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If you don't have any of that - say you just relocated or are switching careers - do some research on the smaller companies in the area before sending resumes. A phone call plus resume to a department head or executive at a 100-ish person or smaller firm is much more effective than going through...

Someone with a BS in Computer Engineering and 4+ years of experience is not entry level. They're elligible to take or have already passed the P.E. Exam. At a small company they're a project manager or department head. Ah, HR ... how clueless you are.

I've seen "N+ years of experience with X" listed where "X" hasn't been around that long yet. HR cluelessly demanding a time traveller from the future is sadly a thing.

The specific bachelors degree is fairly irrelevant when said specific degree isn't a prereq for getting licenced. The school and GPA tell you a lot more than a simple "BA in History" or "BA in Business" does. The worst in that regard has to be the MBA. The guy with a GED who took a basic...

That's entirely a slap to Kirk Cameron's face. When Growing Pains was being aired Kirk alienated pretty much everyone in the cast and crew with his holier than thou and in your face "Christianity" but couldn't be dumped without cancelling the show because he was the "star".

Nick Cage's character in Face Off: "I can eat a peach for hours."

I recall reading a compilation of snarky econ articles during college which included one titled "Bankers Have The Classic COLA*" discussing how interest rates are the risk-free rate** + expected inflation + a risk premium. Taking credit for a large COLA isn't fooling anyone with even a basic...

Years ago a Swedish couple disguised the sex of their daughter. The girl and her parents knew she was a girl. No one else did until she hit puberty. I think her name was Pan.

You'll probably need to move something I say in the future there because my idea of "on topic" is much broader than everyone else's.

A lot of people don't realize just how large we are when compared to other land mammals which eat meat for lunch. A 12yr old child easily outweighs most adult leopards by about 20lbs or more and they're still growing.

I had to do a double-take too ...

You should see the 4th of July at an American park. The clouds of gunpowder smoke get really silly and it's a miracle if the ambulances on standby aren't needed because that little kid running around over there might be playing with high explosives while the adults present just sorta shrug and...

You forgot "... and watch this." Americans sometimes let children use high explosives without any adult supervision whatsoever. This is called "Tuesday".

Twitter has no understanding of context or satire.

No, I was not. Although a bit of googling did clear up my lack of knowledge.

Have you ever met someone from Egypt? Blonde hair and/or blue eyes is not unheard of and the Egyptians I've met generally look more like someone from Italy than someone from Sub-Saharan Africa.

They survived Alexander The Great and Julius Caesar too. They did not survive Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra VII pissing off Julius' nephew Octavian.

My username is a slightly mis-transliterated Ancient Egyptian name. That of a princess born c.1282BC, in fact. ;) Egyptian hieroglyphs do not include vowels, so we're just guessing.

Being called a living god was a day ending in "-y" for an Ancient Egyptian Pharoah.

Ramesses II, one the greatest Ancient Egyptian Pharoahs, was a pale skinned wavy haired redhead*. I don't know if he ate souls but the descendents of Neanderthals did play a major role in creating civilization as we know it. * DNA analysis of his mummy proved that.