More help on ways to apply for an MBA program

Just a quick jot...

• We do not need every godforsaken certificate and/or award letter that you may have gotten from your job, some school club or what-the-fuck-ever! (This is mainly for internationals.) We are glad you are proud but we really don't need this useless information. All you are doing is wasting time and killing trees! What we do care about is your EARNED DEGREE(S) transcript(s) and that's fucking it! If you got a bachelor's of something and that's what it said, then OK. If you built the best damn popsicle cabin, who really cares but you and your parents!?
  
  
• We don't care to see a certificate proving that you worked for the United Way or Red Cross or some entity like that. Put it on your resume and leave it at that. We will see it, read it and probably even mention it if you get a interview.
  
  
• Select proper recommendation providers. We are looking for people (mainly managers) that can vouch for your work ethic, work experience, strengths and weaknesses, etc. A friend and/or coworker is not a qualified recommendation that can be unbiased. Duh!
  
  
• Don't be a dipshit about transcripts. Official transcripts are UNOPENED and typically come directly from the school to the MBA admissions office. We don't want (although we can use for reviewing) a transcript you got after graduation and then you opened it. That's not official. Yes, it's an official document from the school but it's not official because it has been opened and possible tampering could have occurred. With technology today, someone could turn that 'D' into a 'B' quite simply. Yes, we don't trust you!
  
  
• If you bomb the GMAT and haven't applied to a school, don't! Save yourself the embarrassment of people knowing how really stupid you are at taking tests. If you retake it and do much better, then the bombing doesn't seem so bad since we can see that you greatly improved. If you bombed again, you might look into a lower (very low) ranked school for applying to because you are not going to get in with anything below 630 or even higher as a base number. I here The University of Phoenix is very accepting as they don't require the GMAT. I'm not dogging "Phoenix" but I know it's not quite reputable yet with their MBA program although they are the leader in online colleges.

That's enough for now. I really should write all the other ideas I know I had while processing recent apps but I didn't. I just see a lot of really stupid prospect students doing really stupid things. It wasn't so bad in the past but the Milleninals* of today are a different breed.

*Explained here and best put here in regards to the "Trophy Kids"

Email humor 01/07/2010

BEST EVER BLONDE JOKE

A blonde calls her boyfriend and says, "Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can't figure out how to get started."

Her boyfriend asks, "What is it supposed to be when it's finished?"

The blonde says, "According to the picture on the box, it's a rooster."

Her boyfriend decides to go over and help with the puzzle.

She lets him in and shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over the table.

He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to her and says, "First of all, no matter what we do, we're not going to be able to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a rooster."

He takes her hand and says, "Second, I want you to relax. Let's have a nice cup of tea, and then" he said with a deep sigh,...




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In the new 01/07/2010

The first "in the news" post of 2010. Woohoo!

1) From Dallas News:

About midnight on New Year's Eve, Kerri Lyn Smith, 41, was kissing her boyfriend of four years in Far North Dallas when Smith bit the man's bottom lip and tore it off his face, according to police documents.

Click here for article while it lasts

I find it funny that they say she "tore it off his face."

Funnier is that the dumb-son-of-a-bitch guy didn't want to press charges! I'm glad the police charged her and took her in anyway. The way I see it, for something like this, if the cops have to come out and the medical emergency people then someone should be charged with a crime or at least the bill for the services rendered. That way the city(ies) can make their monies for budget shortcomings...maybe.

2) This article comes from Pegasus News:

Dallas radio station KEGL 97.1 FM to announce major changes on Friday

Click here for article while it lasts

I wonder what their change will be. I used to listen to 97.1 back in the days of say the late 80s and almost all of the 90s. Right up until the time they changed it without warning (or my knowledge of knowing, anyway) to a Mexican radio station. One day I was listening and it was mandatory Metallica. The next time I tuned to the station it was hardcore, old school Mexico! I haven't really listened to it as much since they've been back but I haven't really listened to much local radio lately. There are just too many damn repetitive commercials. I don't care about how they have to make their money. When one commercial is played almost twice an hour but definitely once an hour, that's just too much for me! Same goes with the songs they play. When the playlist consists of 30 songs roughly 3 minutes each played every hour, it gets kind of annoying, boring and WAY monotonous. That's why I use my trusty 30GB Zune (in my CRV anyway as it has the auxiliary input).

I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens. If I was nerdy enough, I'd put this on my calendar to remind me to tune in. Sadly, I probably will.

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Chick-fil-a coffee versus McDonald's coffee

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Recently (not too recently), the wife and I started drinking Chick-fil-a coffee. Not because of preference, but because they opened a restaurant closer to our house than the McDonald's. They opened this Chickfila basically across the street from where we live and right down the street from the kids' school. So, we drop the kiddos off in the morning for school and we stop by to sit, drink coffee and visit by 8am. It's quite convenient.

We used to drive to a McDonald's that was about 3-5 minutes down the road. It was actually pretty good coffee...way better than a plain coffee at Starbuck's and better than Chickfila. I'm not a long time coffee drinker but I do know tastes. I prefer to drink my coffee with about 3/4 coffee 1/4 milk or cream. But the McDonald's coffee we would drink, their "gourmet" coffee, had a good taste without milk or cream. I don't like to drink but I do occasionally sample coffee without milk or cream just to see how it actually tastes. The McDonald's coffee is "tasteful" but I still can't/don't/want to drink it without milk/cream. It's kind of nice to know though that I can stomach the taste without milk/cream if I absolutely had to though.

When we began visiting the Chickfila, it wasn't because we were displeased with the coffee at McDonald's. What attracted us, mainly the wife, is that they had Chikfila Minis. If it had this good breakfast and some decent coffee, then maybe we'd have a new place to cop a squat because the wife felt that the breakfast options at McDonald's were a little higher in calories.

The coffee turned out to be pretty good at Chickfila. It wasn't McDonald's coffee but it wasn't gross, overpriced or overrated like at Starbuck's or some other "fancy" places. We had basically become regulars, sitting and visiting before she or I had to go to work. Mainly enjoying the coffee along with individual or shared orders of the Minis. We enjoyed the Chickfila coffee for about a year now I guess but...it's gone bad.

One day a few months ago we noticed that it was tasting "different" but assumed it was just a bad batch. We had a few more "bad batches" over the next few visits. It was almost like they used pond water to make the coffee or they reused the grounds after the first run through (our cousins in Illinois do this and you can taste the difference between run 1 and run 2). I think after the 3rd or 5th bad tasting, we asked an employee...manager-in-training we think...and he said that he hadn't heard of any other complaints but he did know that they recently changed coffee machine vendors or something like that. We told him we have noticed a change for the worse since the vendor change but it must be just us if he hadn't heard of anyone else complaining.

We left it at that and went on our merry way. A few mornings later, a Saturday, we stopped by to get some breakfast and got sodas instead of coffee because we didn't want to waste our time and effort on shitty coffee again. We sat on the patio with the kids waiting for this parade to start and th same employee we asked about the coffee days before came out to tell us that he had found more information about the coffee. It turns out that the new vendor came to them and said there was an issue with the settings on the new coffee machines. He said they had someone come out and fix it so he believes the coffee should be back to normal.

A few mornings later, we found that he was wrong. He just happened to be on shift that morning and we told him that the coffee was still bad, bitter, and we would not be spending any more money on it. I told him that I put cream in my coffee and if I can taste the badness over it then it must be really bad.

So, long story short, I pretty much have gone back to making my own coffee at home. It's actually way cheaper but it was more of the atmosphere or feeling like the wife and I were hanging out together for a little bit every other day. We kind of miss it but we won't sip down another bad cup of coffee!

Going back to McDonald's is a little out of the wife's way as she would drop me off at work on her way to work. Going to McDonald's would put her already 5-10 minutes down the road so what would be the benefit of having to drag my ass back to drop me off at work? Starbucks was never really an option anymore as the regular cup of coffee is no better than buying the cheapest brand in the grocery store and brewing my own pot. It would cost more at Starbucks. I will occasionally go to Starbucks for their cafe white mocca (hot not iced) when I feel like blowing $5 on a drink instead of an entire meal.

I guess that's all I have to say about that.

How much is that doggy in the window?

I don't understand why people bring their dogs to a tennis court when they can't bring them into the courts OR why they think this is of any enjoyment to the dogs. Now granted, they could run around the courts as long as they didn't affect the play but what really would be the point?

This is a picture of a guy's truck who "plays"* tennis at the same place I do. He used to have just one dog (you might be able to see its ear in the passenger-side window. It's a pit bull mix breed and is sweet as can be and seemingly decently behaved. He would bring her to the courts and she would stay along the fence line mainly lying down. She would switch sides every time he would switch (you know, on the odd numbered games like 1-0, 1-2, 2-3, etc.). Anyway, the one in the window is some Chihuahua mix. I thought it was funny, cute...cruel to see it standing on the seat.

The campus where we play put up signs "ABSOLUTELY NO DOGS ALLOWED" on bright, laminated, florescent yellow paper. They posted four signs on the only two entry gates (2 per gate) and then another couple over each sitting area on the courts closest to the entry gates (only two). The reason for this is someone let their dog shit on the courts in a few different places. These weren't little dogs either because the shit piles were the size of a Chihuahua!

Anyway, this guy's dogs now spend anywhere from one hour to three hours in this little truck while their ignorant and thoughtless "master" hits the tennis ball. They bark and howl just wanting attention and to get out and run around but they can't. He does take them out when he's done and allows them to run around and stretch but for those hours they are stuck, yearning to be able to roam...something they could do in their home if they were left there. They aren't suffocating, yet, as it is the winter and they are probably just slightly cold. I may have to make a secret call to animal control or whoever if he maintains this m.o. in the summertime.

So, to all you dog owners out there, I will speak ill of you if you do this with your pets. I know you are afraid....vailwy, vailwy afraid!

First Knight

At the end of the movie First Knight when they pushed the raft with King Arthur's dead body from the shore into the water, what do you think all the knights and people were really thinking when the shooter of the flaming arrow hits the raft way out there in the water?

I think they were sad at first but then they were like, "Dude, did you see that shot? That was fucking awesome, man! Give me a high five!"


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Instant potatoes

If you need instant potatoes and you go to the Simon David aka Tom Thumb on University Dr and Inwood Road in Dallas, they are halfway down aisle 8 on the very top right-side shelf (if walking from the front of store).

I spent about 20 minutes looking in the entire store and half was on aisle 8 because I knew it had to be there. Easily findable if you are above 6 foot I'm sure.

I finally asked an employee and they said, "On aisle 8. Can I locate it for you?" I said, "Yes, because I've been up and down that aisle and I need you to prove it to me." They did!

So I pass this tidbit of information on to those of you in the near vicinity of that store as it was my first time there.

Happy New Year 2010!


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Hummer H3

Was behind this person at the Whataburger drive thru on Freeport Pkwy and Hwy 114 in North Irving and thought to myself, "Self, this does not look like a Hummer." From this angle it could be any kind of SUV. It makes me wonder if anything has changed other than the girth of the vehicle.

Oh well!


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"Dexter" Hello, Dexter Morgan

Just finished watching season 4 episode 11 of Dexter and now about 10 minutes in to season 4 episode 12 (The Getaway). Yes, these are fictional shows and, as such, a lot of fictional situations occur. That being said, it pisses me off when they fuck up the realness of a show.

Now, Dexter is a serial killer. He gets away with a lot of things that probably wouldn't happen in the real world. He works in a police station and even though the killing may be over-the-top there should still be a realness to the actual workings of a police station.

My rant is to the part where the Trinity Killer (played by John Lithgow) enters the Miami police station and pretty much has access to the entire facility when he swipes a visitor badge from an old lady's purse strap which I'm sure there is a regulation on where the visitor's badge should be place (if not, the PDs of America should take note.

The second part that was stupidly written is when Dexter is following the Trinity Killer after he leaves the station. Dexter is in a hurry to catch up and stay with the pursuit that he sideswipes a vehicle's driver's side mirror, knocking it off. This vehicle's owner was on his way to the vehicle and saw it happen. Cut to the pursuit again and Dexter comes to a stop and park's his vehicle out front of a bank while the Trinity Killer parks his inside the bank's parking garage. Dexter jumps out and watches the T-Killer walk into the bank. Dexter decides to wait for T-Killer by T-Killer's van. Camera changes to view Dexter's vehicle and we see another vehicle pull up behind it. Turns out it's the owner and vehicle of the sideswiped mirror who just happened to know/find Dexter's vehicle after about ten minutes after the accident. Not to mention that Dexter's vehicle looks like hundreds of others that could have been on the road at that time.

I don't know what else will irritate me because I'm just starting the final episode (12) of season four.

Boobs box

I saw this on a flier for Best Buy's Sunday ad. A quick glance and you got to admit that it looks like boobs.

2.4 ghz V-Tech Cordless Phone

Just a bit of nostalgia.

Again while I was catching up on episodes of Dexter, I saw this phone in the scene.

This was our first V-tech brand cordless phone that we had in our house. That was circa 1995. It's funny how it shows up in an episode of Dexter that was aired in 2009.

I'd have to say that we loved this phone. The product and call quality was very good. The range wasn't that far as it was just a 2.4 ghz signal and they didn't come out with the high frequencies for a few more years at least. We also liked the style of the phone and got a lot of compliments on it.

I'm glad at least our product purchases are famous if we aren't.

"Dexter" Dex Takes A Holiday

I'm trying to catch up on my TV show watching since I'm on vacation this week. I just finished watching Dexter episode 4 season 4. It was a pretty good episode as pretty much all of them are.

What caught my eye though was the episode character, Zoey Kruger. She was this pretty hot cop that Dexter was watching to see if she was guilty of killing her husband and child even though someone else was suspected of doing it. Zoey is played by Christina Cox (pictured).

Anyway, she was effing hot and it's a pity Dexter doesn't dabble into having fun with his "victims" (especially the female ones since they are few and far between). He did have her naked on a table but she was bound in plastic wrap and nothing was showing. Dammit!

After Googling the hell out of her name, I did find a video clip here (skip to about 4:35) and here (skip to about 17:15) of a movie she was in called Better Than Chocolate that pervs like myself would rent just to get a flash of her naked boobs. I'm sure there are other scenes as it looks like it's about horny lesbians. Good times!

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Email humor 12/21/2009

Tiger Woods Holiday Poem

Twas the night of Thanksgiving and out of the house

Tiger Woods came a flyin', chased by his spouse.

She wielded a nine iron and wasn't too merry,

Cause a bimbo’s phone number was in his Blackberry.

He’d been cheatin' on Elin, and the story progressed.

Woman after woman stepped up and confessed.

He’d been cheatin’ with Holly, and Jaimee, and Cori,

With Joselyn, and Kalika. The world had the story.

From the top of the Tour to the basement of blues,

Tiger’s sad sordid tale was all over the news.

With hostesses, waitresses, he had lots of sex,

When not in their pants, he was sendin' them texts.

Despite all his cryin’ and beggin' and pleadin',

Tiger’s wife went investin' -- a new home in Sweden ..

And I heard her exclaim from her white Escalade,

"If you’re gettin' laid then I’m gettin' paid."

She’s not pouting, in fact, she is of jolly good cheer,

Her prenup made Christmas come early this year.

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