SpeedRacer

We got about six more hours here on the East Coast and I still haven't seen the Vogons, or the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. All I got here are a couple of cats. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

I didn't realize that The Ghadaffi Dead were still touring. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

So it turns out there's a hidden message in Revelation. Something about a hyperspace bypass. Does anyone know where I can find a quick online course in Vogon poetry appreciation? Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

Holy shit! I had to read it twice. I can't believe that this law actually got passed! The legislature was either clueless or asleep at the switch. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

So according to Harold Camping we are still on for the end of the world tomorrow. http://www.twirlit.com/2011/10/20/end-of-the-world-tomorrow-october-21-2011-is-judgement-day-upon-us/ So, any plans for today/tonight?

Looks like he's not predicting the Rapture, he's predicting the End of the World for October 21. It turns out there was a message hidden in Revelation. Something about a hyperspace bypass. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

Good, I won't have to make my next morgage payment. Or maybe this Harold Camping guy will promise to pay it for me. I mean, if he's right he's got nothing to lose. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

I live in an attached house and share the attic with neighbors on both sides. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

I thought I did. There's a trap door to the attic in the closet ceiling of the spare bedroom. I thought I had reset it. Maybe I need to nail it shut or something. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

Why do these stupid bats have so much trouble seeing the door and flying through it? I thought they had sonar. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

Shit. Another one of these little idiots has gotten in. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

I'm not skydiving anymore, so it's not about that. I'm talking about general quality of life for the average-wealth person. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

Where did you get that idea? Should we only talk about things here that can cause the end of civilization, and nothing else? So... what do you think we should do about that astroid that's headed for earth? Were restrictions on model rocket motors going to lead to the end of civiliization? Should we remove all references to rockets from cartoons? That's going to limit Wile E. Coyote's arsenal against the Roadrunner. But what the heck, we wouldn't want to give kids the idea that rockets can be used to kill. So maybe we should all write to Looney Toons and demand they edit out all rockets from their Roadrunner cartoons. For that matter, explosives too. And falling off of cliffs! There's way too much falling off cliffs in those cartoons - it might give kids the idea that they can jump off cliffs, and survive. You can walk off cliffs without falling, until you look down and realize there's no ground beneath your feet. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

Yep. Unfortunate fact. People are finding it nearly impossible to get a job with their qualifications if they have been unemployed for any significant length of time. That seems to me to be a bullshit reason to discriminate against someone. There are any number of reasons for a gap in employment, most perfectly legitimate ( recession, traveling, volunteering, in an occupation not related to this field, etc ). If someone has the skills and experience in the ad, they should at least get an inquiry. Especially if the company has tried and failed for months to get someone to fill the position. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

I could, but I need to be able to eat & stuff. I have a few hundred dollars left in my bank account. And a mortgage payment due at the beginning of next month. I cannot for the life of me understand why my applications are not getting through. I have been scouring the web, going to job fairs and networking events, handing out cards & CVs, and nothing is working. I have seen many more job openings advertised in the last month then I ever have before, so maybe that is a good sign that things are beginning to turn around. I just wish someone would respond to my applications before the bank forecloses on my house. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

Just to get by I tried working any job I could find. I briefly worked at one job setting up tents for outdoor events. But it paid minimum wage, and I can't afford my house on that. I just don't understand why a molecular biologist with a graduate degree and years of varied experience should just give up and flip burgers. Seriously, is that what we're doing with our talent here in the USA? Are low-skill, minimum wage jobs the best use of professionals with graduate degrees in practical areas of science? Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

NOt in this case. The ads are out there for lab biologists to work in labs here in Maryland. You can't phone in that kind of work. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

With the recession, LOTS of people have huge gaps in their employment. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

OK for the last nine months I have been looking for work as a molecular biologist in the DC suburb area (the Bio-Capital area for biotech companies). I have an MS in molecular biology, and 15 years experience in research. Tissue Culture, molecular biology, gene expression, sequencing, cloning, protein purification, etc. I have been submitting applications for positions online, and getting almost no responses. There have been a couple of times where my skills fit the ad like a glove. And I would highlight that fact in my cover letters. So maybe someone else got the job before me? I don't think so, because the ad for the same job opening was there two months later, or resubmitted under a different reference id. So WTF is going on here? I've had people look over my CV, it highlights my skills and gives results-oriented achievements, etc. Why wouldn't a company hire a person for a position that they are clearly qualified for? (BTW, I am not getting rejections, I am getting NO responses at all, except the automatic email you get when you submit)> Is it Human Resources? Are they using my applications for personal hygiene purposes, or what? I am a highly experienced & skilled molecular biologist, and I have a thick folder full of copies of unanswered applications. I am finding advertised positions, but no human being seems to be at the other end of my applications. I am now facing a mortgage payment that I will not be able to pay. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

Pancreatic Cancer? Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

Apparently Saint Peter will do anything to be the first person to have an iPhone 5. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

...was that they could have saved him, but they couldn't open him up to replace the bad parts. (too soon?) Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

I usually go to www.snopes.com. I don't know what this "snoops.com" is, but I went there and it seems to be an unused URL. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

Advancements in physics have revealed lots of really wild, mind-fucking things about the nature of space and time. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------

Use your own logic. We live in a time. If the Big Bang starts time for a universe (and it does), then any Big Bang started by occupants of this universe creates a new one with it's own start of time (which obviously wouldn't be this one). Didn't you consider that I may have already thought of that?? Hello? My point is that just because we perceive time as linear (from our very brief perspective) doesn't mean that it actually is. It could be that we are caught up on a vast temporal Moebius Strip, punctuated by a single Big Bang. Speed Racer --------------------------------------------------