No, no. You're mixing up your memes. If it's flying saucer/robot drones, then it's anal probes not vaginal. All the abductees are pretty clear on this point.

I get 3-4 days up time without a recharge; 2-3 days with heavy usage. You probably need a new battery. You can just buy one and swap it out, unlike some others that you mention.

>What is so great about the Blackberry email client?

Security.

I check references before I offer you the job, not before. But I do want to see them.

You're quite right, and our job announcements will usually say degree or equivalent experience. Of my six department heads, three have degrees and three don't. If I'm looking for a position where I want someone with three to five years experience, a degree really doesn't enter into it except maybe as a tie breaker... maybe. I'm looking for an application packet that tells me you can do the job.

I'm not sure what I said would lead you to that conclusion. My business is successful, largely because I try to hire people smarter than I am and then get out of their way. I used to use a quote from Aristoi by Walter john Williams as a sig:"The deluded are filled with absolutes. The rest of us have to live with ambiguity."

Also, I'm sure you are aware that Dunning and Kruger were awarded an Ig Nobel for their work.

You're quite right. One of my more successful recent hires is quite shy. I'm looking more for similarity in professional outlook rather than social skills.

I never interview 20 people for a vacancy. I never interview more than 5, and I try to keep it to 3. It's simple to narrow down the field of applications. Our typical announcement will say something like,"Submit cover letter, completed application, resume, and three letters of reference before 3 pm Friday, June 25." Somewhere between 40-60% will fail to have all of those, and they go immediately to the reject pile. If I still have a huge pile, the next sort is made on some relevant criterion. We might have said, "College degree in Industrial Hygiene or related field preferred." If it's an entry level position, I cull out those without a degree. Then I read cover letters. Can you communicate clearly in standard, written English. Spelling errors are fatal. If you don't care enough to press F7, you don't care enough to be trusted with our work product. Now I'm down to a manageable group, which I score on a matrix. Usually there will be a clearly defined top group of 2-5, which I interview. The interview is almost all about how the person will fit into our group, because the finalists can pretty much all do the job. If not, we go back through the pole or go out again. I learned long ago that the wrong hire is hugely worse than an empty chair.

>Isn't it enough that I went to college and built a solid base of good work I can point to that shows I can do the job?

That is exactly what I look for when hiring. A couple of relevant references would be nice, and depending on the position, I will give you a test when you come in for an interview.

Thanks. Cheap monitor didn't resolve the green well, and it looked blue to me. Interesting history.

The photos show the "Cobras" sporting Royal Air Force roundels. Are these also used by the Iranian Air Force out of some love for the British occupation or is it just some sort of Photoshop fail?

Please, we're talking about a New Jersey guy here. This is how it's done there. The puppies are to show you what will happen to your family if you don't play along.

When a joke goes over my head I prefer that...

• [ ] It makes a "whooosh" sound
• [ ] other people in the room pause and move on
• [ ] the guy next to me whispers the explanation in my ear
• [X ] cowboy neal writes me a letter of explanation.

But...but... She said in her campaign that we were supposed to vote for her, because she was in business and knew how to create jobs.

The trash is actually on the hard disk. The packaging is actually much more easily got rid of.