The action and the special effects were great in the movie.  Like the Matrix, great?  nope but still good.  Plot and storyline was kinda thin.  But I dont think anyone went to that movie to see plot/storyline.  If you have a HDtv or some sort of Bigscreen, wait for the DVD.

Now not everyone lies on their resume but they do embellish a little bit.  I try not to embellish at all since I am afraid I would be called out on it.  Some people their resume is a large pack of lies.

There are a few things you have to do to get a good looking resume.

• choose your diction/prose properly.  Have a friend edit it.  Take their edits and yours and meld them together.  Then try another friend. etc.  You want to polish it off as best as you can.
• spellcheck.  bad spelling will kill your resume.
• standard document formats only.  I strongly suggest word format (not the new .docx format but standard .doc format).  Or pdf is an acceptable format most of the time.  Dont do excel, powerpoint, pagemaker, text, webpage, etc.  I would offer my resume in the .doc format and mention to the recruiter that you have it in other formats if that works best for them.  Flexible is good.  But try to work with the standards.
• find a good format/layout that is clean and neat.  Most recruiters will only spend like 15 second (maybe more) looking at your resume the first time.  They need to be able to scan it and see the right information.  if it is not well laid out then things will get missed or it will be painful for the recruiter to read.  Either way, you wont get the job.
• dont put info on the resume that doesnt need to be there.  Objective?  your object is to get a job.  Anything else you put down is part of the “bag if lies” I referred to earlier.  All it is is filler.  Also references?  skip that info.  All those people are going to be very biased for you and say you walk on water.  That might have been important twenty years ago but today it is just a waste of space.  Hobbies?  they dont care about you hobbies.  The more you have the less likely you will work extra hours when needed to.  marriage and kids?  never ever put this down.  They have no need to know about it.  All these things that are filler, are distracting to the resume reviewer (recruiter).  As someone that used to go through twenty to well over a hundred resumes a week, every week to review them for possibility of putting them in the interview cycle, I could not stand those filler blocks.  Those blocks distracted me from the meat of the resume and people could get dropped because of it.

What I used to do every quarter is have my quarterly fight with my father.  Now my father is a brilliant brilliant man.  He is not a geek in the modern day definition.  He is an Aerospace Engineer building advanced military aircraft.  So these “fights” were arguments over the diction/prose in my resume.  At the time I was a consultant and I had to keep it up to date.  He and I would argue over the smallest little change of wording or which word to use.  Yeah it put a strain on our relationship for a few days and we didnt want to talk to the other.  But what it did was give me one of the best resumes out there for someone with my experience/knowledge.  My father and I havent had that argument in a while.  although I am not looking for a new job or plan on looking for a new job, I think I should dig up the resume and start the right again with him.  the more often you update the resume, the more likely you wont forget things and there is less to do each time so it is less painful.

Harold and Kumar movie was pretty campy.  But it was what we expected.  It was just a clone of the first.  I did enjoy it but was it worth the $10?  probably not.  But I enjoyed the time at the movies this weekend.  I do think the funniest part of the movie was when they were getting high with “W“.

I prefer EMC storage over others (most of the time). I prefer Macs over Windblows crapola. And the list goes on… So I bought an used iMac off a friend of the family and I know he takes care of his macs. So unlike buying from ebay or craigslist, I dont have to worry about the gear. So far I have turned it on, patched it, and loaded a total of 5 little apps (firefox, ecto, SubEthaEdit, growl, vlc..). Hopefully work will calm down enough that I can load it up and use it as my desktop at home.

damn I love Macs!

I liked the movie. I really liked it. Is it in my top 10? nope but it was still good. KR did a good job. Along with several other big stars. Well worth the $10 for the movie.

Now here is the article about how the Supreme Court got involved with the issue in the first place. Why on earth would Child Rapist think they should live? They should know better. I am surprised that the local other inmates didnt beat them to death. I am not an expert on convicts but what little I know, they do not take kindly to child rapists.

Now I made up a rule she could not give me a birthday cake for my birthday. great! Or at least I thought. then she decided to give me a birthday key lime pie (that was my favorite desert at the time). damn it! another item on the “no birthday <insert desert> list”. And this has been going on for many year. Pies, cakes, puddings, jell-o, cookies, tarts, etc have been added, year by year. This year my mother went way in left field to get around the list. “Diet miniature easter cakes“. Hmmm she got around the list with that one.

Now you are probably thinking that I am just being a little shit about this. For the most part I am not a big sweet/desert person. Havent been for many many years. But my mother and I see this as a game. She is being on holidays and special occasions. And this game gives her something to scheme on during the year.

here is the list (I will be updating this over and over again for a little while as I remember everything on it) in no particular order:

• birthday cake
• chocolate-cherry cake-thingie (it is this german chocolate cake with chocolate icing and cherries in between layers type cake)
• keylime pie (aka green pie)
• pink pie (aka pink lemon aid pie)
• pumpkin pie
• apple pie
• cherry pie
• giant (birthday) cookie
• ice cream cake
• diet miniature easter cakes (this year’s entry)
• jell-o (any/all flavors)
• jell-o based deserts (jell-o & fruit combos, etc)
• flan
• tart
• cookies
• vanilla wafers (this is what I give to the dog for treats, and I generally have a few myself)
• candy (bars)
• chocolate
• vanilla pudding
• chocolate pudding
• butterscotch pudding
• any other flavor of pudding
• vanilla pudding (with the vanilla wafers in it)
• fried ice cream (like what is served at Mexican restraunts)

and the list keeps on growing..