i'm a partner in a national communcations company, we install services for time warner and dish network as well as other clients.
my responsibilities include client acquisition and maintinence, as well as developing the strategy we are using to grow our business by taking over markets from our competitiors.
currently we have 3 offices and about 40 employees in la, ny, and nc, with corporate offices in fl.. my family and friends think i work on computers making minimum wage.
Here's one for you:
A few years ago the title my boss gave me was : Graphical Interface Manager
*I* didn't even know what it meant, but there it went onto my business cards. The looks on peoples faces as they would be looking at my business card were priceless.
Now I'm just an out of work Construction Manager, but family and friends still think I "work with computers".
Brandon
i had a friend in all sincerity, tell me recently that i never really believed.
to which i do not agree.
i did and with all my heart.
we sensed that if we studied too hard, we'd study ourselves right out of "the truth".
Which, interestingly enough, is exactly what I did.
But on the question of whether we "actually" believed it or not, I'm just one more that really believed it, regardless of the occassional question in the back of my mind. Jehovah would answer that in time, of course. But I really bought into it for 30 years.
Brandon
anyone from the birmingham, al area?
huntsville?
montgomery?
I'm from Alabama, born and bred. PM me and let me know who you are, maybe we even know each other. Wouldn't that be cool!
Brandon
here in quebec, one funny expression people say is "donne a manger a un cochon, et il viendra chier sur ton perron" .
word for word in english this would mean: feed a pig, and he will shit on your porch.
in other words, sometimes you try to be nice to people, and they don't always try to be nice to you in return.. .
"What in the cat hair?"
"An ounce of pretention is worth a pound of manure" - my wife got this one from the movie "Steel Magnolias"
"Slicker'n a tater peelin' " - Said if something is cool, good, "slick"
"Fine as a frog's hair"
"fair to middlin' " - answer to "How are you?" - means OK, not bad, but not amazing either. Comes from old names for grades of cotton.
Yeah, I'm from the South.
Brandon
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http://vancouver.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/view?filename=bc_smokey-smith20050803 the story's just coming in.. here's something about him: http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=feature/85vimy/vimymedia/vimy_smokey
My sincerest and deepest respects to Mr. Smith.
'There is a peace that's to be had only on the other side of war.' Regrettably, some wars are necessary. My sincerest gratitude to those men and women, like Mr. Smith, who were/are willing to risk their lives to ensure our collective freedom.
Brandon
recently i worked on a db file storage system that saved files under guid id's.
i became curious what the odds were of the db accidentally generating a duplicate guid for two different files, so i did the math.. here is what i found:.
number of possible 128bit guids:.
I love acronyms. What the heck is a GUID in your field? In my field, it stands for Graphical User Interface Device(or sometimes Display).
I wonder how many duplicate acronyms there are?
Brandon
two leading oncologists both agree that my daughter bethany might be alive today if she had not been fed arsenic.
as you may recall, the wts arranged to take my sick daughter into hiding for two months and payed a doctor to prescribe arsenic.
the doctor ant the wts lawyers convinced bethany that the arsenic treatment could cure her.
"What's up now?",
What's up now is you, and your blind faith, and your willingness to belive an organization no matter what you see or hear to the contrary. I know, I was there for 30 years, just like you.
"It must be apostate lies!!!!"
Brandon
an ex brother and i were talking recently and he recounted a bizarre story.
he too left the witneys some years ago, got a divorce, and the two children (both boys) decided to stay with his wife since she was still a jw.. one of his boys (never baptized a jw) confided in him not long ago about the sleeping arrangements after he left.
she told the boys that she was feeling depressed and lonely because of the divorce and turmoil that their apostate father had caused her and asked them (ages 15 and 16) to each alternate and sleep with her every other night.. it took lots of courage for this son to talk to his father about it since he wanted it off his chest.
Hi,
Sorry, but from what little you have related it just sounds sad, in the sense that she was lonely, upset, maybe even unstable at the time. Sounds to me like she just wanted one of her "boys" near. I went through a short seperation with my wife, and my boys wanted to sleep in the same bed with me after she left (10 and 12). They were just so unsettled by it, they didn't want to sleep by themselves in their own room. Nothing weird or uncomfortable ever happened, and it was only for a couple weeks, but it seemed to make them feel more secure. Perhaps that secure, safe, feeling was all she was craving.
Brandon
my new name is snooty chickenbutt...
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name and post it so we can all have fun.
the subject of peak oil has been talked a couple of time here.
you'll find a lot of infos about it on google but i want to do know your opinion... will the end of cheap oil will mean the end of the world (death) for a large portion of the humanity or we will just adapt to the new reality?
personnaly, i think that we will have to live in a post-technological world if we put no more energy to find something to replace petrol.
Based on my research, the "peak oil" emergency is over hyped by a media that thrives on crises. While oil reserves are dwindling, and newer finds are smaller, there is still enough oil out there for our petrol hungry civilization to use for many decades to come. The current gas price hikes have nothing to do with crude oil supply, but with refining capacity. No one, especially the US, has built refineries in years. As Asia and China come online needing more and more post refined petrol products like gasoline and heating oil, our DEMAND for REFINED products has caught up with our REFINING CAPACITY (SUPPLY).
I believe that we have several more decades to work out alternative fuels and energy technologies before any oil "emergency" really hits us. Granted, US gasoline prices may never get back down to $1.25 or so, but we are a LONG way from running out of crude oil.
Brandon