Don't Sleep with the Fan on!

I am sure many of you have heard of this so-called "fan-death" (well maybe not, my parents were just paranoid). I came across this site a few weeks back and found it hilarious that my parents aren't only people who believe in this shit!

Fan Death!

HUMP Day

This was my 3rd day of work/instruction and I now know I wasn't missing much when I didn't get to celebrate Hump Day with the rest of the working class. I hope the rest of the month goes by quicker.

I am pretty neutral about the state of affairs at my new employer. But the things that are helping time pass are my fellow colleagues/students.

Yay for them!

Here is a picture of messy desk!

iCandy

Yum.

Cheating the Resume Profiling Systems?

I read this off one of my forums... dunno if it will work.

These days a lot of big companies use "resume filter" software to weed through the mass of applicants. They load key terms into this software and rate resume submissions based on how many key words any particular resume has in it.

Normally no human lays eyes on these resumes until they've gone through the filter. Here's the beauty of it.

You "upgrade" your normal resume with various key words in WHITE COLORED FONT at the bottom of your resume.

No human will ever see these key words and if you're good you will drastically increase the chance of getting your resume into a human hand.

What the normal idiot HR person sees:




What the Software filter sees:

A New Beginning

I start my new job next week. I am not really looking forward to it since I doubt I want to get up that early (8am) to drive down there, but I am looking forward to meeting new people.

My schedule is going to suck!

Good-bye social life.

The End of Tibet (Rolling Stone Article) MUST READ

While I was waiting in a doctor's office I read this article in a recent Rolling Stone.
You should really read this in its entirety. Here's an excerpt:

It has been only a few months since Zangmo and her friend fled Tibet on foot over the Himalayas to this squat, block-shaped center for Tibetan refugees in India. The two women had been imprisoned along with a group of other nuns, some for as long as sixteen years. They were first arrested in 1990 for staging a protest in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, to demonstrate their outrage over China's continuing presence in their native land. As the women chanted "Free Tibet," Chinese police moved quickly, knocking them to the ground and dragging them to jail before their protest could attract attention. Inside the prison, Chinese authorities subjected the nuns to a brutal routine. "Police stuck electric prods into my vagina and then hung me from the ceiling," Zangmo says softly. Her voice doesn't waver, but she looks away. Some of her friends lost consciousness as soon as guards pushed the cattle prods inside them, but Zangmo remained alert throughout the torture. "I was totally, totally frightened," she says.

Rolling Stone Article: The End of Tibet

Businesses I Try to Avoid

Here is a list of businesses I try to avoid purchasing from based on bad experiences in the past:

1800flowers.com

wal-mart (I used to think wal-mart was better than Target, no way!)

California Tint (in Rosemead, CA

Dell (They really don't give a shit if customers are satisfied or not because they have so much money from selling shitty computer products... for them it's quantity over quality)

Hooter's - The mediocre eye candy isn't worth the sub-par food and service.