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.

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..

That is right! I saw Amish people at the Waffle House. Nice folks. Sat there with their friends (non-Amish) and cracked jokes with us. Here is a joke that one of the Amish gentlemen told me.

q: what is the Amish's favorite pastime?
a: making omelets...

Omelets is a nickname for babies in the Amish community. Or at least that is what that gentleman told me. I have seen many things at a Waffle House, now I think I have see it all there

this is the new Kevin Smith (of (a href=”http://www.viewaskew.com/”>ViewAskew) flick that he is filming. He announced the cast for it.
]]> http://sboss.com/2008/01/21/make-a-porno/feed/ 0 http://sboss.com/2007/09/25/sex-and-the-internet/ http://sboss.com/2007/09/25/sex-and-the-internet/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:10:26 +0000 sboss http://sboss.com/2007/09/25/sex-and-the-internet/ sex sells.  period.  And with sites like YouTube and MetaCafe that allows anyone to share videos with the world.  wow!

Here is one of my favorite political ads & part two.  Another video by the same girl about a miracle diet (joke).  Another one (by a different person) about tyeing a tie.  Those all were from MetaCafe since I happened to have that site open.  YouTube is even worse with stuff on it.  Anyone with a video camera, camera phone, webcam, etc can put video up on the net.

Lokesh wrote an article with 9 different common coffee drinks and how they are made.  The latte is my drink of choice.  I really like the pictures since it makes it easier for me to compare and contrast the different drinks.

We pre-moved sboss.com.  We moved most of the others today.  Brian has a few that he is doing later this weekend or this week.  sboss.net will be the last since it hosts the DNS (which no one should be using anymore), email (which it only up so people can move their mail off), and mailing list services.  Those will move this week.

hopefully within a week the stuff will be done…