Yup.
Maybe they ran into copyright issues with Battlestar Galactica. 
It’s not the Freecycle customers I have a problem with; it’s the administration. They’re high-handed and authoritarian, and like to email out dictates regularly. I suspect they may have lost perspective.
What is it with women of certain backgrounds? The woman today was wearing Daisy Mae short-shorts that showed off her cellulite to best advantage, and her long, badly dyed red hair framed a face that has been subjected to at least 50 years of cigarette smoke and sun. She also hasn’t seen a dentist in about that long. When she opened her mouth to speak, this horrifying tobacco rasp came croaking out in an accent that I can only describe as hillbilly meets Okie, object: trailer purchase. I guess people just don’t see themselves as others do. I’m gonna have dreams.
I did not watch the new BG, so this reference is right over my head (no surprise since it’s in outer space).
Everyone it seems to me is some damn college professor and I am the imbecile!
Would you believe, you can buy cutters for making round corners on paper?
They’re kinda expensive, though. Yeah, there’s one for $9, but it does one sheet at a time from the looks of it, and it’s the wrong radius for working on 8½ x 11.
Well, you’re only human after all.
Battlestar Galactica was famous for all the paper on the show having the corners cut off.
Hmmm.
I use this paper to set my resumes apart. Two years worth of sending out resumes has failed to land me a job. I am running out of this paper.
Seems to me there might be TWO logical conclusions after those thoughts:
A) I need more paper with rounded corners so I can keep using it.
or
B) Employers DISREGARD resumes that stand out for quirky reasons, so maybe I should switch to normal paper.
I don’t think they disregard them so much as discard them. I’d stick with boring old regular paper if I were you.
The first time a potential employer sees my resume, it’s in Word. The paper has no effect on my getting an interview.
I print out resumes when I’m going on an interview so I can hand over a paper copy. I like to have one copy per person I am interviewing with, and often I speak to several people at the same time.
And while this latest round of job seeking has been about 2 years, Southworth hasn’t made this paper in at least 5 years, maybe longer. I bought my last box about 7 or so years ago.
The corners are a subtle design element that help my resume stick in an interviewer’s memory, and I’ve gotten multiple compliments based on the fact that it’s a little different without being “out there”. It’s certainly nowhere near as “in your face” as the BSG paper linked to earlier in the thread.
Besides, I like it.
I actually really like that. Most things people do to “make their resume stand out” are incredibly obnoxious. (Think Tobias and envelopes full of glitter.) This is subtle enough to avoid looking unprofessional, yet distinctive enough to provide a good memory hook.
If I’m ever looking for a job again, I may steal it.
Eh, to each their own.
My rant du jour - the City of Calgary has moved to a reduced spraying programme to get rid of dandelions that’s about as effective as yelling at them. Everywhere I go, all the city properties are a sea of yellow and white - it just looks terrible. The city should be beautiful and green with everything growing and blooming right now, and instead it looks like a frigging dump. On the plus side, how awful everything looks and all the complaining from citizens might actually force them to reconsider their ineffective programme.
Now, if we could just do something about the Piece of Shit Bridge…
Learn to love dandelions. 
That seems to be the only option. But they’re soooooo ugly!
There was a “Code Brown” in my neighborhood pool earlier today…it’s currently closed. I never use the pool, but I do find it disgusting that the parent of the diaper-clad (no rubber pants!) pool crapper left without notifying property management. The notification email that was sent out strongly insinuated that there had been witnesses; hopefully this jackass family will be banned for the season.
Nothing says summer like going for a dip in the toilet!
I dunno. A “sea of yellow and white” sounds pretty to me. 
But then, I’m an equal-opportunity flower-liker. Maybe Calgary can start brewing its own dandelion wine; would that put a dent in the city’s budget woes?
“If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But they are everywhere and don’t need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them “weeds,” and murder them at every opportunity. Well, I say they are flowers, by God, and pretty damn fine flowers at that.”
~~ Robert Fulghum
As I always say: The parents of small children are the most self-centered, self-entitled assholes on the face of the Earth.
They probably walked away thinking “It’s not my problem”
This is less a minirant and more a mini-bemusement:
If you don’t want people judging you as trashy and low class for having a baby at 14, do yourself a favour and DON’T call said baby “Jager”.
Is that the young girl who was in the paper a few weeks back bemoaning how her kid would be starting school when she was still a teenager?
Not sure, I’m watching Today Tonight (I know, I KNOW. Shut up. You can’t judge me :D), she was the lead in story. We’re all offended because she’s 15 or so and her boyfriend’s 20 or something and they’re living together in her mum’s house. Or something.
