Did I mention I was stupid?

I looked at an email or cover letter I sent. I removed the "resources" but left "human", so I sent Dear Human [person's name]. I suppose profanity is in order, but I'll stick with "I'm with stupid", arrow pointing to face.

on the backs of the workers

Yet another missuse of people and their abilities:
bilingual Spanish & English paid $9 per hour. Now, normally, if you are schooled and trained with a skill, like a language, you get a bump in pay. I guess they expect people to be bilingual and don't plan on playing any more for that person's ability, regarless how s/he obtained it.

putting BS to work

I saw two jobs in which the illustrious companies were offering to pay the rate of $10 per hour and one was < $8. Let's see. Applicant went to school and paid $25000 or more for a bachelors and you are willing to pay $15,500 - $20,000. If you don't get a lot of takers, understand that you want the impossible. The entry title is one catch phrase used by a company to entice people to use their degree. Um ... how?

Cosmos & Cosmos (forgotten entry)

Carl Sagan's Cosmos was an interesting show. I found them and watch them every now and then. A very interesting point made was in perception and limits. "What is the shape of the universe?" "What is the shape of time?"
Before seeing this show or shortly after seeing it in the 70s I thought some deep thoughts about limits.

In a sense, this episode delves into the bigger questions: is the universe expanding? What then is the universe's shape? If the universe is flat (remind yourself of Christopher Columbus)? At each level, all things on "lower" levels seem particularly fast, while all things on "greater" levels seem particularly slow. Is it possible that there is a cycle to what we consider existence? Each new creation then is different than the last.

Then I move on to Cosmos, a local restaurant that closed a building in a poorer section, in favor of keeping the north location. It wasn't my cup of tea, but the folks mentioned it, as they had been there on a few occasions. My father visted there more often due to golfing near there sometimes.

Let's hear it for the good folks here!

Consumer Reports is a great little magazine. Not only is it helpful, but they have growing sections that are funny. "Selling It" features poor placement and adverising, much like This is Broken site. They announce "Black Hole Awards" that are given to products and companies wasting space, like a 9 cubic foot box for an over-sized bottle of aspirin. They have the "Oyster Awards" for difficult to open packages.

This newest magazine I got, I've been a subscriber for years, is very funny. Thanks Consumer Reports and Comsumers' Union for the decades of successes and work. May Susuki bite their tongues regarding their litigations against your rightful statesments.

interesting for the wrong reasons

from the Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — Indiana had the third-highest rate of black homicides in the nation last year, trailing only Pennsylvania and Louisiana, according to a study released Monday by a nonprofit research group.

Firearms, especially handguns, were used in the overwhelming majority of the nation’s 6,644 slayings with black victims, according to the Violence Policy Center, which supports gun-control efforts. Eighty-five percent of black victims were male.

Pennsylvania recorded 29.52 homicides per 100,000 black residents in 2004, the last year for which the FBI data was available, while Louisiana followed closely behind at 29.48, and Indiana was third with 29.3.

The national rate of black homicides was 18.71 per 100,000.

The national homicide rate overall was 4.86 per 100,000, and the national rate for whites was 2.97 homicides per 100,000, the group reported.

For cases in which the weapon could be identified, 79 percent of the victims were killed with guns, and 80 percent of those deaths involved handguns, the study found.

........... article copied because by the wonders of the press, this article wasn't found on AP, so I couldn't link to it.
What you might have missed is that "black" is lower case, instead of uppercase as it is generally printed. The report isn't from last year, nor the year before, but rather 2004. Lastly, this will undoubtedly be used as a platform for a loudmouth pushy guy ... Jessie Jackson comes to mind to make some statement distantly related to something related to something important.

News Tip

If someone has to tell you he or she is God or Christ, that person is a liar! When comes needs you, you don't need to ask who God is, you know at that moment you should do it. If God approaches you, you'll know. If Jesus sits next to you and wants to reveal himself as Christ, he doesn't have to say a word.

Haven't there been enough David Koresh's, Jim Jones, and others to clearly and definitively point out that those claiming to be Jesus and the Christ are liars?

60 year old man claiming his is Christ, huh ... not shocking. The fact that stupid desperate people are following him, not shocking. Newsweek covering it, shock --- not shocking. I guess I'm done typing here.

Snow, powdery snow

It was nice having powdery snow to move, unlike the wet slush Indiana usually gets. I forgot to mention that at 7:30, my butt and the rest of me was asleep. The doorbell rang. What the? Who the? Why the? I plopped, really, out of bed and peered out the window. A lone, unfamiliar white car on the street, a person nearby. I walked downstairs, nearly tumbling, and answered the door, shirtless. The guy called out through the wind and dark, "d'ya want me ta do da dr ..."
"No!"

That guy woke my sorry tail for that? I had finally gone to sleep fairly early for me and got some rest. I actually fell back asleep after that and snoozed longer. A fierce truck was moving snow from a neighbor's drive. I think he was a son-in-law, but am unsure. Okay ... okay, I'll get moving. I drank coffee and headed out into the windy cold. After snowblowing two drives, I returned to get a scarf. The wind continually blew the snow back into my face. It was miserable.

Still, the moving was faster since it was powder.

I made chili, which I thought was going to be too spicy, but was just fine. Now, it sits and grows in my gut. I wonder if I made stomach beer? It seems to be producing gas out the top. I'm sure later it will expell out the back too.