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I'm feeling the love.

I got new video camera for Christmas, let me know when you want to make your Vid so everyone can poke fun at you too.

Staples has them to interact with.

I can't wait to feast again on Saturday. Our family celebrates the holiday on Christmas Eve and tommorrow will surely be filled with some good eats. Our house smells like a gourmet kitchen as my wife has been baking all day. It's all I can do to keep from slicing into this Lemon Pie. Thanks for the camera Chris. I'm up to 23 digital cams now and will have fun with this one for sure Panasonic TZ5: Several years old but still doing well http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/image/140515470/original.jpg

Will let you know in a couple days. Wife and I have two under the tree and I've been a good boy and not opened or played with it yet. I am itching to go get my new camcorder out though....

^^ this. Get a buddy, line them up on 71N, chase cars can block traffic, hit record and post the vids. Extra points for vids when cops show up :gabe:

I keep the ones I've uploaded here: Feel free to browse the sub galleries and save them. Remember when viewing them for the first time, just click on "original" below the first image. That will insure you are seeing the largest version/highest quality. You only need to click it once, that setting will stay for you entire visit. http://www.pbase.com/timothylauro/columbus_cars__coffee

Thanks again Chris!

I'll take it. Per my PM's I'll see you Friday. Tim

Well, he didn't win, but I would say odds are Josh will do fine. Melanie does have a kick ass voice.

That's one bust I approve of for sure.

Does he come with his couch :gabe: Good luck. How anyone can just bail on a dog like that person did is beyond me. If I was homeless, I'd have my dogs.

also consider what you will be storing on it. I have 64gb 3G and never worry about storage. what will you be using it for? AT&T or Verizon? I have AT&T 3G yet prefer to use my LTE Verizon card as it's 8x faster in the real world. Pretty much spot on with my home wifi.

They must be looking for Allah.

Fixed :gabe:

:marc2: :gabe:

Keeping my MS3 because it is paid for....

The new MBZ ML's are pimp. My brother in law and I drove one when he was looking. Still can't believe he crapped out and bought a Lexus SUV :dumb: He's Japanese, so I ride him like a bitch on that decision. :gabe:

I agree completely. The best thing this article shares is that it's about accuracy and shot placement, not the gun or load. The same holds true in just about everything. From Karate vs. Physical Size to Camera Gear vs Person using it. Personally I like a Home Defense Shotgun as a primary and a solid reliable handgun that one is comfortable and skilled at using. I don't care if it's a 30 round .22 magnum handgun , a 6 shot revolver or a 9mm pistol. Two in the chest from any of them is going to fuck someone up. Whether you have a .22 cal. round bouncing around the front of your skull, a hole through and through from a 9mm, or half your head and throat gone from 00 Buck, you're not likely going to survive let alone continue to be a threat to me. I only like the shotgun best as it's easy to handle, does pack power, they are cheap to buy and load and is much more difficult for a child to fuck and hurt themselves with than my handguns. Although I keep all very secure.

As someone who has hired and is hiring a lot of people, I've worked closely with HR over the years and agree the market today has changed a lot. With so many people applying for jobs (seriously rediculous amounts) many employers turn to referrals and their own "network" to find good people. Often way before the job is actually posted. We just don't have resources to sift through resumes. Key point being, your network of people is critical to securing your resume is even looked at. Remember, everyone has a resume and the top percentage are always good. Why would I read yours or even talk with you? Today it's not about just a good resume, it's what you do well before that which will get you the interview. We have several open positions paying $80-$150k and none of our candidates will come from blind resumes. We will get our initial pool from referrals. Then we move onto resumes and experience review. Network, Network, Network. Objectives: Agree....so dated and old school it's not funny. The top section of your resume, depending on format is likely to now contain key phrases and words that are targets of HR Systems when searching. Experience: Agree, keep it relevant. Key is to show tangable, measurable reason or points below each role that exemplify your success in that role. I look for what you did and what you can do for us if I were to hire you. Prove to me you can do the job and bring me what I'm looking for and I'll put you at the top of my stack. Definitely avoid personal stuff. No one cares at this point and in many cases are not even within compliance to discuss during the interview process. You actually become a risk sharing it. I get mad when I see it as it not only shows a lower level of maturity and understanding of the business world, but it exposes me to risks that I don't need thus likely that I won't even consider you. I don't care that you're married, catholic or where you were born. Length: Depends on your experience. If you're young, you shouldn't have a long resume. I'm older thus mine is at 2 pages now. Format is solid though and that too is key. Keep it clean. 2 pages is fine if you have experience because again, today's format is different than years ago. I'd be happy to review any if you have them. Most employers won't care what you did 10+ years ago. They are going to look to see solid performance and contributions with the past 5 years and are more interested in longer term stability vs job hoppers. I'm sorry even in todays economy, employers still value stability. They can understand layoffs, but stability and performance still wins out. Hobbies: All I will say here is insure your online life is clean. Facebook and other publicly accessible sites usually do more harm than good. I'll leave it at that. Get on sites like LinkedIn and get involved in your community. Public Speaking and true leadership roles are key regardless of what you're applying to do. Education: Be careful not to appear as a career student. I love seeing master degrees and what not but honestly, real world measurable experience is worth more. I've yet to see a recent master's degree candidate hold a candle to someone with 5-10yrs real world contributions. In the end, it will still take that grad student 5-10yrs to ramp up and I'll have to pay them more from day one. Meh.... References: Be prepared but only provide them when asked. Try not to include your previous bosses. It's a given that if if you are a good candidate that they will back you. I look for customer input, coworker input (especially those outside your dept) as I'm looking for how well you interact and establish inter company relationships and care for customers. Include Customer, Coworkers, Vendors or Industry Respected people not working at your company. Again, I expect your old boss and best friend in your dept to say nice things about you. Show me more. That's my two cents in multiple paragraphs so that I continue to live up to Gabes Expectations. :gabe:

Your money and obviously your wife to make happy, but in those dollar ranges, your best bet is to find either one of those 1-2 years old with low mileage. The only reason I say that is the initial depreciation hit on cars basically means you're pissing away $10k. Hell even our minivan with only 4k and 8 months on the ODO saved us $10k.

No, it's in Virginia Beach, VA. It's a 1,900sq ft home not far from the water. I'm not sure of all the details. Again, I'm going by what the previous owner provided us at the time we purchased the property. We are looking at a larger system as well. Depends on what we decide to do with our home and other properties this year. That all depends on the market.

definitely has me interested.

what's worse than this story overall is the last paragraph.

I'd love to do that shit....even if it was with a Nikon Camera in hand :gabe: