iraq really wanted Saddam out of power let them die for it no our soldiers. Take our troops out of Iraq, bring them to Afghanistan and get the ones who attacked us.
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They don't want us there so let's leave. They didn't have WMD's so let's leave. If the people of Iraq really wanted Saddam out of power let them die for it no our soldiers. Take our troops out of Iraq, bring them to Afghanistan and get the ones who attacked us.
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Stupid Secretary
Originally posted to the sidebar by "snoofle"...
This morning, I had to deal with one of our HR secretaries, and it was déjà vu.
When I first started to work for this place I was in HR. I had passed my interviews and was doing paperwork as part of the hiring process. The HR secretary and I had the following conversation:
Her: Can I have the phone number of the consulting company where you worked for the past 6 years?
Me: I was self employed. I am the owner and sole employee of the consulting company and I would be happy to answer any questions you have.
Her: No, I need to call to verify!
Me: ...But you'll just be calling me.
Her: I have to call — what's the number?
Me: The number of the office is [my cell number].
(note: I'm standing 2 feet directly in front of her. She dials the phone and I answer.)
Her: Hello — this is Paula from Initrode Global, calling in reference to Snoofle's employment.
Me (both into the cell phone and to her): I know, I'm standing right in front of you.
Her (into the phone): Could you please verify the dates of Snoofle's employment at VirtuDyne, Intelligenuity and Initech?
Me (reading from my résumé that is laying on her desk in front of her): VirtuDyne: a1 to b1, Intelligenuity: a2 to b2, and Initech: a3 to b3.
Her: Great, thank you! *click*
Me (directly to her): ...Did you not notice that you were talking to me right here in front of you?
Her: I know, but I have to call to check these things.
At this point I walked away, wondering if the rest of the company would be just as WTF-y.
This morning, I had to deal with one of our HR secretaries, and it was déjà vu.
When I first started to work for this place I was in HR. I had passed my interviews and was doing paperwork as part of the hiring process. The HR secretary and I had the following conversation:
Her: Can I have the phone number of the consulting company where you worked for the past 6 years?
Me: I was self employed. I am the owner and sole employee of the consulting company and I would be happy to answer any questions you have.
Her: No, I need to call to verify!
Me: ...But you'll just be calling me.
Her: I have to call — what's the number?
Me: The number of the office is [my cell number].
(note: I'm standing 2 feet directly in front of her. She dials the phone and I answer.)
Her: Hello — this is Paula from Initrode Global, calling in reference to Snoofle's employment.
Me (both into the cell phone and to her): I know, I'm standing right in front of you.
Her (into the phone): Could you please verify the dates of Snoofle's employment at VirtuDyne, Intelligenuity and Initech?
Me (reading from my résumé that is laying on her desk in front of her): VirtuDyne: a1 to b1, Intelligenuity: a2 to b2, and Initech: a3 to b3.
Her: Great, thank you! *click*
Me (directly to her): ...Did you not notice that you were talking to me right here in front of you?
Her: I know, but I have to call to check these things.
At this point I walked away, wondering if the rest of the company would be just as WTF-y.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
The Wreck
Well it's been three weeks since my motorcycle wreck. If your wondering why I haven't written about it yet, well I didn't feel like it. Anyway here's my story. Well as best as I can remember it anyway.
It's Sunday 05/04/08 about 1:00pm and my friend Ricky called me to go motorcycle riding. "Sure why not." We don't get to ride too much together, it was a pretty day, and I finally had put new tires on the bike. (Ross wasn't going with us because he was going to ride bicycles with his brother.) We started out by supplying, read going to get cigarettes and gas. The necessities.
Anyway we had no idea where we were going, no planned route except we were going to go drive out to Camp Edgewood Road. After being on Highway 378 and crossing Highway 171 we got onto Goss Road. This a pretty familiar road to us. Ross's chick used to live down here, and I've ridden it and driven it many times. Anyway as we are about to approach Frontier Road before it turns into Paul Bellon Road I took a spill. All I remember is seeing the sign for a curve and a brown/tan car passing me going the other way at the start of the curve. Apparently this is when my memory gets fuzzy.
To be Continued...
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Leaky New Orleans levee alarms experts
Despite more than $22 million in repairs, a levee that broke with catastrophic effect during Hurricane Katrina is leaking again because of the mushy ground on which New Orleans was built, raising serious questions about the reliability of the city's flood defenses.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Guess what this pic is.
Leave a comment and guess what this is. Bonus for guessing what is being done to the object.
An honest post on Craigslist. This is real.
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Unemployed chick seeking somebody to entertain me - 29 (Orlando)
Reply to: pers-682638837@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-05-16, 1:35AM EDT
You're probably already thinking I'm a woman with missing teeth, sitting in her trailer park with her 15 cats, desperately trying to get "Dancing With the Stars" to come in while I mess with the bunny ears on the TV I fished out of the dumpster, all while I'm screaming at my bastard children who are running around naked with ten-day-old Kool-Aid mustaches.
Close. Well, not really.
I'm a 29-year-old female with two college degrees. One of them was obtained from Full Sail, so you'll probably understand immediately why I am unemployed. I have my own apartment in a complex that looks really nice and well-kept and sweeps the monthly murders under the rug. I only have one cat, who I am training to use the toilet. I have a TV, but I'm thinking of cutting the cable because, well, I'm unemployed and TV sucks, anyway. I have no children and I don't want children. When I am employed, I enjoy spending the disposable income on things like vacations and restaurants, not on people who will take advantage of me and then hate me in the long-run.
I have been spending my days cruising for jobs on Careerbuilder and Craigslist, even though I'm beginning to think 95% of the jobs on Craigslist are a scam and I will probably begin receiving timeshare information in the mail. Sometimes I even venture outside. There's a pond outside my front door, and the ducks amuse me.
I am broke so I like to go to Barnes and Noble for a few hours, read a book, and then head into the bathroom and cry because I am too poor to purchase a Vanilla Latte from the adjoining Starbucks. Some nights I go dumpster diving behind local businesses, hoping to score something major. All I've come away with so far is a box of kitty litter, but it gives me an adrenaline rush and makes me feel like MacGyver.
My lack of finances has isolated me from my friends, who get to go downtown and drink or see the same movies in theaters that I download at home for free.
Basically, I'm looking for a guy who will keep me entertained. I don't care if you are broke like me, and if you are not broke and want to take me to dinner, that is also fine. I have a cabinet stocked with white rice and ramen. I have an old XBox and a Super Nintendo. If you want, we can play "GTA Vice City" and beat up prostitutes together. I also enjoy going to tourist areas and laughing at the foreigners who wear bright yellow sneakers and soccer jerseys.
I typically like white guys who wear glasses. I don't know what it is about glasses, but they are such a turn-on. I also like psuedo-intellectuals who think they are smart, even if they aren't. I'm a conspiracy theorist, so if you want to feed into my paranoia, that is appreciated.
If you're not a white guy with glasses, it's ok. Hopefully you have a dynamic personality to make up for it.
I should probably mention here that I'm fat. Not grotesquely so, and I keep up with myself. I'm flexible and can get up off the couch. I don't smell like cheese and I don't need baby powder to keep my thighs from chafing. Poverty is making me lose weight, anyway.
If interested, email me. No serial killers or hardcore drug addicts, please. I'm sure you are interesting, but I want to live to see the end of the world.
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Reply to: pers-682638837@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-05-16, 1:35AM EDT
You're probably already thinking I'm a woman with missing teeth, sitting in her trailer park with her 15 cats, desperately trying to get "Dancing With the Stars" to come in while I mess with the bunny ears on the TV I fished out of the dumpster, all while I'm screaming at my bastard children who are running around naked with ten-day-old Kool-Aid mustaches.
Close. Well, not really.
I'm a 29-year-old female with two college degrees. One of them was obtained from Full Sail, so you'll probably understand immediately why I am unemployed. I have my own apartment in a complex that looks really nice and well-kept and sweeps the monthly murders under the rug. I only have one cat, who I am training to use the toilet. I have a TV, but I'm thinking of cutting the cable because, well, I'm unemployed and TV sucks, anyway. I have no children and I don't want children. When I am employed, I enjoy spending the disposable income on things like vacations and restaurants, not on people who will take advantage of me and then hate me in the long-run.
I have been spending my days cruising for jobs on Careerbuilder and Craigslist, even though I'm beginning to think 95% of the jobs on Craigslist are a scam and I will probably begin receiving timeshare information in the mail. Sometimes I even venture outside. There's a pond outside my front door, and the ducks amuse me.
I am broke so I like to go to Barnes and Noble for a few hours, read a book, and then head into the bathroom and cry because I am too poor to purchase a Vanilla Latte from the adjoining Starbucks. Some nights I go dumpster diving behind local businesses, hoping to score something major. All I've come away with so far is a box of kitty litter, but it gives me an adrenaline rush and makes me feel like MacGyver.
My lack of finances has isolated me from my friends, who get to go downtown and drink or see the same movies in theaters that I download at home for free.
Basically, I'm looking for a guy who will keep me entertained. I don't care if you are broke like me, and if you are not broke and want to take me to dinner, that is also fine. I have a cabinet stocked with white rice and ramen. I have an old XBox and a Super Nintendo. If you want, we can play "GTA Vice City" and beat up prostitutes together. I also enjoy going to tourist areas and laughing at the foreigners who wear bright yellow sneakers and soccer jerseys.
I typically like white guys who wear glasses. I don't know what it is about glasses, but they are such a turn-on. I also like psuedo-intellectuals who think they are smart, even if they aren't. I'm a conspiracy theorist, so if you want to feed into my paranoia, that is appreciated.
If you're not a white guy with glasses, it's ok. Hopefully you have a dynamic personality to make up for it.
I should probably mention here that I'm fat. Not grotesquely so, and I keep up with myself. I'm flexible and can get up off the couch. I don't smell like cheese and I don't need baby powder to keep my thighs from chafing. Poverty is making me lose weight, anyway.
If interested, email me. No serial killers or hardcore drug addicts, please. I'm sure you are interesting, but I want to live to see the end of the world.
* Location: Orlando
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Saturday, May 17, 2008
McCain Urges Sudan Divestment -- After Wife Dumps Her Holdings
Republican presidential hopeful John McCain urged Americans to sell off any investments they have in Sudan -- after media reports revealed his wife had millions invested in funds owning stock in firms which reportedly did business with Sudan.
Cindy McCain has sold off those holdings, McCain confirmed Wednesday, and said he and his wife had not known the funds had ties to the Sudanese regime, which has armed and supported militias considered responsible for killing, raping and torturing hundreds of thousands of civilians in the country's Darfur region.
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I just don't trust McCain. Do you? Leave a comment.
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