A grad student just sent me his CV for a job. It's SIX PAGES. Sweetie, I've been working professionally for over ten years, and mine is two pages. No, no, no.

Is it an academic vita? Those are supposed to be as long as possible, IME.

A grad student just sent me his CV for a job. It's SIX PAGES. Sweetie, I've been working professionally for over ten years, and mine is two pages. No, no, no.

Oops, double-post.

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Boy band mogul Lou Pearlman, who launched Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Wednesday for swindling investors and major U.S. banks out of more than $300 million.

Who's the cutest little wrathmonster? Who is? You are!

Hold still while I kick you with my sparkly rainbow shoes, which are pretty damn cute, no lie.

you know, when they had me do that a few years back, it gave me enough data to argue for a large raise.

I so doubt that this will be the case for me, considering the economy and my current industry. I mean, I will get a bonus if I write this damned thing, but I'm not sure they'll be paying me enough.

but I'm not sure they'll be paying me enough.

Probably not enough, but more is always better.

I read a long article about Perlman (in Vanity Fair?) and his shit is BANANAS. Really incredible scams.

Boy band mogul Lou Pearlman, who launched Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was sentenced to 25 years in prison

Excellent! His circles of Hell begin now.

Typo personalities

Armed with Sharpies, erasers and righteous indignation, two apostles of the apostrophe make it their crusade to rid the world of bad signs

Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson have not wasted their lives.

They fight a losing battle, an unyielding tide of misplaced apostrophes and poor spelling. But still, they fight. Why, you ask. Because, they say. Because, they must.

For the last three months, they have circled the nation in search of awkward grammar construction. They have ferreted out bad subject-verb agreements, and they have faced stone-faced opposition everywhere. They have shone a light on typos in public places, and they have traveled by a GPS-guided '97 Nissan Sentra, sleeping on the couches of college friends and sticking around just long enough to do right by the English language. Then it's on the road again, off to a new town with new typos.

Picture a pair of Kerouacs armed with Sharpies and erasers and righteous indignation—holding back a flood of mixed metaphors and spelling mistakes and extraneous punctuation so commonplace we rarely notice it anymore. But they are 28 and idealistic. Graduates of Dartmouth College, they are old friends with a schoolmarm's irritation at conspicuous errors, and despite their mild and somewhat nerdy exteriors, they have serious nerve. Deck lives outside Boston; Herson lives outside Washington. And together, they are TEAL—the Typo Eradication Advancement League—and they are between jobs.

The rest of the article is somewhat funny - especially when the reporter describes the reaction of business owners to being told their sign has a typo....

This is their blog, which describes their adventures: [link]

found that children with cats in the home were more likely to have made allergy-related antibodies to cats. At three years of age, children who had made antibodies to cats early in life were more likely to have wheeze, a respiratory symptom associated with asthma. However, by age five, the same children who had grown up with a cat were then found to be less likely to have wheeze.

Huh. The allergen equivalent of arsenic eating.

It also makes me wonder if Vizzinni would have had more luck using cats against Westley instead of iocane powder.