Jay Leno's joke

"I finally saw the '40 Year Old Virgin'. It was a line of guys waiting for the Playstation 3."

 

Netflix off its rocker

Okay ... from what criteria did they pull this one?
Boy's Briefs. What did I ever rent or mark that would in any way suggest that I would want to know this exists, let alone rent it.

Netflix, on your "movies you might like", I give you an "F". Don't take this too hard, think of it as a way to improve.

Hurrah?!

I guess the one place I haven't sent an app. and resume' to are the Lake Michagan casinos, like Hurrah!

Something tells me after taxes and living costs up there, "Hurrah" isn't something I'd be saying about my paycheck.

Blown ... away?

You go here to eat and have fun. Just don't ask, "what" and repeat it with, "what".

Bell in the lobby

This is a bell made in 1883 and was originally in St. Louis. It now rests at a church. I saw this when I voted this year.

It's neat, old, and perhaps in need of repair.

sickly raised

Our chickens were coughing and hacking and died of pneumonia and didn't, therefore run around with their heads cut off, but rather slunk down and died. We make it better, for you!

What the Dell?

So, Dell isn't keeping up with it's certificate. That's interesting.

Jobs

If only I spoke Jovitos!+ There are many jobs that I just lack the experience they they "require", though many of the positions, skills required could be learned in moments and being integral to the position, likely unforgotten. I'm waiting for the job posting where they ask if I speak Bacci +

+ Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
+ Star Wars: New Hope

packers -- company confidential

I'm wondering, as I look through job postings, is this like a DeBrand's chocolate job and "Now Hiring Fudge Packers! All positions, all shifts!" that, well, doesn't draw a strong crowd clamoring for the job. Can you drive a fork? Are you fork certified? Know how to use a pallet, jack? Sort and pack fudge for the holidays. Great benefits package. Have fun packing fudge at [insert chocolate company name here].

proctology of the mouth

Generally when I speak, I'm a little abrasive when going on about some subjects, I can't use "discussing" as they entails listening. I think, as of late, I have poorly spoken and presented myself as the world's leader authority on what a cerebrial subduction-anterior colon inversion (head and arse place change) truly is. I think I think things through, but later ... thinking, perhaps for the first time, I find that I don't like what I said. "Whew! Boy! You sure can talk some [fecal matter]!"+ (++)

You talk the ++, but do you walk the ++, and better, can you smell the ++ you're putting out? The answer to this question is, "I don't know."

+ Thank You Masked Man

What I got

I did get some very useful information on money, how it works, how people get paid (including comissions which can be steep). The intersting bit, I never heard was the rule of 72.+ Another point I found was "importance of presentation".

The Indy opportunity head person stated that he felt communication and presentation were critical, more than prior knowledge of business and laws. He would train people for that. I thought it was a bunch of lines strong together that sounded pretty sinister++ I thought later about it and recylcing my experience in my mind I got this general impression:

The conference room was a small, ten person room. The white board was still smudged with some wall smudges as well. The training TV hooked to video unit (VCR/DVD) was on a composite/RCA with one jack not used (not stereo input) on small screen TV. Since this was a business that handled $4 billion in assets and the branch itself was in the top ten performers, this little bit was incongruent. I then thought about the general size of the office, NY apartment with narrow hallways and some small rooms, roughly decorated. While I didn't get the impression of unclean ... I also didn't get the impression of professional and "been there for years". The local was a small office in a remote building on a "cheaper lease" campus near Castleton. The head person's lax in speech didn't convey professionalism.

Today, the rep from Michigan wore a tie, but no jacket and was stuttering a little and had a really boring approach to selling the idea, using what looked like printouts from a powerpoint presentation. He stumbled a bit on his own language and jargon. His parting comment told me more than all the time we spent. As I declared that I was not going to dislose the name of any person (prospective clients), he asked if I knew anyone who would be suited and interested in the job he was offering to me.

Indeed presentation is very important and during today's "interview" as it were, I found myself drawn away from the guy and gave MANY non-verbal clues that he had long-since lost my interest. At one point I even tessed the waitress (server) in his mid-sentence. I have two up-coming interviews and a third possiblity in Philly, though there isn't a hurry on that.

+It's not nearly as difficult as "The Eiddle of Stel", Conan the Barbarian
++ paraphrased from Pulp Fiction

It's like this and like that and this and uh...

chill, til the next episode.

In Indy: after 4 weeks and $500, you could reccomend stock to our clients, after of course you exhaust your wondrous network of people needing your services.

In FW from a Michigan rep: after about 2 weeks and finishing a test, you can do a few things selling, then after you get your $500 license (maybe another 4 weeks), you can sell more. All the rep needed was a short list of friends and co-workers would could sit down and show how their money could be better spent and invested. Moreover, all I have to do is find six people doing what I'm doing and then I could be a branch manager here, getting money from what I sell and some from what each level below me does.

I'm not too thrilled with my last two interviews.

Mitching all the time

Okay, after years of being governor, Daniels starting doing. I thought he was Mr. Phillips' car, "That son of a ... would freeze up in the middle of summer--on the equator!"+ He did things I didn't like, spent a lot of time talking about thinking and talking about talking, but did almost nothing. Now, the lights came on and this guy is home ... starting to do things. I'll not start patting his back or shaking his hand, but doing is better than what he has been showing, which was waiting.

+Christmas Story

marijuana is a powerful drug, man

Steve Shine, known pothead, grower, user, and all around well-known guy on Fox affilitate channel in domestic abuse case. Well, media coverage ... I didn't see that coming. I wouldn't have a guess as to whether he did or didn't, but I'll lean on side of gulity stemming from his decades of pot use.

+ title paraphrased from Dave Chappelle's "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories, Rick James"

Kindergarten good and bad

The opening statement of "low income families" getting in first is terrible. What non-educators don't understand, and that encompasses those with "education backgrounds" making decisions on books and law, is that individuals might need full day and might not need full day kindergarten. Someone's financial siutaiton does not predicate nor accurately predict school performance. Some low income families have children who are "out of the box" ready for school and full day kindergarten, for all of its virtues, would not benefit them as much as half day.

It should be optional, without a doubt, that students may be full or half and and interceding faculty deciding when the "parents" can't or won't. Also ... having taught students, half day is all some kids could do for many reasons: money, transportation, child care, social integration, etc. There have been more than a few students drawn out of full day to half day. Some are drawn out, because they truly perform better at half day. This group does well because of learning out of school, where parents involve themselves in the child's development.

Some students can't hack full day and half day works better. Here's a shocker for people who don't deal with people: pre-school and kindergarteners have been arrested for drugs, assualt, sexual assault, weapons ... not all children can do full day or would you want them really in school with others.

Example: child A (kindergarten half-day) was in an urban school and pushed one child, hit another then struck the teacher. When pulled into the office, child A struck the principal and both arresting officers. Full day must be optional.

It will be a day long remembered

It has seen (made more publicly aware) the error of "No Child Left Behind" and shall soon see its welcome demise. It looked bad on paper, it was worse in practice and application. It was also being ammended to make it worse. Let us now remember this day as the time that we laid to rest the act of unfunded financial requirements.

Close poor performing schools so that those kids performing poorly there, then perform poorly in other schools, therefore making a dominoe effect worsening many, faster. If they had that policy where it mattered, like law: lawyers and politicians who aren't performing, then get closed ... hey! There we have a solution.