WRITING: Many a true word is said in jest

Friday, March 23, 2007

*****LANEC sent me:*****

On a lighter note:

Mr. Turkey,

The other day I took your line (ok Yoda’s line) about “Trying” and explained it to my 9 year old and a few of his friends. Since then every time anyone says “try” (even their mothers or teachers) they reply “there is only DO or NOT DO, we never try!”

So by proxy, you’re now influencing a whole new generation! Kinda creeped me out.

LaneC

*****AND I REPLIED JOKINGLY:*****

ROFL!

https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/fun-i-think-i-made-a-funny/

Be careful if they start to gobble and talk about UVP, USP, and UxP! Then you should really be afraid.

UVP, or UVP not, there is no UVPing!

On a serious note, it has to be one of the most-memorable most-significant movie lines I can remember.

Maybe I’ll create a book?

“Leadership aka Management by Movie Line” © ferdinand j. reinke 2007 all rights reserved.

I can extract my favorite movie lines and write a one minute manager – who moved my cheese and sell a grazillion copies and retire to aruba.

?-|

Fjohn
The Big Fat Old Turkey hisself
http://tinyurl.com/lxu93
http://tinyurl.com/2lo4hw

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Which upon later reflection, may not be a half-bad idea. Especially after I read this:

http://irisheagle.blogspot.com/2007/03/price-of-irish-land.html

Friday, March 23, 2007
Price of Irish “land”

There are always loads of stories about Ireland/the Irish – in Ireland, in America, everywhere – in the papers around St. Patrick’s Day. This year my favorite is one that just has me shaking my head and asking how I didn’t think of this golden idea.

The Auld Sod Export Company, founded by 27-year-old Pat Burke, sells Irish dirt to Irish emigrants and Irish-Americans. 12 ounce bags of dirt go for $15 a bag, although there’s a sale during March – 4 bags for $20. They’ve shipped $2m worth of dirt since November.

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2M$!!!

So maybe I should start that book!

Remember the “pet rock”?

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GUNS: Why don’t we apply the same standard to gooferment?

Friday, March 23, 2007

http://www.jpfo.org/alert20070321.htm

March 21, 2007
BATFE Killing Idaho’s Oldest Gun Shop

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Red’s Trading Post in Twin Falls, Idaho, is the state’s oldest gun shop, opened since 1936. In 2004, a routine BATFE audit revealed minor clerical errors. According to Red’s, out of nearly ten THOUSAND firearms transferred between 1996 and 2004, the alleged error rate did not even reach 1%. Even the BATFE acknowledges these are minor paperwork errors — there are no missing firearms and no willful illegal acts.

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Paperwork errors?

Let’s apply the same standard to politicians and the gooferment.

Right!

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JOBSEARCH: A discourage turkey wrote and I responded belatedly

Friday, March 23, 2007

A discourage turkey wrote and I responded belatedly

Dear So and So,

{Woosh, TurkeyMaster rushes in to “help”. Yeah, I know, a little late. But, I didn’t notice the message.}

I see that LaneC is on the task.

I’d love to be able to “help”. Lane probably has the “help” well in hand. (Right Lane?)

So allow me to comment for the others out there who are “feeling” similarly.

(1) You must discharge all the negative “static” electricity around your circumstances. When I interview people, take networking meetings, or just “chat”. I can detect when someone is carrying emotional baggage. SO for example, to pick upon XXXXXXX, “Í was severed” just drips with pain. I can feel it. Been there, done that, and have the tshirt with scars for it. But, that’s not accurate, descriptive, or helpful. (Other than to get everyone’s attention.) One has to have an emotionally neutral way of describing your circumstances so as not to give away that you were fired for “stealing the pens, getting drunk at your desk, and bonking the boss’ secretary” (as we used to say at AT&T, describing the three things that could get you fired in those days) How about “A major energy company in Chicago area and I separated when my IT management/Customer Relationship management role was relocated.” “Or, reorganized.” “Or, downsized” “Or, Offshored”. See emotionally neutral. See the difference?

(2) When you ask for help. Be easily helped. “Can someone take a look at my resume” is not “easy to do business with. I’d say something like: This fat old white guy turkey would like you to look at my resume at http://tinyurl.com/22onnq and comment by email at http://tinyurl.com/2rlpef“. See the diff? Make it easy for people to find what you want them to help with. imho

(3) Yes, it is a numbers game. “I’ve been applying regularly and have gotten quite a few interviews and although close I did not receive any offers.” Well, I would be interest in how you are measuring things. “applying regularly” could mean every day I submit on one job I find on Monster. “Quite a few interviews” could mean 10, 100, or a 1,000? “Close” makes me cringe. It’s like “try”. There is no close. There’s only “yes” or “no”. So for example, I can tell you the last search I did — after accepting my current job but before I collected my first paycheck — I send out 40 items with my Resume Version 18 & 19 resumes and Cover Letters 38 & 39 and that, within 14 days, RV18CL38 received an 80% response rate! RV19CL38 got 30%, RV18CL39 got 0%, and RV19CL38 got 0%. I liked CL39 but clearly it has a problem. Shredder for that one. See the diff. I know I’m an injineer and I like to measure things. The glass can be both half-full and half-empty. But it can’t be “close”, “a few”, or “regularly”.

Sorry I wasn’t here promptly when you needed it, but hopefully this will be of some assistance. I invite you, or anyone, to visit my “turkey farm” http://tinyurl.com/lxu93 for my view of “transition”. And, if you drop me an email, I have some stuff I’ve created that might help. http://tinyurl.com/2lo4hw

Again, sorry to be late to the party, I myself am being reorged. And, have been busy, surfing “the dangerous winds of change”. As some smart Chinese fellow observed about “Opportunity rides …”

Hope I can help,
Fjohn
The Big Fat Old Turkey

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TECHNOLOGY: Inkscape is an Open Source graphics editor

Friday, March 23, 2007

http://www.inkscape.org/

 

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Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X.

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Open Source!

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RANT: If you are injured in combat, … you’re screwed?

Friday, March 23, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski178.html

Getting Screwed
by Karen Kwiatkowski

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If serving in a forward combat role in Iraq (and also Afghanistan), you are likely to be male. You are also lacking one or more of the following: a clear mission, quality leadership, the proper equipment, armor, and training, a functional and wise set of standard operating procedures for suppressing a hostile local populace that does not speak your language nor share your customs. When you make a mistake or crack under pressure, you will be thrown to the legal wolves. Unless, of course, you are a senior officer, in which case you have an excellent chance of being quickly promoted out of harm’s way.

If you are injured in combat, you will be rushed into the vast system of hospitals, where you will vie for the attention of an overworked, very frustrated, and yet anonymous and unaccountable set of health care professionals who are increasingly overburdened.

If you are female in uniform, and deployed to Iraq, you face all of the above plus a few more. Sexual harassment, pressure for sex from peers and superiors, abuse, rape and even the chance of dying because you cannot safely hydrate yourself for fear of being raped in the night on your way to the latrine – these additive challenges face our female volunteers.

And that’s all before they come home to Walter Reed or Smallville, USA.

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I think that Americans should be universally ashamed. The treatment of their soldiers is inexcusable. I don’t think our soldiers should ever be deployed outside of the country. But, for the politicians, who profess to “support” our troops, this shows them for the liars that they are.

If I was congress critter, then I’d call every one of “my” wounded every week. Too many for me to personally call, now I’ll understand the problem. Just as I would insist on my attendance at every funeral. Too many, now I understand the problem.

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: FEEDBLITZ burps again?

Friday, March 23, 2007

FEEDBLITZ, the free service that transforms the RSS feed from my blog http://www.reinkefaces life.com into a daily email, burped and didn’t send anything out Thursday. I have to look and account if anything was missed. I use that email as a backup for the free WORDPRESS service that hosts the blog. After all, if WORDPRESS disappeared, then I wouldn’t wan to lose all my whizdumb!

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