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If you work for a large corporation like I do, good luck. A few years ago at my annual review I decided I was going to ask for a promotion and raise. They had just introduced a new title system and I since had the snazzy pamphlet that laid out all the positions and what was expected to get to that level, I figured I could make a nice case. After looking at it I concluded that I had performed everything and then some for the position two levels above my current one. So I prepared a one page document to take to my review, on the left side was all the bullet points required of the higher position and on the right side I laid out quotations from my previous reviews that showed, in my managers own words, how I had met those requirements. Each and every one of them. All I got back was the usual cost of living increase and a bunch of corporate HR BS speak. I never really believed in the review process before this, but now I know that it's completely useless and serves only to keep a bunch of mid level HR people employed. In fact this year I'm thinking of just cutting and pasting my self assessment into the form from a few years ago, I'm sure it will go unnoticed.
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More than a few songs from this album belong in the haunting songs thread. Thanks for posting Pooj. Isbell show in Buffalo coming up on 8/1.
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A cut on the upcoming Steel Panther album is titled "Gang Bang At the Old Folks Home"
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No goal. It was a far bigger injustice. I saw goals called back that season when players skates violated the airspace above the crease. A stupid rule, but a rule it was that season.
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Get a vial of this and put her out of business. Also makes for a great party trick.
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Presale on iTunes is 7.99 for the cd- comes out in 8 days officially.
The writing on this is superb. Give it a listen, and ill be glad to banter back and forth on it/him a bit.
One of the more revealing bios I've read about him... Good for the uninitiated as well as fans:
Thanks for sharing that article. Great stuff. I can't get Southeastern out of my player.
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A bio/chem undergrad is pretty useless unless you want to sit in a lab all day.
For a non-PhD scientist that is probably true if you work anywhere but in corporate research. In a corporate research setting you probably spend more than half your time sitting in meetings talking about the lab work that you'd like to do.
So you're a generalist?
Yep. My degree is in biochem, but i work with chemists, physicists and biologists and their titles are all scientist as well. The only ones who don't fall under the scientist umbrella are the engineers.
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I was trying to point out that theres no such thing as a scientist. That position doesn't exist.
Right on my business card under my name it says "Scientist".
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The Brewing Network Sunday Session. You don't have to be into homebrewing to enjoy this show, it's a good mix of juvenile humor, homebrewing and craft beer appreciation talk. When Stern isn't live (more and more these days
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The Killer Angels is a classic work. Cain at Gettysburg might be better. Highly recommended. It correctly labels Sickles for the incompetent politically motivated buffoon that he was and rightly gives Meade the credit he deserves for the Union victory there.
I'm reading Ralph Peters' second Civil War novel "Hell or Richmond" now and it's quite good too.
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uh oh...you lost me...what am i missing???
Have you heard any of Ronnie's sex tips that they've been playing the last few weeks?
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without hesitation
Would you take a nice drink?
And I thought you were a Stern fan Pooj!
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without hesitation
Would you take a nice drink?
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I'm a big DBT fan and also a big fan of former trucker Jason Isbell's solo work. His new album Southeastern is his best yet IMO.
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WGaF?
I don't think it really matters that much. The real point is somebody shot him, and it was allegedly Hernandez, with a gun that wasn't registered to him.
Read the post I was responding to.
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Shot in the eye can mean a number of things including damage to orbital ridge bone around eye. From description of lawsuit it does not sound like he lost sight but just had damage.
TMZ story says bullet "blew out" his eyeball, which sounds like a ruptured globe. This doesn't necessarily mean he lost sight, but its nearly certain he will have some impairment.
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Plant's best solo work was 1993's Fate of Nations IMO. It came out at the height of grunge so it was largely overlooked. The song I Believe, a tribute to his dead son, is my favorite of his solo career.
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Overrated.
The beer or the band?
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One of my brewing buddies emailed me this link the other day. If you're a Maiden fan I would think you'd have to give it a try..
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JW, you're Kills write-up brings to mind another very very underrated band:
Royal Trux
SOP is often compared to this band, found this review for the brilliant 2007 Snatches release "Love is Dead":
Like all of Rank's music, Love is Dead is raw, first-take type material, but it's still more polished than usual. Previously, Rank has reveled in the mistakes, even turning them up in the mix, like fellow ne'er-do-wells Royal Trux. But after the primitive, self-conscious oddness of 2005's Stag, Rank felt maybe he'd gone far enough in that direction."Stag was such a gloriously !@#$ed up album, I didn't feel the need to duplicate or compete with it," he says. "It was almost like starting fresh."
http://www.indyweek....ent?oid=1201637
And you can download the entire Snatches Of Pink catalog here, for free:
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Good to see Deadwood getting some respect at 32. Outside of the Sopranos it's the best series HBO ever produced and I'm still pissed that they canceled it.
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For those promoting the virtues of sloppiness in rock music, I wasn't kidding about Snatches of Pink being underrated. From a quick google:
SNATCHES OF PINK: Sounds like Thunders trying to drive a train through the eye of a needle with Keef, Joe, Ace and Rimbaud cheering his !@#$ed up ass on. It sounds like a beautiful car wreck viewed on your third glass of absinthe..
The Destruction of North Carolina
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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The "Moral Monday" protests here in Raleigh are comical. They have had to change their arrest procedures to deal with the high volume of protester arrests they must process every week.
http://www.wral.com/-moral-mondays-forcing-changes-in-how-wake-processes-arrests/12594377/