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I agree whole-heartedly, especially when coupled with his "objective:" "To enhance a company’s performance by providing effective marketing, resulting in future career advancement opportunities." I don't think you need to put "resulting in future career advancement opportunities" in there, as it just screams, "I want a job so I can get a better job somewhere else later!" At least that's how I'm reading it. Do people even put Objectives on their resume anymore? I didn't on my last one -- my objective is obviously to get the job I'm applying for. I put a skills summary at the top, but I don't bother with the objective. I'm not sure if that's a no-no or not though. CW

You can either just cut and paste the text (you lose formatting though), or you can host it on a website and post a link to it.

This game's available (or will be soon?) for the Xbox 360 as well -- and includes extra songs and apparently will let you download more (probably for a cost). I'm not sure what the allure is of this game... But I'm very tempted to pick it up just to find out. CW

Yeah, I don't know that I"d ever use a resume writing service. Why not post your resume here and have people look it over and give suggestions? There's a lot of hiring managers on TSW that would be able to give you some pointers. Also, talking to your university is also a GREAT idea.

It was just further evidence of how classless Bill is. He literally just brushed Manning aside and walked past him. Great sportsmanship, Billy-boy.

I can think of a lot of movies worse than Showgirls. Horse Whisperer comes to mind.

That was me who posted his actual numbers. I went through every game and his number of penalties was something like 8/season. But he sucks for costing us 40-80 yards/season, as opposed to the crappy guard play we've had since then. Alas, my words fell upon deaf ears for the most part. Glad at least one person remembered though.

Yup. We have some master talent scouts on this board. We could really use an "old" guard like Brown...

We have a backup -- our fireplace worked fine for us until the guy showed up Now if the gas was out altogether, we'd be screwed... CW

Update: The furnace guy ended up coming out last night instead of Sunday morning. As he suspected, he had to replace the igniter (to the tune of $330... ). He said that when they crack, they stop working, and that they usually break every 5-7 years. To make matters worse, there's no way to detect when one will break. Other htan that, he said our furnance looks to be in great shape and was installed really well, so that was nice to hear. $330 sucks (need to remember to budget $80/year for the furnance igniter I guess), but at least it wasn't something hard I guess. CW

We have a bunch of extra lacrosse tickets for the Swarm (Buffalo beat them tonight, 22-13 ), so my wife said we should offer to pay him with the tickets instead. They're nice tickets - 8 rows from the glass, center court

Well, I looked on Angies List (Great service, BTW -- http://www.angieslist.com ) and called an HVAC guy. He called us back from a monster truck rally in the Metrodome Anyway, he had me go into the basement, turn the power off of the furnace, take the front cover off, then turn it on (as an aside, the manual clearly states not to do that...). He asked if I could see a motor spinning at the top; there was a motor, but it wasn't spinning at first. However, after 30-40 seconds, it did start spinning. He then told me to look at the bottom for the flame area and see if it started getting hot (turning white). Nothing happened and I started to smell gas, so he had me turn the furnance off and said it's the igniter that's bad and that I couldn't replace that myself So he's going to come out tomorrow morning and replace the igniter and hopefully won't charge a fortune for it CW

Payne PG8UAA Series C/D according to the manual.

Ok, I'm guessing the chances of finding an HVAC person on a Saturday night are next to nil, so hopefully someone here knows something about furances... We noticed that it was getting pretty chilly in the house and that the furnace wasn't turning on. So I went into the basement and looked at it and there's a blinking LED light giving us error code #14. According to the manual: #14: Ignition Lockout - Control will reset after 3 hours. Refer to #34. Ok, so I look at #34: #34: Ignition Proving Failure. Control will try three more times before lockout #14 occurs. If flame signal lost after trial for ignition period, blower will come on for 90 second recycle delay. Check for: 1) Oxide buildup on flame sensor (use steel wool to clean) 2) proper flame sensor microamps 3) gas valve defective or gas valve turned off 4) Defective hot surface igniter 5) low inlet gas pressure 6) control ground continuity 7) manual valve shutoff 8) Green wire MUST be connected to furnace sheet metal 9) Inadaquate flame carryover or rough ignition 10) Flame sensor must be ungrounded Umm, ok, none of this makes any sense to me. Gas appears to be fine to the house, since our gas fireplace works. Other than that, I'm at a loss. Help? CW

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/949072.html

As often as Lana can stop by.

I was more talking about sites like usatoday.com, not general net sites

Gears of War, hands down (as long as you like games were you shoot and kill stuff. ). And Xbox Live is definitely worth it. There's full voice chatting during the games, and it's awesome to play hockey (or Gears of War... ) against a real person. http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showtopic=52601 CW

Well, I've never understood why people would want to sit above their own crap and read the paper either. I guess I'll just stay mystified

Why do people still buy newspapers when you can get all the info for free online? I don't understand that myself...

85% for me. The Minnesota written test was pretty funny when I took it. The test was taken on a computer and one question will always stick out to me. They showed a picture of a construction site with signs all over the place, and the question was, "What color are construction signs?" As long as you weren't color blind, you'd get it right. The whole test was pretty much that simple. At the time, I heard that New York's written test was the hardest in the country and that Minnesota's was one of the easiest. After taking them both, I believe it. CW

Gambling = bad. Our tax money being put to good use. http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/01/19/0035220.shtml There's a great quote in the comments section: "ok now I am really worried as a Britt living in the US for 7 years. I wanna know what is going to happen to my insurance rates when the police here finally give me all the tickets for driving on the wrong side of the road for 15 years."

The advantage to not having kids.

I just bought Viva Pinata the other day, and my wife loves it. I havn't tried it myself, but she played it for 3-4 hours on both Sunday and Monday. I think I need to get the Wii sooner, rather than later, so that I'll have a game to play as well

However if he "hasn't heard much about the 360," he must not have been doing a very good job researching as not only did it sell more consoles than Nintendo and Sony in Nov/Dec of '06, it also has several knockout titles. Heck, Lost Planet, a game that was just released a week or so ago, has already sold more copies than the PS3 has consoles. And we don't even have to talk about Gears of War. If he really did do his research, he would've found that pretty much everyone is saying that the 360 is the console to own right now (along with the Wii) and that the PS3 might be good 6-12 months down the road, but it can't compare to the 360 at this point in time. Besdies, you can buy the 360 AND the Wii ($300 for Premium if you shop around + $250) for the price of the PS3 ($600). (that's why it's called the "Wii60") CW