Libertine: On the Prowl
Vidi, vici, veni -- I saw, I conquered, I came. _______________________________________________________________
Don't Call Us, We'll Call You
[FONT="Verdana"]While in the drive-thru of a fast food restaurant last night, I noticed a large Help Wanted sign next to the pick-up window. At the bottom of the sign, in bold letters, was: "Do Not Call Back to Check On The Status Of Your Application".This made me think of lists of job hunting tips I've read over the years. Every one of these lists has, without exception, strongly advised job seekers to make return calls after applying for jobs. The reasoning for this was to show the employer your sincere interest in the job and as a way to make oneself stand out from the other applicants, which would, presumably, give one a better chance of getting an interview, or getting the job after one had already been interviewed.
This was one tip I'd always felt uncomfortable with, even though I understand the reasoning behind it. I always felt like a pest calling back after I'd applied for a job, feeling as if I was begging for the job. I thought I'd make myself stand out, all right, but as an annoyance, rather than as a go-getter.
And in today's economic climate, I can understand why an employer would ask that people not make such calls. With even the crappiest jobs getting applications in the triple digits, if everyone was making repeated call-backs to check the status of their applications, the business wouldn't get much work other work done. This is especially true for small employers who do not have a separate personnel department.
But it still leaves a question -- how does a person make themself stand out from the 900 other schlubs who have also applied for this McJob if they are barred from further communication with the employer? To me, "Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" has always been synonymous with being brushed off, never with being a prelude to being hired.
I was grateful yet again to have a job, though it's nothing special.
Thoughts?[/FONT]
Pretty Girls Are a Dime a Dozen
Unless you're living under a rock, you've heard the story of Susan Boyle, a contestant who recently appeared on Britain's Got Talent.Because of the 47 year old's unpolished, matronly appearance and manner, people in the audience openly mocked her as she took the stage. Similarly, the judges on stage, which included American Idol's, Simon Cowell, expected little to no musical talent from this contestant.
That all changed once she'd sung a few bars of I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables. Cowell's jaw dropped at Boyle's phenomenal talent and all the pin-headed morons in the audience suddenly shut their traps and later gave Boyle a much-deserved standing ovation.
Good for her. Kudos to her for shutting up Simon Cowell for once in his life and for showing the audience that musical talent -- or talent of any kind -- is not tied to a person's appearance. She has yet again proven the truth of the old saying, "Don't judge a book by cover.".
Putting his money where his mouth is, Simon Cowell is reported to be setting up a contract with Boyle with his SyCo Music company label, a subsidiary of Sony Music.
With a talent like Boyle's, it doesn't (or shouldn't) matter what she looks like. She's the real deal. The entertainment world is chock full of pretty girls with only the barest modicum of singing talent, but a talent like Boyle's is a rarity and should be valued for the treasure it is.
Indeed, the outer packaging is of supreme importance for the dime-a-dozen bimbo singers, precisely because their talent is mediocre at best, and the flashy appearance is to make audiences forget their less than stellar vocal skills.
As far as I'm concerned, the singing world needs more Susan Boyles and fewer Ashlee Simpsons.
Mysterious Annoying Calls
I got a new cell phone number about a month ago, a number which the company informed me was a recycled number. That is, they were re-using the number of a previous customer.
Since getting this number I’ve not given it out to anyone but my son and my employer.
About a week ago, I started getting phone calls from an 866 number and they’ve called me every single day since, except for on Sunday. Because I don’t have an unlimited minutes plan, I normally do not answer numbers that I do not recognize and this number was no exception.
I ended up answering it twice, as I was expecting calls at both times, and had forgotten to look to see who was calling before answering. Each time, no one replied to me after I said “hello”. All I could hear was canned elevator music on the other end, but no voice.
Because I didn’t want minutes eaten up by listening to unsolicited Muzak, I hung up when no person responded to my “hello”. I wasn’t about to sit there for five minutes going, “Hello! Hello! Hello!”.
I’ve ceased answering when they call, but the calls do not stop. Nor do they ever leave any sort of a message.
I’d just ignore this crap and forget about it, but their first call comes early in the morning before I’m ready to get up. It’s really gotten old and I want it to stop.
I went to a reverse lookup online and found that it belongs to a collection agency. I can’t think of anyone I’m behind in with my bills, nor have I gotten anything in the mail to indicate such a problem.
It also seems very strange to me that on the two times I did answer that no one would speak and I’m wondering what the fuck the deal is? In my experience a legitimate debt collector is going to speak when you answer the phone.
I’m guessing that if there is some legitimate reason behind the calls, which I seriously doubt, that these calls “belong” to the previous user of my phone number. I’ll have to see if the cell phone company will block this number for me.
Have any of you had anything simlar to this happen to you?
Self Censoring Readers
Recently, I overheard two women at work talking about the books they’d read. One mentioned to the other about a novel she’d read where the main plot was about one woman’s adulterous affair. She asked the other woman if she wanted to borrow the book. The other woman declined, stating she didn’t want to read about such things because she thought adultery was immoral.
I rolled my eyes at this, thinking this woman must be very limited if she restricted herself from reading books about topics she didn’t agree with, even if it was fiction. What was this woman afraid of, I wondered. Did she think if she read a story about adultery, that she would suddenly want to have an affair?
People read about things all the time that they’d never do in real life. Mysteries and crime novels are quite popular with a lot of people, but it doesn’t mean that such people approve of murder or will suddenly go on a killing spree because they like reading a good mystery.
It really boggles my mind at how depressingly narrow-minded so many people can be.
Another Mouth to Feed
Give a whole new meaning to the expression "Another mouth to feed", huh?
Marriage and Children
Many people who oppose same-sex marriage base their opposition on their belief that the purpose of marriage is to provide a legal structure in which to raise children, preferably of their own biological origin.But I believe that issues concerning children and those concerning marriage should be viewed as separately for a couple of reasons.
One is the fact that people marry for a wide variety of reasons these days with almost no one marrying for the single purpose of raising children. People most often marry now for love and because they want to share their lives as a legally and socially recognized unit. And though many people would be happy to just live together to achieve those goals, they enter into legal marriage in order to gain the myriad legal benefits that come with making their union official.
Though most people do have children, it's almost never their sole reason for getting married in the first place. It's not as if couples who love one another but who don't want to or can't have children decide to simply remain friends because of that fact.
People who have no intention of having children, along with infertile people and people past reproductive age get married all the time, and no one is clamoring to remove their legal rights to do so -- as long as they are heterosexual, of course.
Secondly, the law no longer distinguishes between children born to married parents and those born to unmarried parents. "Illegitimacy" has not been a legal status for non-marital children since the late 60s. The law now focuses on how children relate to their parents, rather than so much on how their parents relate to each other.
Hence, this makes opposition to same sex marriage for the "marriage is for having children" reason moot and invalid.
Disgusting Internet Ads
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What’s up with all the disgusting, puke-inducing internet ads I’m seeing everywhere on the net lately.
You know the ones: magnified, close-up pictures of yellow teeth, toe fungus, severe acne, distorted photoshopped photos of belly fat, animated asses that swell and reduce over and over, and the like.
Such ads are always placed front and center, where you can’t avoid them by averting your eyes. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to have a magnified picture of toe rot staring me in the face when I’m trying to read a website.
Most of these ads have the clickable words “learn more” below the nasty image being foisted upon us. Learn more? I’m already nauseated having seen the first picture. Do these idiots think I’m going to click to go se more pictures, so I can make sure to lose my lunch?
I understand that those selling products to cure these various problems have a right to advertise. But do they have to show us graphic, billboard-size images of the “before” pictures? People who have these problems and who could benefit from the products know what it looks like and don’t need to see it plastered all over the internet any more than the rest of us do.
Pardon me while I go blow some chunks.
Three Stooges Movie
As a kid in the sixties and seventies, I grew up watching The Three Stooges on TV every afternoon after school. I must have seen every episode dozens of times. Even now, I could accurately reproduce the opening music for each episode, as the tune is burned into my brain.My friends and I would imitate Moe and Curly, with one doing the eye jabs, and the other putting up a hand between our eyes to block it. We'd do some of the other gestures, such as Moe slowly raising his hand in front of Curly, whose eyes would follow it up, and who would then be surprised brought it down suddenly to slap him on the face.
We'd do Curly's "woob, woob, woob, woob, woob, woob,", "nyuk, nyuk, nyuk", "wiseguy, eh ?", and his high pitched hum: "la da DEEEEEEE, la, la, la, la, deee". And naturally we'd try his breakdance-like thing of lying on the floor and spinning ourselves around in circles.
I've missed watching the Stooges, as I've never gotten around to buying their DVDs.
I heard the other day that a Three Stooges movie, which will be a modern version of the 1930s and 40s episodes, will be released in 2010. Jim Carrey will play Curly, with Sean Penn as Larry, and Benecio Del Toro as Moe. I think Carrey will be great as Curly, though he'll have to gain quite a bit of weight or put on a fat suit to pull it off. The other two I'm not so sure of, but perhaps Carrey can carry the entire movie if the other two prove to be miscast.
The movie will be released some time in 2010.
Miscellaneous Thoughts
Pardon my lack of entries, but things have been a little hectic around here. I'm kind of distracted, so this will be an equally distracted entry of the odds and ends variety as I've not had much sleep in the last two days and I'm not up to concentrating very much tonight.
So, on to the disjointed snippets of thought in my mind
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Inane expression of the day
"Pop", used to mean "stand out". As in, "That purple scarf really makes her outfit pop". What? Is she made of popcorn and the scarf is a microwave oven?? This inane jargon-y buzzword needs to finish its 15 minutes, fast
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I noticed that a bird chirping in my yard today made the sound: "Wurty, wurty, wurty". Does anyone have any idea what kind of bird would make this sound?
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Stupid commercial of the day
Chick-Fil-A has an extremely lame radio commercial. One hears a "Clickety, clickety, clickety" sound interspersed with an occaisonal "ding!" sound. The clickety sound is the sound of a 70s era phone being repeatedly jostled by someone who isn't able to pick up the ear/mouthpiece part, but keeps bumping it. Then there's a voiceover telling us that cows are trying to call somewhere to tell people to eat more chicken. This is followed by mooing and more jostling.
It makes me wonder if the latest ad agency trend is to ttry to sound as moronic as possible, as it would seem so if the current crops of fast food ads are any indication.
Well, that's about it for tonight. I have a longer entry in mind, but I won't write it until I'm rested enough to concentrate properly on it.
The Cure Could Be Worse Than the Illness
Nearly every day, I hear a commercial on the radio promoting a nasal spray for seasonal allergy symptoms. According to the product's website, the spray is supposed to help:* sneezing
* congestion
* itchy nose
* runny nose
* red eyes
* itchy eyes
* watery eyes
The site also lists the possible side effects, which are:
* nosebleed
* nasal sores
* nasal fungal infection.
Eye problems also may occur including
* glaucoma
* cataracts
After reading about all the possible side effects of this medication, I think I'd rather just take my chances with sneezing, congestion, and so on. They are, after all, minor problems, much less serious that the side effects the medication might generate. Your mileage may vary, but that's my take on it.
Relationship ADD
The other day, I was visiting a lover I don't see all that regularly, and she told me that I have "Relationship ADD", because I flit from relationship to relationship, with little interest in settling down with one woman.After I finished laughing my ass off, I conceded that she was probably right and that referring to my wandering ways as such was really rather clever.
I thought about it a little, and realized that one of the prime reasons I tend to move on from any particular relationship is boredom; once I've pretty well gotten all the mystery out of a particular relationship and my partner has become fairly predictable, my attention wanders and I lose interest. Rarely do my relationships break up because of anger or hard feelings; they die from lost interest and benign neglect.
And like those with ADD who jump from one thing to another, I've long been happy with having several lovers concurrently; when one gets boring, I go visit another, so I that I don't get terminally bored with any particular one permanently too soon.
Nevertheless, this type of ADD is one that I have no interest in "curing".
Physical Fitness vs Mental Fitness
Alternet has once again kindly provided me with some blogging fodder. Author Suzie Orbach, in the article We Are in the Midst of a Cultural Explosion Tied to 'Improving' the Body, stated that:A new rhetoric of detox, weight training, brushing, irrigation and cleansing has arisen, and along with it the idea that the body can be perfected.
My response to this article follows below:
Physical Fitness vs. Mental Fitness
Everywhere we go these days, the media bombards us with admonishments to improve our physical fitness. There are rants against the overweight, being couch potatoes, and so on, that take the tone of moral indignity not unlike that of a fundamentalist preacher railing against sinners going to hell. If you are fat, sedentary, or otherwise not going for the burn, you are a Bad Person, regardless of whatever other good you may be doing in life.
Oddly enough, however, there is no similar hue and cry about the declining level of mental fitness in our country; at least, not anywhere near the level of hand-wringing that goes on about physical fitness.
You can't go through a supermarket checkout line without seeing tabloids and magazines ragging on the physically unfit on a weekly basis. But you never see headlines about the dumbing down of our schools, the decline of science education during the Bush years, the decline of reading for pleasure, and so on.
While eating right and regular moderate exercise are both good things worth pursuing, they are not moral issues and they are most certainly not more important than maintaining one's mental fitness. The brain, like the body, also is a "use it or lose it" kind of a deal.
After eight years of a dimwitted president and a decline in education, it's time that mental fitness was put back on the front burner again. While people can get by with a moderate level of physical fitness -- not everyone needs to train to the level of a triathlete -- there's no such thing as too much mental fitness.
A Fantasy Brought To Life
Nadya Vessey, a double amputee since childhood, now has a unique new proshetic to help her swim better.It's a mermaid tail.
A couple of years ago, she wrote to the prosthetic department of a special effects company, Weta Workshop. Weta made the mermaids' tails for the 2003 version of Peter Pan.
"We have, over the years, done a number of things like this for people that have disabilities," a member of the Weta prosthetics department said.
The tail they made for Vessey was covered in a wetsuit fabric with added digitally-printed fish scales on it. The tail has four sections that allow some movement.
Pretty cool, huh?
Misanthrope
I've not ragged on Neal Boortz in awhile, so here goes. I've come to the conclusion that he is a complete misanthrope; he hates everyone who isn't just like him.His latest target? Elderly people who live part time in Florida, aka, "Snow Birds".
While enduring one of his broadcasts the other night, he went on a tear about retirees who come to Florida when it's cold up north, and go back home in the summer.
What were the reasons the nearly sixty-five year old Boortz gave? He complained about how many old people drive: too slow, too cautious, etc, insisting that their licenses needed to immediately be taken from them. While it is true that many old people don't need to be driving any more, that isn't the point of this entry, so I'll confine myself to saying that a better strategy to be to create reliable and alternative ways for such people to get around and to expand low-cost deliveries of essential items, such as groceries. I'm guessing he either doesn't realize or doesn't care that many old people don't have anyone to run their errands for them, take them to the doctor, and so on. I agree that something needs to be done, but merely howling "take their licenses!" and leaving it at that, does nothing to solve the problem in a meaningful way.
That being said, he used this as an example of why he hates "Snow Birds". Well, there are a lot of old people in Florida, many of them living there year round, but he didn't have anything to say about elderly people who are permanent Florida residents. Does he think living in one state automatically improves driving skills? Or does he think that bad driving is excusable in that instance?
His second reason for hating "Snow Birds" was...if you can actually believe it...because many elderly people get a cart when they go into the grocery store to buy only a couple of items. Boortz couldn't stand that such people "used the carts as a walker" by leaning over them as they walked through the store. He was of the opinion that if you are going into the store for only a couple of items, then you had no business getting a cart.
What a fucking ass. Did it ever occur to him that a person who does this might have a bad back and that using the cart saves them from a lot of pain? I'm surprised he didn't rag on the folks who use store scooters or shoppers in wheelchairs as well.
I guess he longs for the "good old days" when people with physical challenges simply stayed home, out of sight, and didn't inconvenience healthier people in a hurry.
What a miserable human being this guy must be.
Snow
We hadn't had any snow this winter in my town. There had been plenty of cold days, but none of the white stuff. Usually, my town gets a snowfall or two every year, but I figured we weren't getting any this year.The trees in my yard were budding, I'd begun getting bird shit on my car, and the other night I heard crickets chirping. I figured that spring was here, despite it being February.
Winter wasn't quite done yet. Late this afternoon, it began to snow, and I don't mean flurries, either. It fell for a few hours, quickly accumulating, accompanied by thunder and lightning at times -- thundersnow! Unfortunately, because we get so little snow, our town isn't equipped to prepare the roads for safe driving in snow. I had to run out to get some cat food, and I had to slip and slide my way down to the store. Fortunate few cars were out and about, though I passed an SUV who'd gotten stuck.
As of this writing, at around 1030 pm, we're expecting another wave of snow to last until morning, and we're supposed to get about 5 inches or so by then.
It's supposed to get up into the mid-40s tomorrow, so the snow will be gone by this time tomorrow. It was nice to see, even if a bit late in the season. Too bad it didn't come on Christmas Eve.
Barking Dogs
I've written about cat communication before, so here is one about dogs. Over the years, I've noticed a variety of different types of barking among the various kinds of dogs. Following is a list of the most common types of dog barking. Feel free to add any I've missed.WOOF -- typical among large dogs, a deep throated, full bodied bark.
RUFF -- similar to woof, but more typical of medium sized dogs, not as full bodied
BARK -- yes, there are some dogs whose bark actually sounds like the word "bark". Typical among medium to small dogs. Typically done multiple times at a fast pace.
ROOOK -- I had a friend whose collie made this sound -- I've not heard it in other breeds. Typically done multiple times, in a punctuated, staccato manner
BUH-ROW-ROW-ROW-ROW -- What I call the "burrow" bark. Done by small dogs, typically when someone knocks on the front door of their home
YIP -- Done by tiny dogs in an endless loop.
YIPE -- Similar to yip, but done in distress
WUH-WOH-WOH-WOH-WOH -- Similar to the "burrow" bark, but done by medium sized dogs.
That's about all I could come up with.
Which Were Animal Would You Be?
Your result for Which Were Animal Would You Be? Test...
You are a Were-Leopard!
60% leopard, 50% wolf, 40% horse, 50% tiger, 40% rat, 40% fox and 20% bear!
Leopards are predators. They are solitary animals that like to hunt at night, although they have been known to stalk prey during the daylight hours at times. They love sitting in tree branches hanging out and watching what goes on in their territory.
Leopards are the only large cats that are not monogamous. They like playing the field and living the high life of the jungle. They are stealthy and sneak up on their prey. They definitely like to do things on their own without help from their peers. Leopards only tolerate each other when the mating instinct hits them.
Leopards are also very strong and can lift up to three times their own weight.
As a were-leopard you definitely won't be enjoying a vegetarian life-style. You'll be taking your meat a little on the rare side...very rare.
Take Which Were Animal Would You Be? Test at HelloQuizzy
A Smoking Rant
I work with a lot of people in their early 20s. And it seems nearly all of them smoke, almost without exception. It seems as if a larger percentage of them smoke than did those of my generation when I was in my 20s.I don't get it. Growing up with information about the dangers of smoking, from lung cancer to emphysema, bombarding them at every turn, I don't see how anyone with half a brain takes up smoking nowadays. I pass them huddling outside on their smoke breaks, sometimes making a smart remark, "Getting a head start on that case of lung cancer, hmm?" and they laugh and keep on puffing.
The truth about the dangers of smoking have been around since the early sixties, at least, yet people continue to doggedly take up smoking. It's almost as if they have a death wish. Surely everyone has had a relative, friend, or who has known someone personally who died from the effects of smoking. Yet, they smoke on.
My mother smoked. Smoking was a direct cause of her early death in her forties from a massive stroke. I remember my father doing everything he could to get her to stop, but she kept on until it killed her. However, her death served as a negative example for her children, none of whom smoke today, myself included.
But at least my mother's generation has an excuse for when they took up smoking. My mother began smoking as a teen during World War II when the negative effects of smoking were not yet clearly known. Indeed, smoking was promoted at that time as an aid to weight loss, and several advertisements of the time featured doctors endorsing their favorite brand of cigarettes.
But people today who start smoking -- there is no excuse. It's just plain stupidity.
Following below are a couple of ads that convinced my mother's generation that smoking was harmless
A Marketable Degree Or A Career You Love?
On Alternet, I read an article Will You Have Roommates For The Rest Of Your Life? by Nan Mooney, where the author addresses the issue:Thought you'd leave your roommates behind after your career got going? Think again. Social mobility ain't what it used to be
The author covers the phenomenon of rising rents and rising prices coupled with lower paying jobs that creates a situation where more and more adults must live with roommates much further into their adulthood than in years past.
One reader made a critical comment, where he coupled one's maturity level with what field they majored in and their marital status:
Missing information
One critical piece of information is missing from this article: What was Ms Duyn's major in college? Did she get a marketable degree like electrical or biomedical engineering? Or is she just one more Art History major, surprised that no one wants to pay you for that knowledge? Since she has lived an entire decade working odd jobs and unable to secure her own living space, I assume she went for the Art History degree.
...At age 33, she's "ready to be an adult now". Too late.
to which, he smugly added:
As for having roommates, I've had one my entire adult life. Normally, I call her "wife" rather than "roommate". We met at 18 in college, married at 21, and have been happy "roommates" for 30 years. We've lived in some interesting places, but there was never an extra roommate involved, just the two of us and our kids.
As is often the case, this comment set me off, rather than the article, which made a lot of good points about our economy, without blaming the victims.
My reply:
Another Form of Slavery
You chastise the author for not getting a "marketable" degree.
I don't know about you, but getting a degree in a field you have absolutely no interest in and spending the rest of your life working in that field, simply because it is "marketable", sounds an awful lot like a form to slavery to me. In a time of rampant mandatory overtime in many companies, the idea of spending the majority of one's waking hours for the next 40+ years or so in a job you hate sounds like a pretty miserable proposition to me.
It's quite similar to something many people do now; stay with miserable jobs they hate just because the benefits are good. And as more and more companies scale back benefits offered, particularly health insurance, this is a phenomenon that can't help but become more prevalent in the increasingly fewer companies offering good benefits.
Given the choice of spending my best years locked into a job I despise just for the money or having a job I love, but needing roommates, I'd pick the roommates.
The original commenter also did not address how "unmarketable" such currently "marketable" careers would quickly become if everyone now in college immediately changed their majors to such fields. He also did not consider what would happen to this country if no one was willing any longer to become a teacher, nurse, or other relatively low paying career. Nor did it ever enter his mind that a good education, regardless of major, might just be a worthy endeavor on its own, completely apart from its potential to generate money.
Your thoughts?
Favorite President
In honor of Presidents' Day, tell us: Who was your favorite U.S. President and why?My favorite president is Harry Truman, who made the top five in a recent ranking of US Presidents.
He was a blunt, plain spoken, common sense man, who always made clear to those he dealt with how he stood on issues.
Because he came from a working class rural background, Truman did not have a university degree, the last American president whose formal education did not go past high school. Nevertheless, he was far from uneducated, as he was a lifelong bibliophile who educated himself through extensive reading and research, as he considered education to be a lifelong activity.
He worked a variety of jobs during his young adult years, including a stint as an Army Captain during World War I. But in the 1920s, he had to declare bankruptcy because of a business he owned that failed. After the bankruptcy, many people thought he was a failure and would not have thought him a candidate for a future Presidency. However, he never gave up, but started over, even eventually paying back all the money he owed that had led to the bankruptcy
Truman was a man who did not come from a privileged background. He experienced first hand many of the trials that average Americans did. He didn't have to imagine what it would be like to be one of us -- he was one of us.
One fo the first things Truman did in the aftermath of World War II was the de-segregate the armed forces, knowing there was no room for such hypocrisy in the army of a free nation who had most recently fought to end the oppression of others in Europe and the Far East.
Decades ahead of Walter Mondale and John McCain, he seriously considered having Eleanor Roosevelt as his running mate in the 1948 election, a request that Mrs Roosevelt declined.
Similarly, he envisioned the US with a national health care system, but, unfortunately, it was a dream that was way ahead of its time. However Lyndon Johnson, when he signed Medicare and Medicaid into law in the mid-60s, acknowledged and honored President Truman for the groundwork he laid that made these partial steps toward a national health care system possible.
Truman also holds the distinction of being the last President not to leave the White House as a millionaire.
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